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Judo federation to investigate harassment claims
Japan's judo federation says it will investigate an alleged case of sexual harassment by one of its directors against a female judoka. The federation declined to identify the director, claiming the problem was "sensitive," Kyodo news agency reported on Friday. Former judoka Noriko Mizoguchi revealed the incident on Thursday at a symposium aimed at eradicating abuse in ...
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Swedish capital wracked by 5th night of rioting
Swedish police say rioters in several suburban districts of Stockholm have burned two schools and 15 cars in the fifth straight night of unrest. Police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says 13 people, aged between 18 and 25, were detained in connection with the disturbances which included an unsuccessful attempt to damage a police station. Lindgren said Friday that the overnight violence was less ...
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Religious minorities unite for freedom
Next to a sealed Ahmadi mosque in Bekasi is a plot of land with leafy trees and damp earth. To get in one has to squeeze through a gap between a tall iron gate and the wall of a residence on the other side.From this bit of land, Ahmadiyah members send food over the gate to the 19 Ahmadis staying inside the mosque, which was sealed in early April by Bekasi public order officers.When the officers ...
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Martin van Bruinessen Dedicating life to perpetual research into Islam
The relationship between the Dutch Professor Martin van Bruinessen and Indonesia began incidentally 30 years ago. After completing his PhD in anthropology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, van Bruinessen was jobless and intensively searching for a vacancy that matched his interests. When he learned that the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies was looking ...
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APLN eyes 5 acquisitions above Rp 1t
Paper Edition | Page: 14 Listed property developer PT Agung Podomoro Land (APLN) is seeking more plots of land and projects to support its growth.APLN vice president director Indra Wijaya says the company, along with its subsidiaries, has performed three acquisitions in the year-to-date. The acquisitions are: 62 hectares of land to be developed as a residential complex in Karawang, West Java; a ...
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Fuel consumption set to beat estimate again
Paper Edition | Page: 14 Indonesia will consume more subsidized gasoline this year than the quota planned by the government, thanks to a price disparity between fuel products and strong car and motorcycle sales.Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik said on Wednesday the year-end consumption of 88-octane gasoline, commonly known as Premium, would likely exceed the allocation by 9 ...
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PM Abe visit to Myanmar 1st to country by Japan leader in 36 years
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is traveling to Myanmar for a three-day trip, the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years. PM Abe is expected to show Japanese support for reforms in Myanmar after decades of military rule and to boost economic ties. Travelling with a delegation of business leaders, PM Abe was to arrive in Yangon on Friday evening and meet ...
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Amnesty urges Malaysia to end post-election crackdown
Activist Adam Adli is escorted by police at a courthouse in Kuala Lumpur on May 23, 2013. Malaysian police arrested several opposition politicians and activists on Thursday, launching a crackdown on dissent three weeks after an election exposed deep divisions in the country and sparked a series of opposition protest rallies. Adli was charged under the Sedition Act, which human rights group ...
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Malaysian opposition politicians and activist released from police custody
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK)- Two opposition politicians and an activist, who had been arrested on Thursday for making seditious remarks at a forum, have been released. They were released from police custody after the magistrate rejected the police's application for remand. Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) vice-president Tian Chua and Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) member Tamrin ...
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Myanmars kyat currency slumps to a low as imports flood in
A woman counts Myanmar Kyats at a money changer in Yangon on May 23, 2013. Myanmar's currency has plunged more than 7 per cent over the past month to the lowest since it was floated last year, raising concern about economic stability in Asia's newest democracy. -- FILE PHOTO: ...
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Chennai hospital saves Pakistani afflicted with dilated cardiomyopathy
International News: If hearts have nationalities, then the first was Pakistani, and the second, Indian. Chennai hospital saved religious teacher afflicted with dilated ...
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Business Briefs May 24
* The Securities Depository centre said that it has transferred the ownership of 389,057 shares of Long Hau JSC (LHG) from Ban Viet Securities Investment Fund to 21 investors on May 22. * PetroVietnam general Services Joint Stock Corp (PET) has sold 788,880 treasury shares as registered at an average price of ...
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Asia Roundup US Fed and China news spook marts
Hawkish comments by United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and weakness in China’s factory activity rocked Asian markets yesterday,Thursday May 23 3013 taking the dollar to three-year highs, sending share markets lower, and hitting the Japanese government bond market as yields rose to their highest in a year. Stock and bond markets took their cue from the drop in US equities ...
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Life Terms Urged in Bangladesh Building Collapse
DOHA, May 23 2013 (Al Jazeera) - Those responsible for the Bangladesh building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers should be given life in prison, a government-appointed committee has ...
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Groaning Under Power Cuts Scorching Temps in Pakistan
- Raheel Tauseef is feeling quite powerless this summer. Frequent power outages in the industrial city of Faisalabad in the Punjab province of eastern Pakistan, where the 29-year-old and his family run three hosiery factories, are taking a heavy toll on their ...
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Vietnams CPI deflates again in May
Vietnam's consumer price index (CPI), a calculator for the inflation growth, deflated again in May, down by 0.06 percent against the previous month, reported the Vietnam General Statistics Office on Friday.The figure posted an increase of 2.35 percent compared to last December and 6.36 percent to last May, pushing the first 5-month index this year to rise by 6.74 percent over the same ...
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Western hypocrisy over Chinese nukes
if you are interested in contributing. A defense white paper released by China on April 16 has invited a debate over a shift in its nuclear policy, because this new paper, unlike previous editions, did not reiterate China's long-standing no-first-use nuclear weapons doctrine. [1] Colonel Yang Yujun, a spokesman of China's Ministry of Defense, answered the speculation ...
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Chinas reform hands fail to clap
By Willy Lam A near-schizophrenic bifurcation has informed Chinese-style reform as implemented by the six-month old administration of General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. On the one hand, the preserving stability ...
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Neo-Nazi denial in Myanmar
if you are interested in contributing. Myanmar has a newly registered Nazi party, the Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP), created ceremoniously in the wake of last year's anti-Muslim ethnic cleansing in western Rakhine State. Naypyidaw has incubated the party, while opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has wined and dined publicly with ...
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Indian growth model unsustainable at best
By Kunal Kumar Kundu NEW DELHI- The Indian economy is likely to have grown at a mere 5% in the financial year that ended in March, the lowest growth rate in a decade; investments are falling and the fault lines of Indian politics lie fully exposed. With the government embroiled in a numerous corruption cases, leading to a sense of policy paralysis gripping the economy, business confidence ...
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Americas truth-seeking drone program
if you are interested in contributing. The events of September 11, 2001, serve as a painful reminder that the use unlawful use of force, as designated by the World Court for acts of terrorism, resulted in the costly loss of innocent life. Since Western leaders condemned such acts as wrong and unlawful, it is only logical that Western nations follow by example by avoiding (engaging in) ...
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Neighbors eye Sharif with caution
By Fatemeh Aman WASHINGTON - Following on Nawaz Sharif's victory in the May 11 national elections in Pakistan, many analysts are indicating cautious optimism on the prospect that the new prime minister can strengthen bilateral relations with the country's neighbors, particularly India. While entrenched interests among Pakistan's powerful security establishment constitute one ...
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German savings crisis in Europe and China
Beijing-based economist Michael Pettis has carved out through his "China Financial Markets" blog a distinct position with his commentaries on the Chinese economy, notably with his consideration of the difficulties it faces with its necessary rebalancing towards a more consumption-based model. Asia Times Online here draws the attention of Pettis' analyses to a wider public with ...
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Maynilad First Pacific scouting for possible projects in Southeast Asia
MANILA - Maynilad Water Services Inc looks to flex its muscle abroad in partnership with First Pacific Co Ltd. At the sidelines of Metro Pacific Investments Corp's ...
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Li Keqiangs visit to Pak at a crucial time in history Pakistani daily
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's two-day Pakistan visit "went beyond the symbolic", said a daily which noted China is a wealthy neighbour that "does not hand out free lunches".Li's visit "went beyond the symbolic - significant because he was here at a crucial time in our political history, with the process of transition from one government to another now in ...
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Southeast Asia's growing prominence in world trade
Southeast Asia has been, for many centuries, a major part of world trade and the recent recession has not hampered this position as the region is recovering much faster than many more developed countries.
Southeast Asia, although geographically large, covering an area of around 5 million square miles, is comparatively small economically in relation to the number of people that inhabit the area. The Southeast Asian region is home to over 500 million people and yet the region’s GDP is just US$1.5 trillion, or around US$2,500 per person annually. Read more
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