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Chinas premier offers to help end Pakistan energy crisis
China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the economy to a near standstill. Li arrived in the Pakistan capital under extra-tight security on Wednesday on the second leg of his first official trip since taking office in March and ...
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Philippines to send probe team to Taiwan
Taipei has approved Manila's request to send investigators to Taiwan to examine evidence and interview witnesses to the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards. But Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Wednesday declined to tell reporters when a team from the National Bureau of Investigation would leave for Taiwan. "It will be very soon but we don't ...
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Thai police say they know identities of Central World arson suspects
Police are gathering evidence in support of arrest warrants for two suspected arsonists and six alleged accomplices in relation to the Central World Mall fire during the 2010 riots. Following a meeting yesterday to discuss the progress of the Central World arson probe, Metropolitan Police chief Khamronwit Thoopkrajang said investigators had identified two suspected arsonists from photographs ...
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Bangladesh S. Korea climbers die while descending Everest
Two climbers have died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest on Monday night, officials confirmed. The climbers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid Hussain of Bangladesh and Sung Ho-Seo of South Korea. Khil Lal Gautam, official at Tourism Ministry, said that Ho-Seo, who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen, refused to put on oxygen mask on returning to tent as ...
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The Asian Century Is Built On Broadband
Ben Pobjie Say what you like about Canberra, the city has got guts. And even after a century, the city still comes alive during a good bout of leadership speculation. Ben Pobjie hoists a glass of average chardy to our nation's ...
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One Drone Victim’s Trail From Raleigh to Pakistan
WASHINGTON -- When Jude Kenan Mohammad was about 18 and living in Raleigh, N.C., according to people who knew him, he came under the influence of an older ...
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Thawatchai Arunyik named next governor of Tourism Authority of Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand - Thawatchai Arunyik, deputy governor for domestic marketing at the Tourism Authority of Thailand, has been selected as the TAT's next governor to replace Suraphon Svetasreni, whose contract with TAT will end on December 21. The decision to appoint Thawatchai to the top post at the state enterprise will not come as a surprise to the tourism industry, as he had been seen ...
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Hanoi considering tourism police to protect tourists from street vendors
HANOI, Vietnam - The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has been asked by its department in Ha Noi to establish a tourism police force dedicated to protecting visitors who are increasingly suffering from tourist scams in the capital. Cases are reported daily of foreign tourists being overcharged by taxi drivers and cheated by hotel employees. This has negatively affected the image of both ...
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CBS News goes undercover in a Bangladesh clothing factory
CBS News (CBS News) Many of the clothes in American stores are made in Bangladesh, which has a history of workplace disasters. Six months ago, 112 workers died when their factory burned down. Last month, another factory collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers in one of the worst industrial accidents ever. If you own clothes that were made in Bangladesh, this is where they come from. ...
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Revision of Mental Illness Guide Stirs Debate
A long-anticipated revision of an official diagnostic guide to mental illness, known as the DSM-5, was released this week. While the new manual is being welcomed by some doctors as reflecting advancements in the understanding and diagnosis of mental disorders, critics say its definitions of psychiatric conditions are based too much on symptoms and too little on the biological causes of mental ...
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No investigation of tourist’s death
Paper Edition | Page: 5 The Langkat Police have acknowledged facing difficulties in establishing the cause of death of an English tourist in April after she drank illicit alcohol at the Bukit Lawang tourist resort in Langkat regency, North Sumatra.Langkat Police chief of detectives Adj. Sr. Comr. Rosyid Hartanto said the police had yet to receive a report from her relatives on her death, which ...
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BNI to reap profits from Japanese SMEs
State-owned bank PT Bank Negara Indonesia hopes to lure Japanese small and medium enterprises to invest in Indonesia by engaging Japanese state lender The Shoko Chukin Bank Ltd."The chances are bigger for us to increase the volume of and fee-based income from banking transactions with the cooperation between BNI and The Shoko Chukin Bank Ltd., especially from transactions made by Japanese ...
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Jokowi aghast at unauthorized film on him
Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has objected to director Azhar Kinoi Lubis making a movie about him without his consent.The former Surakarta mayor said that he had never met the director."I don't know [the director], I haven't met him. I don't want it made," he said at City Hall on Wednesday as quoted by kompas.com.Jokowi said that distribution of the movie could ...
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Mt. Sangeang Api on alert
Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center raised the status of Mount Sangeang Api on Sangeang Island, Bima regency, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), to alert after volcanic activity continued to increase over the past two weeks.Local residents and visitors have been warned to stay outside a 5-kilometer radius from the crater. The mountain has been closed to climbers.The head of Mt. Sangeang ...
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Singapore GDP +1.8 On Quarter In Q1
Singapore's gross domestic product was up a seasonally adjusted annualized 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the previous three months, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said in Thursday's revised reading.That's sharply higher than last month's advanced estimate that showed a 1.4 percent contraction - although it's still down from the 3.3 percent ...
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Legal Experts Debate U.S. Retailers Risks of Signing Bangladesh Accord
American retailers remain sharply opposed to joining an international plan to improve safety conditions at garment factories in Bangladesh as their European counterparts and consumer and labor groups dismiss the ...
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Asian expat workers end rare UAE strike—company
DUBAI--Thousands of mainly Asian expatriate workers in the United Arab Emirates have ended a strike they began at the weekend in a rare stoppage aimed at improving their conditions, their employer said Wednesday. ';Arabtec confirms that all workers returned to work with no impact on any of its projects,'; the Dubai-based company, which is constructing the Louvre Abu Dhabi, said in a ...
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China-Pakistan bond unbreakable premier
The relationship between China and Pakistan is unbreakable, and the two neighbors are intent on deepening their strategic cooperation, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here ...
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Promote property investment abroad
BRUINEI should be actively promoting property investment in the Sultanate abroad as it has the right elements to do so, said a real estate investment specialist.In an exclusive interview with The Brunei Times, ...
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Berakas Forest Reserve site for Green Wave project
Berakas Forest Reserve.Taking part in the "Green Wave" to promote awareness of the need to protect biodiversity were members of the Forestry Department, the Royal Brunei Armed Forces, staff and students ...
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Debts and dress code discussed at seminar
Shafi'i .The lecturer said Muslims are required to dress properly and use perfume before entering a mosque. They are also encouraged to clean their teeth as bad breath can disturb the concentration of other members of the congregation.The lecturer pointed out ...
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Impact of social media in defence
DIALOGUE acknowledging the benefits of information sharing, awareness and public engagement through social media was held yesterday among ASEAN ...
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ASEAN plans regional volunteer corps
ASEAN is looking to set up a regional volunteer corps of young professionals with three initial short-term projects slated to be carried out in Cambodia, Philippines and Indonesia this year.The proposed initiative by Brunei, was endorsed yesterday at ...
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South Korean firm bags $139m Sungai Brunei bridge contract
Daelim Industrial won a contract to build the Brunei Liquefied Natural Gas plant.The Ministry of Development and the Korean Embassy in Brunei were unable to provide further information yesterday.The report in The Korea Times said the company would be responsible for the architectural design and building of the "cable-stayed bridge", access roads, ...
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Philippines eyeing to double its tourism receipts to $8 billion in 2016
MANILA, Philippines - In line with heightened efforts to boost the country's tourism industry, the government is eyeing to double its tourism receipts to $8 billion in 2016, a tourism official said. Tourism Promotion Board chief operating officer Domingo Ramon Enerio III, in an interview with The STAR at the Puregold Sari-Sari Store Convention, said for this year alone, tourism receipts - ...
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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