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Auspicious day sparks Taiwan wedding bonanza
United Daily News More than 1,500 couples married in Taipei and New Taipei cities May 20, because it is an auspicious date in the Chinese farmer's almanac and also sounds like the words "I will love you for a lifetime, I love you" in Chinese, the Taipei City Government Department of Civil Affairs said. A total of 524 and 991 couples tied the knot in Taipei and New Taipei, 50 and ...
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ROC Cabinet ups economic stimulus efforts
Commercial Times A raft of stimulus packages aimed at spurring Taiwan's economy to hit the target growth rate of 3 percent for 2013 is being mulled by the ROC Cabinet. The packages include boosting private consumption and stock markets, fast-tracking government procurements and public infrastructure projects, and implementing innovation promotion programs, sources familiar with the matter ...
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Taiwan targets Muslim markets for export growth
Commercial Times Majority-Muslim countries will be the focus of Taiwan export promotion campaigns as the ROC government looks to give the local economy a shot in the arm and chalk up stronger shipment numbers in the second half of the year. According to an unnamed Cabinet official, the global population comprises 1.6 billion Muslims, or 23.4 percent, representing tremendous business ...
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Police asked to remove protesters in Sanam Luang
Police in Bangkok have been asked to remove hundreds of government opponents staging a protest in Sanam Luang. Julanop Nuchanart, director of the Phra Nakhon District Office, Tuesday filed a complaint with Chana Songkhram Police seeking the removal of the protesters. The protesters have defied an order from the city to vacate the park adjacent to the Grand Palace and vowed to continue camping ...
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S. Korea to write off debts for joint sureties of 1997 Asian crisis
South Korea's financial regulator said Tuesday that it will write off debts held by joint sureties during the 1997 Asian foreign exchange crisis as part of efforts to help the sureties escape from financial difficulties coming from other parties' debts.As much as 70 percent of debt principals coming from the joint surety contract will be written off in accordance with the debt- ...
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Analysis How to avoid a fourth year of serious flooding in Pakistan
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Hosting Burma’s Leader Obama Repeatedly Calls the Country ‘Myanmar’
President Obama meets with Burmese President Thein Sein in the Oval Office on Monday, May 20, 2013 (Image: White House) (CNSNews.com) - Setting aside a long-held U.S. policy, President Obama -- when hosting the president of Burma in the Oval Office on Monday -- used the military-backed regime's preferred term for the country, Myanmar - and not just once or twice, but a total of 16 times in ...
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Vietnam Again Escapes Blacklisting As State Dep’t. Cites ‘Positive’ Moves on Religious Freedom
Ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom Suzan Johnson Cook cited Vietnam as an example of a country where "positive developments" have taken place in the area of religoius freedom. (Image: State Department) (CNSNews.com) - At a time when Vietnam's communist authorities have introduced new regulations placing burdensome bureaucratic restrictions on religious ...
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Taiwan tourists cancel Philippines plans
/enpproperty--> BORACAY, Philippines - Taiwan tourists to Boracay, a world-renowned resort in central Philippines, have started canceling hotel reservations since Taiwan issued an advisory against traveling to the country after Philippine Coast Guards killed a Taiwan fisherman. Percy Malonesio, head of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to Kalibo International Airport ...
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SPEAKING FREELY Russia leads the way in post-Fukushima world
if you are interested in contributing. Reconstructing nuclear confidence in the world following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster will be a long and painful process. But real-life energy demands, especially in developing countries, predetermines a significant share of nuclear energy in their national energy consumption structure. Russian experience in this field can offer some interesting ...
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Us-iran Ties A Sporting Chance The Basketball Bridge
By Garrett Nada For more than a decade, Iran has looked to the United States to improve its caliber of basketball. In 2000, the national team hired American coach Gary LeMoine. Since then, dozens of Americans - reportedly 37 during one season - have played in Iranian teams. Jonas Lalehzadeh is among the best-known. Since 2011, the six-foot-five-inch point guard from California has played ...
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Biggest Burmese Python Ever Caught In Florida
A Burmese python measuring nearly 19ft has been captured in South Florida. About 3ft of the 18ft 8in (569cm) snake was spotted sticking out of some roadside brush on May 11 by Jason Leon and some friends, as they drove late at night through a rural area of southeast Miami-Dade County. The 23-year-old got out of his car, grabbed the snake behind its head and dragged it into the open. ...
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Anger as Barack Obama rewards Burmese President Thein Sein with White House visit despite recent claims of violence
Welcoming the first Burmese head of state to visit the White House in nearly 50 years yesterday, President Obama said "the leadership of President [Thein] Sein" had "allowed this shift" in the ...
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Justin Biebers monkey Mally to become German property
March 28, 2013: In this file photo, Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs on stage during the "I Believe Tour " in Munich, southern ...
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Video Families of Bangladesh factory workers wait for compensation
An ITV News investigation has found there's still no compensation for the victims of the Bangladeshi factory collapse, from the Western clothes companies that promised help.More than eleven hundred workers were killed nearly a month ago. But survivors in Dhaka claim no money has yet reached them. ITV's Business Editor Laura Kuenssberg has this exclusive ...
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Migrant Workers Face Tough Times in Thailand
- On the outskirts of the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, a group of twelve migrant families lives in a makeshift camp comprised of houses constructed from scrap ...
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Myanmar’s President Makes Historic Divisive Visit to White House
- Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Monday became the first leader of that country in almost a half-century to pay a call on the White House, a visit that has simultaneously highlighted a series of monumental changes seen in Myanmar in recent years as well as a reforms process that many are warning may have ...
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Pakistan PM-elect calls for Taliban talks
Pakistan's prime minister-elect Nawaz Sharif Monday called for peace talks with Pakistani Taliban militants at war with the government, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army. Speaking to the newly elected members of national and provincial assemblies belonging to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), he said that Taliban offers to ...
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Family of dead American condemns Singapore inquiry
(16 mins ago) The family of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year walked out of a coroner's inquiry into their son's death today, saying they had ';lost faith'' in the proceedings. ';The prosecution brings forth witnesses at the last minute and we have no chance to question it. Basically we actually have lost faith in the process,'' Rick ...
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Myanmar Buddhist monks killers jailed
(1 hr 4 mins ago) Six Muslim men and one minor have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from life to two years in prison for involvement in the killing of a Buddhist monk during sectarian violence in central Myanmar. Thein Than Oo, a lawyer defending the men, said one of his clients was given life in prison for murder. Myat Ko Ko was also sentenced to an additional two years for unlawful ...
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Its Time to Step Up and Help the Workers of Bangladesh
The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in April, the world's worst garment industry catastrophe which killed over 1,000 people, has sparked intensive debate over who is to blame for the ...
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STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-ComfortDelGro near 6-yr highs lifts index
stock index , after it announced plans to expand its bus operations in Australia. The company's shares rose as much as 2.4 percent to S$2.14, the highest since July 2007, after it said its subsidiary CDC Victoria Pty Ltd plans to buy privately-held Driver Group Pty Ltd for A$22 million ($21.54 million), to expand its fleet in Australia. "While the deal is relatively smaller ...
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Massive Tornado Hits Oklahoma Again
A huge tornado with 320 kilometers-per-hour winds has torn through the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying homes for the second day in a row ...
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Kerry Visits Oman Seeking Syria Peace Conference
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Tuesday with the sultan of Oman, on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange a Syrian peace ...
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Musharrafs UAE supporters prepare to fly to Pakistan for protests
Pervez Musharraf 's supporters in the UAE are preparing to fly to Pakistan to hold protests backing the former president. Talks between senior members of Mr Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) have taken place this weekend in Pakistan and included some based in the UAE. "We are currently trying to lay the groundwork to allow for Mr Musharraf's supporters in the ...
Bangladesh in Focus
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Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh, the politics of their situation is more important than the human impact
Bangladesh and Myanmar have been disputing their sea border for years, and in recent months tensions on the land border have mounted as claims of interference and counter-claims of provocation are made by both countries, now the politics of territorial dispute have come to have a direct bearing on the respect for human life and development.
In October of 2009, the government of Bangladesh received a report from its military officials detailing a credible threat of attack from Myanmar, they feared that St Martin’s island in the Bay of Bengal, a region increasingly important economically for hydrocarbons, would be attacked and captured by Myanmar, and called for the government to strengthen the defensive capability of the island which has a circumference of just 3 miles. Read more
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