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View all search resultsJune 22 (Reuters) - China's snooker authorities have upheld lifetime bans for match-fixing handed out to Liang Wenbo and Li Hang by the sport's world governing body (WPBSA) and given five other players longer suspensions for domestic matches.
2 years agoRyan Blaney got back on the winning track Monday and capped a great weekend for team owner Roger Penske. The Team Penske driver broke a 59-race winless streak with a victory in the 64th annual Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. ...
2 years agoAnother officer was jailed for 18 months but families of the victims said he had been treated too leniently. ...
2 years agoArema FC supporters at the Kanjuruhan stadium in East Java city of Malang stormed the pitch late on Saturday after their team lost 3-2 to Persebaya Surabaya, the first loss in more than two decades to their bitter rival.
2 years agoSupporters from the losing side had invaded the pitch and authorities had fired tear gas, leading to a crowd stampede and cases of suffocation, according to the police.
2 years agoThe West Papua National Liberation Army, which the government has designated as a terrorist organisation, said its members on Thursday night shot people they believed were intelligence personnel disguised as road construction workers.
2 years agoThe construction of 25 biomethane-compressed natural gas (bio-CNG) plants in North Sumatra, capable of processing 387,000 cubic meters of palm oil waste, was started on Wednesday with the groundbreaking of the first plant in Langkat.
2 years agoIndonesia became the 16th country in the world to formally contribute to China's panda conservation in 2017, when two giant pandas arrived at the highly popular park.
2 years agoShip operators under the River, Lake and Water Transportation Operators Association (Gapasdap) have announced that they will scale back ferry services on several major routes to cut down losses, as the Transportation Ministry has not yet implemented a new pricing scheme following a significant fuel price hike earlier this month.
2 years agoA haul of confiscated fireworks exploded on Sunday evening, injuring an officer near a police barrack in Grogol, Sukoharjo, Central Java.
2 years agoLocal authorities are ramping up both domestic and international efforts in their hunt for alleged gambling ring leader Jhoni.
2 years agoThe Bogor regency’s environmental agency has reported heavy pollution in Cileungsi River, which has been a source of raw water for the regency and the Bekasi city in West Java.
2 years agoA trial relating to a 2014 gross human rights violation that occurred in Paniai regency in Papua began on Wednesday at the Makassar Human Rights Court in South Sulawesi, with a retired military officer standing accused as the sole defendant in the case.
2 years agoNorth Sumatra Police have confiscated seven buildings owned by a man known as Jhoni, who is wanted for allegedly running an illegal online gambling ring based in the provincial capital of Medan. He is believed to have fled to Singapore.
2 years agoThe Central Java Police are investigating a slash-and-burn that created thick smoke, allegedly causing a pile-up collision involving 13 vehicles, killing one and injuring 18 others on a toll road in Brebes on Sunday afternoon.
2 years agoCentral Java Police confirmed on Friday that a body that was found charred alongside a motorcycle belonged to Paulus Iwan Boedi Prasetijo, a Semarang, Central Java, administration official who was a key witness in an alleged corruption at the city’s financial agency.
2 years agoThe 56-year-old is a self-taught conservationist with no formal background in botanics.
2 years agoThe victims were mining gold on a bare hillside when the landslide triggered by heavy rains struck the area in West Kalimantan province.
2 years agoA 4-year-old girl died and three of her siblings injured after being stung by hornets in Silandit, Padang Sidempuan regency, North Sumatra, on Tuesday.
2 years agoThe iconic gardens have marked another notch in botanical research and conservation with the first Rafflesia arnoldii to flower outside its native habitat, cultivated by the same botanist who successfully cultivated Rafflesia patma at the park.
2 years agoPolice in Asahan regency, North Sumatra, have arrested four people for alleged stockpiling of the subsidized Solar brand of diesel fuel in Aek Ledong district and have confiscated around 3 tonnes of fuel and two tank trucks.
2 years agoThe quake in the Mentawai Islands struck at a depth of 27 km (17 miles) and was followed by one of magnitude 5.3 in the same area, authorities said. There was no danger of tsunami.
2 years agoThe quake was at a depth of 27 km (17 miles) and was followed by one of magnitude 5.3 in the same area, BMKG reported. Local online media said one person was injured in the head by falling wood.
2 years agoDespite challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Riau Ecosystem Restoration (RER) program continues to record notable progress in maintaining and protecting peatlands in Sumatra’s largest intact peat swamp forest, summarized in the newly released 2021 RER Progress Report.
3 years agoTangerang regency is set to host the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia’s (PEMSEA) Network of Local Governments’ Forum Summit in October later this year.
3 years agoThe Social Affairs Ministry is working with the November 10 Institute of Technology (ITS) in Surabaya to develop electric dirt motorbikes as part of developing the electric vehicle ecosystem in Papua.
3 years agoPresident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo visited the gold and copper mines of PT Freeport Indonesia in Mimika, Papua, on Thursday, where he inaugurated the company’s first 5G mining technology.
3 years agoCustoms officials arrested two Malaysian men upon arrival in Kualanamu International Airport (KNIA) in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, for carrying illegal drugs on Wednesday.
3 years agoA trial relating to a 2014 human rights violation that occurred in Paniai regency in Papua has been pushed back from August to sometime in the next few weeks, following a delay in the inauguration of ad hoc judges who will preside over the case.
3 years agoCentral Java Police have arrested 1,991 people in drug crimes allegations from January to August – the majority of those arrested were allegedly drug mules.
3 years agoPapua Police are still hunting another civilian after six army personnel and three civilians were detained for their alleged involvement in the brutal killing of four civilians last week
3 years agoPolice are still hunting a man suspected of controlling an illegal online gambling ring based in North Sumatra, who is believed to have fled to Singapore.
3 years agoDecades-old rotten trees vulnerable to falling make up about 10 percent of 8,646 plants in collection at the Cibodas Botanical Gardens in Cianjur, West Java.
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