"2 missing in Indonesia boat sinking" Associated Press August 19, 2014
MATARAM, Indonesia — Rescuers on Monday rescued 13 more people from a tourist boat that sank after hitting a reef in central Indonesia but were searching for a Dutch man and an Italian woman who were still missing, officials said.
The boat, carrying 20 foreign tourists, four Indonesian crewmen, and an Indonesian guide, sank Saturday evening on its way from Lombok island to Komodo island. Ten people — all foreigners — were rescued Sunday.
Eight more foreign tourists and all five Indonesians were found early Monday, said Lalu Wahyu Efendi, operational chief for the search and rescue agency in Mataram, the provincial capital of West Nusatenggara.
He said the 13 were rescued by fishermen about 27 miles east of where their wooden boat sank off Sangeang Api, a volcanic island in Bima district off the eastern coast of Sumabwa island.
Most of those who were rescued had minor injuries, said Efendi, adding that rescuers were still scouring the waters for the two missing foreigners.
The rescued foreigners included five Dutch, four Germans, three Italians, two each from Spain and New Zealand, and one each from France and Britain, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for Indonesia’s disaster management agency.
The boat was hit by a 10-foot-high wave in bad weather and crashed into a reef, causing it to leak and sink, he said.
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Spoiled the party:
"Collector who sold bogus wine gets 10-year term" Associated Press August 08, 2014
NEW YORK — A collector convicted of making bogus vintage wine in his California kitchen and selling it for millions of dollars was sentenced Thursday to a decade in prison.
The public “needs to know our food and drinks are safe . . . and not some potentially unsafe homemade witch’s brew,’’ US District Judge Richard M. Berman said as he sentenced Rudy Kurniawan, 37, an Indonesian of Chinese descent. He also ordered him to forfeit $20 million and pay $28.4 million in restitution.
FDA is in charge of that, and that is how we know you can not trust the global food supply.
Prosecutor Stanley Okula called Kurniawan a ‘‘kingpin of counterfeiters,’ who poured wine into vintage bottles and attached elegant fake labels. He said Kurniawan caused losses close to $30 million, primarily for seven victims, including William Koch, a billionaire yachtsman, entrepreneur, and wine investor.
I'll drink to that.
Is he one of the brothers?
Kurniawan twice apologized, saying ‘‘I’m really sorry.’’
As long as you didn't urinate in them.
Lawyer Jerome H. Mooney said his client got swept up in the thrill of mixing with the wealthy.
I can $ee how that could intoxicate $omeone, yeah.
‘‘Fraud is fraud,’’ Okula said.
Unless you are a too big to jail bank.
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"US woman dead in Bali; daughter, 1 other arrested" Associated Press August 14, 2014
BALI, Indonesia — The body of a 62-year-old American woman was found stuffed inside a suitcase on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, and authorities arrested her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend on Wednesday in relation to the death, police said.
The suitcase containing Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s body was found Tuesday inside the trunk of a taxi parked in front of the St. Regis Bali Resort in the island’s upscale Nusa Dua area, said Colonel Djoko Hari Utomo, the police chief in Bali’s capital, Denpasar.
Von Wiese-Mack’s 19-year-old daughter, Heather Mack, and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, were arrested Wednesday morning at a hotel in Bali’s Kuta area, about 6 miles away, Utomo said.
Both were being questioned but were refusing to talk until being joined by lawyers, he said.
The US Embassy in Jakarta confirmed that von Wiese-Mack’s body had been found, but did not give details.
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I suppose you can see for yourself in the Globe's Indonesia coverage passes the taste test.
