Trade and business have long dominated Asia-Europe relations. Economic links are still vitally important in relations between the two regions. But Asian and European policymakers are also steadily stepping up their engagement on security issues. The emphasis on Asia-Europe security ties is not new - but it is becoming stronger and more visible. In both regions, there is a growing awareness ...
Thyroid cancer risk for 2000 Fukushima workers TEPCO
Around 2,000 people who have worked at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant face a heightened risk of thyroid cancer, its operator said ...
Hong Kong seizes baby elephant tusks in major ivory haul
More than 1,000 ivory tusks, mainly from baby elephants, were seized by Hong Kong customs in their biggest haul in three years, officials said on ...
Nauru asylum seeker protest leaves several hurt
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Officials say a protest at an Australian-run immigration detention camp in Nauru has turned violent with several asylum seekers and guards ...
China ends controls on bank lending rates
BEIJING (AP) China said Friday it is ending controls on bank lending rates in a move toward creating a market-oriented financial system to support economic growth. Reform advocates see an overhaul of China's interest rate policy as one of the most important changes required to keep its growth strong. Banks currently lend mostly to state industry rather than the entrepreneurs who create China's ...
U.S. tech earnings weigh on markets
LONDON-Disappointing earnings from two U.S. technology giants and renewed concerns over the growth prospects for China and Japan weighed on markets Friday despite better U.S. economic news. Stocks in Asia and Europe retreated even though Wall Street struck record levels again on Thursday after some encouraging U.S. economic data. Stocks around the world have had a generally solid week especially ...
Protests across northern India after security forces shoot Muslim demonstrators
Islamic organisations called for people to strike in a number of areas, as marchers burnt tyres, blocked off main roads and chanted anti-India slogans.Police officials confirmed there had been protests today, but the Jammu inspector general told The Times of India: "The situation is under control - it is peaceful."The demonstrations follow an incident in Ramban yesterday, where ...
Food poisoning case turns spotlight on govt-run schools
NEW DELHI: India's government-run schools generally fail to meet some of the most basic requirements set out in the 2009 Right to Education Act.The Act states that children between the ages of six and 14 are entitled to free and compulsory education.However, Indian government schools fall far short of what is required.The latest food poisoning incident in Bihar has turned the spotlight on ...
Australia now closed to boatpeople
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd onFriday announced that no more boatpeople will be resettled in Australia withall unauthorised arrivals to be sent to poverty-stricken Papua New ...
Asia must tackle structural bottlenecks Bank of Thailand governor says
Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul warned that before Asian nations are moving forward, they need to address structural bottlenecks to ensure sustainable development. At Thailand's leading English ...
Asian shares broadly lower Tokyo eyes weekend poll
HONG KONG (AFP) - Asian shares mostly fell on Friday, with profit-takers moving in at the end of a positive week, while dealers in Japan keep an eye on weekend parliamentary elections.The losses came despite another record-breaking close for the Dow and S&P 500 on Wall Street, while the dollar gave up the advances made against the yen in US trade.Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index ...
SE Asia Stocks-Mixed Thailand Philippines off near 6-wk highs
July 19 (Reuters) - Stock markets in Thailand and the Philippines ended weaker on Friday, dropping from their near six-week closing highs, led by profit-taking in banks as investors waited for more direction at a G20 meeting after the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman's comments. Both Thailand's SET index and the Philippines stock index fell 0.4 percent each from their highest closing level ...
Indian Kashmir shuts down over killing of protesters
SRINAGAR, India / Jammu and Kashmir (AFP) - Indian Kashmir largely shut down amid heavy security on Friday after troops shot dead four people during a protest over a paramilitary raid on an Islamic school.Shops, banks, schools and most government offices were closed in towns across the region, after a separatist leader called a three-day strike to protest Thursday's killings.Srinagar, the ...
Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Released Pending Appeal
A Russian court temporarily freed opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday, as protesters denounce his five-year jail sentence as a crude attempt by President Vladimir Putin to silence him. People took to the streets of big cities in their thousands on Thursday to vent their anger after a court in the city of Kirov sentenced Navalny to five years in jail on what he says were trumped-up theft ...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Shiite sites in Iraq
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in southern Iraq to visit two of the holiest cities for Shiite Muslims amid tight security on the second day of his two-day visit to the country. The outgoing Iranian president waved to worshippers and smiled on Friday morning as he entered the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, a city 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad. Security forces were deployed along the ...
Southeast Asia CFOs Bullish On 2013 Profit Growth
SINGAPORE, July 19 (Bernama) -- Southeast Asia's Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are among the most bullish in Asia, when it comes to forecasting increased year-on-year growth in revenue and profits in 2013, according to a survey by Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML). Of the CFOs surveyed from Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, 81 per cent and 72 per cent forecast ...
Bomb kills Afghan woman five children at Taliban home
Taliban commander in eastern Afghanistan, a government official said on Friday. The device detonated on Thursday while children were playing with it after the Taliban commander, identified only as Abdullah, left the house, a spokesman for the local government in Paktika province said. "Yesterday morning a Taliban commander, Abdullah, was making a bomb in his home to plant along the road and ...
Muslims demand Vatican envoy leave Malaysia
Allah " by non-Muslims. Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Vatican's mission in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Muslim-majority Malaysia, after prayers on Friday, urging the government to ...
Afghan official 5 children woman killed by bomb
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) An Afghan official says a bomb blast has killed five children and a woman related to a Taliban commander. The children were playing with the bomb that the insurgent left inside his home. Paktika governor's spokesman Mokhlis Afghan said Friday that the incident occurred in the Mata Khan district inside the house of a Taliban commander named Abdullah. The commander had ...
Official Bomb kills 5 kids woman in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) An Afghan official says a bomb blast has killed five children and a woman related to a Taliban commander. The children were playing with the bomb that the insurgent left inside his home. Paktika governor's spokesman Mokhlis Afghan said Friday that the incident occurred in the Mata Khan district inside the house of a Taliban commander named Abdullah. The commander had ...
Asian Stocks End Broadly Lower
technology stocks dropped following weak quarterly results from tech giants Google and Microsoft, and the Japanese yen strengthened in the run-up to Japan's upper house election, overshadowing Fed Chairman Bern Bernanke's reassurance on QE tapering. Chinese shares bore the brunt of the selling after the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday warned of developing risks in the country. ...
China drags Asia Pacific PC market down in 2Q13 says IDC
IDC's preliminary results show that the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market declined 1% from last quarter and 11% on-year in the second quarter of 2013 to reach 26.7 million units, coming in marginally lower than IDC's initial ...
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