Medan, Indonesia News

INDONESIA'S state oil firm Pertamina has lost its exclusive right to distribute subsidised oil products in 2010 after a unit of Malaysia's Petronas and a local firm won supply tenders, a regulator said on Monday.

IPOH: Thanks to caring Malaysians, a 7-year-old Indonesian girl who normally chokes when she eats and drinks will undergo reconstructive surgery here today to correct her problem.

Indonesia's national carrier Garuda Indonesia plans to reinstate its flights from Kuala Lumpur to Denpasar in Bali and Medan by September 2010, six years after the service was halted.

" The 195 Rohingya refugees who have been waiting for about a year in Aceh for the central government to decide their fate were moved to an immigration shelter in Medan on Thursday.

A combination photo shows bodies of tsunami victims floating in the water near the city port of Banda Aceh, December 29, 2004, and a view of the same area, December 3, 2009.

Indonesia's national flag carrier, Garuda Indonesia, has been able to resume flight to Europe since July 14, 2009.

The ship almost looks like it belongs in the neighbourhood, swept miles inland almost five years ago after a cataclysmic earthquake spawned the worst tsunami known to mankind.

JAKARTA, 5 DEC: Twenty people, including 9 women, died in a fire at a popular nightclub in Medan, in North Sumatra province, on Friday night.

A moderate earthquake rattled the island of Simeulue off the coast of Indonesia today, seismologists said, but there was no tsunami alert and no immediate reports of damage.

A Garuda Indonesia aircraft that was departing from an airport in North Sumatra has aborted its take-off on the runway, leading to a three-hour closure of the airport.

A fire at a discotheque and Karaokebar in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province of Indonesia, killed 20 people and injured 5 others on Friday night, secretary of the provincial administration Edy Sofyan said on Saturday.

Police charged three men with accidentally causing the deaths of 20 patrons in a fire at a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities, alleging they sparked the blaze during renovations, an official said Monday.

REPERCUSSIONS: Police said the men could face jail terms of five years or more for negligence that caused a loss of life after the blaze killed 20 people AFP, MEDAN, INDONESIA Monday, Dec 07, 2009, Page 4 Indonesian police said yesterday they have detained three men suspected of causing a karaoke club fire that killed 20 people in Indonesia s North ...

Police in Indonesia have questioned a man suspected of causing a fire in a karaoke bar which killed 20 people in the city of Medan in northern Sumatra.

At least 100 people were killed and131 others hospitalized in a nightclub blast apparently caused by indoor fireworks in the Russian city of Perm late Friday, local reports say.

Indonesian fire fighters put out a blaze in a karaoke club in Medan, on December 4. The blaze broke out late Friday in the third-floor club, part of the larger M City entertainment complex in the city, killing dozens people.

Indonesian police have confirmed that 20 people, including nine women, were killed as fire razed through popular nightclub M City in Medan, capital of North Sumatra province, Friday night.

By Mohd Nasir Yusoff JAKARTA, Dec 5 -- No Malaysians were involved in the karaoke centre fire in Medan, Northern Sumatra, which claimed 20 lives Friday night.

INDONESIAN police on Saturday questioned a man they believed accidentally started a fire in a crowded karaoke bar that killed 20 people.

KUALA LUMPUR: Clad in an oversized T-shirt, tattered pants and a songkok, Sanaji Noto makes his way to the mosque for the Aidiladha morning prayers.