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To remind Singaporeans about the free Pap smear screenings this month, the Singapore Cancer Society came out with a "Lift your skirt.

Rescuers recovered the bodies of four more workers from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to nine, police and company officials said Sunday.

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Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting ECHONEWS to 80360, or email us Click here for details A Tragedy struck while Cheznye Emmons, 23, of Morrins Close, Great Wakering, was travelling through south Asia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21.

Indonesia's public health industry is being pushed to the brink of collapse as the government tries to implement universal healthcare.

Voters in the Philippines appear to have delivered a resounding victory to President Benigno Aquino in midterm elections.

JOHOR BAHARU, May 18 -- Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar, recently appointed as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, will resign as President and Chief Executive Officer of Malayan Banking Bhd on June 4. He will take his oath of office as Senator on June 5 in order to assume his new portfolio.

Cheznye Emmons, from Great Wakering, Essex, was travelling through Indonesia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, when she started feeling ill after drinking from a bottle marked as gin from a local shop.

Addressing journalists at the UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Cameron said that members of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which includes President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, "nailed our colours to the mast with one clear overarching aim - end extreme poverty in ... (more)

Catholic leaders in Indonesia are protesting the decision of an American foundation to honor the country's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his contributions to inter-religious dialogue.

JOHOR BAHARU, May 18 -- Former Maktab Sultan Abu Bakar principal Zulkipli Mahmud has been declared Leadership Figure , in conjunction with the Johor state-level Teacher's Day celebration held at the Pusat Islam Iskandar Johor here Saturday.

A BRITISH woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said.

JAKARTA: An Indonesian court has ruled indigenous people have the right to manage forests where they live, a move which supporters said prevents the government from handing over community-run land to businesses.

Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro spends hours underwater armed with a digital SLR and a pair of flippers but his love of photography began on land with the spectacular American vistas captured by Ansel Adams .

In Indonesia, the boutique east coast resort of Alila Manggis has appointed Putu Susenayasa as General Manager.

Cheznye Emmons, 23, fell ill within hours of drinking deadly methanol, labelled as 'gin', which she picked up from a local shop while trekking across south Asia Cheznye Emmons, 23, fell ill after drinking deadly methanol with boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, and a male friend they met while trekking across south Asia.

For almost five years Indonesia did not execute a prisoner on death row. But since a Malawian drug smuggler broke that drought on March 15, the floodgates have opened.

Indonesia has drawn cheers for extending a moratorium on logging for another two years to protect its forests, but some analysts say the impact could be limited unless governance is improved.

A proposed bill regulating the state apparatus would allow the government to fire poorly performing civil servants after four years, an Indonesian deputy minister has said.

A 19-year-old man is receiving treatment for gunshot wounds after about five Papua New Guinea soldiers allegedly opened fire on him and two other West Papuans.