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Death toll in China blast rises to 33 Xinhua
The death toll from a blast at an explosives plant in eastern China earlier this week rose to 33 Thursday as 20 missing people were declared dead, state media ...
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Malaysian activist charged with sedition 3 others held
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and police arrested three others, including two opposition politicians, in what critics decried as a crackdown on ...
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Paragua topples Sadorra wrests Asian Chess lead
Standings after Round 5: (Open) 4.5 points--GM Mark Paragua (PH); 4.0--GM Julio Catalino Sadorra (PH), GM Le Quang Liem (Viet), GM John Paul Gomez (PH), GM Richard Bitoon (PH), GM Li Chao (Chn); (Women's) 4.0 points--IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul (Mgl), WGM Mary Ann Gomes (Ind), WGM Guo Qi (Chn), WGM Wang Jue (Chn); 3.5--WGM Huang Qian (CHn), WGM Nafisa Muminova (Uzb), IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen ...
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London attackers known to British security services
LONDON (Reuters) - Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services, a source close to the investigation said ...
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Indonesia Tom Lantos Commission Hearing Testimony
"Human Rights in Indonesia" Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you for inviting me to testify today, and thank the committee for focusing on Indonesia’s human rights record, which too often today does not receive the attention it deserves. Indonesia has seen enormous changes over the last 15 years. Human Rights Watch is aware of the general and widespread improvements that ...
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Man killed by FBI links Tsarnaev to triple murder Report
Ibragim Todashev attacked the FBI agent with a knife just as he was about to sign a confession that he had played a role in the triple murder, local media cited investigators as ...
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Asian European Stocks Plunge on Weak Chinese Factory Data
Japan's Nikkei stock index tumbled 7.3 percent after release of the report showing Chinese factory production dropped in May for the first time in seven months. It was the biggest one-day loss since Japan's March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster. Stocks in London, Paris and Frankfurt followed suit, dropping about 2 percent. U.S. future indexes fell ahead of the opening of ...
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Malaysian Student Charged with Sedition 2 Others Arrested
Malaysian authorities have charged a student activist with sedition and have detained two others, including an opposition politician, on similar charges after their involvement in a campaign to challenge what they say are fraudulent election results. Prosecutors Thursday charged Adam Adli under the country's controversial Sedition Act for allegedly telling a political forum that ...
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Confusion reigns after Asian market meltdown
Overnight Asian markets were a complete and utter mess and while a seven per cent correction in the Nikkei may be par for the course after an 80 per cent rally, the reasons behind the sell-off have significant implications for Canadian ...
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Indian-origin British MPs condemn UK terror attack
British MPs on Thursday condemned the "horrific and barbaric" attack here in which a British soldier was beheaded, calling for unity and appealing for calm. Indian-origin MP and chairman of the influential home affairs select ...
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Willing to take Chinas advice to start talks North Korea says
BEIJING: North Korea is willing to take China's advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as saying, following weeks of tension on the Korean peninsula after the North's latest nuclear test. However, that prospect seems unlikely as North Korea has repeatedly said it will not abandon nuclear weapons while the United States ...
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US man held after pocket-dialing 911 while plotting murder
Scott Simon mistakenly pocket-dialed 911 as he planned a killing earlier in May 2013, enabling an emergency dispatch system to record his conversation and link him to the ...
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Dhaka building collapse probe finds many failings
Sohel Rana also "used extremely poor quality iron rods and cement," Ahmed told The Associated Press on Thursday. "There were a series of irregularities." The report found that Rana had permission to build a six-story structure and added two floors illegally so he could rent them out to garment factories. Past statements from authorities said the owner had permission for a ...
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In the Arena New Asian Tennis League Is Lining Up Big-Name Stars
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French lawmakers okay plan for more English at universities
PARIS: France's lower house on Thursday approved a plan to introduce more courses in English at universities despite critics alleging it will undermine efforts to promote French. A majority of lawmakers in ...
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Taliban rickshaw bomb kills 13 in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- A large bomb hidden by the Taliban in a rickshaw exploded as a police vehicle passed in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 policemen and two civilians, police ...
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Crane error blacks out one third of Vietnam
HANOI (AFP) - Over a third of Vietnam as well as the capital of neighbouring Cambodia suffered a blackout this week after a crane operator knocked a tree onto a key power line, electricity officials said Thursday.Twenty-two of Vietnam's southern provinces -- out of a nationwide total of 63 -- lost power for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon including the southern commercial centre of Ho ...
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Swiss free-trade deal a key global sign Chinas Li
ZURICH: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sees a looming free-trade deal with Switzerland as a touchstone for Beijing's growing ties with foreign nations, he told a Swiss newspaper on Thursday ahead of a landmark visit to Europe.Li was scheduled to arrive in Switzerland late on Thursday for trade-focused talks in what is the first stop on his debut visit to Europe since taking over in a ...
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Important for Japan and China to work towards stabilising ties PM Lee
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said it is important for Japan and China to take a longer term perspective and work towards stabilising ...
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Philippine capital angered by Da Vinci Code author
Philippine authorities on Thursday reacted angrily over "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown's portrayal of Manila as "the gates of hell" in his latest ...
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Asia Entertainment Resources Ltd. Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results
HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Asia Entertainment & Resources Ltd. ("AERL" or the "Company") ( ), which operates through its subsidiaries and related promoter companies that act as VIP room gaming promoters, today announced unaudited and unreviewed financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2013. All currency amounts are stated in United States ...
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20 killed in 2 simultaneous car bombs in Niger
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Niger's defense minister announced that 20 Nigerien soldiers were killed and another 16 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives inside a military installation in the city of Agadez on ...
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Blind activist who escaped house arrest says China cant be trusted
LONDON: "Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai" may be the flavour in Delhi after the recent visit of Chinese premier Li Keqiang. However, a strong word of caution has come from one of China's most wanted men Chen Guangcheng. Chen, a blind activist who became an international hero after he became the first person to escape house arrest in Beijing for exposing forced abortions and sterilizations ...
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US family leaves Singapore frustrated with inquest
SINGAPORE -; The parents of an American software engineer found dead in his Singapore apartment last year left the city-state Thursday before the end of a coroner's inquest, saying they had lost faith in the process. Their lawyer said they would push for a U.S. congressional ...
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Markets roiled by Nikkeis 7.3 percent slide
A man walks past an electronic stock indicator showing the Nikkei 225 index which nosedived 1,143.28 points, or 7.3 percent to close at 14,483.98 in Tokyo Thursday, May 23, 2013. Japanese stocks plummeted Thursday after a spike in government bond yields and unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing spooked investors sitting atop months of massive gains in share prices. (AP Photo/Shizuo ...
South East Asia Digest
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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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