Striking news from Indonesia, as the country’s court has sentenced an American man to five months in jail, as he created nuisance in a Mosque by his immoral behaviour. It is reported that this particular American, rushed inside a Mosque and pulled off the cables from the speakers in the middle of their prayer session.

The American convicted has been recognized as Gregory Lloyd Luke, and he has been charged for blasphemy in a place of worship. According to Mohammad Bilal, who is a government official in the Praya District court has said that the sentence provided to Luke was quite lenient from the court’s point of view.

Luke himself is known to be a Muslim, and he runs a tourist lodge at the local Kuta Beach. One of the main reasons that he was provided a small sentence, is that during the hearing Luke was quite polite and apologetic, and on these grounds he was considered. The reason he went and disabled the Mosque speakers was he felt that they were just too noisy. Later a mob of Islamic men went and ransacked his house, where he sustained damage worth $20,000.

It was a really sad news to know, that a 21 year old Singaporean Mountaineer died in New Zealand while scaling a summit. Ong Eng Wu, who was studying in New Zealand as an international student had climbed Mt Aspiring without any rope. Wu fell down more than 800 meters from the summit being killed immediately.

Ong Eng Wu’s 20 year old male companion was ascending along with him and he witnessed the fall happen. He somehow managed to reach the summit where he got help from fellow guiders. According to the Wanaka police, they say that they were informed about the incident at around 06.50 am.

According to the Land SAR alpine cliff rescue team, they believe that Ong and his fellow companion were just 200 meters away from the summit, when Ong had a fatal fall into a 800 meter crevasse. The rescue team also stated that the two men were trying to climb the mountain unroped which made the situation even more grim.

Mulpha International Bhd, a wholly own subsidy by Mulpha Australia Ltd, has officially sold the Hilton Melbourne Hotel for RM327 million. The prominent hotel has been sold to the Pan Pacific Hotel’s Group for a mind boggling AU$108.89 million. According to the chairman of the Mulpha International Hotel, he says the sell off is a result of the a one off tax gain worth AU$77 million.

According to the reports the transaction and handover of the hotel will be complete by the month of March 2011, which also marks the end of the financial year. Pan Pacific will be looking forward to earn heavily and accumulate strong profits from the first year itself.

The officials in context to the deal are expecting heavy earnings from the acquisition and also that it will prove to be well worth for this sort of heavy investment. Pan Pacific has always appreciated the Melbourne hotel as an opportunity of investment since 2004 and it has finally completed its want to do so.

Singapore should refrain from making insensitive remarks about its neighbours and instead concentrate on further strengthening its ties with them, said Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badwai, ex- Prime Minister of Malaysia.

He also said that the diplomats from the island nation should take into consideration the sensitivities of Malaysia while speaking of their neighbors.

"Instead of making statements that could harm the relationship of the two countries, Singapore should try to ensure that the close association continues to grow," said Badwai.

The former PM made these statements in the wake of the comments of leaders and senior officials of the Singapore Foreign Ministry, as seen on the tapes released by WikiLeaks, which were widely reported in the media.

Malaysia's Foreign Minister Dato’ Seri Anifah Aman has already asked Singapore High Commissioner in Malaysia, T Jasudasen, to meet him in relation to the disturbing media coverage of the cables leaked by WikiLeaks.