Infra-red technology to help aircraft detect volcanic ash is to go into commercial production, allowing planes to see ash 96.54kms ahead.

New Zealander Leeza Ormsby has been sentenced in Bali to 10 months in jail on drugs charges.

Kiwi Leeza Ormsby is likely to escape a 12-year sentence in a Bali prison after prosecutors at her trial on drugs charges recommended a much shorter jail term.

A Sydney DJ, who was with Kiwi Leeza Ormsby the night before she was arrested on drugs charges in Bali, says he did not know anything about drugs found in the villa she was staying in.

Countries searching for the missing Malaysian plane have yet to agree on how to share costs, an Australian search leader said.

Bali police have confirmed they searched a man at the scene of a drug bust that snared Sydney woman Leeza Ormsby, but decided he wasn't a suspect and let him go.

After a fruitless three-month hunt for flight MH370, Australian authorities have taken the first step towards handing over search operations to a private contractor.

A travel insurer has warned tourists about the risk of drinking arak, a locally made alcohol in Bali.

Darwin remains cut off from all air services and flights from Australia to Bali are being affected as three separate ash plumes billow from an Indonesian volcano.

A vast ash cloud spewing from an Indonesian volcano has already shut Darwin Airport and is spreading south towards Alice Springs, an expert says.

Sheriden Rhodes checks out some of the best spa-cations across Asia and Australia.

Hugh Biggar goes in search of exotic and elusive wildlife in Indonesia.

Catering for many tastes requires a juggling act, finds Diana Dobson.

Approximately 188 million people are eligible to vote in Indonesia and on July 9 they will choose a new president, writes Chris Wilson.

The Bali drugs case involving a Sydney woman is seemingly at a standstill, one month after her arrest at the scene of a police raid.

Fun, sun and ocean diving away from Bali's noise and bustle proves to be a tonic for Diana Dobson's family.

Schapelle Corby has been warned not to do a much-anticipated media interview, after Indonesian authorities said it could end her parole.

Schapelle Corby would have to pay back any money earned from a media interview under a decade-old federal law.

Australian TV presenter David Koch has slammed his own television network for what he says is its decision to pay Schapelle Corby A$2 million for an exclusive interview.

Released Australian whisked away to exclusive resort to spend her first night of freedom.

It took almost 10 years, but convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is set to taste freedom after Indonesian authorities granted her parole.

Drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been granted parole.

By this time next week, or even earlier, Schapelle Corby could be bodyboarding in the Bali surf.

Schapelle Corby's former lawyer said comments made about the jailed 36-year-old celebrating her release from prison with a "big marijuana joint" were not intended to be taken seriously.

The minister who will decide whether Schapelle Corby will be released on parole from a Bali prison says the Australian will get no special treatment.

Indonesia's justice minister has announced he hopes to sign parole documents for Schapelle Corby within three days.