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Indonesian Internet use booming
So you've looked up sexy spy Anna Chapman's Facebook photos and you've cried along with Lindsay Lohan as she was sent to the slammer, but what about Peterporn, Sinta and Jovita? Ever heard of them?
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Six tiger skulls seized in Sumatra
Indonesian police have arrested two men on Sumatra island with six tiger skulls and other parts from the critically endangered species, an official said Monday.
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Geoscientists find clues to why first Sumatran earthquake was deadlier than second
An international team of geoscientists has uncovered geological differences between two segments of an earthquake fault that may explain why the 2004 Sumatra Boxing Day Tsunami was so much more devastating ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 08, 2010 |
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US scientist in race to learn from Indonesia's dying glacier
The only glacier in the western Pacific could disappear in less than five years, taking with it vital clues about the earth's changing climate, a US scientist said Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 02, 2010 |
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Google eyes Indonesia for expansion
Google said on Thursday that Internet use in Indonesia was expanding at a fast pace and was the leading emerging economy in terms of growth.
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Officials scramble to save endangered Javan rhinos
(AP) -- The discovery of three dead Javan rhinos has intensified efforts to save one of the world's most endangered mammals from extinction, with an electric fence being built Monday around a new sanctuary ...
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Indonesia mud volcano still spewing sludge four years later
Four years after it erupted from the well of a gas company linked to one of Indonesia's richest men, the mud volcano known as "Lusi" is still spewing its toxic sludge over Java's countryside.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 28, 2010 |
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Indonesia aims to tap volcano power
Indonesia has launched an ambitious plan to tap the vast power of its volcanoes and become a world leader in geothermal energy, while trimming greenhouse gas emissions.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 24, 2010 |
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Facebook opening operations office in India
(AP) -- Social networking site Facebook is opening an operations office in India, its first in Asia, to help manage rapid growth in the number of users.
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Scientists show link between exploration well and Indonesia's Lusi mud volcano
(PhysOrg.com) -- New data provides the strongest evidence to date that the world's biggest mud volcano, which killed 13 people in 2006 and displaced thirty thousand people in East Java, Indonesia, was not ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Australian continent to blame for Samoa, Sumatra quakes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent earthquakes in the Pacific and Indonesia have one University of Queensland researcher questioning whether the two are related.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Huge undersea mountain found off Indonesia: scientists
A massive underwater mountain discovered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra could be a volcano with potentially catastrophic power, a scientist said Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 29, 2009 |
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Indonesian clerics want rules for Facebook
(AP) -- Muslim clerics are seeking ways to regulate online behavior in Indonesia, saying the exploding popularity of social networking sites like Facebook could encourage illicit sex.
May 21, 2009 |
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Bizarre bird gets private beach in Indonesia
(AP) -- A species of birds able to fly immediately after hatching from eggs buried beneath the tropical sand has just been given its own private beach in eastern Indonesia, a conservation group said Friday.
May 15, 2009 |
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New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle
A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis—the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago -- may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how si ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 06, 2009 |
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