Southeast Asia's heady debt-fuelled growth is beginning to resemble the unsustainable mid-1990s boom. But authorities are shy to raise interest rates as doing so could attract more overseas ...
Indian police 3 sisters aged 5-11 raped killed
Protesters hold placards near Indian parliament to protest a new sexual violence law as the parliament convenes in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Activists say the law is inadequate and ...
Japan PM Abe heads for Obama talks
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is heading to the US for talks to fortify a key security alliance between the two nations. Mr Abe, who was elected in December, meets US President Barack Obama on ...
Pakistan ambassador to US Sherry Rehman faces blasphemy probe
In late 2010 Sherry Rehman sparked fury among religious groups as a lawmaker by lodging a private member's bill seeking to abolish the death penalty for blasphemy after a Christian mother of ...
Myanmar US to cooperate in fighting narcotics
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar and the United States took another step toward closer relations with an agreement Thursday to resume cooperation in fighting narcotics after nearly nine ...
US wine exports set new record in 2012 with strong growth in Canada and Asian markets
SAN FRANCISCO - New figures show U.S. wine exports grew for the third consecutive year in 2012, setting a record of $1.43 billion in revenue. The San Francisco-based Wine Institute released the ...
Co-founder of Facebook hails Asia?s tech potential
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin said Thursday the success of the social networking site would be hard to match but he hoped to make an impact as an Asia-based technology investor."It's ...
International standard schools face shutdown after Indonesia court ruling
JAKARTA: Ten years ago, Indonesia set up international standard schools with the aim of producing globally-competitive students.But some say the project was a failureand the Constitutional Court ...
15 dead 52 hurt in bomb blasts in Indian city
HYDERABAD, India: At least 15 people were killed and 52 injured when three bombs in crowded areas shook the southern Indian city of Hyderabad late on Thursday, police said."Fifteen people are ...
Japan detects xenon in air after North Koreas nuclear test
TOKYO: Japanese planes detected a trace amount of xenon-133 during monitoring flights over Japan the day after North Korea carried out its third nuclear test last week, the science ministry said on ...
11 killed in explosions in southern Indian city
View Photo Associated Press - The scene of a blast at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Feb.21, 2013. At least five people were killed Thursday in a pair of explosions in crowded areas of ...
Twin blasts rock Indias Hyderabad
At least 11 people have been killed in a pair of explosions in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state. The blasts rocked a bus station and a cinema less than 10 minutes ...
Freed Afghan Taliban fighters return to insurgency
FILE - In this Nov 22, 2009, file photo, Afghan men waiting to get a ride out of the city queue next to a giant poster of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan. At least ...
Senatorial candidates woo young voters in Philippine mid-term elections
MANILA: The Philippines is holding its mid-term elections in May. Dubbed the "alternative" candidates, a group of Senatorial candidates is hoping to change the country's entrenched ...
Three British Muslims guilty of rucksack bomb plot
LONDON: Three British Muslim men were found guilty on Thursday of planning a string of bombings that prosecutors said could have been deadlier than the July 7, 2005, attacks on London's ...
Bangladesh cracks down on anti-Islam blogs
Bangladesh has launched a crackdown on Internet sites for "hurting religious feelings" in the majority Muslim nation amid protests by Islamic groups against bloggers seen as anti-Islamic, ...
At least 31 killed in Damascus car bomb blast Watchdog
A car bomb shook central Damascus on Thursday, exploding near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (AP/PTI ...
Damascus car bomb kills 35 18 die in airstrike
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A car bomb near the Damascus headquarters of Syria's ruling party killed 35 people on Thursday, while a government airstrike on a rebel field hospital in southern Daraa ...
Indian province refuses to host Asian Athletics Championships due to Sri Lankan participation
NEW DELHI - The chief minister of an Indian state scheduled to host the Asian Athletics Championships is refusing to organize the July meet because of the participation of Sri Lankan athletes. ...
VIDEO Filipinos say Philip joke unfair
The Duke of Edinburgh told a nurse from the Philippines that her country must be "half empty" because so many of her compatriots have come to the UK to work for the NHS. "The ...
Philippine leader Aquino criticises gunmen in Malaysia
Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday, Feb 21, 2013, criticised Filipino gunmen who entered a Malaysian state in a bizarre effort to stake a territorial claim, warning their actions could ...
Chinas BBQ ban plans stoke up anger
BEIJING: China web-users were furious on Thursday over plans to tackle pollution with a ban on barbecues, wryly asking if Beijing would stamp out fried food and normal bodily functions in its war on ...
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