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Caluag rules Asian BMX Elite category
LONDON Olympian Daniel Caluag greatly admired the undulating course at the Tampines Bike Park in Singapore, and it's not difficult to figure why. The Filipino-American validated his status as the continent's No. 1 BMX rider with a sizzling run on the dusty 355-meter Tampines course to win the gold medal in the men's Elite category of the recent 8th Asian BMX Championships. ...
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19 Indian state officials face corruption charges
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- An Indian state official is recommending that 19 people be charged with misappropriating millions of dollars in the construction of monuments honoring dalits, the lowest Hindu ...
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Nepal government investigating illegal Everest broadcast
A British mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with theNepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal", officials said ...
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Pakistans former military ruler Musharraf granted bail
A judge granted bail to Pakistan's former military ruler on Monday in a case related to the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, his lawyer ...
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Baghdad car bomb kills 13 raises death toll to 70
Shia neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people. The blast pushed the day's death toll from a deadly wave of bombings and shooting attacks across Iraq to 70. The officials say the latest blast struck on Monday afternoon in a busy market in the Shaab Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. A police officer says 25 people wounded in the explosion. A medical official confirmed the casualty ...
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Fresh Plunge in Precious Metals Natural as Bearish Money Managers Hold Upper Hand Over Asian Household Buyers
WHOLESALE PRICES for gold and silver rallied from a fresh plunge in early London dealing on Monday, rising to stand unchanged and 2.3% lower respectively from the end of last week's trade by lunchtime.Asian stock markets closed sharply higher, even as the Japanese Yen reversed Friday's drop to new 4-year lows against the US Dollar.Commodities ticked lower as did major government bonds. ...
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Trans-Asia wind farm gets gov’t certification
Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. has secured a "declaration of commerciality" certificate from the Department of Energy for its planned 54-megawatt wind farm in San Lorenzo, Guimaras. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange Monday, Trans-Asia said the DOE certificate also affirmed the conversion of its existing renewable energy service contract to ...
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Word love is said and written six-times more than the word hate
LONDON: English speaking youngsters across the globe, who are 18 or under, use the word 'like' in conversation over five times as often as speakers who are over 70; 'because' is the most misspelled English word globally; the word 'love' is said and written over six times more frequently than the word 'hate'. These are the findings of a first-of-its-kind ...
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Israel rejects French TV claim on Palestinian boys death
A September 30, 2000, file combo of TV grabs from France 2 footage taken during Israeli-Palestinian clashes in Netzarim in the Gaza Strip shows Jamal al-Dura and his son Mohammed, 12, hiding behind a barrel from Israeli-Palestinian cross fire. (via ...
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Chinese police detain gay pride march organizer
BEIJING -; Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government's nervousness over a growing civil society movement and demands for stronger individual ...
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Afghan suicide attack kills 14 including politician
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (AFP) - A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 14 people including a local politician in the latest attack to target provincial officials.Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who was wearing police uniform, blew himself up next to Rasoul Mohseni, the head of ...
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Cambodia factory accident injures 23 Police
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - A collapsing structure injured 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for a top Western brand, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. At least 23 workers were injured at a Cambodian factory that produced garments for a top Western brand on Monday, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about ...
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Rights group criticizes Sri Lankas rights record
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -; An international human rights group said Monday that respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated separatist Tamil rebels to end a civil ...
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Asia Distillates-Gasoil margins climb on Saudi demand
SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) - Asian gasoil margins climbed on Monday as spot demand emerged from Saudi Arabia while maintenance was being carried out at several refineries, industry sources said. The June gasoil crack rose 16 cents to $16.94 a barrel above Dubai crude, Reuters data showed. Saudi Aramco's trading arm is seeking up to 1.3 million barrels of gasoil in the spot ...
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Asia NaphthaGasoline-Naphtha rises boosted by Lotte tender
SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) - The Asian naphtha price rose on Monday to reach $875.75 a tonne, the highest since May 10, while its margin hit a four-session high of $93.50 a tonne on spot and term demand. South Korea's top ethylene maker Lotte Chemical issued a tender to buy an additional 25,000 tonnes of naphtha for second-half June arrival at Daesan, surprising some traders ...
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IMDEX Asia 2013 Ends on a Record-breaking High
Singapore, May 20, 2013 - (ACN Newswire) - The ninth edition of the International Maritime Defence Exhibition (IMDEX Asia), Asia-Pacific's foremost maritime defence show, ended on a high last Thursday, 16 May, with a record number of participating companies and VIP delegations. 9,072 trade visitors from 59 countries/regions, a 16% increase from the last show, attended the three-day event at ...
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Former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf granted bail in Benazir assassination case
Pervez Musharraf became the first former army chief to be arrested, breaking an unwritten rule that the top ranks of the military are untouchable, even after they have ...
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Two tourists killed in Turkey hot-air balloon collision
ISTANBUL: A Brazilian and a Spanish tourist died on Monday and 23 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloons collided in a beauty spot in central Turkey, officials said. The accident occurred over Cappadocia's sculpted rock formations when one balloon collided with the basket of another balloon above and crashed to the ground, the governor of Nevsehir province, Abdurrahman Savas, ...
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Imran Khans party wins Karachi seat election rerun
KARACHI (AFP) - The party of former Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan secured victory in a repeat election held in one constituency of violence-plagued Karachi, election officials said Monday.Voting was held under tight security in 43 polling stations on Sunday, a day after a senior official of Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party was shot dead outside her home in the city.Polling was re-run ...
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Inside Asia On Chinas Border Underground Banking Flourishes
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Pakistan court grants Musharraf bail in Bhutto murder
A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the murder of Benazir Bhutto, an official said, but the retired general remains under house arrest. "General Musharraf's bail has been confirmed" by an anti-terrorism court in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, next to Islamabad, court official Mohammad Aslam Joya told AFP. Judge Habibur Rehman ...
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Asias Ascott inks deal for first Saudi property
Singapore-based Ascott Limited, the world's largest international serviced residence owner-operator, has entered Saudi Arabia by securing a management contract for its first residence in ...
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Asia Fuel Oil-Surplus fuel weighs on prices amid lacklustre demand
SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) - Asian fuel oil refining margins and cash premiums were under pressure on Monday, thanks to oversupply because of heavy arbitrage flows from the West, while demand showed no signs of expanding despite a drop in outright prices. Asia cash premiums for the 380-centistoke (cst) benchmark for the marine fuels market were at 9 cents a tonne, down 27 cents ...
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Vietnam Drop Charges for Leafleting
Vietnam should drop charges and free two activists arrested in October 2012 for "conducting propaganda against the state. Nguyen Phuong Uyen and Dinh Nguyen Kha are scheduled to be tried in the People’s Court of Long An province on Thursday, May 16, 2013. According to state media, Nguyen Phuong Uyen and Dinh Nguyen Kha were arrested for handing out leaflets that "distort the ...
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Chinese Indian leaders call for cooperation
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as he leaves the Indian Presidential Palace after his ceremonial reception in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, Li visited India on his first foreign three-day trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost ...
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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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