INDONESIA / BELGIUM - Belgian Chocolate conquers Indonesia - Indonesia's chocoholics lead an Asian quality wave

reuters.com - Dec 19 (Reuters) - Arriving in Indonesia just a little over a decade ago, Belgium chocolatier Thierry Detournay was dismayed at the lack of quality chocolate on offer in the world's third-largest cocoa producer.

But now, less than seven years after launch, his luxury Chocolate Monggo bars can be found in many of the gigantic and glitzy malls of downtown Jakarta.

As Southeast Asia's largest economy goes from strength to strength -- highlighted by a return to investment-grade status by Fitch Ratings this month -- Indonesia's Willy Wonka is one of many tapping into a growing Asian market for luxury chocolate.  (source)

PERSONALS - Antique sales for social and cultural goal

Thanks to the generosity of some people here in Yogya can we again, send you a list with valuable objects from the Indonesia cultural world. 

Again the profit of the sales of these objects will go to the support of the children's and toy museum Kolong Tangga and the development of the museum's workshop in villages and orphanages. The museum financial problem is still far from being solutioned, we still have sleepless night about the empty museum kassa. Thanks to your previous spontaneous buying last time, we could prevent certain disasters. 

Unfortunately we have still too much problems so we hope that you might receive our second sales-news, with the same enthusiasm as the first time. Sorry for the disturbance and thank you for giving time to read our e-mail. May we draw your attention that these objects presented in this e-mail are of collector's quality and that some are unique items.

With kind regards from the museum group.

For offer - see hereunder

R. Corens,
Curator museum
Direction committee
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Jl. Tirtodipuran No. 26, Mantrijeron
Yogyakarta. Indonesia 55143
Tel: +62 274 383 408
web: www.artsofrc.com
emails: - rcstudio@indosat.net.id

SOCIAL - BIMESA leaves the Island of Flores and is on the way to Yogjakarta

Our dear Belgian friends have left the Island of Flores and are on the way to Yogjakarta.  Do not hesitate to visit their blog and / or subscribe to the RSS-Messages Feed / RSS Reactions Feed to keep updated on their adventures, encounters, difficulties and successes.

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Original blog post at VIW

SOCIAL - BIMESA newsfeed

I have decided to put the BIMESA newsfeed on the blog, so you can follow all "live" so to speak and go read on the blog itself whenever interested.

The original post on this initiative you can access here.

SOCIAL - BIMESA helps people in Yogyakarta and the hospital of Bajawa on the Island of Flores (Indonesia)

Dear friends

In-line with the BLIC intitiative to keep you informed about noteworthy activities of Belgians here in Indonesia, I am pleased to send you herewith the copy of an e-mail received by a representative of a Belgian Association named BIMESA (www.bimesa.be).

VZW Bimesa is an abbreviation of Belgian Indonesian Medical Education Social Association and was founded in 2004. It is a Belgian non-profit organisation. Their activities cover on-site medical aid and social-educational help as well. They are mostly self supporting and voluntary work is one of the basic philosophies. (full story hereuner - also in Nederlands)

ECONOMY - DEVGEN : nv (Euronext, Brussels: DEVG) successfully completes a private placement for a total amount of ? 26.8 million (Yogyakarta)

Today, Devgen nv placed 4,584,549 new shares in a private placement with pre-identified investors for a total amount of ? 26,819,611. The shares were placed at a price of ? 5.85 per share, which is at least equal to the 30 day average price, in compliance with Belgian Company Law.

The shares are expected to be paid and issued on April 4, 2011 (in the absence of unforeseen circumstances). 1,945,613 shares will be listed immediately. The Company will apply for the admission to list the remainder 2,638,936 shares on NYSE Euronext Brussels on the basis of a listing prospectus. As a result of this transaction, the total amount of outstanding shares increases with 23.3 % from 19,676,642 to 24,261,191. (full story)

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