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Pakistan ready to heal US wounds
Good news about Pakistan is rare, and all the more precious for that. The country, often considered the "most dangerous place on earth," seems a boiler of violence, terrorism and religious extremism. But recently, it touched a major democratic landmark.The national general elections were held in Pakistan. It was the first time since its country's founding in 1947 that voters got ...
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‘Asian Century’ raises own tough challenges
Christian Forneck, senior foreign policy adviser at the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag Our discussion is about the beginning of a multipolar era in which there are many new power centers around the world. It doesn't matter if you believe in the thesis of "US decline," or "the demise of the West." One thing is ...
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China to support Pakistans stability and growth
/enpproperty--> ISLAMABAD - The Chinese government will unswervingly stick to its friendly policy toward Pakistan and support the South Asian nation in realizing stability and better development, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Thursday. Li was speaking during a meeting with Pakistani military leaders including Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Khalid Shameem ...
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Saudi to hand Pakistan $15bn energy bailout – report
Saudi Arabia is expected to hand Pakistan an up to $15bn bailout for its indebted energy sector following recent elections in the country, it has been ...
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NetSol Technologies Signs Engagement Deal With Leading Multi-Finance Company in Southeast Asia
NetSol Technologies, Inc . ( ), a worldwide provider of global IT and enterprise application solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement to implement NetSol Financial Suite's Credit Application Processing and Contract Management System modules with a leading multi-finance company in Southeast Asia, which currently manages more than one million live contracts generated through ...
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Singapore to Host IADC Seminar
For (future) decision makers and their advisors in governments, port and harbour authorities, off-shore companies and other organisations that have to execute dredging projects, the International Association of Dredging Companies organises the International Seminar on Dredging and ...
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Parents of dead US man leave Singapore before end of inquest hope Congress will investigate
SINGAPORE - The parents of an American software engineer found dead in his Singapore apartment last year have left the city-state before the end of a coroner's inquest. They say they have lost faith in the process and their lawyer says they will push for a U.S. congressional investigation. Rick and Mary Todd believe their son Shane Truman Todd was murdered in June 2012 and that evidence of ...
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Pakistan arrested American before he was killed in US drone strike
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail. The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, making him the fourth American citizen killed by unmanned aircraft in ...
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Poor record for Myanmar in extractive industries
Easing economic pressure on Myanmar ignores serious human rights abuses in the country's extractive industries sector, an advocacy group said. U.S. ...
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Laos official praises Sultan bin Shakhboot for development of continuing popularity of chess
WAM ABU DHABI, May 23rd, 2013 -- Khamana Anthirat, Laotian Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, and President of that nation's Chess Federation, has praised the efforts of Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa bin Shakhboot Al Nahyan, President of the Asian Chess Federation, in the deployment and development of the game in Asia in general, and Laos in particular. This came during a ...
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Mobile services shut for second day in Pakistan for Lis visit
Mobile phone services were suspended in the Pakistani capital and nearby Rawalpindi for the second day on Thursday as part of extraordinary security measures put in place to ensure an incident-free visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang here. Officials announced the suspension of cellular services between 1 pm and 5 pm local time in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Yesterday, mobile services were ...
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UPDATE 2-Indonesia union urges completion of probes into Freeport tunnel collapse
Thu May 23, 2013 6:43am EDT * Investigations must be wrapped up before workers return -union * Rescuers retrieve all 28 missing bodies by Wednesday * Union official says he does not know how long probe will take * Freeport says still has stocks for "number of days" By Yayat Supriatna and Michael Taylor JAKARTA, May 23 (Reuters) - All investigations into a tunnel collapse that killed 28 ...
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ICT heavyweight speakers set for Computex Taipei
Taiwan Today This year's Computex Taipei has booked a stellar speaker lineup of industry heavyweights, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) said May 17. Speakers at the June 5 opening forum include Steve Mollenkopf, president and chief operating officer of mobile chip leader Qualcomm Inc.; Ian Drew, chief marketing officer of ARM Holdings Plc, the world's biggest chip ...
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Malaysia sedition crackdown One more detained
Activist Adam Adli is escorted by police at a courthouse in Kuala Lumpur on May 23, 2013. Malaysian authorities have detained a third anti-government figure on Thursday as part of a crackdown on sedition, after activists raised complaints about fraud in the general election concluded earlier this month. -- PHOTO: ...
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Live Ireland v Pakistan
Click here for live coverage of Ireland v Pakistan. Cricket Ireland have teamed up with Google via YouTube Live to broadcast both matches in the RSA Insurance ODI Series against Pakistan this week. In a first for Irish cricket, both games will be live streamed across the globe via the Cricket Ireland TV channel on YouTube (www.youtube.com/cricketirelandtv). This mean cricket fans from right ...
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Asian Stocks Tumble On Fed Talk China Growth Concerns
Asian stocks tumbled on Thursday after minutes of the Federal Reserve's April 30-May 1 meeting revealed "a number" of members favor tapering the central bank's $85-billion bond-buying program as early as the June meeting if the labor market continues to improve. Fed chief Ben Bernanke also hinted that an exit could be initiated in the "next few meetings" if the ...
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Pakistan triggers DOD budget hike
A months-long delay in the reopening of key Pakistani supply routes after last year’s diplomatic standoff was one big contributor to the $9.6 billion reprogramming request the Pentagon has sent to Congress.Pakistan’s overland lines of communication are a vital artery for the movement of supplies and equipment into and out of Afghanistan. Pakistan closed them after a November 2011 ...
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Singapores exports continue to fall
Singapore, May 23 : Singapore's external trade continued to fall in the first quarter of this year, with declines for total trade, non-oil domestic exports (NODX) and non-oil re-exports (NORX), the city-state's trade promotion agency, International Enterprise Singapore, said ...
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Asian markets sell off
Singapore - Hawkish comments by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and weakness in China's factory activity rocked Asian markets on Thursday, took the dollar to three-year highs, sent share markets lower, and hit the Japanese government bond market as yields rose to their highest in a ...
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Indonesia to co-host enterprise fair
/enpproperty--> Indonesia is a co-host for this year's China International Small and Medium Enterprise Fair, as authorities from both countries signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. Neddy Rafinaldy Halim, Indonesia's deputy minister of cooperatives and small and medium enterprises, said co-hosting the world's largest ...
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Emirates set to add more Sri Lanka flights
Emirates Airline has announced plans to increase capacity on its services to Sri Lanka from June 30, with the addition of three more flights per ...
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SE Asia Stocks-Fall on Fed China data jitters Spore Thailand hit 2-wk low
BANGKOK, May 23 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian stocks fell on Thursday, with Singapore marking its worst week since November 2012 and Thai stocks at their lowest close in more than two weeks, as worries over the future of U.S. monetary stimulus and weak Chinese data dented global sentiment. Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia saw weakness in large caps such as Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, Siam ...
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Malaysia IHHs Q1 net profit up 3.67 pct
KUALA LUMPUR | Thu May 23, 2013 6:15am EDT KUALA LUMPUR May 23 (Reuters) - Malaysia's IHH Healthcare Bhd, the world's second-largest listed private healthcare provider by market value, posted a 3.67 percent rise in first-quarter profit, driven by core earnings growth and lower finance costs. IHH earned 127.27 million ringgit ($42.12 million) in the three months that ended in ...
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Pakistan win toss bat against Ireland
Ireland made two changes to the team that played the United Arab Emirates in their last one-day game in March with Tim Murtagh and Andrew White replacing Max Sorensen and the banned John ...
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Climbers feared dead on Nepals mountain
(41 mins ago) Five climbers, including the first Hungarian to scale Mount Everest, are missing and feared dead on Nepal's treacherous Kangchenjunga mountain, tourism officials said Thursday. The climbers -- two from Hungary, two from Nepal and one from South Korea -- went missing on Monday afternoon as they attempted to climb the 8,586-metre peak, the officials said, AFP reports. ...
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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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