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Sultan Meets Foreign Delegates Participating In Asean Ministerial Meeting On Youth
Bandar Seri Begawan - His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, yesterday afternoon consented to receive in audience, Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Heads of Delegate who are currently in Brunei Darussalam attending the 8th Asean Ministerial Meeting on Youth (AMMY) and the 4th Asean+3 Ministerial Meeting on Youth. Also present at the ceremony was His Royal Highness ...
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London killers are Britons of Nigerian origin
LONDON: Britain experienced a communal backlash against Muslims within 24 hours of a young, serving soldier being butchered with "stone age savagery" ...
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Victim was Manchester United fan father of 2-yr-old kid
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers . Father of two-year-old Jack, Britain's ministry of defence called him "a real character, always smiling". Drummer Rigby, 'Riggers' to his friends, was born in July 1987 in Crumpsall, Manchester, and was a ...
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UK mosques attacked in backlash of Woolwich beheading
LONDON: Britain experienced a communal backlash against Muslims within 24 hours of a young, serving soldier being butchered with "stone age savagery" ...
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China doesnt rule out investing in POK
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir would not go up merely out of respect for Indian sensibilities. The signal came from the Chinese foreign ministry in midst of premier Li Keqiang's visit to Pakistan after spending three days in India. "It's for India and Pakistan to sort out their differences concerning Kashmir," the foreign ministry spokesman said in reply to specific questions ...
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Asia Stocks Rise as Japanese Shares Rebound From Slump
stocks rose, as Japanese shares rebounded from the biggest drop since 2011 that yesterday erased $314 billion of the country's shares, amid optimism growth in ...
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Asean Ministers Endorse Brunei Proposal
Bandar Seri Begawan - Asean Ministers have endorsed a Brunei proposal to engage young professionals through a youth volunteer corps that will complement the Asean Youth Volunteer Programme (AYVP) through implementation of three initial short-term projects scheduled to be carried out in Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines this year. The youth volunteer corps will be implemented before the ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian stocks shaky Nikkei still seen vulnerable
Fri May 24, 2013 12:22am EDT * Nikkei down 0.6 pct, erases earlier gains * Asian stocks outside Japan dip to 1-month lows * Yen rises vs USD and euro as Nikkei trims gains By Ian Chua SYDNEY, May 24 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks turned negative on Friday and the yen reversed early losses, keeping intact worries that the Nikkei's largest one-day drop in two years may be the start of a bigger ...
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World Briefing | Asia India Power Failures Set Off Protests
A blistering heat wave has swept across most parts of north and western India, causing widespread electricity cuts and leading residents to protest and even attack power company officials and property. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, enraged citizens in Bahraich set fire to a power station, and in Gorakhpur residents held power employees captive for more than 18 hours. The police said ...
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China Power Producers Fall on Import Concern HK Mover
Huaneng Power International Inc. (902) led declines at China’s electricity producers amid speculation the price for coal-fired power may be cut and concern a reported coal import ban may raise costs. Huaneng Power, the nation’s biggest producer, dropped 8.3 percent, the most since November 6, 2008, to close at HK$7.94 today in Hong Kong. The stock has shed 18 percent in the past ...
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HK Police Make Fourth Arrest in Exchange Probe
Hong Kong police arrested a fourth man in its probe of Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange Ltd, widening a case begun by the Securities and Futures Commission for suspected irregularities in financial affairs. Police arrested a 60-year-old man yesterday, identified only by his surname Zhu, on suspicion of possession of false instruments, according to the Police Public Relations Branch. Three others ...
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NBI off to Taiwan for shooting probe
It’s now the turn of Philippine investigators to go to Taiwan to gather evidence for their probe on the fatal shooting of a suspected Taiwanese poacher last May 9, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said yesterday. De Lima said Taipei has allowed the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to get statements from the companions of slain fisherman Hung Shih-cheng as well as to examine their ...
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Taiwan’s UMC sets up RD centre in Singapore
Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a leading microchip maker, Wednesday said it has spent $110 million setting up a research and development unit in Singapore. The unit will undertake R&D collaborations with local research institutes, such as Singapore’s Institute of Microelectronics, the company said in a statement. UMC is the world’s third biggest ...
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Korea’s First Cargo Airline Plans China Route Chasing Samsung
Air Incheon Co., South Korea’s first cargo-only airline, plans to start services this year to smaller cities in China, where Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) assemblers are increasingly locating their factories. Air Incheon expects to receive its second leased aircraft in August and that will facilitate the China service, vice President Kim Gyu Hyeong said in an ...
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N. Korea ‘special envoy’ in China meeting
A top North Korean general and confidant of leader Kim Jong-Un met a senior Chinese official in Beijing Wednesday, with relations between the allies strained ahead of a China-US summit. Choe Ryong-Hae, director of the Korean People’s Army politburo, is a ';special envoy'; of the North’s young leader, Pyongyang’s official news agency said. He met Wang Jiarui, head ...
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China Pakistan plan ‘economic corridor’ Li
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Wednesday linked growth in his country’s restive west with that in sluggish Pakistan, saying the two sides wanted to create an ';economic corridor'; to boost development. Li, on his first overseas trip since taking over in a once-in-a-decade power transfer in Beijing, congratulated Pakistan on its recent general election and hailed the ...
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US ‘should act’ on China intellectual property theft
The United States should consider curbs on Chinese investment or even offensive operations against hackers to address the growing toll from intellectual property theft, a report said. The 11-month study led by high-ranking former US officials said that theft of software and other US-developed products was costing the American economy more than $300 billion each year – as much as the ...
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Philippines and China Conflict and cooperation
Public attention has understandably been focused on the 2013 midterm elections. However recent events serve to remind us that Philippine-China relations will continue to be a major issue for policy makers and the consequences of these policy decisions will have an impact on the daily lives of Filipinos. First, there was the completion of the composition of the UN Arbitration panel which will ...
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With eye on China Japan to provide patrol boats to Philippines
Japan will provide patrol boats to the Philippines to help the country bolster its capabilities in the face of China’s growing presence in regional waters. In a meeting in Tokyo on May 22, Foreign minister Fumio Kishida and his counterpart Albert del Rosario agreed to work together to improve the capabilities of the Philippine Coast Guard. Kishida said Japan will make arrangements for ...
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China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals
Lenovo Group Ltd’s bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades. Lenovo, a sliver away from unseating Hewlett-Packard Co as the world’s top PC maker by shipments, is expected on Thursday to post a two-thirds rise in quarterly ...
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Farmers plant rice near crippled Fukushima site
Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, a local official said Wednesday. It was the first time since the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster that farmers have gone inside the former 20-kilometre ';no-go'; zone around the doomed plant to sow rice intended for sale. ...
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Cheaper yen attracts record visitors to Japan
A record 923,000 foreigners travelled to Japan in April, up 18.1 percent from a year earlier, taking advantage of a weaker yen and an increase in chartered flights, a government agency said Wednesday. The previous monthly high was 879,000 in July 2010, the Japan National Tourism Organisation said. Tourism has rebounded since 2011, when visitor numbers plunged following the massive earthquake ...
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Japan Cites Active Fault at a Reactor
Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday endorsed a conclusion by a panel of seismologists that a fault under a reactor at an atomic plant in western Japan is active, potentially blocking a restart of the reactor. The Nuclear Regulation Authority said it agreed with the panel that the fault underneath the Tsuruga No. 2 reactor could set off an earthquake and cause an accident. Japanese ...
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Singapore Economy Unexpectedly Expanded on Services Growth
Singapore’s economy unexpectedly expanded last quarter as services and construction strengthened, reducing pressure on the central bank to ease monetary policy to boost growth. Gross domestic product rose an annualised 1.8 percent in the three months through March from the previous quarter, when it grew 3.3 percent, the trade ministry said in a statement today. That compares with an ...
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Japan’s wartime brothels were wrong says 91-year-old veteran
When Masayoshi Matsumoto joined the Japanese army in 1943 and was sent to occupied China as a medic, he thought he was taking part in a righteous war to free Asia from the yoke of Western imperialism. Seven decades later, the 91-year-old retired Christian pastor says it’s his mission to speak out about the injustice of the war and the sufferings of women, mostly Asian and many Korean, ...
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Central Asia's French Revolution
The crisis that recently gripped Kyrgyzstan and saw President Bakiyev forced from power represents, for Central Asian countries, something similar to what the French Revolution represented to the aristocracy of Europe – that the masses are gathering and uniting.
Kyrgyzstan’s political tensions had been rising long before the riots that were broadcast all over the world and across Central Asia news stations, showing images of an angry mod swarming the street, and the dramatic moment at which a van was sent crashing through the ornate main gates of the Presidential Palace. Read more
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