Former Pertamina president dies: Former state-owned oil and gas
\nfirm Pertamina president Faisal Abda'oe passed away on Wednesday
\nevening at the Siloam Gleneagles Hospital, Tangerang, near
\nJakarta. He was 71. Pertamina spokesman M. Harun said that Faisal
\nwould be buried in his home village Pringgokusuman, Yogyakarta on
\nThursday morning. Faisal led Pertamina from 1988 to 1998 and was
\nthe company's second-longest serving president after Ibnu Sutowo.
\nHe was granted several medals of honor from the government
\nincluding the Bintang Mahaputra in 1994. --JP<\/p>\n
Angry protest as South Korea, China lock horns: Angry protesters
\nscuffled with police and burnt a Chinese national flag in Seoul
\non Wednesday as tensions between China and South Korea over North
\nKorean asylum seekers continued to rise.
\nSome 300 South Korean activists and North Korean defectors set
\nfire to the Red Flag just outside the Chinese embassy in central
\nSeoul, witnesses said. --AFP<\/p>\n
Armed assailants storm university hall in Nigeria: Armed men
\nstormed a university hall in Nigeria and opened fire on
\nengineering students taking examinations, killing at least a
\ndozen people, including two lecturers, witnesses and police said
\non Wednesday. The attack took place in on Saturday at the
\nUniversity of Nigeria campus in Nsukka. --AP<\/p>\n
Riyadh bars foreigners from interrogating al-Qaeda suspects:
\nSaudi authorities will not allow foreign security personnel to
\ninterrogate its 13 detained al-Qaeda suspects, a government-
\ncontrolled Saudi newspaper reported on Wednesday, describing a
\npolicy that could strain U.S.-Saudi relations. The daily Okaz
\nsaid access to 11 Saudis, an Iraqi and a Sudanese will be limited
\nto Saudi authorities because \"the crimes that they committed or
\nplanned to carry out occurred or were going to take place on
\nSaudi territories.\" --AP<\/p>",
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