(AAP) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to wish Australian troops a merry Christmas and to reassure them they are being thought of back home.

(AAP) Australia's flagging tourism industry is banking on renewed Japanese interest with the announcement of new flights from Tokyo to Cairns and the Gold Coast.

Baku, 18 December,(AzerTAj)Azerbaijan`s largest mobile operator Azercell Telecom signed new roaming agreements with Tajikistan`s Tacom and Liberia`s Comium mobile operators.

SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's farm export target may fall short of the US$4.5 billion goal set last month, the head of the state-run Agro-Fisheries Trade Corp. said Thursday.

By Shin Hae-in

SANA'A, Dec. 18 (Saba) - A number of cooperation agreements will be
signed by both Yemeni and Malaysian Chambers of Commerce and

Jakarta, Dec 18 (ANTARA) - Bank Indonesia (BI / the central bank) has predicted that Indonesia's economic growth will reach 4.9 percent in 2009, higher than World Bank prediction at 4.4 percent, a

Jakarta, Dec 18 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government expects Middle Eastern investors to keep on increasing the realization of their investment plans in the country so as to move the domestic e

Jakarta, Dec 18 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) has asked the central bank (BI) to drop its key rate from 9.25 percent to 8.5 percent to help smoothen liquidity f

Jakarta, Dec 18 (ANTARA) - As a result of the global economic recession, the bank credit growth in 2009 is predicted to tumble after it has been growing rapidly in 2007 and 2008, Bank Indonesia (BI