An overcrowded ferry in Indonesia carrying more than double its capacity sank, leaving 10 people dead and at least 12 others missing, according to police and media reports.

Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned that a bird flu epidemic may prove deadlier than last year’s massive Indian Ocean tsunami, reports said today.

ASIA'S bird flu crisis deepened yesterday as Indonesia said "millions" of its chickens had died from the illness, making it the seventh nation to confirm the deadly disease.

The death toll from an explosion in a Bali nightclub is reported to be at 182, with at least 178 injured in what the national police chief described as the worst act of terror in Indonesia’s history.