Asia-Pacific
Posted on May 24, 2012 00:50
45 Chinese arrested for trading in Nigeria
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Posted on May 24, 2012 00:50
Margaret Chan appointed WHO chief for second term
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Posted on May 24, 2012 00:00
Posted on May 24, 2012 00:00
South Korea to chemically castrate sex offender
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Posted on May 24, 2012 00:00
Russia bets on Asia for casino zone
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Posted on May 23, 2012 14:44
Clay dolls that shows Korean women preserving vegetable is on display at National Folk Museum of Korea in Seoul.
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Posted on May 23, 2012 00:50
North Korea Tuesday slammed claims it was planning another nuclear test, as US special envoy on North Korea Glyn Davies arrived in Beijing for talks with China's chief nuclear envoy, Wu Dawei.
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Posted on May 23, 2012 00:50
The race for the White House is tightening up with President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney in a dead heat on the question of who could best fix the economy, a new poll showed Tuesday.
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Posted on May 23, 2012 00:35
South Korea plans to spend more than $2 billion over the next five years on buying hundreds of new missiles to cope with threats from North Korea, reports said Tuesday.
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Posted on May 23, 2012 00:25
Opening a new era in private space flight, the US company SpaceX Tuesday became the first commercial outfit to launch its own craft toward the International Space Station (ISS).
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Posted on May 22, 2012 16:27
Three soldiers were injured in a bomb blast in the restive southern province of Yala Tuesday noon while the deputy Prime Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapha overseeing security affairs and the army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha were visiting the region.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 13:49
Myanmar has planned to build more power plants with companies of the United States, Japan and South Korea in an effort to cope with electricity shortage in the country, especially in the summer season, official media reported Tuesday.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 13:46
An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale struck off eastern parts of Indonesia earlier Tuesday, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency reported here Tuesday.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 13:43
At least 18 persons were killed and dozens of others seriously injured when a passenger train crashed into a goods train in the southeast Indian state of Andhra Pradesh early Tuesday, said police.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 13:40
The Japanese government will inject 1 trillion yen (about $12.6 billion) into Tokyo Electric Power CO., the operator of the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, on July 25 to nationalize the company, reported local media Tuesday.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 13:38
Afghan police during series of operations against anti-government militants have killed three armed insurgents and captured eight others over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Tuesday.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 01:15
Four climbers from Germany, South Korea, China and Canada have died returning from the summit of Mount Qomolangma, tour agents and officials said Monday, with one other mountaineer also missing.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 00:35
Millions of sky-gazers got the spectacle of a lifetime as a "ring of fire" solar eclipse crossed the Pacific from Asia to the US.
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Posted on May 22, 2012 00:25
The top US official for North Korea Monday warned Pyongyang against "further miscalculation" amid fears of a new nuclear test.
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Posted on May 21, 2012 01:25
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site.
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