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Pakistan plane escorted to airport after bomb threat
Source: Reuters Two men on a Pakistan Airlines flight to England tried to force their way into the cockpit and threatened to blow up the plane, British media report. British fighter jets escorted the passenger plane to Stansted Airport where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. Nearly 300 passengers were on board. Passenger Umari Nauman told The ...
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PHILIPPINES INCLUDED | Google looking to build wireless networks in Southeast Asia Africa - WSJ
, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. According to the report, Google is "deep in the throes" of the effort to build wireless networks for people outside major cities where wired Internet connections are scarce. It said Google plans to team up with local companies in some of the countries to ...
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UN appeals ruling in favor of whistleblower
The United Nations is appealing a U.N. tribunal's ruling in favor of a whistleblower who accused senior colleagues of retaliating after he alleged corruption in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. Last week, representatives of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon filed an appeal challenging the finding by the U.N. Dispute Tribunal and the $65,000 award to James Wasserstrom, an ...
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5 climbers feared dead on worlds third-highest peak in Nepal
Five men who disappeared earlier this week trying to climb the world's third-highest mountain are feared dead, searchers leading the recovery effort in Nepal said on Friday, saying few could survive this ...
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New online HR management system
AITI's Information Management System - is built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform and is slated to bring about a "new way of working for ...
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36 UBD ITB students depart for Japan
Some of the 36 UBD and ITB students, who will be going to Japan as the second batch of Bruneians under the JENESYS 2.0 programme for this year, listening to a pre-departure briefing at the Japanese Embassy in Kiulap on May 16, 2013. Picture: BT/Ubaidillah ...
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Nurses play vital role in strengthening health care
Acting Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Health Hjh Siti Mariam (C), Acting Senior Nursing Officer of Suri Seri Begawan Hospital in Kuala Belait Hjh Mariah (L), and Speech and Language Therapist at Suri Seri Begawan Hospital Meela Adreeyana (R), during the symposium at the Kuala Belait Convention Hall. Picture: BT/Sally ...
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Way to save Malay in global culture
YOUNG people in Brunei must be imbued with certain values to ensure the preservation of Malay ethical structures and establish "Malay-ness" within the global culture, which is dominated by the English ...
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Societal approach key to tackle health issues
Minister of Health YB Pehin Dato Hj Adanan (L) shaking hands with Director-General of WHO Chan Fung Chun Fu-Chun. Picture: Courtesy of Ministry of ...
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MinDef grants eight development projects to 7 local contractors
A representative from LSL Sdn Bhd (R) receiving signed contract documents from Permanent Secretary (Defence and Development) Colonel (Rtd) Pg Dato Paduka Hj Azmansham Pg Hj Mohamad. Picture: BT/Md Asdeny ...
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DEKA Batteries Arrive In Brunei
View Comments Bandar Seri Begawan - For its first anniversary this year, Battery Man Enterprise, the sole distributor and importer of the Deka batteries and accessories for Brunei Darussalam and Southeast Asia, is pleased to feature its lines of maintenance-free heavy duty commercial precision-built batteries and intimidator AGM batteries made in the USA. Deka Heavy Duty Commercial batteries ...
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Zahra Shahid Hussain Politician who worked for a better Pakistan
The politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, who was shot dead outside her home in Karachi, spent much of her life trying to help the less fortunate people of ...
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Brunei Red Crescent Society To Receive Visit From Msian Delegation
Kuala Lumpur - A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) regional office in Kuala Lumpur will be visiting Brunei Darussalam Red Crescent from May 27 to May 28 for a series of courtesy calls and meetings with the authorities and its primary partner in the country, Brunei Darussalam Red Crescent Society (BDRCS). Mr Jeremy England, Head of ICRC Kuala Lumpur regional ...
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US Human Rights Abuses Continue in N. Nigeria
A U.S. official said Friday the State Department has been monitoring the situation and concludes that human rights abuses are continuing. The official says Secretary of State John Kerry plans to meet with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Ethiopia. Nigeria has declared a state of emergency in the north, where Boko Haram extremists have launched ...
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Sydney player racially abused by fan at MCG
Adam Goodes of the Sydney Swans was left visibly upset after an apparent racial taunt from a fan marred his side's victory over Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in an Australian Football League match. Sydney won 15.12 (102) to 8.7 (55) Friday in the opening match of the AFL's Indigenous Round after Goodes kicked three goals and had 30 possessions. The round is meant to ...
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Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US
Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts. The former president was taken from a military hospital where he was recovering from liver surgery and a heart condition and put on a plane, according to his lawyer Mauricio Berreondo. He said the plane was bound ...
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UK arrests two men on Pakistan flight
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, rattling the UK just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack. A fighter jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers to Britain's Stansted Airport, ...
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Tokyo plunges more than 7pct as Asian markets fall
Asian markets fell Thursday with Tokyo plunging more than seven percent as investors took profits after weak Chinese data and signs the US Federal Reserve could start tapering off its massive stimulus measures. Tokyo dropped on record volumes in the afternoon as investors panicked in the rush to take profit, with the index suffering its biggest daily percentage fall since the March 2011 ...
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Is China Inserting Itself Into the Taiwan-Philippines Spat
This week a Chinese warship and a couple of maritime agency vessels conducted a patrol in the areas of the Spratly Islands that the Philippines claims, prompting an official rebuke from Manila. According to Philippines officials, at least three Chinese ships and 10 fishing boats were spotted near the Ayungin Shoal, which is part of the Spratly Islands and about 200 kms off the coast of the ...
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Obama’s silence on Taiwan masks its significance in Asia
For decades, when US policymakers contemplated conflict with China, their fears focused on Taiwan. Today, by contrast, Sino-American tensions seem to be on the rise everywhere but Taiwan, where relations between this island and the mainland have significantly improved. Since Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou took office in 2008, the government in Taipei has inked 18 agreements with China, ...
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‘Comfort women’ cancel meeting with Osaka mayor
Two South Korean women forcibly drafted into Japanese military brothels during World War II have cancelled a meeting with a Japanese mayor who sparked outrage by calling them a wartime necessity. Outspoken Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and two former ';comfort women'; were to meet on Friday, but the elderly women reportedly changed their minds over fears of becoming political pawns in a ...
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Japan slams Korea daily’s ‘A-bomb’ op-ed comments
Japan yesterday accused a South Korean newspaper of ';dishonourable'; behaviour for publishing an editorial suggesting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were ';divine punishment';. The editorial in the Korean and English versions of the Joongang Ilbo daily on Monday said the 1945 nuclear bombs dropped by US planes, which together killed more than 200,000 people, ...
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S. Korea not moving to ease lift sanctions on Pyongyang
South Korea is not considering easing or lifting sanctions imposed on Pyongyang after the sinking of one of the South’s warships in 2010 that effectively put the kibosh on most cross-border exchanges, official sources said Friday. Seoul announced the so-called May 24 measures after a two-month-long probe that accused Pyongyang of sinking the Cheonan in waters near the maritime border in ...
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Death toll in China blast ‘rises to 33′
The death toll from a blast at an explosives plant in eastern China earlier this week rose to 33 Thursday as 20 missing people were declared dead, state media reported. Officials had said Tuesday that the explosion, which occurred the day before in the Shandong province city of Shangqiu, had killed 13 people and left 20 missing. Xinhua news agency reported Thursday, citing local rescue ...
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Chinese restaurant chain hopes to popularise hot pot in US
A popular chain of hot pot restaurants from China is set to be exported to the US this fall in the hopes of popularising the community style of eating among Western diners. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, the first US outpost of Chinese restaurant chain Hai Di Lao will open in Los Angeles this fall, where diners will partake in what could be described as the Chinese version of ...
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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