To get a feel for what it's like to be on the trans-Mongolian railway, I've compiled a timeline of our two-night journey from Ulaan Baatar to Irkutsk.

As many as 24 foreigners are currently languishing in Denpasar's jail for committing criminal offenses while holidaying on the Island of Gods, Indonesia's ANTARA news agency quoted a local official as saying.

INDONESIA has cut three months off the 20-year sentence imposed on Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby as part of independence day celebrations, an official said.

Youths riding bicycles with national flags cross a tea plantation in Malino, as part of celebrations for Indonesia's 63rd independence anniversary, in South Sulawesi, yesterday JAKARTA: Indonesia yesterday ...

Two of the world's most powerful women gave Russian president Dmitry Medvedev a tongue-lashing last night as Russian troops remained firmly occupying Georgian territory.

Kim Chang-seob, the Agriculture Ministry s chief veterinary officer, said the declaration will be reported today to the Paris-based animal health organization known as OIE.

INDONESIA on Sunday cut three months off the 20-year sentence imposed on Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby as part of independence day celebrations, an official said.

Indonesia on Sunday cut three months off the 20-year sentence imposed on Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby as part of independence day celebrations, an official said.

Convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has had three months cut from her 20-year sentence as part of Indonesia's independence day celebrations, an official says.

Indonesia will cut the sentences of about 55 000 prisoners on Sunday to mark Independence Day, although inmates convicted for terrorism, corruption, drugs or illegal logging will be excluded, an official said ...