Aceh, Indonesia News

The UN's aid chief has said there needs to be a more effective partnership between humanitarian organisations and the private sector.

This December 26, as we bask in the warm afterglow of family Christmas celebrations, we will pause to remember the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the most horrific natural disasters in memory.

Radio Television Brunei and Radio Republik Indonesia had met recently to discuss possible collaborations on broadcasting in the future.

There have been more attacks on foreigners in Indonesia's Aceh province. On Monday, the European Union representative in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, British national John Perry, and his wife were fired upon outside their house.

Gunfire hit the home of two American lecturers in Indonesia's western province of Aceh on Monday, but no one was injured.

GUNMEN fired on the home of two US academics in the Indonesian province of Aceh today, the latest in a string of attacks directed against foreigners.

BANGALORE: HMT's export arm, HMT Limited, signed an agreement with the Ministry of External Affairs for setting up of Trainers Training Centre for Construction Sector at Aceh, Indonesia, valued Rs.

Gunmen have opened fire on the home of John Penny, a Briton who serves as the EU's envoy in the staunchly Islamic Indonesian province of Aceh.

"I'm not afraid of any disasters at all," said Kurniady, a 13-year-old Chinese-Indonesian boy who survived the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.

In a split second, disasters changed everything for children. Some children lost their parents, some were left permanently disabled, while others became homeless.

Under Islamic law, or Shariah, the religious police have administered public canings for such things as gambling, prostitution and illicit affairs.

Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province.

BANDA ACEH: Women may soon be banned from wearing tight trousers in parts of an Indonesian province that practices strict Islamic law, and offenders could see their attire cut up.

Reporting from Banda Aceh, Indonesia - They are the ships that fell from the sky; two immovable objects, their very presence defying reason.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Under Islamic law, or Shariah, the religious police have administered public canings for such things as gambling, prostitution and illicit affairs.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: An Islamic law authorising the stoning to death of adulterers and the whipping of homosexuals in Indonesia's Aceh province will be reviewed, officials said.

Indonesian councilors from the province of Aceh will revise a law under which adulterers could face stoning to death, a local legislator said.

In the shadow of Aceha TMs tsunami memorial museum sits a colonial, Dutch-era cemetery.

At one point during the 2005 Emmy Awards ceremony, between the third and fourth cup of champagne, Yael Lavie felt her patience was wearing thin.

Outsiders and eccentrics are treated with suspicion. Strong women counter the absence of men, many of whom have disappeared after generations of fighting.