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Adventure looms large in this vast and steamy archipelago, where the best of Southeast Asia’s spicy melange simmers tantalisingly. Heady scents, vivid colours, dramatic vistas and diverse cultures spin and multiply to the point of exhaustion, their potent brew leaving your senses reeling.
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Rippling across the equator for nearly 5000km, Indonesia encompasses more than 17,000 islands, two-thirds of which are inhabited and richly layered with character. On Sulawesi, the elaborate funeral ceremonies and timeless traditions of Tana Toraja are light years from the surfing culture of Lombok. But so too are the mighty saddle-backed Batak mansions of Danua Toba and the volcanic lakes of Sumatra from the mummies and deeply etched gorges of Papua’s Baliem Valley. The resorts and restaurants of Bali pamper precocious style cats, while at the same moment threadbare backpackers are adopted by homestays in Kalimantan.
Indonesia’s cities are in a constant state of urban evolution, where dense populations, technology and construction live in hectic symbiosis. But most of the archipelago’s territory remains unexplored, concealing a wealth of cultures and a myriad of landscapes. Oceanic rice fields and ancient sultanates in Java are humbled by haunting volcanic cones. Maluku’s alabaster beaches and desert islands remain pristine while the tourist trail heads elsewhere. The jungles of Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua are zoological wonders, revealing impish monkeys, stoic sun bears, leopards, orang-utans and remarkable marsupials.
And then there are the micromoments, equally exquisite but entirely unexpected; impromptu English lessons with school children, instant friendships in crammed bemos, lending an ear to your becak rider… In Indonesia there is plenty of cause to pause, except when dodging hurtling traffic – but that’s all part of the adventure.
BEIJING – China's government announced a global talent search Monday to fill top posts at 12 major state-owned companies in its latest effort to turn huge but inefficient government enterprises into global competitors.
Communist leaders want to build up 30 to 50 state companies as national champions in fields from oil to banking to airlines. Some are among the biggest in their global industries due to their protected position in China's huge market but authorities acknowledge they lag behind foreign rivals in skills and efficiency.
State industries have hired managers from abroad but Monday's announcement by the Cabinet agency that runs China's biggest state companies was the most high-profile recruitment effort to date.
The State Asset Supervision and Administration Commission wants "candidates from home and abroad" to help strengthen companies, said a two-page advertisement in the China Daily, the main government newspaper aimed at foreign readers.
State companies such as China Telecom Ltd. and PetroChina Ltd. are working hard to become efficient and profitable. But they face tensions between those efforts and frequent Communist Party mandates for costly initiatives such as investing in poor regions or creating a Chinese third-generation mobile phone standard.
New management recruits will have to defer to political decisions, said Albert Louie, a veteran business consultant in Beijing.
"Recruiting talent does not mean giving them authority," said Louie. "The ultimate decisions still depend on the government."
Jobs advertised Monday included general managers of the State Nuclear Power Technology Corp., the China State Construction Engineering Corp. and automaker Dongfeng Motor Corp., the local partner of Nissan Motor Co.
Some said Chinese citizens were preferred, indicating companies want Chinese-born executives working abroad or at foreign companies in China. Others said they would consider managers of any nationality.
Asked whether SASAC wanted only Chinese-born executives, a woman who answered the phone at its headquarters and would give only her surname, Wang, said, "Every position has its own criteria. If it does not specify, it means everybody can apply."
Last year, a major aerospace firm, state-owned Aviation Industry Corp. of China, announced a worldwide campaign to recruit managers and said it would consider foreigners. After a six-month search, AVIC hired six Chinese executives.
Louie pointed to Dongfeng's current managers as a possible model of the balance that Beijing hopes to achieve: "They are loyal to the party and yet they know how to run companies of that size."
SASAC oversees 123 companies including China Mobile, the world's biggest phone carrier by subscribers, Bank of China Ltd. and China Life Insurance Co. PetroChina is the world's No. 2 company by market value behind Exxon Mobil Corp. and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. is the biggest commercial lender by market value.
Beijing wants to create 30 to 50 state-owned companies with "strong international competitiveness," SASAC's then-chairman, Li Rongrong, said in July.
The government wants its companies to retain "absolute dominance" in industries such as power, oil and petrochemicals, telecommunications, coal, aviation and shipping, Li told state media.
SASAC said total profits at its companies rose 60 percent in the first half of this
year over the same period of 2009 to 543 billion yuan ($79.5 billion).
State industry flourished under Beijing's stimulus, which poured money into building highways and other public works, handing a windfall to government-dominated fields such as cement and steelmaking.
Private sector businesses say they were left to struggle without aid. The gap was so striking that the Chinese press coined a term for it: "Guo jin, min tui," or "The state advances, the private sector retreats."
Other jobs advertised Monday included general manager of Chinatex Corp., a major textile producer; deputy general managers at China National Administration of Coal Geology, China National Gold Group Corp. and China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corp. and other jobs at China Shipping (Group) Co., China Resources (Holdings) Corp. and China National Building Material Group Corp.
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland – An expedition surveying the wreck of the Titanic is showing off some crisp images of the world's most famous shipwreck, but officials said Sunday they are headed back to shore. Officials from Expedition Titanic said in a statement they are now headed back to Newfoundland because high seas and winds brought on by hurricane Danielle are preventing researchers from carrying out their work.
The team of scientists have been using a pair of robots to take thousands of photographs and hours of video of the wreck, which lies roughly 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) below the surface.
The hi-resolution images include shots of the ship's bow, clearly showing the railing and anchors.
The expedition left Newfoundland earlier this month to the spot in the Atlantic where the ship struck an iceberg in 1912 and sank. More than 1,500 passengers and crew perished on the ship's maiden voyage.
Scientist are using imaging technology and sonar devices that never have been used before on the Titanic wreck. They are probing nearly a century of sediment in the debris field to seek a full inventory of the ship's artifacts.
The expedition is a partnership between RMS Titanic Inc., which has exclusive salvage rights to the wreck, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. The expedition will not collect artifacts but is scheduled to probe a 2-by-3-mile (3-by-5-kilometer) debris field where hundreds of thousands of artifacts remain scattered.
Expedition officials say they intend to return to finish their work after a delay of a few days.
Since oceanographer Robert Ballard and an international team discovered the Titanic in 1985, most of the expeditions have either been to photograph the wreck or gather thousands of artifacts, like fine china, shoes and ship fittings. "Titanic" director James Cameron has also led teams to the wreck to record the bow and the stern, which separated during the sinking and now lie one-third of a mile apart.
RMS Titanic made the last expedition to site in 2004.
WASHINGTON – Straddling war and peace, President Barack Obama is about to formally end the divisive U.S. combat role in Iraq and restart talks between Israelis and Palestinians, a moment defined more by relief and hope than triumph.
On Tuesday night, Obama will tell the nation from the Oval Office that the U.S. role in Iraq has changed for good, with the remaining U.S. troops to play a supporting role to Iraqi forces. It will be a milestone with no celebration or banners in a still unresolved war, one that wages on years longer and at greater cost than most Americans ever imagined.
The next day, Obama will make his largest investment of political capital to date in the trying Mideast peace process. He will welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for individual talks and a joint dinner, the prelude to direct negotiations between the leaders on Thursday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as host.
Put together, the events amount to what the White House considers to be the capping of Obama's initial phase of foreign policy in the region and the starting of another. Officials see a picture in which Iraq is taking on self-reliance, the Mideast process is showing life, the international sanctions against Iran are taking hold and the added military muscle Obama ordered in Afghanistan is in place. All are considered progress toward solutions requiring deep patience.
Yet there are no victories to declare, and weary Americans have seen turning points come and go. The risk for Obama comes in defining expectations on pursuits that can fall apart at any time, often over events outside his control.
In Iraq, political leaders are in such stalemate that they have been unable to form a government since the March elections. Bombers and gunmen killed more than 50 Iraqis in attacks just last week, a reminder of the terror that can come at any time. In perspective, the levels of violence in Iraq have dropped considerably, but security and democracy are highly unfinished projects.
"This is not, 'Everything is over,'" White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. "We still have people there. And we'll still have violence there."
On Mideast peace, the resumption of talks is itself a victory, but Clinton set a sober tone even in announcing them. "There have been difficulties in the past; there will be difficulties ahead," she said. "We will hit more obstacles."
The focus on Iraq and the Mideast talks is Obama's most concentrated public emphasis on foreign policy and national security in weeks. That will continue throughout September as the president marks the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and heads later in the month for talks with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
Hastening the end of a war he never supported, Obama's message about Iraq is expected to echo a line he said about Afghanistan in his major address about that war last December.
He will say Iraqis must take responsibility for their nation because the country he wants to build most is the United States, a nod to the economic anxiety that has eroded morale at home.
There will be no reference to mission accomplished.
The U.S. role in the war was already on a path to end when Obama took office. All U.S. troops are set to leave Iraq by the end of 2011 under an accord the United States reached during Bush's presidency.
Until then, the mission of U.S. forces will be mainly to help and train Iraqi forces and take part in targeted counterterrorism missions. Obama is already framing the importance of the end of the combat mission as a promise kept.
"The bottom line is this: The war is ending. Like any sovereign, independent nation, Iraq is free to chart its own course," the president said over the weekend. "And by the end of next year, all of our troops will be home."
Obama will be speaking on Aug. 31, his self-imposed deadline for ending the combat operation in Iraq and shrinking the U.S. footprint there to no more than 50,000 troops.
It is already below that number. When he took office, there were more than 140,000 troops in Iraq.
Obama's Oval Office address will come more than seven years after major combat operations were declared over the first time, by then President George W. Bush.
The news of Obama's speech — the deadlines met, the time of transition — has been playing out for weeks. So his mission is to honor the sacrifice of those who have served and to put Iraq in the context of an ongoing fight against terrorists, which the United States is waging in Afghanistan and other places around the world where al-Qaida has rooted.
Before the nighttime address, the president will travel to Fort Bliss, Texas, to thank troops in person. The sprawling Army base in El Paso has contributed heavy armor and tours of soldiers throughout the war.
In the public eye, much of Obama's time has been spent working on the sluggish economy, the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the Democrats' re-election efforts this year.
Although the Iraq war gets less attention now, it was at the heart of the U.S. political debate when Obama launched his bid for the White House in 2007. His opposition to the war and his pledge to end it responsibly helped drive his election.
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