The government is accelerating its water-resources management and flood-prevention projects worth a combined 350 billion Baht to ensure that the country is ready to cope with this year's rainy ...

 Jennifer Jones, of New Orleans and a member of the Krewe du Vieux parades through the streets of the French Quarter celebrating the Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, on Saturday. The parade is ...

A fire chief in the eastern Dominican Republic says at least 10 people drowned when a boat overloaded with migrants overturned off the country's coast.Jefrey Pimentel says the wooden boat was filled ...

Overwhelming "human gridlock" in Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village is causing police to rethink crowd control before the National Football League championship game.Eleven people were injured Friday ...

A group of judges, prosecutors, academics and experts are banding together to fight what one member called "poor law enforcement, from head to toe" in Indonesia."The law enforcement process has been ...

European envoys to the Security Council said they would vote Saturday on a draft resolution backing an Arab League call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down amid talk that Russia would ask ...

A boat carrying dozens of immigrants from Afghanistan and Iran sank early Saturday off the coast of Cikalong in Tasikmalaya, West Java, according to an official.West Java Police spokesperson Sr. ...

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard began naval maneuvers Saturday in the latest show of force near the strateg Strait of Hormuz, the critical Gulf oil tanker route that Tehran has threatened to ...

Nine out of ten offices of state water company PDAM in Jambi province are in a poor finacial state, according the Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP).BPKP Jambi office head Didik Krisdiyanto said ...

The World Bank’s newly appointed Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific, Pamela Cox, will visit Indonesia next week to meet with government counterparts and opinion makers in the country to ...

Antara/Yudhi MahatmaA worker assembles an electricity panel at the PT Guna Elektro factory in Cikarang, West Java, on Thursday. The company could annually produce 3,000 units of medium voltage ...

JP/Arief SuhardimanJAKARTA: Local pop band Nidji is planning to release their new album, Victory, in Australia as part of their latest attempt to conquer the international music scene.“Actually, we ...

Pertamina EP, the upstream business unit of state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina, expects to produce 126,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) in February, lower than the government’s target of ...

The month of Sapar in the Javanese calendar fell in January this year, and has been welcomed with various activities in Yogyakarta and Central Java. According to Javanese belief, Sapar is an ...

State-owned flag carrier Garuda Indonesia obtained shareholder approval on Friday to spend the remaining proceeds of last year’s initial public offering (IPO) to finance the purchase of up to 97 ...

Antara/Regina SafriAn orangutan and its baby wander on the 108-hectare Kajak Island in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, on Friday. Kajak is one of the four islands used by the Borneo Orangutan ...

Pipe dream: Customs and excise officers display on Friday a total of one kilogram of crystal methamphetamine confiscated from a courier service. The illegal drugs were hidden inside water purifiers. ...

The Jakarta administration is planning to report the West Jakarta District Court to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for a ruling that will lead to the city losing ownership of land ...

An official has said that Bali saw a 22.85 percent increase in Australian tourists coming to the island from last year’s 788,644 visitors.Head of Bali Central Statistic Agency I Gede Suarsa claimed ...

The Bike2Work community will hold a 511-kilometer bicycle tour from Jakarta to Yogyakarta during Feb. 4 to 9 to commemorate World Cancer Day on Saturday and raise awareness of leukemia.Twelve ...