An air force C-130 transport airplane left Bangkok on Wednesday morning en route for Ambon in Indonesia and will tomorrow bring home 86 Thai fishing workers fleeing "slave labour" conditions on the ...

Indonesia may be one of Australia's closest neighbours, but exploring its lesser-known islands can result in brutal flight itineraries. On a recent trip to remote West Papua – just over 1000 ...

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties in the quake, which the USGS initially said was 7 magnitude. Singapore: An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck 174 km (108 miles) southeast of ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Maluku Police Region stated that approximately 557 local residents are still displaced due to clashes between residents in Hunuth Village, Teluk Ambon District, Ambon ...

When Australians think of the infamous Japanese-run World War II prison camps, they may think of Changi or know of the Thai-Burma railway. But Max Gilbert, 94, receives blank stares if he tells ...

ith a few bumps along the road, especially in the past year when things became a little rocky again, Ambon has nonetheless come a long way from the war zone that it turned into a decade ago. My first ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated the city of Ambon, the capital of Maluku, as one of the world’s creative cities on October ...

The 30th Annual Spice Islands Darwin to Ambon yacht race is ready to set sail on Saturday morning, and this year the competitors will be sailing with some very specific cargo. A plan was hatched by ...

In World War II, more than 300 Australian and Dutch servicemen were summarily executed in a barbaric act of retribution by Japanese forces on Indonesia’s Ambon Island. It was a heinous war crime, ...

An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale has struck just off the coast of the eastern Indonesian island of Ambon on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. Indonesia's ...