People stage a protest against Foxconn, which manufactures Apple products in mainland China, in May 2011 in Hong Kong
By admin On Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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Should you feel guilty for buying your iPhone?

People stage a protest against Foxconn, which manufactures Apple products in mainland China, in May 2011 in Hong Kong Last week, The New York Times gave us an inside look at what it’s like to work at Foxconn, More...

People ride on top of a crowded commuter train in Jakarta, Indonesia
By admin On Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
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Indonesia: Train ‘Surfer’ Crackdown By Authorities Begins Again

People ride on top of a crowded commuter train in Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from illegally riding the roofs of trains – hosing down the scofflaws with More...

Ade Namnung: (kapanlagi.com)
By admin On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Comedian Ade Namnung dies at 34

Ade Namnung: (kapanlagi.com) Comedian and TV presenter Syamsul Effendi, popularly known as Ade Namnung, died on Tuesday from a heart attack at the Mitra Keluarga hospital in Cibubur, East Jakarta. He was 34. “Ade More...

Tibetan protestors rally near the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on December 7, 2011
By admin On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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What’s behind China’s Tibetan unrest?

Beijing appears determined to contain the volatile situation in an ethnically Tibetan region of southwestern China by sending in thousands of extra security forces. The move comes against a backdrop of anger and More...

Deadly cat and mouse game in Syria
By admin On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Where is Syria crisis heading?

Deadly cat and mouse game in Syria Ten months into the uprising in Syria, deadly clashes between opposition fighters and government forces have now spread to suburbs just 15 minutes from the heart of the capital More...

Fight club: In this file photo, students of a junior high school arm themselves with stones they took from a damaged sidewalk. They brawled with students from another school in Jelambar, West Jakarta. The exchange of stones and missiles between the two groups disrupted traffic in the area. JP/P.J. Leo
By admin On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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School brawls take lives

Fight club: In this file photo, students of a junior high school arm themselves with stones they took from a damaged sidewalk. They brawled with students from another school in Jelambar, West Jakarta. The exchange More...

New skills: A former leprosy sufferer is retrained in carpentry. JP/Tarko Sudiarno
By admin On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Ex-patients continue to fight stigma

New skills: A former leprosy sufferer is retrained in carpentry. JP/Tarko Sudiarno Housewife Sriyatmo has spent most of her life struggling for respect and dignity. Since first being diagnosed with leprosy at the More...

Tifatul Sembiring
By admin On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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PKS mulls Tifatul as one of its presidential candidates

Tifatul Sembiring The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is considering party member Tifatul Sembiring as one of its presidential candidates. The party has decided to announce several names of presidential candidates More...

Apriyani was under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time of the crash
By admin On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Police to charge Apriyani with murder

Apriyani was under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time of the crash The Jakarta Police will charge the driver of a Daihatsu Xenia who ran into 12 pedestrians on Jan. 15, killing nine and critically injuring More...

Alien of the Deep
By admin On Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Strange Sea Species Found Off Greenland

Alien of the Deep Looking like a creature from the Alien movies, this nightmarish “longhead dreamer” anglerfish (Chaenophryne longiceps) was until recently an alien species to Greenland waters (map). The More...