Jakarta - An undersea earthquake registering 6.0 on the Richter scale struck Sunday morning off East Timor, but there were no reports of injury or damage, Indonesian seismological officials said.

The quake struck at 7 am Sunday Jakarta time (0000 GMT), about 159 kilometres south-east of Dili, the capital of East Timor, according to the National Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.

The event was centred only 10 kilometres beneath the seabed but did not trigger a tsunami, the agency said.

Jakarta - A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday morning in eastern Indonesia's Maluku islands, seismologists said.

The quake struck at 7:04 am Jakarta time (0004 GMT) at a depth of 72 kilometres, about 97 kilometres north-east of Ambon, capital of Maluku province, Indonesia's National Meteorological and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said.

An official at BMG office in Ambon, who identified himself only as Amien, said there were no immediate reports of injury and damage from the quake, which struck in the sea off the Seram Island of southern Maluku.

Jakarta - Indonesian police said Friday they were investigating two suspected bomb blasts near a mine operated by US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc in the country's easternmost province Papua.

Company spokesman Mindo Pangaribuan said no one was injured in the blasts, took place early riday and that operations were not affected.

"Investigation is still underway," Papua police chief Bagus Eko Danto, was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news agency, adding that a team of investigators, including members of the country's elite anti-terror unit were rushed to the scene.

Jakarta - A truck packed with 42 people plunged into a ravine in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, killing 10 people and injuring dozens of others, a local media report said Thursday.

The accident took place on Wednesday when a truck, which was used to carry passengers, overturned and plunged into a ravine in East Manggarai district on Flores Island, about 1,700 kilometres east of Jakarta, the online news portal Kompas. com said.

Singapore - Malaysians overtook Indonesians as the top foreign buyers of private homes in Singapore in the second quarter, a property consultancy said Thursday.

According to DTZ, Malaysians accounted for 19 per cent of the overall purchases by foreigners, who bought a total of 913 private homes, up 3 per cent from the previous quarter.

Indonesia followed with a 17-per-cent share. Chinese and Indian citizens each accounted for 11 per cent of the foreign buyers while purchases from UK nationals accounted for 9 per cent.

The Indonesians were found to favour the prime districts, DTZ senior director Chua Chor Hoon said.

Jakarta - A powerful earthquake struck islands in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku Thursday, briefly triggering a tsunami warning and causing residents to flee their homes in panic, seismologists and officials said.

The tsunami alert was cancelled about 40 minutes later after no tidal waves materialized, seismologists said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.