JAKARTA, Nov 17, 2007 (AFP) - A tanker loaded with more than 30,000 tons of palm oil forced its way out of an Indonesian port after a nine-hour stand off with a Greenpeace ship, activists said Saturday.

'The Westama pushed us away and forced their way out,' Greenpeace's Sue Connor said. 'They tried to leave at midnight after they finished loading. We tried to hold them off as long as possible.'

Police had boarded the Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, several times on Friday in Riau province's Dumai port.

SYDNEY, Sept 2, 2007 (AFP) - Greenpeace protesters daubed an anti-coal slogan in white letters on a coal ship on Sunday in a climate change protest ahead of a major regional summit in Sydney, a spokesman said.

They also unfurled a banner in Chinese warning Beijing to beware of the intentions on climate change of Australia and the United States, which have both refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol.

SYDNEY, Sept 2, 2007 (AFP) - Eleven protesters from environmental group Greenpeace were arrested on Sunday as they carried out a stunt over global warming to mark a major regional summit, a spokeswoman said.

The 11 were involved in the protest off the port of Newcastle, north of Sydney, about Australian coal exports and the effect on greenhouse gases when they were detained at the waterfront. Newcastle is a major port for Australian coal exports.