Forbes World Richest People 2009

List of top 100 billionaries 2009 according to Forbes Magazine.
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Obama the First US President with a Blog

A day Obama is anaugurated on January 20, the first post of his blog were born. Visit his blog at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/. The first post was written by apparently his Director of New Media (or should I call Director of Blogging?) named Macon Phillips. He writes
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Indonesia Free Wordpress Powered Blog Providers

Indonesian IT or Indonesia media company seems not so interested in investing their money to become a free blog providers. There are a few free wordpress-powered blog provided by Indonesia company or individual. Here are some of those. Let me know of additional free blog providers in Indonesia other than the ones already listed below. Important to note, among all free blog providers below, blogdetik.com and dagdigdug.com are the most popular and widely used in Indonesia (may be second only to wordpress.com).
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Shoe attack mars Bush’s Iraq visit

CNN reports that a man identified as an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at — but missed — President Bush during a news conference Sunday evening in Baghdad, where Bush was making a farewell visit.

The shoe-thrower — identified as Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network — could be heard yelling in Arabic: “This is a farewell … you dog!”
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Ali Alatas Former Indonesia Foreign Minister Dies

The Jakarta Post reports:

Former foreign minister and seasoned diplomat Ali Alatas died Thursday morning of a heart attack at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth hospital, aged 76. He is survived by his wife and three children.

Alatas had been admitted with heart problems to Medistra hospital in Jakarta on Nov. 20, but was transported to Singapore four days later.

His body was flown to Jakarta on Thursday evening and taken to his family home in Kemang, South Jakarta. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will lead the military burial procession Friday morning at the Kalibata Heroes’ Cemetery in South Jakarta.

Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, Shootings Kill 80 People, Injure 240

[Update: Mumbai terror attacks news update see here]

The New York Times reports that an uknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahedeen said it had carried out the attacks. It was not known who the group is or whether the claim was real.

The Washington Post meanwhile quoted American officials that said they do not know who is behind the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India]
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Indonesia’s Rupiah Weakening

Indonesia’s Rupiah tumbles

Indonesia’s rupiah had the worst week since May 2006 after authorities shut the stock market for three days.

The time I write this post, U$D 1 equals to IDR 10,800. Indonesians, however, should not be worried, said the head of Indonesia’s centralbank (Bank Indonesia, BI) Tuesday.
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AdSense for Content in Thai Language

An exciting info for Thai AdSense publisher:

…we’re now excited to let you know about the launch of AdSense for content in Thai. If you’re a publisher with a Thai website, you’ll now be able to earn money for valid clicks and impressions for Google ads on your site.

Most Corrupt Countries 2008

Being a frontrunner in a good thing is a dream comes true for any achiever. It’s true also if such achievement or underachievement is awarded to a nation or country. An award which is actually not personal but could affect a mixed feeling for any person in earch country ranked by Transparency International yearly report through its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2008 as being the less or most corrupt. Each individual is happy to see one’s country being in the cleanest category and is ashame to see otherwise. Among ASEAN countries, Singapore people should be proud to be at no. 4 in the world followed by Malaysia (47), Thailand (80), Vietnam (121), Indonesia (126) [1], Philippines (141), Timor Leste (145), Laos (151), Cambodia (166), Myanmar (178). The lower the number stands for the less corrupt a country is and vice versa.
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