Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is calling on Israel to end Jewish settlements in the West Bank and other areas that the Palestinians want to be part off their own state.

North Korea  vowed to strengthen military ties with China on Wednesday, days after the North's leader Kim Jong-il finished a visit aimed at bolstering the bond with his isolated country's sole major supporter.

The clink of Balinese traditional music, Gamelan, performed by a team from Indonesian Fine Arts Institute of Denpasar shook Russian music community, a release from the Secretary of the Indonesia Embassy in Moscow, Johannes O S Manginsela, said Monday.

Talks on the demarcation of Indonesia-Malaysia land and sea boundaries which Indonesia wants to resume in the near future will hopefully proceed unhampered.

 India has suspended defense exchanges with China after Beijing refused a visa to a top Indian army general, media reports said Saturday.

Nepal wishes for more cooperation in economy, trade and investment and it hopes that Indonesia investor could invest its capital in mining, oil, power plant and agriculture. These were expressed by Suraj Vaida, the President of Nepal’s Federation Chamber of Commerce, the Head of Customs and Excise Office and the Head of Tribhuvan International Airport Authority to the Indonesian Ambassador for Bangladesh and Nepal, Zet Mirzal Zainnudin, in Kathmandu (Wednesday 25/8).

Wunderbar ! Toll…Super… exclaim the Germans when they saw the Dewaruci on the first day of the Sail Bremerhaven (Wednesday 25/8). The enthusiastic German crowds were lining up for a chance to see RI’s grand ship up close.

Sweden and Belgium are some of the countries that are now seeking closer ties to ASEAN and keen on strengthening their cooperation with the region. Both countries expressed this wish when their respective Ambassadors paid a courtesy call on the Secretary-General of ASEAN recently.