Members of the all-female Japanese pop group AKB48 at the Golden Melody Awards in Taipei. They are guests in an annual Taiwanese music award. AKB48#39;s management staff announced the news during a handshaking event on Sunday to promote the group#39;s new music album. The girl group#39;s creator Yasushi Akimoto will also be the producer for JKT48. Popular Japanese girl group AKB48 is preparing to welcome the birth of their Indonesian sister group JKT48, a group billed as a “unique idol group
You won’t believe this ish… Ignoring the red-and-white danger sign, Sri Mulyati walks slowly to the train tracks outside Indonesia’s bustling capital, lies down and stretches her body across the rails. Like the nearly dozen others lined up along the track, the 50-year-old diabetes patient has all but given up on doctors and can’t afford the expensive medicines they prescribe. In her mind, she has only one option left: electric therapy. “I’ll keep doing this until I’m completely cured,” said Mulyati, twitching visibly as an oncoming passenger train sends an extra rush of current racing through her body. She leaps from tracks as it approaches and then, after the last carriage rattles slowly by, climbs back into position. Pseudo-medical treatments are wildly popular in many parts of Asia — where rumors about those miraculously cured after touching a magic stone or eating dung from sacred cows can attract hundreds, sometimes thousands. That may be especially true in Indonesia, where chronic funding shortages and chaotic decentralization efforts since the 1998 ouster of longtime dictator Suharto have left many disillusioned with the state-sponsored health system, said Marius Widjajarta, chairman of the Indonesian Health Consumers Empowerment Foundation. If you like it, we love it, but we ain’t no “electric rail therapy” goin on over here… Source
Nick Jonas and the Australian pop star Delta Goodrem, 26, were attending a songwriting camp while on the Indonesian island, a source confirms to us. Looks like Nick Jonas is having a ball. The singer, 18, Delta Goodrem, with whom he#39;s been getting close recently, got in the spirit of the summer with a two-week trip to Bali. “I have been so blessed,” he Tweeted Monday. “So many great things happening.” Not that they didn#39;t take time to enjoy their getaway. The couple relaxed on the sand
They’re no denying it any longer: Delta Goodrem and Nick Jonas are totally a couple! The pair were spotted in Bali this week, attending a songwriting camp while on the Indonesian island, according to a People Magazine insider. “I have been so blessed,” Nick Tweeted Monday while posing for a photo with his 26-year old girlfriend. “So many great things happening.” Witnesses spotted Goodrem and Jonas getting a meal at The Beach Club at Sandy Bay on Nusa Lembongan, an island just off the coast of Bali. They are now back in the States. With Delta by his side, we’re guessing Nick doesn’t really care what Selena Gomez says about him .
Justin Bieber Plan Concert in Indonesia 23 April next Indonesian police have not received permission, the concert will be held at the Sentul International Conventional Center (SICC), Babakan Madang district, Bogor regency, West Java. still hampered by licensing. Event Organizer of this concert has not explained the concept of security to the police. Justin Bieber Read more: Justin Bieber concert twice threatened to fail
#39;This earthquake is located too deep inside the Earth to generate a tsunami in the Indian Ocean,#39; it said. Geoscience Australia and the Hong Kong Observatory also recorded the quake at 6.2. Indonesia sits on the Pacific #39;Ring of Fire#39;, where the meeting of continental plates causes high seismic activity. A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian resort island of Bali early on Friday but was located too deep to generate a tsunami in the Indian Ocean, seismologists
When the full suite of Oscar nominations were announced a few weeks ago, squatting smack in the middle of the final five for the Best Visual Effects category was Clint Eastwood’s film Hereafter. And a great many people went… ‘huh?’ There are obviously effects in the film, which recreates the Indonesian tsunami from 2004. But against many of the other major effects players for 2010, the nomination… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 18/02/2011 17:34 Number of articles : 2
When the full suite of Oscar nominations were announced a few weeks ago, squatting smack in the middle of the final five for the Best Visual Effects category was Clint Eastwood’s film Hereafter. And a great many people went… ‘huh?’ There are obviously effects in the film, which recreates the Indonesian tsunami from 2004. But against many of the other major effects players for 2010, the nomination… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 18/02/2011 17:34 Number of articles : 2
Arissa Cheo is a Singaporean of Indonesian-Chinese parentage who is a heiress of a very rich Indonesian family. Arissa had previously studied at the Methodist Girls’ School and many of her former schoolmates had shared that she was a very popular girl has she was already very pretty at the young age. Arissa Cheo (aka Arissa Luna, Cheo Zhen Shan) is the very pretty and sweet-looking 24 years old new girlfriend of Taiwanese Vanness Wu. Arissa Cheo was borned a Singaporean on 30 June 1986. She is
Mr Nurdian Cuaca, 44, and Madam Jamie Chua Xin Yin, 36, a Singaporean, had been married for over 15 years, before filing for divorce in February last year over #39;unreasonable behaviour#39;. They have two children. An Indonesian tycoon has failed to unfreeze $93 million of his assets pending the outcome of a divorce suit. Mr Cuaca#39;s assets include two houses in Sentosa Cove and in Hong Kong worth $14.6 million, $79.2 million in shares in a private company, his wine collection and his three
