Jailed Australian drug-trafficker Schapelle Corby will be released in September 2017, a prison chief said on Friday, after she had five years slashed off her 20-year term.

Bali Story: Foreign media continued to swarm around Kerobokan Prison on Thursday after news this week that the facility’s most high-profile prisoner, Australian drug-smuggler Schapelle Corby, had been granted a five-year cut in her 20-year term. There are suggestions that Corby could be released later this year under a parole programme but would have to [...]

Pop-star Lady Gaga would rather cancel dates in her world tour than make changes to appease censors and religious groups, the US singer’s manager said on Thursday as controversy dogs her in Asia. Troy Carter said that in any case, nothing would appease the religious hardliners who have denounced Lady Gaga in South Korea, Indonesia [...]

Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika said he would not mind if the planned concert of Lady Gaga was moved from Jakarta to Bali, as long as the police guaranteed security at the event.

The Australian and Indonesian governments have denied doing a deal to have five years taken off Australian drug-trafficker Schapelle Corby’s sentence in exchange for the release of Indonesian people-smugglers.

Lady Gaga broke her silence about a jeopardised concert in Jakarta, saying on Twitter that she was facing censorship from Indonesian authorities and threats of violence from Islamic hardliners.

The president has agreed to a clemency plea by convicted Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, slashing five years off her 20-year jail sentence.

For almost half of Yemen’s 22 million people, eating has become a luxury they can’t always afford. On a bad day, Umm Ahmad and her family of five, who live in Sanaa’s shanty-town district of Al-Sunaina, go without any food at all. On a better day, Umm Ahmad’s husband, who works as a vendor, selling [...]