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iflix and NBCUniversal team up to offer iflix users a huge slate of everyone’s favourite TV shows and movies

iflix and NBCUniversal team up to offer iflix users a huge slate of everyone’s favourite TV shows and movies

iflix (www.iflix.com), the world’s leading Internet TV service for emerging markets, offering subscribers unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more, today announced it has entered into major multi-year content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal (NBCU) to add a huge selection of the studio’s most popular and critically acclaimed titles to iflix’s extensive library. […]

Gay pair caned in Indonesia as crowd cheers and takes pictures

Gay pair caned in Indonesia as crowd cheers and takes pictures

Two men caught having sex in March were subjected to a public caning in the Indonesian province of Aceh on Tuesday. A crowd of about 1,000 people watched the punishment, many cheering and filming the event. The public caning took place in a square in front of a mosque in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh. […]

Indonesian woman becomes latest person to be caned ‘for standing near boyfriend’

Indonesian woman becomes latest person to be caned ‘for standing near boyfriend’

A 20-year-old woman in Indonesia has been publicly caned for standing too close to her boyfriend, becoming the 14th person to be flogged this month in the same province. The unnamed woman was accused of breaking Islamic Sharia law, which strictly forbids unmarried couples to become intimate, and was flogged in front of a crowd […]

The World’s Largest Powerships Are Helping To Electrify Asia, Africa

The World’s Largest Powerships Are Helping To Electrify Asia, Africa

A floating power plant isn’t something you see every day. The massive ships look like plants you’d see on land complete with tall exhaust stacks—except these plants are bobbing in the ocean. They might look odd, but for people in growing economies around the world, the ships are a welcome sight. The floating power plants […]

Mozambican Air Companies Banned From European Airspace

Mozambican Air Companies Banned From  European Airspace

The European Commission has announced that all Mozambican air companies remain on its blacklist of airlines that are not allowed to operate in the air space of the European Union. According to a press release issued in Brussels on Thursday, the EU Commission stated that 214 airlines from 19 countries are banned from operating in […]

Villagers attack orangutan mother and baby trying to escape forest fires in Borneo

Villagers attack orangutan mother and baby trying to escape forest fires in Borneo

As the Indonesian fires rage on, the expression on a struggling orangutan’s face has powerfully illustrated the human-orangutan conflict in the region. To escape the out-of-control forest fires burning in Borneo, an orangutan with baby by her side attempted to take refuge in a village only to be attacked by frightened villagers, an animal rights […]

Indonesia Eyeing Tourism and Trade Boost With Visa Upon Arrival Facility Offered to Seychelles

Indonesia Eyeing Tourism and Trade Boost With Visa Upon Arrival Facility Offered to Seychelles

Indonesia is making available visa on arrival facility to Seychellois passport holders traveling to the Asian nation, in a bid to strengthen economic, trade and social ties with Seychelles. In a press statement issued on Friday, the Seychelles Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Transport said the visa will be valid for a maximum stay of […]

Indonesian foundation defends awarding Kim Jong-un peace prize

Indonesian foundation defends awarding Kim Jong-un peace prize

A daughter of Indonesia’s founding president has defended honouring North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with an award for statesmanship, dismissing criticisms of his human rights record as “Western propaganda”. Rachmawati Sukarnoputri confirmed the leader would receive an award from her organisation, the Sukarno Education Foundation, in September for his “peace, justice and humanity”. The decision […]

Indonesia Publicly Canes Unmarried Couples

Indonesia Publicly Canes Unmarried Couples

Three couples have been publicly caned in Indonesia’s Aceh after the unmarried university students were caught spending time alone together in violation of the province’s strict interpretation of Sharia. A rowdy crowd of about 1,000 spectators shouted as the three men and three women, aged between 18 and 23, were lashed on Friday several times […]

Asia migrants: Bangkok meeting to debate crisis

Asia migrants: Bangkok meeting to debate crisis

A regional conference is due to get under way in the Thai capital Bangkok to discuss possible solutions to the South-East Asia migrant crisis. The talks will include member states from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) as well as representatives from the US and the UN. Bangladesh and Myanmar have seen an exodus […]

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