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Indonesia to open diplomatic office in Palestine

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:45:02 GMT

Indonesia's foreign ministry will soon open a representative office in Palestine and is currently studying how to do so as Indonesia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel which occupies Pales .....

Cultivating the cross-Straits generation

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:23:57 GMT

This year's election in Taiwan on January 14, in which current Kuomintang chairman, Ma Ying-jeou defeated Tsai Ing-wen, the candidate of Democratic Progressive Party, came during a critical period of .....

Malaysia to farm out over 90 projects worth billions

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:13:25 GMT

After some dithering, the construction of Malaysia's My Rapid Transit (MRT) project is moving into higher gear. What's to come is more telling. By April, MRT Co, the overseer and project owner of th .....

Malaysia eyes coal-based power plant in Bangladesh

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:03:00 GMT

Malaysian state-run utility giant is keen to develop a 1,400-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Cox's Bazar (southeast Bangladesh) at a cost of US$2.5 billion on a joint-venture basis, official news .....

Thailand growth forecast raised

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:52:18 GMT

The Thai economy is set to see higher growth this year, driven mainly by domestic demand after last year's floods, but downside risks remain in the growth of trading countries, the Bank of Thailand .....

Interest in Pakistan

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:52:17 GMT

Believe it or not, the world is fascinated by Pakistan. This may come as a surprise to many in the country who believe that Pakistan is the victim of an evil western/Indian/Jewish conspiracy to destro .....

Philippine military cannot find terror leaders' bodies

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:30:52 GMT

Are they or arenât they dead? Even as the military has stepped up security in anticipation of retaliatory attacks by the Abu Sayyaf and other Muslim rebel groups after an air strike on a remote ter .....

Singaporean party leader dies

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:09:44 GMT

For much of independent Singapore's history, Dr Toh Chin Chye captured Singaporeans' imagination as a pugnacious fighter--one who struggled for Singapore's independence, manoeuvred against the communi .....

Flu hits 'alarm level' for 1st time in Japan

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:59:03 GMT

Influenza reached the "alarm level" for the first time this season after an estimated 1.73 million flu cases were reported last week, an increase of more than 50 per cent from the previous week, the h .....

04 February 2012

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:27:14 GMT

The Khmer Rouge tribunal explains the life imprisonment sentence to the former prison chief responsible for the deaths of 12,272 Cambodians in the 70s, says The Cambodia Herald. Taliban kill eight sol .....

Taliban kill eight Pakistani soldiers

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:05:47 GMT

Eight paramilitary soldiers were killed and three others injured when militants attacked a checkpost in Kurram lower tehsil (northwest Pakistan) on Friday. Officials claimed that 24 attackers were ki .....

Thai gov't issues libel warning for users of chat robot

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:55:17 GMT

Users of the SimSimi "chat robot" application who post texts deemed libellous to other persons online face prosecution, even if the offensive remarks are generated by the program, said Thailand's Info .....

China not out to purchase Europe

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:34:21 GMT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday that China has neither the intention nor the ability to buy up Europe, answering concerns over the country's increasing investment in debt-stricken eurozone e .....

US asked to help in war clean-up in Vietnam

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:17:19 GMT

US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell met with Vietnamese officials on Thursday. He met with Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Vu Duc Dam, Minister .....

Hydropower project size will be decided

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:17:18 GMT

What will become of the Sunkosh hydropower project, imagined to be the biggest so far, will be determined by what transpires at the empowered joint group meeting at New Delhi scheduled on February 2 a .....

Stranded Russian tourists start flying back home

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:17:18 GMT

Arrangements were made yesterday for 71 Russian tourists to begin their journeys home after they were stranded in central Binh Thuan Province when their tour operator went bankrupt. The tourists, wh .....

EuroCham says business climate improving in Vietnam

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:06:37 GMT

Results of the sixth quarterly EuroCham Business Climate Index survey, conducted in January this year, showed that business confidence and outlook among European businesses in Vietnam stabilised and e .....

Lack of rating system is the real dirty laundry

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:55:46 GMT

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the latest installment of the spy thriller franchise, grossed $15 million within two days of its Jan 28 China premiere. One of the online reviews is snarky: "I .....

Yahoo! introduces new toy for socially tuned news-holics

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:55:45 GMT

An online society of news-hungry voyeurs has worked in favor of many Internet companies providing either one of two services: news feeds or social networking. A look at Alexa, a web site that comput .....

High-level talks focus on ending human trade

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:55:45 GMT

Delegates from the Mekong sub-regional countries will gather in Ha Noi later this month to participate in two high-level meetings focused on fighting human trafficking. The eighth Senior Officials' M .....

Indonesia opposes EPA determination on palm oil

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:55:45 GMT

Indonesia, the worldâs largest palm oil producer, will propose its own greenhouse gas analysis of palm oil following a recent notification from the United Statesâ Environmental Protection Agency ( .....

Anonymous HIV test via web

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:34:31 GMT

Dita, 28, fears she may be HIV positive after having unprotected sex, yet she doesnât want to go to a clinic to find out as sheâs worried about having to reveal her identity. Because of the stig .....

Slowdown in the economy

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:23:58 GMT

Bangladesh Finance Minister AMA Muhith has claimed that the crisis in the economy is not as bad as it was being portrayed by the media and civil society. Ironically, this remark made during a discu .....

New rules to restrict foreigners' ownership of homes in China

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:13:11 GMT

People from overseas hoping to buy a home in China will no longer be granted medium- or long-term mortgages, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Thursday. The new policy is .....

Less poor, still hungry

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:02:30 GMT

Mock-humour seems to characterise the Palace's reaction to the recent survey of the Social Weather Stations, which showed some 4.5 million families in the country going hungry in the last quarter of 2 .....