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Chinas Li effusive in praise of Pakistan but not everyone buys it
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang praised the Sino-Pakistan relationship to the hilt on Thursday, urging the "all-weather friends" to boost cooperation in business, trade, energy and infrastructure and build a long-vaunted economic ...
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Sri Lanka hails Indian housing assistance
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has welcomed a whopping Rs 1,372 crore Indian housing assistance programme to build around 4000 homes in the country's eastern province. The housing assistance programme is one of the largest grant assistance projects implemented by India outside the country. Sri ...
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Shoddy construction materials faulted for Bangladesh building collapse in govt probe
FILE - In this Sunday, May 12, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi rescuers use heavy machinery to clear rubble of a garment factory building that collapsed on April 24 as they continue searching for bodies in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A government investigation said poor quality construction materials and building code violations contributed to the collapse of building housing garment factories ...
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Dhaka factory owner ‘violated codes’
Rescue workers look for trapped garment workers in the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30km outside Dhaka, in this April 26, 2013, file ...
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The Asian stock indexes suffered
The financial markets have been adverse to risk since the Federal Reserve reiterated the prospect of scaling back its asset purchase program in June. While quantitative easing must be curtailed and eventually ended at one point or another, the markets were clearly hoping for a much further point, since the US economic recovery hasn't produced real jobs growth. Adding to risk off is the ...
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Heavy Sell-Off on Asian Equities
The Asian markets were squeezed by heavy sell-off on the equity markets. Nikkei 225 closed 7.32% down after having rallied to 5 year high; Hang Seng slid 2.35% as HSBC flash manufacturing PMI index retreated to 49.6 - its 7-month low - indicating that Chinese manufacturing contracted in May. Taiex and Kospi index fell 1.92% and 1.24%, while the Australian ASX 200 index lost 2% as the inflation ...
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India must accept China Pakistans friendship
India "must accept" this "enviable friendship" as Beijing cannot scale down its ties with Islamabad merely because of New Delhi's feelings, an official daily here said on Thursday. The high-profile welcome received by Chinese ...
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Chinas premier Li Keqiang in Islamabad
By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI - Pakistan and China on Wednesday agreed to jointly work on an economic corridor for enhanced connectivity, with the two countries signing a series of agreements related to energy, technology and space during the first visit to Pakistan by China's premier Li Keqiang since he took office in March. Even so, local critics claimed Pakistan was of little ...
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Malaysia arrests 2 anti-govt figures charges a student activist with sedition
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysian authorities detained two anti-government figures and charged a student activist with sedition on Thursday, raising political tensions after recent national elections triggered claims of fraud. Opposition activists have staged numerous peaceful demonstrations since May 5 general elections, which the Barisan Nasional coalition won with a weakened ...
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Bangladesh Owners many failings led to collapse
FILE - In this Sunday, May 12, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi soldiers stand amid the rubble of the garment factory building that collapsed on April 24 as they continue search operation in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A government investigation said poor quality construction materials and building code violations contributed to the collapse of building housing garment factories last month in ...
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12 killed in Pakistan bombing
Islamabad, May 23 : Twelve people were killed in Pakistan's Quetta city Thursday when a car packed with 100 kg explosives blew up just as a vehicle carrying security personnel was passing ...
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Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs
In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, D.C. area, where they had been kept as federal property because of the Watergate investigation, to California, where Nixon’s friends and supporters had built a private library in 1990. My job involved ...
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Decades later Vietnam vets to get their welcome home
Allen County Councilman Kevin Howell announces plans to raise money for a Vietnam veterans parade. He is joined by, from left, Wayne Township Trustee Rick Stevenson and veterans Bennie Edwards and Jim ...
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Business Briefs May 23
* APMTenninals, a member of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, on Monday held a meeting with the Ministry of Transport to discuss the construction of an international goods transhipment centre in Cai Mep-Thi Vai, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province. * GM Motor Vietnam on Monday introduced in Vietnam the new mini Chevrolet Spark 1.0 AT directed at young, dynamic first-time car buyers and urban residents. The ...
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Asian Debt Beware of Bubbles
Gresik is a small industrial town of fewer than 100,000 people, just to the north of Indonesia's second-largest city, Surabaya in East Java. But its position is critical. It sits near the Lombok Strait, the second most important shipping gateway between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea and the vital trade route for fuel and resources between China and Australia. That is why AKR ...
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12 killed 17 injured as bomb hits security vehicle in SW Pakistan
At least 12 people including 10 security men were killed and 17 others injured when a bomb hit security forces' vehicle in Pakistan's southwest Quetta city on Thursday morning, local officials ...
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Asian-Americans united on immigration overhaul
In passing a broad, much-amended bill on immigration, the US Senate Judiciary Committee has cleared the way for a full debate in which Asian-Americans will be a vocal proponent. The community, whose diverse heritage reflects that of the world's biggest continent and numerous Pacific islands, rarely speaks with a single voice on public policy. But reforming what many say is a broken US ...
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The Elders slam Sri Lanka for lacking reconciliation
'The Elders', a council of retired global leaders led by Desmond Tutu has slammed Sri Lanka, based on its report, for lacking post-war reconciliation. They also expressed their disappointment over its slow pace of improvement in allowing "proper media reporting". "The ongoing persecution and disappearances of human rights activists, journalists and government opponents ...
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Thai stocks extend losses on day after Fed China data
BANGKOK, May 23 (Reuters) - Thailand's benchmark SET index fell as much as 3 percent in afternoon session, joining Asian and global shares on concerns over the future of the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus and weak Chinese factory data. Index heavyweight energy and banking shares came under heavy selling pressure, with Siam Commercial Bank Pcl and PTT Exploration and ...
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Pakistan car bombing leaves 12 dead
Eight people have been arrested by police investigating an arson attack that left eight members of the same family dead more than a decade ...
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Bangladesh farmers battle water woes
By Naimul Haq CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Bangladesh - Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometers to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of reach. Using a ragtag array of pots, she carries ...
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Twelve killed over 20 injured in powerful bombing in Pakistan
Twelve people, including eight police personnel, were killed and over 20 injured on Thursday in a powerful bombing in Pakistan's Quetta city.The deafening explosion took place in Bhosa Mandi area of Quetta Thursday morning, DawnNews reported.Fayyaz Sumbal, a senior police official, said militants targeted the vehicle of police's Rapid Response Force (RRF) through a remote control ...
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Italian on the run nabbed in Thailand
An Italian who is suspcted to have defrauded millions of dollars from Italian financial institutions and other crimes, has been arrested by police in Thailand. Media reports said today Stefano Raccaqni, 38, (pictured) was arrested on Tuesday in Chiang Mai, 600 kilometres north of Bangkok, on a request from Italy via Interpol. He faces charges of defrauding Italian banks and finance companies ...
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Pakistan Blast Kills 13 Officers in Restive Area
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Pakistani police targeted in deadly Quetta car bombing
Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police say.The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, also wounded 23 people, said the senior police officer Fayaz Sumbal. The car was packed with around 100kg (220lb) of explosives and was parked alongside a road in the city. It was detonated by remote control when a vehicle carrying members of ...
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