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Indonesia into Sudirman cup last 8 after win
Former champions Indonesia reached the quarterfinals of the Sudirman Cup on Monday with a comprehensive 4-1 victory over India in Group A.Indonesia have been joined by China, Japan and Denmark in the last eight.Japan crushed Singapore 5-0 on Monday, a result that ensured Denmark also qualified from Group D as the Singaporeans were eliminated.Indonesia will meet eight-time champions China to ...
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Plague of deforestation sweeps across south-east Asia
deforestation is dizzying, threatening the region's remarkable biodiversity, which includes more than 1,700 species discovered in the last 15 years alone. Many of the forests in Vietnam have been cut down for the furniture export market and the trees replaced by coffee bushes; in less than 10 years, Vietnam has gone from zero to number two in global coffee production. So much forest has ...
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Myanmar leader set for historic US visit
Myanmar President U Thein Sein will become the first leader of his country in 47 years to visit the White House, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to support his reforms.The former general will meet with President Barack Obama during the visit that started Monday and later seek to woo US businesses that see a lucrative market in the Southeast Asian nation.Some say that Obama's ...
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2 dead 20 injured after explosions in Dagestan- Wave of violent attacks kills at least 86 in Iraq
MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ...
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How Coca-Cola Used Vending Machines To Try To Unite The People Of India And Pakistan
Specially-designed Small World Machines placed in both countries in March served as live communications portals. Now, Coke has released a video that allows everyone to witness the joyous ...
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Former Pakistani Ruler Musharraf Granted Bail
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March to contest a May 11 general election after nearly ...
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UN praises Bangladesh39s preparedness response to tropical storm Mahasen
Print 20 May 2013 – The United Nations has commended the work carried out by the Bangladeshi Government ahead of tropical storm Mahasen, which hit the country last Thursday, noting it saved thousands of lives. 'While tropical storm Mahasen reached the coastline of Bangladesh on Thursday weaker than anticipated, the preparedness work undertaken by the Government and humanitarian ...
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Myanmar to pump oil and gas to energy-hungry China
Workers prepare to launch the China section of the Myanmar-China oil and gas pipeline in Anning in southwest China's Yunnan province. Ren Dong / Color China Photo / AP ...
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US says Pakistan curbing explosive fertilizers
ISLAMABAD -; Pakistan has taken a number of steps to prevent fertilizers made within its borders for agriculture from being used as explosives in roadside bombs that target American troops in Afghanistan, said a top U.S. military officer ...
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Pakistans presumptive PM calls for Taliban talks
The Taliban has been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for years that has killed thousands of security personnel and ...
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Obama Receives President of Myanmar at the White House
Washington, May 20 (Prensa Latina) U.S. President Barack Obama will receive his counterpart from Myanmar, Thein Sein, today at the White House, here on an official visit. Sein is the first Head of State from that Southeast Asian country to be hosted at the White House in 47 years, something which might be interpreted as international recognition for Naiyipido (capital of the nation), according ...
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Pakistan Energy Crisis Immediate Attention Needed
In Pakistan, depending on your place of residing, there is no electricity from six to twenty hours a day. Whereas it has hit hard the lives of the common man, making it impossible to function on a day to day basis, it has also brought down production in industrial sectors drastically, costing contracts and jobs of millions across the country. If we look at the issue- two reasons emerge. First ...
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Obama to host Myanmar leader
MYANMAR'S President Thein Sein will become the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, as Washington offers a strong symbolic gesture to back his reforms. In a scene that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, the former general will meet President Barack Obama and later seek to woo US businesses that see a lucrative market in a nation that ...
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Hizb ut-Tahrir Protests against Tyrants of Bangladesh Khilafah will soon Avenge Your Crimes
Hizb ut-Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan demonstrated against the Bangladeshi regime's firing and slaughtering of Muslims on 6th May 2013 as they rose up over blasphemy against RasulAllah ??? ???? ???? ????. Hizb ut-Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan also delivered a letter of protest to the Bangladeshi diplomatic mission. Demonstrators were holding banners and placards ...
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Mobiles offer financial lifeline to Asian migrants study
Asia's mobile revolution is set to transform the region's financial services industry, offering a cheap way for millions of migrant workers to send money home to their families, a report said on Monday.Nearly 60 million migrant workers from the Asia-Pacific region sent almost $260 billion home to their families in 2012, according to the study, co-authored by the World Bank and the ...
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Thai economy contracts in Q1
Thailand's economy shrank 2.2 percent in the three months to March from the previous quarter - the first contraction in more than a year - as manufacturing output fell, official data showed Monday.The decline followed a blistering yearlong recovery from devastating floods in late 2011 that hit major factories north of the capital Bangkok and caused a double-digit drop in GDP.On a ...
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Burmas Web-Savvy Rebels - By Patrick Boehler
Hagel's front office gets a new Hand; Shineski, under fire; Obama to talk drone, Gitmo policy; MCT: Amos being investigated; Terminal Lance: "Shut up!" and a bit more. - by Gordon ...
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FSB prevents terror act in Moscow by militants trained in Afghanistan Pakistan
Russia's FSB has foiled a terror attack in Moscow as they managed to kill two and detain one of the militants planning it, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. The three men are "Russian citizens, arrived from Afghani-Pakistani region, where they have been trained," the committee said in a statement. As FSB forces approached the house in a small town in the Moscow ...
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Measles surges in UK years after flawed research
In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national vaccination catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles cases in England. More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised ...
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Indonesia fined for crowd trouble
The Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) have been hit with a 15,000-dollar (9,900 pounds) fine for repeated crowd infringements.The PSSI were handed a penalty of 10,000 dollars (6,600 pounds) when fans lit firecrackers and threw water bottles when Indonesia hosted Saudi Arabia in an Asian Cup qualifier on March ...
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Abdullah bin Zayed Singapores Foreign Minister discuss cooperation
WAM ABU DHABI, May 20th, 2013 (WAM)-- H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, discussed with Singapore's Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam, bilateral relations and ways to enhance cooperation in all fields of mutual interest between the two countries. During the meeting, which was held at the Ministry today, the two ministers exchanged views on the latest regional and ...
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Mixed reception for first Myanmar president to visit US
WASHINGTON // Thein Sein yesterday became the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years, crowning a dramatic diplomatic rehabilitation for his nation after years of international isolation. But activists are angry about Barack Obama hosting the former general, and legislators are wary. Thein Sein has led the shift from decades of direct military rule, but has ...
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Unavailable sanitary landfills makes local govt fret about fines
West Tanjungjabung regional secretary Arief Munandar said the regency had to start implementing the sanitary landfill system to manage waste as stipulated by Law No.18/2008 on waste management."Otherwise, we could face a penalty of Rp 5 billion (US$512,455)," he said on Sunday.Arief said that with a growing waste problem, it was time for the dump in West Tanjungjabung regency, Jambi, ...
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US Pakistan moves to curb dangerous fertilizers
ISLAMABAD -; A top American military officer says Pakistan has taken steps to prevent fertilizers made in Pakistan from being used for roadside bombs targeting American troops in ...
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Quantum says new team could recover Intrepid’s Indonesia stake
Quantum Pacific Investment Ltd. believes with a new leadership team it can recover some of Intrepid's stake in the Tujuh Bukit copper-gold ...
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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