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(Reuters) – Search and rescue teams are looking for a person still missing after hundreds were rescued from a passenger ferry that caught fire in Indonesia’s Molucca Sea, local officials said on Sunday.
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KM Karya Indah was traveling in a remote part of the Indonesian archipelago, from Ternate in the province of North Maluku towards Sanana on the island of Sulabes, when the fire broke out early on Saturday morning.
Dramatic footage from Indonesia’s search and rescue agency showed the vessel engulfed in smoke and part of the ship ablaze as passengers in life vests jumped from the deck to lifeboats.
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April exports seen at +41% y/y, vs March’s +30.47% April imports seen at +29.81% y/y, vs March’s +25.73% April trade surplus of $1 bln forecast, vs March’s $1.56 bln Trade data due at 0400 GMT on Thursday, May 20
JAKARTA, May 18 (Reuters) - Indonesia’s trade surplus likely narrowed in April, with exports and imports seen accelerating amid a steady global economic recovery and higher commodity prices, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday.
The median forecast of 13 analysts in the poll was for Southeast Asia’s largest economy to post a $1 billion trade surplus in April, down from $1.56 billion surplus in the previous month.
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