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Premier Li visits Pakistan
A soldier walks near a bus as he helps to secure the area and clear the roads before the motorcade of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang passes by in Islamabad May 22, 2013. ...
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Pakistan court rejects Musharraf bail in judges case
Pervez Musharraf over the detention of judges during his 1999-2008 rule, the state prosecutor said. The ruling came two days after a court granted bail to Musharraf over the murder of former prime ...
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Clothes for the West Inside a Bangladesh factory
A month after the deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh, that killed more than a thousand people, ITV News visited one of the factories in Dhaka that makes clothing for the west. ITV's Laura Kuenssberg ...
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Pakistan cricketer Khan leaves hospital after election rally plunge
Imran Khan lefta hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday, more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at an election event. (Shaukat Khanum ...
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SE Asia’s forests Development’s victims
One of the world's hotbeds of biodiversity, the forestland of Southeast Asia, is being sacrificed on the altar of development and global capitalism. A spate of all but unrestrained development projects across SE Asia - from Burma to Vietnam to Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos - is spelling doom for the region's tropical forests and the uniquely rich ecosystems they ...
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PMs visit to Thailand to accelerate ties Indian envoy
BANGKOK: India's accelerating ties with Thailand will get a further boost with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's brief but comprehensive visit here next week, but the long awaited FTA will not be initialled during the trip, Indian envoy to the country has said. "Thailand is keenly looking forward to this visit," Indian Ambassador to Thailand Anil Wadhwa said, adding ...
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Minister of Justice discusses Judicial and Legal Cooperation with Singapore
WAM ABU DHABI, May 22th, 2013 (WAM) -- Dr. Hadef bin Jowan Al Dhahiri, Minister of Justice, and K. Shanmugam, Singaporean Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Law discussed judicial and legal cooperation between the two countries at a meeting also attended by Mohammed Ahmad Hamel Al Qubaisi, UAE Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Mohammed bin Hamad Al Badi, Undersecretary of the ...
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Irishman charged with 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing
LONDON (AP) -- A 61-year-old Irishman has been charged with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982 that killed four soldiers and seven ...
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Indian PM expresses grief over convicted Indian spys death in Pakistan
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday expressed grief over the death of convicted Indian spy Sarabjit Singh, on death row in Pakistan, at a hospital in Lahore where he was in a coma since being brutally attacked by his fellow inmates at a jail in that country last ...
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French Writer Commits Suicide at Notre Dame in Paris
French policemen cordon off in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral following the evacuation of the after a man shot himself dead in front of the altar, May 22, ...
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MOFA works to uncover truth of fishing boat attack
The ROC government is making every effort to reveal the truth about the May 9 fatal attack on Taiwan fishing boat Guang Da Xing No. 28 by a Philippine government vessel. ...
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Indonesia re-arrests Chevron exec amid tension
JAKARTA (REUTERS) - Authorities have bypassed a court order and re-arrested an executive at Chevron Corp's Indonesian unit in a graft case that highlights growing tension with big oil companies in a country struggling to reverse a decline in oil production. The attorney general's office said on Wednesday that it had re-arrested Bachtiar Abdul, an executive at PT Chevron Pacific ...
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Chinese premier visits Pakistan praises ties
A man walks next to huge portraits of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, right, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, left, displayed near the presidency in Islamabad, Pakistan. Keqiang will arrive in Islamabad on May 22 on a two day official visit to hold talks with Pakistani leadership to discuss international, regional issues and enhance co-operation in bilateral ties. (AP Photo/Anjum ...
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Senators powers to be restrained in March transition
Appointed senators will be prohibited from removing or appointing individuals during the transition period at the end of the elected senators' term next March. The parliamentary ad-hoc committee considering Constitution amendment Wednesday discussed laws related to the sources and mandate of senators. According to the new draft, an election must be held to replace any vacant senatorial ...
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Vendors at doomed Rod Fai Market demand more time
Vendors at Bangkok's Rod Fai Market Wednesday held a protest at the site of the demolished market demanding the right to stay and sell goods for another six months, saying they planned to hold more negotiations with the landlord, State Railway of Thailand, soon. The protest followed Tuesday's demolition of stalls at the market by an SRT-hired contractor to clear the site for ...
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China demand drives Asian gold bar premiums to record highs
- Premiums for gold bars hit a record high in Asia on Wednesday as lower spot prices lured more buyers, mainly in China, the world's second biggest consumer of the precious metal, amid tight physical ...
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2 Chinese died climbing summits in Nepal
/enpproperty--> KATHMANDU - Thirty climbers from China, 24 male and 6 female have been registered to scale various summits this spring but two of them have already died, officials said on Wednesday. Li Xiaoshi, 58, from Taiwan, died while attempting the 8,516-meter-tall Lhotse Mountain. ...
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Emirates to increase flights to Colombo from 30th June
Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, will increase capacity on its services to Colombo from 30th June 2013, with the addition of three more flights per week, the airline announced ...
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Office bullying video sparks outcry in Singapore
SINGAPORE -- A Singapore company supervisor caught on video slapping a male intern is in trouble after the clip went viral on the web and sparked a public outcry. Police confirmed to AFP that a complaint had been lodged against the supervisor, who works at a software company, and the manpower ministry said it had also been alerted about the alleged case of workplace abuse. The 17-second ...
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Washington’s love affair with Myanmar It’s the resources stupid
Politics The ramshackle streets of Myanmar's capital Yangon, with its ancient Buddhist pagodas and dilapidated colonial-era buildings, are one of the last places in the world where you'd expect to find Colonel Sanders. If the democratic reforms recently undertaken by Myanmar, a once dysfunctional and paranoid socialist state turned hardcore military pariah, could be attributed to a ...
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Pakistans Imran Khan home after campaign fall
"By the grace of Allah I am now home," Imran Khan tweets He was hospitalized with injuries suffered in a dramatic fall while campaigning Khan, who heads the Tehreek-e-Insaf party, plans to resume political meetings He suffered spinal fractures and a head injury in the ...
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Japan copper buyers not seeking alternatives to closed Indonesia mine
TOKYO | Wed May 22, 2013 6:37am EDT TOKYO May 22 (Reuters) - Japanese buyers of copper ore from Indonesia's Grasberg mine have stockpiles at the closed mine and a port in the area, and have no immediate plans to buy from other suppliers, a mining industry association in Japan said on Wednesday. Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc said on Wednesday it would not restart production at ...
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Airtasker Wants To Be oDesk Of Southeast Asia
Victoria Ho is a TechCrunch writer based in Singapore. She was previously the technology correspondent for The Business Times in Singapore, and senior writer for ZDNet Asia prior to that. She started out working for ComputerWorld and CIO Asia magazines, under the IDG and Fairfax Business Media brand. She has an English Literature degree from the National University of ...
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SE Asia Stocks-Singapore up on earnings hopes Thai shares fall
BANGKOK, May 22 (Reuters) - Most Southeast Asian stock markets rose to new highs on Wednesday on light to moderate volume and ahead of U.S. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony in Congress, with expectations of improved earnings forecasts supporting Singapore shares. Singapore's Straits Times Index was up 0.3 percent at 3,454.37, reversing Tuesday's fall, led ...
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DBS-Danamon deal hinges on Singapores invite to Indonesian banks
SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Southeast Asia's largest bank merger now depends largely on cooperation between Singaporean authorities and Indonesian ...
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