Asia Pacific News – Name a scuba site, win a trip to Papua New Guinea
Name a scuba site, win a trip to Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, the California-sized nation located north of Australia, is offering a free visit, if you can come up with the winning name for one of two little-known scuba diving sites off its coast.
Greenpeace makes fresh allegations against Indonesian firm
Greenpeace made fresh allegations Thursday that units of Indonesian paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas are clearing high conservation-value forests including habitats of endangered orangutans.
China allows release of critical IMF report
China allowed an IMF report critical of its currency policy to be released Thursday for the first time in four years, signaling Beijing’s increasing confidence that it can control the international debate on the yuan.
In Indonesia, Muslims, Ahmadis in standoff
Sectarian tensions rippled through an Indonesian town Thursday, where groups squared off over the closing of a minority group’s mosques.
Squatters ordered out of Philippine heroes’ cemetery
Two women have been sentenced to six years each in jail for squatting in a Manila cemetery that is reserved for national heroes but has become over-run with people needing homes, the military said.
Indonesian woman gets 3 years for harboring terrorists
An Indonesian woman was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday for aiding and harboring terrorists accused of suicide bombings and other attacks.
Japan experts call for robot expedition to moon
An expert panel advising the Japanese government called in a report approved on Thursday for the nation to send a wheeled robot to the moon in five years and to build the first lunar base by 2020.
Chinese Space Junk May Threaten Space Station Crew
NASA is tracking a piece of Chinese space junk that is headed uncomfortably close to the International Space Station and may force the outpost’s crew to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats as a precaution.
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