Provides the latest RSS feeds for Asia News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Central Asia News.net http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/cat/bf053b50c46383e0/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 08:31:44 -0400 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:31:44 -0400 30 The death toll in an avalanche in the Siachen glacier region last year has risen to 128, following the recovery of three more bodies, the Pakistani military said. The bodies of three soldiers were recovered from Gayari sector of Siachen Saturday, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported. On April 7, 2012, at least 140 soldiers of the 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion and a few civilians came ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612474/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:40:01 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612474/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 A one-man inquiry tribunal comprising Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of Lahore High Court may visit India to complete the judicial inquiry into the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, a media report said. Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan, died May 2 after a group of Pakistani prisoners attacked him April 26 Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sarabjit was on death row since 1990 ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612473/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:30:01 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612473/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 NEW DELHI Chinese Premier Li Keqiang begins a three-day visit to India Sunday. His visit comes in the wake of a tense border standoff in the Himalayan mountains, but the Asian giants are trying to downplay the disagreement. Syed Akbaruddin, India's Foreign Ministry spokesman, said it was appreciated that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is making India the first stop of his first overseas ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606430/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:15:18 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606430/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 A top Pakistani politician has been shot and killed in Karachi. Police say Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot twice in the head Saturday during an attempted street robbery outside her home. She died on the way to the hospital. A spokesman for Hussain's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, calls her killing an act of terrorism. Hussain was a senior vice president of PTI, which ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606425/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:15:03 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606425/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AFP) - Asia's flood-prone megacities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for their booming populations, experts said on Sunday. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613283/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:42:06 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613283/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 In this undated photo released by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI, Movement for Justice) party press office in Karachi, Zohra Shahid, center, a senior member of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh, poses with unidentified women at an unknown location in Pakistan. Police said gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Shahid outside her home on ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613232/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:41:35 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613232/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Justice Naqvi of the Lahore high court is investigating the death of Sarabjit who died on May 2 following a brutal assault by prisoners on April 26 within Kot Lakhpat Jail ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613197/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:30:28 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613197/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613253/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:24:55 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613253/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613241/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:20:38 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214613241/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 HANOI, Vietnam -; A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channels must be translated into ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612853/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:49:53 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612853/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SEOUL, South Korea -; South Korea says North Korea has fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612854/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:49:52 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612854/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SEOU: North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official said. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating. On Saturday the communist state fired three short-range missiles off the east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612881/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:39:13 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612881/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistani politician Imran Khan Sunday blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi.The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612590/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:00:39 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612590/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers. Ban, who spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti during a visit to Moscow, called North Korea's launch of three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday a "provocative action". "We are very worried over North Korea's provocative action," he told RIA in ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612581/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:37:01 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612581/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said.Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters around 70 kilometres (40 miles) from North Korea's western ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612129/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:10:08 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612129/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TIMIKA, Indonesia -; Rescuers have pulled another body from a collapsed facility at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the death toll to ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612153/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:08:10 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612153/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 South Korea on Sunday condemned North Korea'slatest short-range missile launches as "provocative" and again urged it to holdtalks about a suspended jointly-run industrial ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612443/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:59:48 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612443/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SAITAMA, Japan: When amateur actress Etsuko Shigemoto walks out in front of a Paris audience in an all-Japanese production this month she will forget about being 87 years old."I have weak hearing and poor sight. I have problems all over my body," she said. "But I am still young in spirit."Shigemoto is one of a troupe of elderly actors -- average age 74 -- under the tutelage of ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612444/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:59:47 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612444/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 JUBA: At least 29 people were killed when cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state, a local official said Sunday. The gunmen crept into Tolleri village in Ulang county in the early hours of Saturday morning and sprayed it with bullets, killing 23 people instantly, said Dak Tap Chuol, commissioner for the nearby ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612125/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:57:40 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612125/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Amadeo Perez, chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Center) AFP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is waiting for tempers in Taiwan to cool before settling the dispute over a shot Taiwanese fisherman, the head of an office in charge of relations said Sunday. Issues like Manila’s ';one-China'; policy and comments by Taiwanese investigators ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612136/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:51:37 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612136/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The report said Kayani called on Sharif to congratulate him on the PML-N's success in the general election and informally talked "about all national security ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612138/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:36:27 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612138/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Harry Potter book , complete with handwritten notes which reveal the author invented the fictional sport of Quidditch after a row with her then-boyfriend, is going up for sale. Rowling will auction a hand signed, annotated ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612140/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:36:25 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214612140/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese minister on Sunday defended a surprise visit to North Korea by one of the prime minister's aides which Washington and Seoul said could not help efforts to forge a united front against Pyongyang.Akira Amari, state minister of economic revitalisation, said the four-day trip by Isao Iijima reflected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resolve to have North Korea come clean ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214611674/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:19:50 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214611674/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage, May 18, 2013. Hussain was shot and killed by unidentified assailants on Saturday, according to ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214611628/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:56:29 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214611628/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted, tourism officials said on ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214611130/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:18:47 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214611130/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TEHRAN, Iran: Iran hanged two convicted spies on Sunday, one found guilty of working for Israel, the other for the United States, the Tehran prosecutor's office announced. Mohammad Heydari was convicted of "receiving payment to provide intelligence on various security issues and national secrets in repeated meetings with the ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214611219/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:55:39 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214611219/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The UAE's Gareth Armstrong tries to advance the ball against the Philippines Volcanoes in their Asian Five Nations closer at Manila on Saturday ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214610775/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:38:50 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214610775/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars anddrones line a police equipment and "anti-terrorism technology" trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China's huge internal security ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214610762/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:28:27 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214610762/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Art lovers, collectors and gallerists will gather on Thursday for Hong Kong's inaugural edition of Art Basel, sealing the city's status as an international art hub and Asia's leading art destination. The four-day annual show is the world's premier art fair and has until now only been held in Switzerland and the United States each year. More than 2,000 international artists ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214610309/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:31:02 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214610309/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 In China, the police often act as if by engaging in sex work, women had forfeited their rights. The government must abandon its repressive laws against sex workers, discipline abusive police, and end the suppression of sex workers rights ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214610640/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:16:48 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214610640/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 In mid-April, the Chinese government said the increased U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region causes a lot of tension, and they plan to send more military forces and strengthen their partnerships with neighboring countries. A recent study found that China increasingly threatens to end the military supremacy of the ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214609317/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:27:44 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214609317/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend the 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Summit scheduled for May 19 to 20 in Thailand, semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday.Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi and Vice President Mohammad-Javad Mohammadizadeh will accompany Ahmadinejad during his visit to Thailand, according to the report.The primary themes of the water summit, to be held in ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214608758/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:03:30 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214608758/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Maulana Wali Rahmani, a senior Muslim cleric and secretary at AIMPLB, said: "This court will function to settle mainly family disputes among Muslim families pertaining to marriage, divorce and inheritance on the basis of Shariah ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214608662/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:07:11 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214608662/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607765/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:48:03 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607765/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Emmelie de Forest of Denmark performs her song "Only Teardrops" during a rehearsal for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden, Friday, May 17, 2013. The contest is run by European television broadcasters with the event being held in Sweden as they won the competition in 2012, the final will be held in Malmo on May 18. (AP Photo/Alastair ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607020/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:25:46 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607020/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bandar Seri Begawan - The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS) will hold the Asean Youth Entreprenuers Exhibition' on May 20 to 22, 9am to 5pm at the 4th floor of the Rizqun International Hotel in ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607159/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:17:07 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607159/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 curfew on Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents. A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607071/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:49 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607071/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people. "To resign would be to flee," Assad said in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John Kerry. "I don't know if ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607093/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:48 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607093/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Nawaz Sharif and briefed him on the security situation of the country. Kayani, who sought the meeting, called on Sharif at his brother Shahbaz Sharif's residence in Lahore on Saturday. This was the first meeting between Kayani and Sharif since the PML-N emerged victorious in the elections. The meeting lasted over three hours and the leaders had lunch together. The army chief briefed the ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607017/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:46 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607017/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING: China is developing robots with a lot more capabilities for battle, "information acquisition, command and control, and collaborative support," official sources said. But the official Chinese media is saying its effort is different from the manner in which military robots have been developed in the US. "The Chinese military has its own orientation and direction, and is very ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607075/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:42 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607075/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 New York City Friday injured 60 passengers, five of them seriously. A spokesman for the Metro North commuter train line said the incident involved a train headed into the city and one traveling in the opposite direction toward New Haven, Connecticut. "Sixty people have been taken to the ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607078/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:47 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607078/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Tamil diaspora for the lack of support in his reconciliation and rebuilding efforts in the former conflict zones. "Diaspora and the Tamil parties who foster separation still try to take the Tamil society towards destruction", he said while speaking at the Victory Day celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the military victory over ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607079/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:46 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607079/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The failure highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict interpretation of Islam kept Afghan women virtual prisoners in ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607082/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:42 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607082/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Pandit Ravi Shankar . Curators in the UK sifting through thousands of objects belonging Britten and Pears have stumbled upon an ink written page in their private diaries which recalled their experience of having heard Shankar perform live. Britten and Pears had visited India in the early 1950s. Their diary called Shankar "the real thing". The letter will be part of a museum in the Red ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607083/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:41 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607083/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING: A Chinese man kidnapped 23 years ago at the age of five and sold to a family 1,500km from his home, has been reunited with his family again, ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607084/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:39 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607084/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on Saturday. Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. "There is confusion in the world between a political solution and terrorism. They think a political ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607085/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:37 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214607085/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Saturday began the first visit to Washington by a leader of his country in nearly 50 years as the United States throws its support behind his ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606899/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:23:29 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606899/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks my heart" that the death of a homeless person is not news. Francis, who has made straight talk and simplicity a hallmark of his papacy, made his unscripted comments in answers to questions by four people at a huge ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606543/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:20:45 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606543/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 An invasive insect from Asia first spotted in Michigan two years ago could pose a major threat this year to fruit growers, officials say. The brown marmorated stink bug was reported in 12 counties last year, The Detroit News reported Saturday. While it has not yet been seen in Macomb County, just north of Detroit, growers there are apprehensive. Paul Blake grows strawberries, peaches, cherries ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606465/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:03:43 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606465/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SPOKANE, WASHINGTON: Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment on Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606539/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:59:51 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606539/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Al Ahli's Abdulaziz Sanqour, right, tackles Founeke Sy of Ajman in Dubai on Saturday night. Al Ahli's 3-0 win sealed second place in the league table. Al ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606035/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:38:56 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214606035/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605984/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:36:57 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605984/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Zahra Shahid Hussain , the vice-president of the party's chapter in Sindh, was shot by two unidentified men outside her home in Defence Phase IV on Saturday. She died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Hussain was a member of the party's central executive committee. The motive for the murder could not immediately be ascertained. The killers escaped on a motorcycle. The shooting ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605551/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:29:52 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605551/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 march in Rome on Saturday, protesting against the new coalition government's austerity measures. The metal workers union FIOM said the rally was to demand "the right to jobs, training and health care". "We cannot wait any longer," said FIOM ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605426/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:07:55 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605426/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 al-Qaida militants in the country's south. The officials say the attack took place around dawn on Saturday in an area called Deyfa in Abyan province. Officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to brief the media. Yemeni forces battled al-Qaida in Abyan province last year, routing out militants from major cities that al-Qaida had overrun during the country's 2011 ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605427/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:07:52 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605427/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 JAKARTA: A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police said on Saturday.Cheznye Emmons, 23, was travelling with fellowBritonJoseph Cook, 21, through lush rainforest on Sumatra island, where many tourists go to see endangered orangutans, according to a police report into the incident.The pair, accompanied by a third ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605276/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:34:53 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605276/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 After a relatively calm few weeks, North Korea fired three short-range missiles Saturday, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said. NPR's Louisa Lim reports that North Korea fired the missiles in defiance of international sanctions. She filed this report for our Newscast ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605275/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:27:44 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214605275/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 (Fotolia) NEWARK, N.J. - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane’s landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members, landed safely at 1 ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214604207/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:31:21 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214604207/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Brazilian army soldiers take part in a military exercise in preparation for the upcoming FIFA Confederations Cup, in a field near the National Stadium in Brasilia. (AP ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214603721/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:11:57 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214603721/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house. Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his car when the two raced up and opened fire in Farah province. Provincial ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214603056/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:10:39 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214603056/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The Supreme Court of Canada today upheld the acquittal of a Saskatchewan woman who was charged with abandoning a child after giving birth in a Wal-Mart ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214602586/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:28:39 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214602586/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SINGAPORE ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214602848/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:09:12 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214602848/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 In this photo taken and released by PT Freeport Indonesia Friday, May 17, 2013, the Indonesian unit of Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, rescuers gather inside a tunnel that collapsed on Tuesday morning as they continue their attempt to rescue trapped workers at Big Gossan mining area in Mimika, Papua province, Indonesia. Mining activities at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601970/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:44:50 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601970/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 India says all issues will be "on the table", including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the South Asian giant which starts on ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601891/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:35:48 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601891/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601865/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:07:58 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601865/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 YANGON, Myanmar -- If you're American and want to do business in Myanmar, there's a list of people and companies you have to steer clear of by law. But it leaves off a former minister's son U.S. officials suspected of brokering arms deals with North Korea, and high-rolling relatives of the man who led the repressive military government for 19 years.The Obama administration ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601417/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 09:38:51 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601417/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bashar al-Assad hails from the Alawite community, which is an offshoot of Shiite Islam, while the rebels are predominantly Sunni Muslims. "Late on Friday night, the rebels took complete control of Tlaissiyeh, Zoghbe, Shaata and Balil, after the withdrawal of the army following several weeks of fighting," the Observatory said. "The residents abandoned the villages at the beginning ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601375/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 09:33:58 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601375/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war. The attacks followed two days of bombings targeting Shiites, including bus stops and outdoor markets, with a total of 130 people killed since Wednesday. Scenes of bodies sprawled across a street outside a mosque and mourners killed during a funeral ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601387/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 09:06:41 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601387/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING: China said it will not accept any "unilateral and compulsory market measures" announced by the European Union threatening Chinese carriers with fines for non-compliance with its Emissions Trading System (ETS). Speaking at the 2013 China Civil Aviation Development Forum in Beijing, Yan Mingchi, deputy director-general of the policy, law and regulation department under the CAAC , ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601388/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 09:06:36 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601388/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred.Sunni-Shi'ite tensions in Iraq have been amplified by the conflict between mostly Sunni rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600874/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:42:32 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600874/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601207/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:31:14 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214601207/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sharif, set to become Pakistan's next Prime Minister, has convened a meeting of parliamentarians and legislators of his party here on May 20 to brainstorm a plan of action to deal with Pakistan's pressing problems including terrorism. Besides at the centre, ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600978/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:27:59 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600978/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Tamil party on Saturday defied a military ban and staged a commemoration of their war dead as the government celebrated the fourth anniversary of defeating Tamil Tiger rebels. ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600934/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:27:59 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600934/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Karima el-Mahroug's is escorted outside the Milan's Law court by a Carabinieri police officer after giving her testimony at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides accused with procuring her and other woman for prostitution, in Milan, ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600909/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:04:36 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600909/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese police have arrested a man who allegedly made bomb threats which caused delays or diversions to Shanghai, news reports said Saturday.Eleven flights were affected in total, though the suspect is not alleged to be behind all the threats. The planes were travelling from Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the Beijing News reported.One flight from Guangzhou on Friday ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600349/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 07:40:41 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600349/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 In this photo taken and released by PT Freeport Indonesia Friday, May 17, 2013, the Indonesian unit of Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, rescuers gather inside a tunnel that collapsed on Tuesday morning as they continue their attempt to rescue trapped workers at Big Gossan mining area in Mimika, Papua province, Indonesia. Mining activities at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600399/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 07:38:27 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600399/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 KABUL, Afghanistan -; An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599904/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:36:00 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599904/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Palestinian travellers , witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the abductions. Gunmen demanding the release of jailed Islamist militants had seized seven policemen and soldiers on a road between the Sinai towns of el-Arish and Rafah. Three of those abducted had worked at ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599865/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:22:54 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599865/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday extended by 14 days former President Pervez Musharraf's judicial remand over the detention of judges during the 2007 emergency. ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599972/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:22:53 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599972/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorising gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600007/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 06:17:09 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214600007/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, UN experts say in a new ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599764/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:27:10 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599764/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China's domestic satellite navigation system, launched as a rival to the US global positioning system, a report said ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599765/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:23:36 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599765/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: A Chinese man working on an energy project in PoK was held on Saturday after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Quran, officials said. Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by co-Pakistani workers of throwing ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599495/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:57:11 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599495/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599150/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:26:19 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599150/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island on Saturday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598995/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:20:58 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598995/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea says North Korea has fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters. Pyongyang routinely test-launches such ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598970/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:10:56 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598970/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Burma ’s president to ask tough questions about the slowing pace of human rights reforms and insist on implementation of past commitments, Human Rights Watch said today. President Barack Obama is hosting a visit to Washington, DC, by Burma’s president Thein Sein on May 20-21, 2013. Six months after Obama’s visit to Burma, key pledges by the Burmese government remain ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599333/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:56:59 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214599333/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TOKYO (AFP) - An aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned home from a trip to North Korea on Saturday but declined to shed any light on the reason for his mysterious visit.Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Abe, was tightlipped when confronted by reporters in Beijing on his way home. "I won't accept any interview on this issue," he told reporters, according to Japan's ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598364/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:28:49 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598364/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Tokyo Electric Power Co's two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture further north also detected no irregularities, ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598371/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:13:09 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598371/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON - The ousted head of the U.S. tax agency apologized to Congress for his agency's tougher treatment of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, including during last year's presidential election, saying it resulted from a misguided effort to handle a flood of applications, not political bias. Lawmakers from both parties harshly criticized the Internal Revenue Service at ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598278/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:59:52 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598278/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 View Photo This file photo shows a Foxconn recruitment point in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong province, pictured on February 22, 2013. Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in Zhengzhou in the past three weeks, according to state media and a labour rights ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598376/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:56:04 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598376/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 JuD spokesman Yahya Mujahid claimed unidentified men kidnapped Bashir while he was on his way to the group's office at Chauburji. He said the kidnappers had not demanded any ransom. "On Friday, Bashir's body was found in a canal in Sheikhupura with multiple wounds, including gunshot wounds," Mujahid said. JuD chief Hafiz Saeed demanded the arrest of the ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598377/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:49:26 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214598377/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 JAKARTA (AFP) - A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said on Saturday.The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms (three pounds, four ounces) of the drug, the ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597677/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:24:12 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597677/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The Philippines Saturday rejected Taiwan's allegations that its coastguards had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597655/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:11:17 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597655/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Indigo airlines' Rs 100 extra charge for middle seat irks flyers IndiGo is perhaps the only airline in the world that charges a fee for that uncomfortable seat sandwiched between the window and aisle ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597659/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:44:37 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597659/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Canada's Official Opposition, the trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP), brought forward a motion last month to scuttle the recently negotiated Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA).Though their motion was doomed to be overwhelmingly defeated and quickly forgotten, the social democrats used the occasion to repeatedly denounce the ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597006/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:39 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597006/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Jasper Auto Services workers in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh demonstrated outside the company's premises on May 14 to oppose the sacking of 50 employees and the transfer of four others. Almost all workers had been at the car sales outlet for 25 years. They claimed to have been victimised for demanding a wage rise. The protest was organised by the Stalinist CPI-affiliated All India Trade ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597008/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:37 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597008/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Myanmar government to continue with its reforms, US has proposed USD 75.4 million for fiscal 2014 in aid to the South East Asian country, a substantial increase of USD 28.8 million from 2012. However, some US lawmakers have expressed concerns over such a decision by the Obama administration arguing that this increase in US aid to Myanmar is premature given the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in ... http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597012/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:40:22 -0400 http://www.centralasianews.net/index.php/sid/214597012/scat/bf053b50c46383e0