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16 inmates killed in Sri Lanka prison shootout
By AP News at November 10, 2012 | 11:17 am | 0 Comment
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A shootout between rioting prisoners and security forces at a prison in Sri Lanka’s capital killed at least 16 inmates, while police said Saturday that they arrested five prisoners who had managed to escape. Sri Lankan inmates display guns, throw stones and shout slogans from a roof of a prison in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday. Pic: more...
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25 killed in Burma tanker train explosion
By AP News at November 10, 2012 | 11:10 am | 0 Comment
YANGON, Burma (AP) — Twenty-five people were killed in northern Burma when a derailed tanker train burst into flames as they were trying to skim fuel from its overturned carriages, state television reported Friday The report said 62 other people were injured Friday morning after the train hauling seven carriages of gasoline and two of diesel derailed near Kantbalu about more...
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China sentences 4 Mekong smugglers to death
By AP News at November 6, 2012 | 4:09 pm | 0 Comment
Mekong - BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court sentenced four members of a Burma drug gang to death Tuesday for kidnapping and killing 13 Chinese sailors last year on the Mekong River, state media said. China, Burma, Laos and Thailand began joint Mekong River patrols in December after the sailors were killed along a section of the river flowing through the Golden Triangle more...
Prince Charles, wife begin Australia visit
By AP News at November 6, 2012 | 10:57 am | 0 Comment
Prince Charles - SYDNEY (AP) — Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, are in Australia on a two-week tour of the Pacific. The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall landed in the Outback Queensland town of Longreach on Monday following a visit to Papua New Guinea. Dignitaries including Governor-General Quentin Bryce greeted the royal couple before they more...
Pakistan parents killed daughter for eyeing boy
By AP News at November 6, 2012 | 10:52 am | 0 Comment
Pakistan - ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani couple accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her carried out the attack because she sullied the family’s honor by looking at a boy, the couple said in an interview broadcast Monday by the BBC. The girl’s death underlines the problem of so-called “honor killings” in Pakistan where women are more...
China relentlessly harries Japan in island dispute
By AP News at November 6, 2012 | 10:47 am | 0 Comment
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese patrol boats have harried the Japanese Coast Guard many times a week for more than a month in an unusually relentless response to their latest maritime spat. Ships of China Marine Surveillance and Japan Coast Guard steam side by side near disputed islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea. Chinese patrol boats more...
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China’s next leaders might curb Macau’s fortunes
By AP News at November 6, 2012 | 10:41 am | 0 Comment
MACAU (AP) — Hordes of Chinese high rollers flooding into Macau have turned the city into an Asian casino boomtown, but they’re also posing a challenge for China’s next generation of leaders. Macau’s casino industry has mushroomed over the past decade after its government eased restrictions, drawing a flood of mainland Chinese visitors that have more...
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China’s next leaders might curb Macau’s fortunes
By AP News at November 6, 2012 | 10:41 am | 0 Comment
MACAU (AP) — Hordes of Chinese high rollers flooding into Macau have turned the city into an Asian casino boomtown, but they’re also posing a challenge for China’s next generation of leaders. Macau’s casino industry has mushroomed over the past decade after its government eased restrictions, drawing a flood of mainland Chinese visitors that have more...
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Heavy rains kill at least 22 in southern India
By AP News at November 6, 2012 | 10:32 am | 0 Comment
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A government official in a southern Indian state says heavy rains triggered by a tropical storm have killed at least 22 people in the past four days. Indian people wade through flood water after heavy rainfall as they move to a safer place Vishakapatnam, India, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. A government official in a southern Indian state said heavy more...
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US concern at Laos building 1st dam across Mekong
By AP News at November 6, 2012 | 10:25 am | 0 Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has criticized Laos’ decision to build the first dam across the mainstream of the Mekong River which environmentalists warn could affect tens of millions of livelihoods and trigger a dam-building spree along Southeast Asia’s mightiest waterway. The U.S. has urged a moratorium on such projects until studies into their more...
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North Queensland on countdown for solar eclipse
By Asian Correspondent at November 5, 2012 | 11:26 am | 0 Comment
Nature is set to put on a spectacle in north Queensland on November 14 when residents and visitors will be treated to a rare total solar eclipse. Eclipses occur when the moon passes between the earth and the Sun. While a partial solar eclipse will be seen across Australia the best place to see a total eclipse is from centres like Cairns, Ahterton, Mareeba, Mossman, more...
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Asia stocks fall ahead of tight US election
By AP News at November 5, 2012 | 11:06 am | 0 Comment
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Monday as uncertainty about the outcome of the U.S. presidential election reduced appetite for riskier investments. The race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney is virtually tied one day ahead of the election, generating an atmosphere of uncertainty that markets normally dislike. Investors could more...
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India’s Congress party holds massive rally
By AP News at November 5, 2012 | 10:30 am | 0 Comment
NEW DELHI (AP) — The leaders of India’s ruling Congress party addressed a rare gathering of hundreds of thousands of supporters on Sunday, attempting to reclaim lost political ground after being battered by a series of corruption scandals. A Congress party supporter waves as he listens to party President Sonia Gandhi's speech during a public rally in New more...
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Protests in Tokyo against US Osprey aircraft
By AP News at November 5, 2012 | 10:25 am | 0 Comment
TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of people have rallied against American deployment of Osprey military aircraft on a southern Japanese island amid escalating anti-U.S. military sentiment following recent crimes. A boy holds a placard during a rally against the deployment of U.S. Marine Corps' MV-22 Osprey in Okinawa, in Tokyo, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Many Okinawans believe the more...
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Diplomat says Malala recovery ‘very satisfactory’
By AP News at November 5, 2012 | 10:21 am | 0 Comment
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Pakistani ambassador says the 15-year-old girl activist shot in the head by a Taliban gunman last month is making a steady recovery and is starting to walk, talk and read. In this undated handout photo issued by Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham, England, on Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, Malala Yousufzai in her hospital bed, poses for more...
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Report: Another Tibetan burns himself in protest
By AP News at November 4, 2012 | 4:50 pm | 0 Comment
BEIJING (AP) — The Tibetan government-in-exile says a man has died after setting himself on fire in the latest self-immolation protesting Chinese rule. The exile government based in Dharamsala, India, says the Tibetan self-immolated on Sunday morning in Tongren, a monastery town in western China’s Qinghai province. A photo on its website showed a burned body more...
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Italy hopes India will let it try marines
By AP News at November 4, 2012 | 3:57 pm | 0 Comment
ROME (AP) — Italy’s defense minister has offered encouragement to two Italian marines held in India since February for the deaths of two Indian fishermen mistaken for pirates. Sounding emotional, Defense Minister Giampaolo di Paola spoke to the marines Saturday via video and audio hookup shown on Italian TV. He told them he was “confident” more...
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Australia, Philippines to bolster military drills
By AP News at November 4, 2012 | 3:54 pm | 0 Comment
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine defense chief says his Australian counterpart plans to visit early next year to discuss ways to bolster security cooperation and the entry of Australian forces for military exercises under a new pact. The Philippine Senate in July ratified an accord that would allow Australian troops to train in combat exercises with Filipino more...
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UN expert: NKorea should divert cash from military
By AP News at November 3, 2012 | 6:22 pm | 0 Comment
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. investigator for human rights in North Korea said Friday he saw no improvement in human rights under Kim Jong Un and urged the country’s new leader to divert money from his “military first” policy to help more than 60 percent of the population suffering from a lack of food. Marzuki Darusman said in a report and briefing more...
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Burma banks sign deal with Visa
By AP News at November 3, 2012 | 6:09 pm | 0 Comment
YANGON, Burma (AP) — Officials in Burma say three private banks have signed agreements with Visa Inc. to enable international travelers to use credit cards and withdraw cash from ATM machines by January. Until recently, foreign visitors were barred from using credit cards in the Southeast Asian nation because of financial sanctions imposed by the US and EU to punish more...
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Japan nuclear safety team took utility money
By AP News at November 3, 2012 | 6:03 pm | 0 Comment
TOKYO (AP) — Members of a Japanese government team assigned to set reactor safety measures received funding from utility companies or atomic industry manufacturers, raising questions about the experts’ neutrality in the wake of last year’s tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster. The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Friday that Nagoya University Professor Akio more...
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Japan nuclear safety team took utility money
By AP News at November 3, 2012 | 6:03 pm | 0 Comment
TOKYO (AP) — Members of a Japanese government team assigned to set reactor safety measures received funding from utility companies or atomic industry manufacturers, raising questions about the experts’ neutrality in the wake of last year’s tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster. The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Friday that Nagoya University Professor Akio more...
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Strong quake shakes Philippines, but no injuries
By AP News at November 3, 2012 | 5:29 pm | 0 Comment
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong earthquake rattled the southern Philippine island of Mindanao early Saturday, but there were no reports of any injuries or damage and no tsunami warnings were issued. The quake, which hit at 2:17 a.m., had a magnitude of 6.4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology measured the more...
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Aussie PM’s stock rises a bit with smack at rival
By AP News at November 3, 2012 | 2:41 pm | 0 Comment
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — For a moment on the floor of Parliament, Australia’s political landscape seemed upside down. Prime Minister Julia Gillard, whose party is widely expected to lose elections next year, was eviscerating the man who seems destined to replace her. In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard gestures more...
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Rights group says judges targeted for dissent
By AP News at November 3, 2012 | 2:14 pm | 0 Comment
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s lawyers and judges have become the latest targets in the government’s continued stifling of dissent three years after the end of its civil war, an international human rights group has said. The statement from Amnesty International dated Thursday came as the country’s ruling party started a process to impeach the more...
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