Philip Morris, the US cigarette manufacturer, bids to buy a majority stake in Indonesia's third-largest tobacco firm.

The Indian Ocean islands' two biggest earners, tourists and the clove business, are both in deep trouble.

Zanzibar accuses neighbouring Kenya of colluding with smugglers of cloves from the East African isle - allegations Kenyan authorities deny.

Indonesia's tobacco industry is facing a serious shortage of cloves - the key spice used in Indonesian cigarettes called "kretek".

Doctors have established how much garlic they think a person would have to eat each day to gain from its anti-cancer properties.

One of the key items agreed between the IMF and Indonesia was the decision to break up the national clove monopoly which has been controlled by President Suharto's son.