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Merangin teachers go on strike to protest unpaid allowances
Students in Merangin regency, Jambi province, will have their studies delayed as their teachers went on strike on Friday to protest last year's unpaid certification allowance covering four months. The strike, which is being led by the Merangin Teachers Forum, is expected to last until the government responds to the issue. "Teachers are still going to the schools but no classes are ...
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Can positive and negative inducements be effective in containing radicalism in Pakistan
C Christine Fair, in a very well articulated article, titled, 'Can this alliance be saved? Salvaging the US-Pakistan relation', published on Time magazine's website on 30 April, 2013, wrote that Pakistan needs to change its jihadist policy and she blames past and present American administrations' policies of overlooking Pakistani misadventures around its neighborhood, ...
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Sri Lanka Tamils defy ban on rebel memorial
Tamil party on Saturday defied a military ban and staged a commemoration of their war dead as the government celebrated the fourth anniversary of defeating Tamil Tiger rebels. ...
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Do shoppers feel guilty about Bangladesh
Fair trade labels might help consumers decide on ethical purchases The hottest date at the global retail real estate conference that starts Sunday in Las Vegas is Uniqlo. That's because Uniqlo is one of the three "big hitters" in retail right now, says Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of Douglas Elliman Real Estate's retail group, along with Sweden-based chain H&M and British ...
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Cambodia factory collapse How did inspectors miss it
Some thought Cambodia was a 'model' in the garment industry. But after a ceiling collapse at an Asics shoe factory, critics say they're dead ...
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App Annie Google Play is growing very fast in Southeast Asia
App Annie is growing rapidly with over 80 team members located at Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco, and London. Today it serves over 220,000 apps with 85 percent of the top 100 iOS publishers using its service. App Annie is largely serving clients from the US, Europe, China, and Japan and hasn't really gotten into Southeast Asia yet. But the team just might start to look at ...
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Obama Focuses on Middle-Class Jobs
U.S. President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the economic recovery of big ...
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Gunmen Kill Iraqi Police Officer and Family
Officials say the gunmen gunned down an administrator for the al-Rasheed district Saturday, and also killed the police captain's wife and their two children. The attackers also killed at least one security officer nearby. On Friday, a series of bomb attacks targeted Sunnis in Iraq, including in Baquba, just north of Baghdad, killing 70 people and increasing fears of renewed sectarian ...
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Pension options as plans are made for Thailand retirement
I have a pension plan in the UK and the company started paying me an income last year on my 60th birthday. I have been in the UAE for 10 years and plan to move to Thailand to retire in a couple of years. I didn't really pay much attention when my old employer sent me the paperwork and I would now like to look at my options as I believe there are changes I could make that would be more ...
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Surakarta hosts traditional children games festival this weekend
Surakarta (commonly known as Solo) is hosting a festival of Javanese traditional games for children this weekend, which is expected to attract 200 participants. The festival is being organized by the Suryo Sumirat Mangkunegaran dance group at the Plaza Sriwedari. "There will be many kinds of traditional games on offer and songs to accompany the games that are rarely heard today," said ...
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Pakistan anti-terrorism court extends Musharrafs remand by 14 days
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday extended by 14 days former President Pervez Musharraf's judicial remand over the detention of judges during the 2007 emergency. ...
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British woman died after drinking poisoned gin on holiday in Indonesia
The woman, named in reports as Cheznye Emmons, is said to have fallen ill after drinking from a bottle labelled "gin" bought from a local shop. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We can confirm the death of a British national in Indonesia and we are providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time." Reports said the 23-year-old beauty therapist from Great ...
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Bangladesh Bloggers Face Constant Death Threats Since Government Labeled Them Atheist
Islamists burn an effigy of a blogger in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during a Feb. 24, 2013, nationwide strike demanding that the "atheist" bloggers be hanged. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty ...
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2008 Mumbai case Trial of Pakistani suspects adjourned
Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi , charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks was today adjourned till May 25 as the judge was on leave. The reason for Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman going on leave could not immediately be ascertained. Court officials said the case would be taken up again on May 25. ...
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16 hospitals withdraw from Jakarta healthcare program
Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama confirmed that 16 hospitals had withdrawn from the Jakarta administration's healthcare program, Jakarta Health Card (KJS), due to their objections to the government's reimbursement policy. "We are sorry that these hospitals experienced financial losses during their participation in this program," Basuki said on ...
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Are accountants and CFOs killing innovation
Paper Edition | Page: 16 What can you do when penny-pinchers get in the way of your disruptive ideas to make necessary, often disruptive, changes in your company? When Dell announced in February its decision to take the company private in a deal estimated at US$24.4 billion, founder and CEO Michael Dell said in a statement that the move was part of the strategy to "continue the execution ...
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Pakistan adopts Chinese rival GPS satellite system
Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China's domestic satellite navigation system, launched as a rival to the US global positioning system, a report said ...
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Army clerk arrested for passing on classified data to ISI agent in Nepal
Police in Jaipur, Rajasthan, have confirmed the arrest of an army staffer for allegedly passing on classified information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Rajasthan Dalpat Singh Dinkar said the accused person has been identified as Bidyut Kumar Sinha, adding that he was detained on May 14.Dinkar said Sinha aged 43, was ...
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Sarabjit Singh death Pakistan judge calls for leads online
Lahore: A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days.Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is investigating the death of Sarabjit following a brutal assault by prisoners within Kot Lakhpat ...
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Afghan Police Chief Assassinated
Officials say Police Chief Abdul Ghani was near his home late Friday when gunmen shot him. No one has been detained in the case. The Associated Press quotes a local official as saying Ghani had led a crackdown on insurgents in his district of Khaki Safad that resulted in the killing and capture of several Taliban leaders. The spokesman said that made him a target for Taliban ...
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Monsanto eyes RI’s corn rise on new seeds
Paper Edition | Page: 14 US-based biotech giant Monsanto Indonesia plans to help boost Indonesia's corn production by more than half in two years time by introducing its genetically modified corn seeds.Monsanto Indonesia corporate affairs head Herry Kristanto said on Thursday that the company expected Indonesia's corn yield to increase from its current 4.95 tons per hectare to 7.5 ...
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ASRI sells Cikarang plot to sister company
Paper Edition | Page: 14 Major developer PT Alam Sutera Realty (ASRI) says it has sold a 91.59-hectare plot in West Cikarang, West Java, to sister firm PT Bekasi Fajar Industrial Estate (BEST).Alam Sutera announced on Friday that its privately owned subsidiary PT Nusa Raya Mitratama (NRM) signed a purchase agreement worth Rp 915.9 billion (US$93.81 million) on Wednesday with a buyer also ...
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Honda to spend Rp 3.3t on new motorcycle factory
PT Astra International president director Prijono Sugiarto (second left), chief operating officer for regional operations Asia and Oceania Honda Motor Co. Ltd. Hiroshi Kobayashi (second right), production, engineering and procurement director of PT Astra Honda Motor (AHM) David Budiono (left) and AHM president director Toshiyuki Inuma visit the Indotaisei industrial estate in Kota Bukit Indah in ...
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GE aims to concentrate on Batam
Paper Edition | Page: 13 New York-listed conglomerate General Electric (GE) Co., is seeking a better foothold in Batam, Riau Islands, with an investment of US$10 million for the construction of a high-bay manufacturing facility producing subsea wellhead equipment."Batam captures most of our attention here; we don't want to bite off more than we can chew," GE Oil & Gas Asia ...
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Harum expects lower sales on weak overseas demand
Paper Edition | Page: 13 Publicly listed coal miner PT Harum Energy expects a lower sales volume this year as slow global economic recovery will continue to stymie demand in the international coal market, the company's senior executive says.Harum president director Ray Antonio Gunara said on Friday that the sales volume may slightly drop to between 13 million and 14 million tons this year ...
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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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