BEIJING, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Tuesday has left for North Korea, with which his tour of five countries of Asia and the Middle East begins.

Baku, 17 June (AzerTAj) - Azerbaijani chess player Gunay Mammadzade became European champion.

Paris, June 17 (SPA) - Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Assistant Deputy Commander of the National Guard for Military

Tehran, June 17 (IRNA) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged world oil exporting countries on Tuesday to find ways to switch their oil revenues from dollar to alternative currencies.

Jakarta, June 17 (ANTARA) - A legislator has predicted that some of the government's economic policies would be neglected with Finance Minister Sri Mulyani's appointment to the concurrent post of

Makassar, June 17 (ANTARA) - A total of 400 Indonesian nurses will be sent to Japan next August under an economic agreement between Indonesia and Japan, a Japanese Embassy official said.

Jakarta, June 17 (ANTARA) - The House of Representatives (DPR) on Tuesday passed a sharia banking bill into law, paving the way for the government to ensure legal certainty in running the sharia ba

Jakarta, Jun 17 (ANTARA) - The government will review three gas export contracts in which the commodity's price was set at a low level, even below the domestic gas price, an energy ministry offi

Surabaya, June 17 (ANTARA) - Attorney General Hendarman Supandji said he was ready to step down if he proved to be involved in the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) case implicating busin

Jakarta, June 17 (ANTARA) - The House of Representatives (DPR) on Tuesday passed a sharia banking bill into law, paving the way for the government to ensure legal certainty in running the sharia ba