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Pakistan Car Bombing Explosion Kills 11 Police Officers 1 Civilian Near Quetta
Pakistani security officials keep watch near a destroyed vehicle used by security forces following a bomb attack on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province, on May 23, 2013. (Photo by BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty ...
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Building Materials Blamed For Bangladesh Factory Collapse
DHAKA, Bangladesh - A government investigation says poor quality construction materials and building code violations contributed to the collapse of building housing garment factories last month in Bangladesh. Committee head Khandker Mainuddin Ahmed told The Associated Press on Thursday a series of irregularities occurred in the construction of Rana Plaza. Its collapse killed more than 1,100 ...
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Malaysia police arrest opposition figures in crackdown
Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim delivers his speech during a rally in protest of the Sunday's election results at a stadium in Kelana Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur May 8, ...
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Pakistan Blast Targets Security Personnel
Officials in southwest Pakistan say an explosion has ripped through a vehicle used by security forces, killing at least 12 people -- 11 security personnel and a civilian. Nearly two dozen people were wounded in the assault. Police officials say a remote controlled car bomb targeted a vehicle carrying police special forces in Quetta Thursday. Authorities say the bomb contained about 100 ...
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Papua police to investigate Freeport incident
The Papua police established an investigation into the cause of the collapsed tunnel at the Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine, on May 14, an official said.Papua police chief Insp.Gen.Tito Karnavian said it was crucial to know whether negligence played a part in the accident that killed 28 workers and injured 10 others.He said the investigation team would ...
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10-hour blackout over one-third of Vietnam due to crane accident
HANOI (AP) - One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid. State electricity company EVN said in a statement on Thursday that the blackout occurred on Wednesday after the crane operator knocked a tree down onto the main north-south high voltage power transmission line. The outage covered ...
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Italian arrested in Thailand over $12.5 million fraud involving European taxpayers banks
Suspected fraudster, Raccagni Stefano of Italy (centre) is excorted by Thai police during a press conference at the Thai immigration bureau in Bangkok on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Thai authorities have arrested an Italian wanted over alleged links to a human trafficking ring which swindled around US$10 million (S$12.5 million) from European taxpayers and banks, immigration officials said Thursday. ...
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Brown hounded for calling Manila gates of hell
American novelist Dan Brown's description of Manila as the gates of hell in his latest book, Inferno, has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital. -- ST FILE PHOTO: JAMIE ...
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Indonesia union urges completion of probes into Freeport tunnel collapse
Freeport workers gather around the coffins of their colleagues who died from a tunnel collapse at the world's second largest copper mine run by Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Indonesian unit, before the bodies are sent to their home villages, in Timika of the Papua province on May 22, 2013. All investigations into a tunnel collapse that killed 28 people at the world's ...
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Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam -; One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power ...
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P-Move ends rally after govt promises to protect villagers
The anti-government People's Movement for a Just Society (P-Move) has ended its rally after 18 days of protest, saying it had reached an agreement on a number of issues with the government. However, it vowed to return if the government failed to keep its promises. "According to the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the protesters, the government has agreed to solve two problems ...
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China Pakistan boost marine cooperation
/enpproperty--> China and Pakistan signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in marine science and technology. The memorandum was signed between Pakistan's Ministry of Science and Technology and China's ocean watchdog on Wednesday, the State Oceanic Administration said. The memorandum covers, among others, marine research and investigation, climate change, marine energy ...
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Myanmar US enter new higher stage of relations
/enpproperty--> YANGON - Myanmar President U Thein Sein's working visit to Washington, who returned to his country on Wednesday night, has brought back positive achievements more than expected, signifying the entry of a new higher stage in Myanmar-U. S. relations, said some media and observers here Thursday. U Thein Sein's visit represented the first to the United States of a ...
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Chinas Li effusive in praise of Pakistan but not everyone buys it
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang praised the Sino-Pakistan relationship to the hilt on Thursday, urging the "all-weather friends" to boost cooperation in business, trade, energy and infrastructure and build a long-vaunted economic ...
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Sri Lanka hails Indian housing assistance
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has welcomed a whopping Rs 1,372 crore Indian housing assistance programme to build around 4000 homes in the country's eastern province. The housing assistance programme is one of the largest grant assistance projects implemented by India outside the country. Sri ...
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WRAPUP 1-Asian markets sell off on Bernanke remarks China PMI
Thu May 23, 2013 5:07am EDT * Asian shares down after China HSBC flash PMI, credit spreads wider * Nikkei plunges 7 percent, 11th worst daily drop * JGBs bounce after 10-year JGB yield hits year highs * Korean won worst hit as dollar rises broadly By Masayuki Kitano and Hideyuki Sano SINGAPORE, May 23 (Reuters) - Hawkish comments by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and weakness in ...
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Shoddy construction materials faulted for Bangladesh building collapse in govt probe
FILE - In this Sunday, May 12, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi rescuers use heavy machinery to clear rubble of a garment factory building that collapsed on April 24 as they continue searching for bodies in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A government investigation said poor quality construction materials and building code violations contributed to the collapse of building housing garment factories ...
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Dhaka factory owner ‘violated codes’
Rescue workers look for trapped garment workers in the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30km outside Dhaka, in this April 26, 2013, file ...
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The Asian stock indexes suffered
The financial markets have been adverse to risk since the Federal Reserve reiterated the prospect of scaling back its asset purchase program in June. While quantitative easing must be curtailed and eventually ended at one point or another, the markets were clearly hoping for a much further point, since the US economic recovery hasn't produced real jobs growth. Adding to risk off is the ...
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Heavy Sell-Off on Asian Equities
The Asian markets were squeezed by heavy sell-off on the equity markets. Nikkei 225 closed 7.32% down after having rallied to 5 year high; Hang Seng slid 2.35% as HSBC flash manufacturing PMI index retreated to 49.6 - its 7-month low - indicating that Chinese manufacturing contracted in May. Taiex and Kospi index fell 1.92% and 1.24%, while the Australian ASX 200 index lost 2% as the inflation ...
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India must accept China Pakistans friendship
India "must accept" this "enviable friendship" as Beijing cannot scale down its ties with Islamabad merely because of New Delhi's feelings, an official daily here said on Thursday. The high-profile welcome received by Chinese ...
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Chinas premier Li Keqiang in Islamabad
By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI - Pakistan and China on Wednesday agreed to jointly work on an economic corridor for enhanced connectivity, with the two countries signing a series of agreements related to energy, technology and space during the first visit to Pakistan by China's premier Li Keqiang since he took office in March. Even so, local critics claimed Pakistan was of little ...
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Malaysia arrests 2 anti-govt figures charges a student activist with sedition
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysian authorities detained two anti-government figures and charged a student activist with sedition on Thursday, raising political tensions after recent national elections triggered claims of fraud. Opposition activists have staged numerous peaceful demonstrations since May 5 general elections, which the Barisan Nasional coalition won with a weakened ...
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Bangladesh Owners many failings led to collapse
FILE - In this Sunday, May 12, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi soldiers stand amid the rubble of the garment factory building that collapsed on April 24 as they continue search operation in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. A government investigation said poor quality construction materials and building code violations contributed to the collapse of building housing garment factories last month in ...
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Oil falls below $94 as China manufacturing weakens
BANGKOK -; The price of oil fell below $94 per barrel Thursday after a private survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is ...
Pakistan Feature
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Pakistan's darkest hour
What began as the normal monsoon season has turned into the greatest disaster, the greatest humanitarian crisis and the worst floods ever seen in the history of Pakistan. According to the UN, the disaster in Pakistan from 2010 floods is now worse than the 2005 earthquake in the country and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia combined.
It is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and the challenge faced by a centrally weak government is how to get food aid to the some 6 million in need of help and provide relief facilities to the 20 million people impacted by the disaster. Read more
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