Former Pertamina president dies: Former state-owned oil and gas

Former Pertamina president dies: Former state-owned oil and gas
firm Pertamina president Faisal Abda'oe passed away on Wednesday
evening at the Siloam Gleneagles Hospital, Tangerang, near
Jakarta. He was 71. Pertamina spokesman M. Harun said that Faisal
would be buried in his home village Pringgokusuman, Yogyakarta on
Thursday morning. Faisal led Pertamina from 1988 to 1998 and was
the company's second-longest serving president after Ibnu Sutowo.
He was granted several medals of honor from the government
including the Bintang Mahaputra in 1994. --JP

Angry protest as South Korea, China lock horns: Angry protesters
scuffled with police and burnt a Chinese national flag in Seoul
on Wednesday as tensions between China and South Korea over North
Korean asylum seekers continued to rise.
Some 300 South Korean activists and North Korean defectors set
fire to the Red Flag just outside the Chinese embassy in central
Seoul, witnesses said. --AFP

Armed assailants storm university hall in Nigeria: Armed men
stormed a university hall in Nigeria and opened fire on
engineering students taking examinations, killing at least a
dozen people, including two lecturers, witnesses and police said
on Wednesday. The attack took place in on Saturday at the
University of Nigeria campus in Nsukka. --AP

Riyadh bars foreigners from interrogating al-Qaeda suspects:
Saudi authorities will not allow foreign security personnel to
interrogate its 13 detained al-Qaeda suspects, a government-
controlled Saudi newspaper reported on Wednesday, describing a
policy that could strain U.S.-Saudi relations. The daily Okaz
said access to 11 Saudis, an Iraqi and a Sudanese will be limited
to Saudi authorities because "the crimes that they committed or
planned to carry out occurred or were going to take place on
Saudi territories." --AP