Silky smooth as always. Now button it.

You just haven't cottoned on to bespoke humour.

Mercy./me slits wrists.

Ruining the very fabric of society.

The nation’s textile industry has been dealt a double blow by the global economic slowdown and the imminent Asean free-trade agreement with China, with more than half of the manufacturers here turning into mere trading houses and 155 producers going out of business in 2009.

Cepu, Indonesia’s largest oil block, is the nation’s best hope for lifting its sagging crude production, which has fallen to less than one million barrels per day. But the ongoing drive to reach peak output of 165,000 bpd at Cepu had been anything but smooth this year, with bureaucratic tangles...

Government officials on Wednesday appeared to distance themselves from Dubai-based Emaar Properties’ $600 million mega-resort project in Lombok, ahead of today’s deadline to finalize the deal.“It’s better to call Emaar directly, I’m sorry,” Alwi Shihab, the special presidential envoy to...

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest oil producer, has failed to meet its investment target for the oil and gas sector because contractors cut spending as the economic slowdown brought record-high crude prices crashing down and reduced energy demand, upstream energy regulator BPMigas announced on...