Agustina Wayansari, The Jakarta Post, JakartaWith the retail banking potential still relatively untapped here, HSBC Indonesia says it will stay focused on developing its retail division.

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PT Lippo Cikarang, a publicly listed property developer that manages 3,000 hectares of land in Cikarang, West Java, plans to gradually construct and sell around 800 new houses and several industrial clusters this year to boost its revenue.

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CDMA-based cellular network operator PT Mobile-8 Telecom announced Friday its customer base had increased by 65 percent in 2007, almost doubling its revenue.By the end of last year, the company's subscribers numbered slightly more than 3 million, up from about 1.

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People in Jakarta and other big cities have been, for some time, very familiar with news reports of street vendors being "kicked-out" (often literally) from places where they run micro-scale businesses such as selling foods, soft drinks, snacks and so on.

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