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Singapores First Home-Grown Influenza Vaccine In Phase 1 Clinical Trial
The vaccine based on Cytos' Virus-Like Particle technology may open the door to accelerated production of influenza vaccines in Singapore Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Switzerland's Cytos Biotechnology AG today announced that the first healthy volunteer has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial with ...
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Philippines to acquire warfare equipment for Navy
Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III disclosed Tuesday the warfare equipment to be purchased by his administration that will help boost the capability of the Navy.The country's second class cutter, the BRP Ramon Alcaraz, which came from the United States, is expected to arrive in Manila in August."We are planning to buy three multi-purpose attack craft, eight amphibious assault ...
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New Pakistan govt may consider importing electricity from India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's new government will seriously consider importing 1,000 MW of electricity from India as part of a short to medium-term strategy to end power outages, according to a media report today. ...
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SAS Regional Director for Southeast Asia to lead Singapore market
SAS Singapore has appointed Sudipta Sen, regional director of Southeast Asia and chief executive officer of SAS Institute India, the leader for the Singapore market. Sen will succeed Bill Lee, former country manager of SAS Singapore, until a new country lead is appointed. The analytics company said this is a role expansion for Sen who will lead SAS' business in Singapore, adding to his ...
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Fitch Rates Sri Lankas Melsta Regal Finance A+Stable
Slow Progress on GAAP and IFRS Convergence; Optionality for Impairments Increases Significant differences will remain between the GAAP and IFRS accounting standards in 2013, although cooperation and progress continues on some remaining joint projects, according to Fitch Ratings. The pipeline of new standards promises increasing commonality between the two platforms over coming years. Progress ...
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Philippines protests China warships presence
CAVITE, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippines has protested the presence of a Chinese warship and other vessels off a Filipino military-occupied shoal in the disputed Spratly ...
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Burmese President to Meet with US Lawmakers Sign Trade Deal
In front of a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr., Burma's President Thein Sein meets with President Barack Obama, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 20, ...
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Pakistans Imran Khan to leave hospital
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani politician Imran Khan is to leave hospital on Wednesday, his party and medics said Tuesday, two weeks after breaking bones in his back in a fall at an election rally.The 60-year-old was ordered by doctors to remain immobile in a hospital bed with fractured vertebrae and a broken rib after falling from a hoist raising him to the stage at a rally just days before the ...
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Myanmar Muslims jailed for killing during religious riots
YANGON // Myanmar sentenced seven Muslims to prison terms ranging from two to 28 years in connection with religious violence in March that left dozens dead, a justice official said. The defendants, who were spared the death penalty, were accused of the murder of a Buddhist monk in the central town of Meiktila that sparked unrest across the region, mostly targeting Muslims. The suspects were ...
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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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STOCKS NEWS INDONESIA-Index down consumer sector weighs
Tue May 21, 2013 5:22am EDT Indonesian shares fell 0.5 percent to 5,188.76 on Tuesday, led by a decline in consumer sector stocks. Drug distributor Kalbe Farma and cigarette maker Gudang Garam dropped more than 2 percent each. Jakarta's blue chip index slid 0.58 percent. "We note that the consumer companies' first-quarter 2013 results have been lacking positive surprises, with margin ...
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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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STOCKS NEWS THAILAND-CIMB ups SET index target after banks telecoms earnings beat
Tue May 21, 2013 5:20am EDT CIMB Securities (Thailand) raised its 2013 target for the benchmark SET index to 1,810 from 1,700, reflecting better-than-expected first-quarter earnings of banks, telecoms and construction contractors, and good earnings outlook for the year. The first-quarter core net profit for the companies in its universe rose 8 percent year-on-year and 32 percent ...
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TABLE-Indonesia sells 9.35 trln rupiah of bonds yields up
JAKARTA, May 21 (Reuters) - Indonesian government raised 9.35 trillion rupiah ($958.24 million) at an auction on Tuesday, above an initial target of 8 trillion rupiah with most yields rising from the previous auction, the finance ministry's debt office said. Yields of 1-year T-bill, 15-year bond and 20-year bond were higher than the May 6 auction. The highest bid-to-cover ratio was 1.67 for ...
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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 ...
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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