Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...

Govt needs legal umbrella for confiscated foreign vessels

"Pontianak (ANTARA News) - The government needs a legal umbrella for determining the `fate` of confiscated foreign fishing vessels in addition to making perpetrators wary of poaching in another country`s waters, a minister said."Like in Australia where any seized Indonesian...

Indonesia the first to form World Ocean Forum

"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia hoped the World Ocean Conference (WOC) scheduled in Manado, North Sulawesi, from May 11 to 15, 2009, would produce a World Ocean Forum.A press release ANTARA received in Jakarta from the People`s Welfare Coordinating Ministry on Friday night...

Govt to sink foreign poaching fish in RI waters: minister

""We have to be strict. Foreign fishing boats or any foreign ship entering or operating in Indonesian waters illegally will be sunk," he said after witnessing the signing of an agreement on Standard Operating Procedures between his ministry, the National Police and the...

RI loses Rp30 trillion per year by illegal fishing

""Of course we also need the support of regional governments," he added. The maritime and fisheries sector, he said, had a competitive ability to move the national economy. The fisheries sub-sector`s contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had increased by 18 percent...

Minister says 24 Indonesian islands disappeared

"Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Freddy Numberi said four islands disappeared when the massive tsunami devastated Aceh on December 26, 2004, the state-run agency reported. Twenty other islands in Sumatra's Riau province and in the Seribu island group in Jakarta Bay...

Indonesia inviting foreign investment to develop seaweed potential

""Indonesia has a seaweed development potential of 222,180 hectares but only 20 percent or 1,110,900 hectares of the potential has so far been realized with Rp68.2 million spent on development of every heactare," he said. The country produced 1,079,850 tons of seaweed in...

'Freddy Krueger' attacker jailed

People who act out this way are tapping into a huge mass of potential destructive energy; had this guy never seen Nightmare on Elm Street, I'm sure he would have found another vehicle for his violent fantasies."A man obsessed with the horror film character Freddie Krueger...

Mexico's Fox Gambles on a Crackdown

"Mexico's months-long political crisis took a precarious turn Saturday when President Vicente Fox sent special federal forces into the impoverished and violence-torn southern state of Oaxaca, after an American journalist and a local teacher were killed there on Friday. As...

Tex-Mex singer Freddy Fender dies at 69 (AP)

" SAN BENITO, Texas - Freddy Fender " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Freddy Fender , the "Bebop Kid" of the Texas-Mexico border who later turned his twangy tenor into the smash country ballad "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," died Saturday. He was 69....