Indonesia limits fuel purchases ahead of price rise: report (Sunday,18/05/2008:08.30
wib) JAKNEWS.COM---Indonesia's oil and gas company Pertamina has set limits on subsidised fuel purchases ahead of the government's plans to hike fuel prices, reports said Saturday.
In an announcement sent to petrol stations around the capital and several other cities, Pertamina has limited retail purchases of gasoline and diesel fuel to 75,000 rupiah (8 dollars) for private cars.
Thousands flee China quake area over flood fears (Sunday,18/05/2008:09.00
wib) JAKNEWS.COM---Two rivers blocked by landslides threatened to flood towns shattered by China's massive earthquake, sending thousands of survivors fleeing Saturday in a region still staggering from the country's worst disaster in 30 years.
A mountain sheared off by the mighty tremor cut the Qingzhu river and swallowed the riverside village of Donghekou whole, entombing an unknown number of people inside a huge mound of brown earth.
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