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British woman may face death in Indonesia for drugs
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 ...
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Philippines rejects Taiwan murder claims
The Philippines Saturday rejected Taiwan's allegations that its coastguards had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic ...
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Canada’s NDP denounces China signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”
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 ...
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Workers Struggles Asia Australia and the Pacific
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 ...
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US proposes $75.4 million aid to Myanmar
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 ...
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Southern China rains kill 55 leave 14 missing
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website says at least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday. It says Guangdong province has been hit the hardest, with 36 deaths and 10 missing people, followed by Jiangxi province, where six people are reported dead and four more ...
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Nearly 50 injured as N.Y.-area commuter trains collide
Emergency workers arrive the scene of a train collision, Friday, May 17, 2013, in Fairfield, Conn. A New York-area commuter railroad says two trains have collided in ...
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Sperm donation gaining greater acceptance in India
Sperm donation is starting to gain greater acceptance in India, as some young men in India have found that it is a way to earn some easy pocket ...
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French President Francois Hollande to sign gay marriage bill into law today
gay marriage and adoption bill into law on Saturday after it was cleared by the Constitutional Council which turned down a challenge by the right-wing opposition. Hollande, who had made "marriage for all" a key election pledge, made the announcement saying it was "now time to respect the law and the Republic" after the top French institution cleared the bill on Friday. The ...
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Resona in Malaysian bank tieup for Asian expansion
Resona Holdings Inc., the nation’s fifth-largest bank by market value, is poised to tie up with Malaysia’s Public Bank Bhd. as part of its efforts to expand in Asia. Resona will sign an agreement with Malaysia’s third-biggest lender on Monday to serve Japanese companies looking to enter the country and borrow in the local currency, President Kazuhiro Higashi said in an ...
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France’s first Asian cabinet minister a rising force
France's Junior Minister of Small Business, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Fleur Pellerin, arrives to attend the first cabinet meeting of the Hollande government at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 17, 2012. (REGIS ...
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Asian giants as key partners
The significance of China-India relations is strategic and its impact global because both are large developing countries and emerging markets, Premier Li Keqiang told visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in Beijing on May 10. On his return to New Delhi, Khurshid said: "India and China have to collaborate for the Asian century." Giving shape to this vision should ...
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Worlds largest flower blooms for first time in seven years
Titan arum , the plant that grows at a rate of around 10cm a day during its flowering phase, reached a height of 187cm when it bloomed. It produces a variety of obnoxious odours ranging from rotting meat, dung and rancid cheese to a nauseating gaseous stench. The flower typically grows once every seven and 10 years after which it is in full splendor for only 48 hours before starting to die. Its ...
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One dead dozens wounded in sectarian clashes in Egypt
ALEXANDRIA (Reuters) - One person died and dozens were wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians late Friday night outside a Coptic church in Egypt's second city, state newspaper al-Ahram reported, in the latest violent sectarian row in the Muslim-majority ...
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South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19
Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...
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Malabar civet may have become extinct
Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in the first study of the world's most unique, threatened mammals and amphibians released on Friday said the civet's population status was presently unknown. The species was thought to be nearly extinct by the late 1960s and declared possibly extinct a decade later. But it was rediscovered in 1987. "There were further reports of the species in ...
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Srinivasan in America’s second highest court
Srikanth Srinivasan inched closer to scripting history as the first South Asian judge after a key senate committee confirmed his nomination to the DC circuit court, America's second highest. Described as "trailblazer" by US ...
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On India visit Li to discuss Dalai’s ‘anti-China’ acts
Li Keqiang will raise the issue of the Dalai Lama's "anti-China activities" during his tour of India from May 19. Beijing had earlier sought assurances from New Delhi that it would check such activities on Indian soil, and India has blocked anti-China demonstrations. A Chinese scholar confirmed to TOI on condition of anonymity that Li will raise the Dalai Lama issue. ...
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Thailand Deliver Justice for 2010 Political Violence
Three years ago, the world saw soldiers shooting protesters and parts of Bangkok going up in flames. But instead of investigating and prosecuting those responsible, successive Thai governments and the army have politicized efforts for justice and are now backing an amnesty bill that would let everyone off the ...
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India urges Lanka to honour transfer of power to provinces
Northern Provincial Council elections in neighbouring Sri Lanka, India has explicitly warned the government there not to take any step which undermines its own commitment to the 13th Amendment and the island nation's "expressed intention to build upon it". Alarmed by reports that a key ally of ...
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World Briefing | Asia Political Prisoners Freed in Myanmar
President Thein Sein pardoned at least 20 political prisoners on Friday, just ahead of a state visit to the United States. A member of the ...
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Europe investors bow to Africa Asia in U.S. real estate deals
The panel analyzing capital investment in U.S. real estate, from left, were: John R. Miller, Charles H. Fedalen Jr., Christopher R. Ludeman, J. Michael Stedman and Jon H. ...
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Asia Stock Index Poised for Weekly Gain as Japan’s Topix Climbs
Asia’s benchmark stock index is poised for a second weekly advance after Japan’s Topix Index rebounded near a 2008 high as leasing companies rallied on a report prime minister Shinzo Abe will encourage the practice to to revive capital spending. Orix Corp., which provides leasing and loans, jumped 9.5 percent in Tokyo. Mizuno Corp. (8022) surged 19 percent after the Japanese ...
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Taiwan thanks China for condemning PH over fisherman’s death
Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council responsible for relations with China Thursday urged Beijing to stay out of the row the island has with the Philippines over the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard in the South China Sea. The council thanked Beijing for condemning Manila’s behavior, which the council described as ';belligerent, irrational and ...
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Tensions raised over translocation plans for Asiatic lions
In the tranquil wilderness of the Gir forest sanctuary one would never think a political storm was raging over a proposal to move some of the endangered lions that inhabit the reserve.
As the sun sets over the lush, sprawling forest in Gujarat where India’s only Asiatic lions live, they wander majestically through the wild, unaware of the conflict they are creating between Gujarat, the central government and other states that want to share in some of their success. Read more
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