Section: Indonesia
Your letters: The war game
It is not beyond the realms of possibility that that the United Nations could go the same way as the old League of Nations as the world splits apart. Like the tectonic plates humanity has been drifting dangerously with its many divides clashing relentlessly right across the planet. To list the divides would take all day and would tell us nothing...
Myanmar Hosts Biggest Cast of World Leaders Since Reforms
Naypyidaw. Myanmar welcomed on Wednesday its biggest gathering of world leaders since shedding junta rule but concerns over the pace of democratic reforms are expected to surface at the two-day event featuring US President Barack Obama. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and East Asia summits, held in the purpose-built capital of...
Obama and Putin meet amid tensions: White House
US President Barack Obama met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin three times on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit on Tuesday, with their conversations covering Iran, Syria and Ukraine, the White House said. … …read more Source: ANTARA...
Amid currency gyrations, Russia floats ruble
As an acrobat in one of Moscow’s circuses, Yuri Friyuk is an expert at gyrating without falling on his face. Lately, he’s worried about whether the rubles he’s paid with can be as deft.Plagued by the Western sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis and by falling oil prices, Russia’s economy is struggling and the ruble is...
Future of 41 Ukrainian seafarers in Batam still uncertain
The prolonged political and economic crisis in Ukraine has left 41 Ukrainian citizens, who worked as crew members in the Ocean Green, a refrigerated cargo ship that has been stranded in Galang Island waters in Riau Islands, to an increasingly uncertain fate.The head of the Batam Port Office, Hery Setiobudi, told The Jakarta Post on Monday that...
Rising China, Geopolitical Tensions Take Stage at APEC
Beijing. World leaders including Barack Obama arrived in Beijing on Monday for an Asia-Pacific summit hosted by China’s Xi Jinping and including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, against a backdrop of growing big-power rivalries. Obama arrives wounded by the Democrats’ defeat in the mid-term US elections and with US-Russian relations in...
Gorbachev says world is on brink of new Cold War
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned in a speech in Berlin on Saturday that East-West tensions over the Ukraine crisis were threatening to push the world into a new Cold War, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin … …read more Source: ANTARA...
US, Russia to exchange info on Ukraine crisis
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that the United States and Russia had agreed to exchange information about the situation on the Russia-Ukraine border.Ukraine’s military accused Russia on Friday of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country’s east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting...
Issue of the day: Waiving visa requirements for 5 countries
Nov. 5, OnlineThe government will waive visa requirements for the citizens of several countries in a bid to attract 20 million tourists by 2020.“Based on the coordination meeting result, there will be five countries: Australia, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, which are to be granted visa-free access by the government,” Coordinating Maritime...
Ukraine urged to fund deportation of citizens
Batam Immigration office will ask the Ukrainian Embassy in Jakarta to finance the planned deportation of its 41 citizens currently stranded aboard a ship in Batam waters, Riau Islands province, an official has said.The supervisory and execution division head of immigration, Rafli, said on Friday the 41 crew members of the Ocean Green vessel would...
