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Pakistani community gives envoy fond send-off
The event, at Grand Midwest hotel in Dubai Media City on Friday, was attended by Pakistan Association Dubai members and dignitaries from the wider Pakistani community in the ...
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Twenty-two dead in Nepal monsoon floods
AT least 22 people have been killed in landslides and floods triggered by heavy monsoon rain in remote parts of Nepal, a government spokesman ...
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Canberra adds to Cambodia tribunal funding
AUSTRALIA is to give $A3.25 million extra support to the UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) ...
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Croc kills pregnant woman in Indonesia
A PREGNANT woman has been killed and her three-year-old son is missing after they were attacked by a crocodile in eastern Indonesia, a local official ...
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Philippines Golan peacekeepers to stay for now
Philippines troops at the Quneitra crossing between Syria and the Israeli annexed Golan Heights last week. The Philippines Wednesday said it would keep its peacekeepers in the Golan Heights until at least August, and may stay longer if the United Nations increased security ...
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Pakistan closes university and hospital after fatal attacks
Pakistani have authorities closed Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta after terrorist attacks killed nearly 90 ...
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Etihad Airways to launch double daily flights from Abu Dhabi to Malaysia
WAM ABU DHABI, June 19th, 2013 (WAM)Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will add a new daily flight between Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur to offer a double daily service from July 15th. The new schedule will add 1400 new seats per week to the route - an increase in capacity of approximately 23 per cent. It will enable Etihad Airways to offer better flight ...
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Worsening haze from Indonesia angers Singapore tourists
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Singapore's smog crisis from Indonesian forest fires worsened Wednesday as air pollution levels reached a 16-year high, triggering a run on medical masks and angry complaints from foreign tourists and locals.The city-state's Pollutant Standards Index soared to 172 at mid-afternoon, well past the officially designated "unhealthy" threshold of 100, according ...
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Conquering Everest begins at a tiny Nepal airstrip
LUKLA, Nepal // As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst out in applause. They do that for nearly every safe landing at the often terrifying airport at the gateway to Mount Everest. At an altitude of 2,843 metres, the small airstrip here has earned a reputation as one of the most extreme and dangerous airports in the world. The single runway is narrow, ...
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Bengkalis calls for firefighting assistance
An uncontrollable fire in Riau has left its capital, Pekanbaru, and several other regencies and municipalities in the province, blanketed in smoke clouds, on Wednesday. The thick smoke has forced education authorities in Bengkalis and Dumai to give students vacation to prevent the spread of acute respiratory ...
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Extreme weather water shortage impede fire extinguishing efforts in Riau
Manggala Agni fire-fighting team from the Riau Natural Resource Conservation Center (BBKSDA) has been overwhelmed in attempts to prevent raging peatland fires across some areas in Riau province, due to extreme weather and lack of water."The most we can do is to prevent the fires from spreading. But to fully extinguish the fires, it is very difficult as there are many challenges in the ...
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MAC finds support for cross-strait rep offices
A recent MAC survey shows that 71.1 percent of the public approve the ROC government's policy of setting up reciprocal cross-strait representative offices. (Courtesy of ...
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ROC legislates to protect important wetlands
Liberty Times Taiwan's wetlands will be better protected after the ROC Legislative Yuan passed the Wetlands Conservation Act June 18, establishing a classification system and management mechanisms for their conservation. Under the act, anyone wishing to profit from the use of wetlands for industrial production, business operation or tourism purposes will have to gain permission from the ...
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Oil rises near $99 a barrel before Bernanke speaks
Benchmark oil for July delivery rose 48 cents to $98.92 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 67 cents to close at $98.44 a barrel on the Nymex on ...
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Huawei unveils thinnest smartphone in Singapore
International telecommunications giant Huawei unveiled its latest flagship device Ascend P6 in Singapore on Wednesday, marketing it as the thinnest smartphone in the world. And it features a distinctively sleek design, too.The Asia launch came just a few hours after the global debut of the smartphone at a standalone event in London, showing the aspirations of the China-headquartered ...
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SE Asia Stocks-Flat to weaker ahead of Fed Indonesia off high
BANGKOK, June 19 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian stock markets ended mostly weaker to flat on Wednesday as investors trimmed positions in the emerging region ahead of the results of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting. Share markets rose in early trade as the recently oversold region extended a rebound this week. But trading volume of all six Southeast Asian bourses dropped below a monthly ...
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Asia Brewery eyes dairy manufacturing hub in Laguna for exports to Southeast Asia
BUSINESS MANILA – Asia Brewery Inc will build a factory in Laguna that will manufacture the dairy products of its foreign partners, making the Philippines their export base for expansion in Southeast Asia. On the sidelines of LT Group Inc's stockholders meeting, Asia Brewery chief operating officer Michael Tan said a facility to produce Vitamilk of Thailand's Green Spot Co Ltd ...
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25000 Chinese working in Sri Lanka
(9 mins ago) More than 25,000 Chinese are working at various projects in Sri Lanka, a lawmaker has told parliament. A government minister made the revelation in response to a question from an opposition MP who sought to know the state of labor imports amid high unemployment in the ...
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Pakistan cricket board ordered to name new chief
Zaka Ashraf speaks at a press conference in Dubai last year. A Pakistani court Wednesday ordered the government to appoint an interim head of the cricket board, after the current chairman was suspended over a legal challenge to his ...
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Singapore to Host IADC Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation
For (future) decision makers and their advisors in governments, port and harbour authorities, off-shore companies and other organisations that have to execute dredging projects, the International Association of Dredging Companies organises the International Seminar on Dredging and ...
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Rights groups criticize proposed media code in Sri Lanka saying it threatens free speech
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Rights groups are criticizing a code of media ethics proposed by Sri Lanka's government, saying Wednesday that the code could have a chilling effect on free speech in the Indian Ocean island nation. New York-based Human Rights Watch said the code is "unnecessary" and infringes on the right to free expression, while Sri Lanka's Free Media Movement said it ...
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Police to send Poso suicide bomber remains to Jakarta
The Central Sulawesi Police will send the remains of 34-year-old suicide bomber Zainul Arifin to Jakarta this evening to be later buried in his hometown of Lamongan, East Java. "We are about to hand over the remains to his family, who are waiting in Jakarta," Central Sulawesi Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Soemarno said on Wednesday. Previously, National Police spokesman Sr. ...
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Taiwan passes labor safety law amendments
Taiwan workers are looking forward to better occupational health and safety standards following the passage of amendments to the country's labor safety law June 18 in Taipei City. ...
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Taiwan stages Free Willy-style pygmy whale rescue
Taiwan Today In a scene reminiscent of Hollywood film "Free Willy," a pygmy killer whale was returned to the wild off the coast of southern Taiwan after over two months of rehabilitation, the ROC Forestry Bureau said June 18. A-gan was found beached in a pod of six pygmy whales in Pingtung County's Checheng Township on April 14, prompting authorities to contact professor Wang ...
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ROC-Guatemala ink declaration of bilateral ties
ROC President Ma Ying-jeou (right) and Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina toast the joint declaration of bilateral ties June 18 at the Presidential Office in Taipei City. ...
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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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