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Amnesty Report Highlights Refugee Plight
annual report by Amnesty International cites the increasing number of refugees around the world, and the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. The London-based group also calls the Internet an important tool in fighting human rights abuses, and calls on governments to increase access to it. Amnesty International reports that the number of refugees ...
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Traffic control unit still not running at full tilt
The Traffic Control Center of the Jakarta Transportation Agency monitors city traffic. Despite the sophistication of the facility, the control center lacks the budget and human resources to do its job ...
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Clinics need to learn more about mental disorder problem
Paper Edition | Page: 9 To help reduce the number of mental health cases in the city, doctors at community health clinics (Puskesmas) need to learn psychological symptoms, says psychiatrist Hervita Diatri from the University of Indonesia school of medicine."Seventy percent of suicides in the city happen because of late help from the community to the victims," she told The Jakarta Post ...
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Water to become central issue globally LIPI
Paper Edition | Page: 9 The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) has warned that water will become a global issue which will influence politics and trigger international conflicts over the next 50 years."Clean water is decreasing in Indonesia and rivers are being contaminated by pollutants. These are the results of our bad attitude toward the environment. This water crisis has been an ...
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Police PHRI accelerate hotel security checks
Paper Edition | Page: 5 The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) Bali chapter and the Bali Police are working together to verify security management at star-rated hotels as part of the preparations for the APEC Summit in October.Ida Bagus Purwa Sidemen, PHRI executive director, said on Wednesday that verification of the four- and five-star hotels where APEC delegates were to be ...
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No bank deposits will be spared from confiscation
] Bank depositors in the UK and USA may think that their bank deposits would not be confiscated as they are insured and no government would dare embark on such a drastic action to bail out insolvent banks. [But] I challenge anyone to prove me wrong that confiscation of bank deposits is legalized daylight robbery Before I explain why confiscation of bank deposits in the UK and US is a certainty ...
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Asia Roundup Mixed despite strong Wall Street lead
Asian shares were mixed yesterday, Wednesday May 22 2013 despite a strong lead from Wall Street as markets awaited testimony from the US Federal Reserve chief, but Tokyo stocks finished at their highest level in five years. Seoul climbed 0.64 per cent, or 12.74 points, to finish at 1,993.83, while Sydney ended down 0.28 percent, or 14.7 points, at 5,165.4. Shanghai closed down 0.12 per cent, ...
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Chinese premier raises five-point proposal for boosting cooperation with Pakistan
Chinese premier Li Keqiang presented in Islamabad Wednesday a five-point proposal for further deepening friendship and cooperation with Pakistan.He made the suggestions during talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Interim Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, during which the two sides reached important consensuses on boosting the bilateral strategic cooperative ...
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Full text of Premier Lis interview with Pakistani media
Chinese premier Li Keqiang gave an interview to Pakistani media before he embarked Wednesday on an official visit to the South Asian country.The following is the full text of the interview:1. We have learned that you made your first visit to Pakistan 27 years ago. Could you tell us what impression you got on that visit? This is your first visit to Pakistan since you took office as Chinese ...
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China Pakistan to be good partners brothers forever premier
China and Pakistan will always be good partners and brothers that are reliable and sincere to each other, visiting Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday.The two neighboring countries "are all-weather friends," Li said during a meeting with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari shortly after he landed here before noon.The bilateral friendship boasts a solid foundation and enjoys great ...
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Singapore says regrettable for US engineers family to walk out of coroners inquiry
Singapore's Foreign Minister and Law Minister K Shanmugam said on Wednesday that it is regrettable for the family of a US researcher to walk out of a coroner's inquiry into his death last year in Singapore."We hope they will take part in the inquiry. If they don't, it is regrettable but the inquiry will continue," the minister told a press conference in the evening.The ...
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Lion Air plans Thai subsidiary
Indonesia’s low-cost airline, Lion Air, has made a move into Thailand’s aviation market, with plans to launch a new Thai subsidiary. Although plans for Thai Lion Air first came into light six years ago, Thailand’s Civil Aviation Department confirmed the plans this week, but stressed the airline is yet to submit an application for an air operator’s certificate. ...
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Chinas premier offers to help end Pakistan energy crisis
China and Pakistan should make cooperation on power generation a priority, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, as Islamabad seeks to end an energy crisis that triggers power cuts of up to 20 hours a day, bringing the economy to a near standstill. Li arrived in the Pakistan capital under extra-tight security on Wednesday on the second leg of his first official trip since taking office in March and ...
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Philippines to send probe team to Taiwan
Taipei has approved Manila's request to send investigators to Taiwan to examine evidence and interview witnesses to the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards. But Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Wednesday declined to tell reporters when a team from the National Bureau of Investigation would leave for Taiwan. "It will be very soon but we don't ...
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Thai police say they know identities of Central World arson suspects
Police are gathering evidence in support of arrest warrants for two suspected arsonists and six alleged accomplices in relation to the Central World Mall fire during the 2010 riots. Following a meeting yesterday to discuss the progress of the Central World arson probe, Metropolitan Police chief Khamronwit Thoopkrajang said investigators had identified two suspected arsonists from photographs ...
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Bangladesh S. Korea climbers die while descending Everest
Two climbers have died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest on Monday night, officials confirmed. The climbers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid Hussain of Bangladesh and Sung Ho-Seo of South Korea. Khil Lal Gautam, official at Tourism Ministry, said that Ho-Seo, who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen, refused to put on oxygen mask on returning to tent as ...
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The Asian Century Is Built On Broadband
Ben Pobjie Say what you like about Canberra, the city has got guts. And even after a century, the city still comes alive during a good bout of leadership speculation. Ben Pobjie hoists a glass of average chardy to our nation's ...
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One Drone Victim’s Trail From Raleigh to Pakistan
WASHINGTON -- When Jude Kenan Mohammad was about 18 and living in Raleigh, N.C., according to people who knew him, he came under the influence of an older ...
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Thawatchai Arunyik named next governor of Tourism Authority of Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand - Thawatchai Arunyik, deputy governor for domestic marketing at the Tourism Authority of Thailand, has been selected as the TAT's next governor to replace Suraphon Svetasreni, whose contract with TAT will end on December 21. The decision to appoint Thawatchai to the top post at the state enterprise will not come as a surprise to the tourism industry, as he had been seen ...
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Hanoi considering tourism police to protect tourists from street vendors
HANOI, Vietnam - The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has been asked by its department in Ha Noi to establish a tourism police force dedicated to protecting visitors who are increasingly suffering from tourist scams in the capital. Cases are reported daily of foreign tourists being overcharged by taxi drivers and cheated by hotel employees. This has negatively affected the image of both ...
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CBS News goes undercover in a Bangladesh clothing factory
CBS News (CBS News) Many of the clothes in American stores are made in Bangladesh, which has a history of workplace disasters. Six months ago, 112 workers died when their factory burned down. Last month, another factory collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers in one of the worst industrial accidents ever. If you own clothes that were made in Bangladesh, this is where they come from. ...
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STOCKS NEWS MALAYSIA-AirAsia shares down after fall in Q1 profit
Wed May 22, 2013 9:51pm EDT Shares in AirAsia Bhd, Southeast Asia's biggest budget airline by passenger traffic, were down in early trading on Thursday after the company's quarterly profit fell sharply. Late on Wednesday, the airline reported a 39.23 percent drop in first-quarter profit, hurt mainly by higher finance costs and a foreign exchange loss on borrowings. Kenanga Research said ...
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Revision of Mental Illness Guide Stirs Debate
A long-anticipated revision of an official diagnostic guide to mental illness, known as the DSM-5, was released this week. While the new manual is being welcomed by some doctors as reflecting advancements in the understanding and diagnosis of mental disorders, critics say its definitions of psychiatric conditions are based too much on symptoms and too little on the biological causes of mental ...
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No investigation of tourist’s death
Paper Edition | Page: 5 The Langkat Police have acknowledged facing difficulties in establishing the cause of death of an English tourist in April after she drank illicit alcohol at the Bukit Lawang tourist resort in Langkat regency, North Sumatra.Langkat Police chief of detectives Adj. Sr. Comr. Rosyid Hartanto said the police had yet to receive a report from her relatives on her death, which ...
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BNI to reap profits from Japanese SMEs
State-owned bank PT Bank Negara Indonesia hopes to lure Japanese small and medium enterprises to invest in Indonesia by engaging Japanese state lender The Shoko Chukin Bank Ltd."The chances are bigger for us to increase the volume of and fee-based income from banking transactions with the cooperation between BNI and The Shoko Chukin Bank Ltd., especially from transactions made by Japanese ...
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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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