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Noodles – Authorities Halt Sales Of Korean Noodles In Thailand

By at November 9, 2012 | 7:36 am | 0 Comment

Noodles – Authorities Halt Sales Of Korean Noodles In Thailand

Noodles -- Thai Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has halted sales of instant noodles imported from Korea, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported. The move follows the recent recall of instant noodles produced by South Korea's Nongshim Company sold in the Philippines, China and South Korea after cancer-causing substance benzopyrene was detected in the more...

Economy

Google Nexus 4 means for LG

By at November 7, 2012 | 8:31 am | 0 Comment

Google Nexus 4 means for LG

Google Nexus 4 - Whatever your feelings about the Nexus 4 itself, one thing’s for certain: getting the Nexus was definitely a boon for LG. Well, the verdict’s in on Google’s flagship phone, the LG Nexus 4, and aside from the significant misstep of not having 4G LTE capabilities for its U.S. market, the device is great. It runs on Android Jelly Be– oh hell. more...

Techno

Nexus 4 – Review: Does the Google Nexus 4 keep up with competition?

By at November 7, 2012 | 8:22 am | 0 Comment

Nexus 4 – Review: Does the Google Nexus 4 keep up with competition?

Nexus 4 - It’s become a tradition for me to get excited for Google’s new Nexus phone each year. If you’ve read my Android coverage before, you know I can’t stand that Google and its hardware and carrier partners still haven’t figured out a way to provide timely updates on phones after you buy them. In many cases, Android users never get to try the latest more...

Techno

IPad Mini Worth The Money?

By at November 7, 2012 | 8:08 am | 0 Comment

IPad Mini Worth The Money?

 IPad Mini - The Apple iPad mini's marketing campaign looks to win over consumers who are looking to purchase a slightly smaller (and cheaper) version of the iPad. It's working. Consumers are going out in droves to purchase the iPad mini thinking that it is the best option to fulfill their tech dreams, but many buyers will receive a rude awakening. The iPad mini is more...

Techno

Apple iPad mini Review: Mobile TV Gets More Portable

By at November 7, 2012 | 7:59 am | 0 Comment

Apple iPad mini Review: Mobile TV Gets More Portable

 Apple iPad mini -   I’ve been using the new iPad mini from Apple for less than a week now, however it has become immediately apparent that there is one thing the unit can excel at and may be one of its strongest selling points: it’s a great portable device for viewing mobile TV. But is it for you? Let’s go over the strongest points first, and one of the best more...

Techno

iPhone 5 Shortage from India

By at November 7, 2012 | 7:49 am | 0 Comment

iPhone 5 Shortage from India

iPhone 5  - Just days after the iPhone 5 went on sale in India, most retailers are already out of stock. “We were sold out within 24 hours of launch. It’s all gone,” said Himanshu Chakrawarti, chief executive of The MobileStore Ltd., a retailer that stocks iPhones and which has 900 outlets across India. Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone officially launchedin India more...

Techno

Apple iPhone 5 In Mexico Despite Losing Legal Claim To ‘iFone’

By at November 7, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment

Apple iPhone 5 In Mexico Despite Losing Legal Claim To ‘iFone’

Apple iPhone 5 - Apple recently lost its legal right to use the name 'iPhone' in Mexico after a court denied its injunction against Mexican telecommunications company iFone.  Apple released the iPhone 5 in Mexico Friday in the wake of a recent legal loss to Mexican telecommunications company iFone. The tech giant filed an injunction, seeking to stop more...

Techno

Galaxy S3 sales cross 30 million in 5 months

By at November 7, 2012 | 6:43 am | 0 Comment

Galaxy S3 sales cross 30 million in 5 months

Galaxy S3 - Samsung Electronics Co has sold more than 30 million Galaxy S3 smartphones in about five months. The news comes a week after the company said sales of its Galaxy Note 2 surpassed 3 million units in 37 days. The world's biggest mobile phone maker launched the smartphone at the end of May, months before competitors began shipping the latest versions of more...

Techno

Samsung Galaxy S3 pre-orders start with £600

By at November 7, 2012 | 6:32 am | 0 Comment

Samsung Galaxy S3 pre-orders start with £600

Samsung Galaxy S3 - The 64GB Samsung Galaxy S3 has been made available for pre-order in the UK with the high storage capacity handset to land with a hefty £600 price tag. With the 16GB and 32GB capacity Samsung Galaxy S3 handsets hitting the UK earlier this year, the large 64GB handset has yet to make it to British shores with online retailer Clove now offering 64GB more...

Techno

Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini Release Date and Price Guide

By at November 7, 2012 | 6:02 am | 0 Comment

Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini Release Date and Price Guide

Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini    After the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini has been unveiled a few weeks ago, we got the chance to talk in-depth about what to expectfrom this particular mid-range phone in terms of hardware specs. Nevertheless, additional information concerning the exact release date and price tag had not been revealed at that point in time so we’ve more...

Techno

Estate – The right time and place for REITs

By at August 15, 2012 | 3:06 pm | 0 Comment

Estate – The right time and place for REITs

Estate - Thailand and Vietnam and Laos among the emerging markets ready to tap into high investor demand for real estate investment trusts. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in Asia and the Pacific  are becoming increasingly attractive for western investors who are seeking a safer haven for their money than the fragile economies in the US and Europe. more...

Economy

Bayer – Expansion on Bayer menu as livestock farming grows

By at August 15, 2012 | 2:59 pm | 0 Comment

Bayer – Expansion on Bayer menu as livestock farming grows

    Bayer - The formation of the Asean  market in 2015 is expected to encourage  farmers to upgrade and harmonise standards in an attempt to export higher-quality meat to complete global markets, according to Bayer HealthCare. Meat consumers in Asean are increasingly unlikely to accept the low-standard meat products, said Dr Ernst Bottcher, the more...

Economy

Asia – Animated Growth

By at August 15, 2012 | 2:52 pm | 0 Comment

Asia – Animated Growth

Asia - The focus is increasingly on Asia as a digital content production workout, and Asean, especially Thailand, is taking the lead With demand for digital entertainment grow exponentially across Asia, content development is increasingly shifting to this high-growth continent. "Over the next year or 2, Asia will grow in importance as a hub for digital content more...

Economy

Finance Ministry rejigs health scheme

By at August 15, 2012 | 2:45 pm | 0 Comment

Finance Ministry rejigs health scheme

Health - The Finance Ministry will consider to buy  health insurance to cover only serious sicknesses for state officers as a money-saving measure. Rangsan Srivorasat, director-general of the Comptroller-General's Department, said the idea has gained the support of Deputy Finance Minister Wirun Techapaiboon. The ministry is conducting a feasibility study and more...

Economy

RATCH to acquire, build wind farms

By at August 15, 2012 | 2:42 pm | 0 Comment

RATCH to acquire, build wind farms

Wind Farms - Ratch-Australia Corp, 80 & in the ownership of Thailand's Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Pcl (RATCH), plans to spend A$1 billion ($1.1 billion) in the next three years buying power plants and building wind farms. Ratch-Australia is considering acquisitions of  gas-fired power stations and renewable energy projects as uncertainty about the more...

Economy

Parliamentary panel raps Rlys for Cherthala project delay

By at August 15, 2012 | 1:28 pm | 0 Comment

Parliamentary panel raps Rlys for Cherthala project delay

Cherthala - Rapping the Railways for “inordinate” delay of 5  years in executing a manufacturing unit project in Kerala, a parliamentary panel has sought explanation on the issue. Observing that the regional  transporter has not shown any “enthusiasm” in implementing the project, the committee has recommended that there should be in-built system of more...

Asia

Chandigarh based radio programme completes six years

By at August 15, 2012 | 1:23 pm | 0 Comment

Chandigarh based radio programme completes six years

CHANDIGARH: A city based radio programs were  completed 6  long years educating the listeners of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh on health issues through medical experts of PGI. Till now, nearly 250 facility members of PGI have given about 300 programmes on health problems like diabetes, thyroid, arthritis, hypertension,depression, asthma, arrhythmia, more...

Asia

Brahmapur school kids found deficient of haemoglobin

By at August 15, 2012 | 12:06 pm | 0 Comment

Brahmapur school kids found deficient of haemoglobin

Brahmapur - Many children in an first  primary school in the city here were found deficient of haemoglobin content in their blood. In a health camp conducted by the Young Girls Christian Association (YWCA) at the Hillpatna Upper Primary School here on Sunday, the haemoglobin content of the children between six years and 10 years of age was found 7.6 per cent more...

Asia

Bokaro Steel City – Fake coaching centres on rise in Bokaro

By at August 15, 2012 | 11:57 am | 0 Comment

Bokaro Steel City – Fake coaching centres on rise in Bokaro

Bokaro Steel City -  The Steel City, known for its best education centers  and coaching centers is struggling hard to hold on to its reputation as more number of departments is cheating students with big promises and easy payment schemes. However, the institutes disappear into thin air collecting huge amount of money from the aspirants. Students have started more...

Asia

Bilaspur – Rain drenches Himachal Pradesh

By at August 15, 2012 | 11:48 am | 0 Comment

Bilaspur – Rain drenches Himachal Pradesh

Bilaspur - Almost every district of Himachal Pradesh in Bilaspur was drenched by rains overnight even as there was no appreciable drop in the maximum temperatures. The heaviest rain of 164 mm was saw  here followed by Kufri-64, Gaggal-53, Solan-44, Kasauli-37, Kheri-33 and Manali-31, the MeT department said. Rainfall occurred at Dharmpur-30, Bilaspur-29, more...

Asia

Bihar Sharif to have chain of cement factories: Nitish Kumar

By at August 15, 2012 | 11:40 am | 0 Comment

Bihar Sharif to have chain of cement factories: Nitish Kumar

Bihar Sharif   - Bihar will have a chain of cementfactories in the time to bring up in the backdrop of availability of abundance of materials like fly ash, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Sunday. "There is abundance of air  ash and other raw materials required for production of cement... more fly ash will be generated from a number of power plants coming up more...

Asia

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation releases excess arrear to employees

By at August 15, 2012 | 11:31 am | 0 Comment

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation releases excess arrear to employees

BHUBANESWAR: The cashed Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) allegedly incurred loss of over Rs 1.21 core thanks to the "unauthorized and inadmissible" payment of arrea house rent allowance (HRA) in contravention with Odisha revised scale of pay (ORSP) rules-2008. The Local Fund Unit of state finance  that conducts audit in urban local bodies and panchayati raj more...

Asia

Bhagalpur – Pritam murder case: One arrested in Bihar

By at August 15, 2012 | 11:15 am | 0 Comment

Bhagalpur – Pritam murder case: One arrested in Bihar

Bhagalpur, Bihar: A guy has been jailed by the Government Railway Police in connection with the killing of Assam-based searcher Pritam Bhattacharjee at Khagaria in Bihar. GRP and other sources said Chhathu Sahni, a resident of  Bhagalpur, was picked up from the Khagaria railway premises yesterday. The administration had earlier suspended Naugachia GRP station SHO more...

Asia

Bengaluru – Mysore’s fight to hoist the Tricolour

By at August 15, 2012 | 11:03 am | 0 Comment

Bengaluru – Mysore’s fight to hoist the Tricolour

Bengaluru - “Even after August 15, 1947, Bengaluru continued to struggle for independence.   While the entire state was jubilant, Bengalureans fumed as they were not allowed to hoist the tricolour atop Attara Kacheri, the present high court building, which housed the government’s offices at the time. There were riots, lathicharge and finally celebrations more...

Asia

Belgaum – Couple who married outside caste killed

By at August 15, 2012 | 10:46 am | 0 Comment

Belgaum – Couple who married outside caste killed

Belgaum - GOKAK (BELGAUM DISTRICT): A very young couple who had married different the wishes of their families, from different castes, was brutally done to death in Losur village of Gokak taluk on Monday night.   The honour killing has left the couple's sevenmonth-old baby orphaned.   [google-map-v3 width="350" height="350" zoom="12" more...

Asia