http://www.thejakartapost.com/breaking/feed The Jakarta Post News Channel en http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/army-orders-court-martial-wikileaks-case.html An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence anayst charged in the biggest leak of classified in information U.S. history. Military District of Washington commander ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:01:32 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/syrian-activists-200-dead-government-assault.html In a barrage of shelling, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds early Saturday in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:48:38 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/europe-tries-shield-homeless-deep-freeze-175-die.html Russia and Ukraine both took extra precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, ordering new facilities and medical care after scores of people have frozen to death on the streets of Europe ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:45:45 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/male-nude-photo-stirs-fans-and-critics-podcast.html The nation’s most popular political podcast, “Naneun Ggomsuda,” has started a fresh round of dispute as one of its male supporters posted a nude photo of himself in response to the mounting ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:36:26 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/chinas-holiday-gift-market-booming.html The demand in the Chinese gift market was as much as 768 billion yuan ($122 billion) in 2011, and the Spring Festival (also known as the Lunar New Year) accounted for up to 60 percent of this huge ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:29:59 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/shanghai-raise-sea-burial-subsidy.html Shanghai is planning to raise the subsidy offered for sea burials to help preserve its limited land resources, Jiefang Daily reported.The subsidy currently stands at 2,000 yuan ($317). Shanghai began ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:25:34 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/sony-corp-appoints-new-president-ceo.html Top job: Sony's incoming CEO Kazuo Hirai (left) and current CEO Howard Stringer take part in a news conference in Tokyo Feb 2. [Photo/Agencies]Sony Corp. announced on Thursday that the 51-year-old ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:20:18 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/2nd-hiv-man-jailed-sex-with-same-victim.html A second HIV-infected man who had oral and anal sex with a 37-year-old victim without revealing his HIV status was jailed for 18 months on Friday.The 48-year-old man, who is married, had admitted to ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:14:05 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/04/man-arrested-threatening-burn-wife-over-affair.html He suspected his wife went to Thailand with her lover and wanted to scare her into stopping the affair. Tan Boon Seah's plan backfired. She is now missing and he has been dragged to court for ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:07:36 +0700 http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/03/iran-reports-launch-small-satellite-orbit.html Iran successfully launched a new small satellite into orbit early Friday, state media reported, the latest n the country's ambitious space program that has raised concerns because if its possible ... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:21:26 +0700