The Constitutional Court is scheduled to read its verdict on Wednesday on a judicial review of an article of the 2002 Law on Corruption.

State electricity producer PT PLN on Monday revealed it would hold put three new electricity projects to tender, to be financed by export credit.

The steel pipe industry may suffer losses of an estimated US$256 million (Rp 2.5 trillion) by the end of this year as their total production may plunge by 40 percent from last year’s realization.

The Jakarta administration will develop an early warning system for areas around the Pesanggrahan River in South Jakarta, to mitigate possible flooding in this rainy season.

Rescuers plucked a woman from choppy waters Monday, some 25 hours after she jumped from a crowded ferry that sank in a storm off Indonesia's Sumatra island. At least 29 people drowned, and 20 others were missing.

Separatist rebels ambushed a paramilitary vehicle Monday killing five soldiers in India's insurgency-wracked northeastern state of Manipur, an army official said.

The European Union on Monday urged the U.S. and China to deliver greenhouse gas emissions targets at next month's climate conference in Copenhagen, saying their delays were hindering global efforts to curb climate change.

Philippine troops found 21 bodies in the country's restive south after dozens of gunmen on Monday hijacked a convoy of politicians and supporters filing their nominations for next year's elections, officials said.

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav pursued his role with zeal and had no empathy for his victims despite his expressions of remorse over atrocities committed at the infamous facility that he commanded, a lawyer said in closing arguments at his genocide trial Monday.