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Asian Beach Game Logo
Another historical event will take place in October 2008 at the beautiful island of Bali. This event will be called the First Asian Beach Games. The event is about sports competition related to the beach and it’s the first of its kind. As of today there are already 45 countries from Asia that confirmed their participation in the game with Tajikistan, Bhutan, and Kazakhstan being the latest participants.
With a total of 1.500 athletes registered at the game the game will surely be spectacular and not to be …
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Bali Bombers
The terrorists of the first Bali Bombing Imam Samudra and Amrozi will be executed in October. The local news have stated that the duo terrorist will be excuted after the fasting month of Ramadhan, or about early October.
They have spread a dark terror through out the country and making a bad name out of Indonesia, not to mention Bali. Because of them more tourists cancelled their trip to Indonesia, and the Balinese were so ashamed because of that terrible act.
Casualties were coming from tourists and local commoners who worked …
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Hendra Setiawan and Markis Kido (left-right) won the gold medal
One day before Indonesia Independence Day in 17th August 2008 the Indonesian athletes have finally given their motherland a golden present from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hendra Setiawan and Markis Kido the duo ranked number one of the world had beaten the Chinese Cai Yun and Fu Heifeng in competing for the gold medal and they won the gold medal, leaving the Chinese with only a silver medal from the men-double badminton.
Kido said to the news at the press conference “We …
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63 Years of Indonesia independence
Every August 17th is when the Indonesia people celebrate their independence day from all over the country. Streets are remarked, houses repainted, fireworks are prepared, flags stood firmly on poles all over the place, and the most important thing is how the celebration of the people.
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Garuda Indonesia
Since 2007 EU has decided to ban all flights from Indonesian airlines. The EU flight commision said that because of the booming in cheap flights in Indonesia, safety has been neglected due to the low price the airlines are offering. Since that time Indonesian airlines had already try to make it up to the EU standards as hard as they could, but only to find out the flight ban is being extended.
It’s true that local airlines in Indonesia are strying to compete with each other and trying to …
