Sibu voters to elect new MP tomorrow |
- Sibu voters to elect new MP tomorrow
- Thomas Cup: Malaysia easily eclipsed by China
- EC expects 80% turnout for Sibu
- Local shares likely to trade higher next week
- Three more dead as street fighting rages in Bangkok
- Child survivor of Libyan crash set to fly home
- Teen sailor acclaimed a national hero
- Sarawak: Poverty in the midst of plenty
- Huge fire leaves 4,000 families homeless in Philippines
- Okinawa marks 38th anniversary of reversion to Japan
- Malaysia's strategy goes haywire: Rashid Sidek
- US raises rights with China, mum on results
- Bangkok dangerous: 16 dead in unrest
- Thai protesters say to continue to fight
- Fighting spreads in Thai capital, 16 dead
- Venezuela's Chavez seeks $1 bln development loan
- BP scrambles to install device to contain oil spill
- Japan postpones U.S. base decision half yr - report
- Australian teenager completes round-world solo sail
- Thai protesters say to continue to fight
| Sibu voters to elect new MP tomorrow Posted: 15 May 2010 12:22 AM PDT A total of 52, 158 voters are due to cast their votes to elect their new member of parliament in the Sibu parliamentary by-election tomorrow after a week-long campaign, which saw Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak traversing the length and breadth of the constituency.
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| Thomas Cup: Malaysia easily eclipsed by China Posted: 15 May 2010 12:20 AM PDT Not many badminton purists--or those who have closely followed the developments of the Thomas Cup for a long time--would honestly have believed that Malaysia could beat China in last night's semi-finals in a tournament that symbolises world team badminton supremacy.
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| EC expects 80% turnout for Sibu Posted: 15 May 2010 12:16 AM PDT The Election Commission (EC)expects 80 percent of the 54,695 registered voters in the Sibu parliamentary constituency to turn up and cast their votes tomorrow.
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| Local shares likely to trade higher next week Posted: 15 May 2010 12:15 AM PDT Share prices here are likely to be higher next week on strong economic growth of 10.1 percent for the first quarter as well as expectations of a string of good corporate results, dealers said.
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| Three more dead as street fighting rages in Bangkok Posted: 14 May 2010 04:18 PM PDT By Anusak Konglang UPDATED BANGKOK: Raging violence in the Thai capital claimed three more lives today as gunfire and explosions echoed around tense streets where there have been pitched street battles between troops and protesters. "The current situation is almost full civil war," said Jatuporn Prompan, a key leader of the protesters known as the "red shirts"."I am not sure how this conflict will end," he said after almost two days of clashes between army troops and protesters left at least 17 dead, bringing to almost 50 the number of fatalities during the reds' two-month protest. An AFP photographer today saw the lifeless bodies of three people lying on the ground on a road north of the red shirts' vast encampment. The circumstances of the deaths were not immediately clear but the military posted a sign declaring it a "live-firing zone". Gunfire erupted elsewhere and smoke rose from burning tyres as a group of protesters faced off against troops in a separate area where major clashes occurred yesterday. The neighbourhood of wide streets and embassies also includes a financial district and the Suan Lum night market popular with foreigners. Police said hundreds of demonstrators had remained in that district despite a government operation yesterday aimed at clearing protesters from the area after they had spilled out of their main encampment. "The situation is under control and has been resolved in many spots but the military operation will continue because there are many things to do to restore normality," government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn said. Journalist shot Numerous M-79 grenades were fired at security forces in various areas on the fringes of the protest site overnight, he said. The rally site, where demonstrators sleep on mats on the ground and listen to speeches and music blasted from giant speakers, stretches for several square kilometres. It is fortified with bamboo stakes and tyres. According to the official Erawan emergency centre, the death toll from yesterday's clashes was 16, all of them Thais, and most of them victims of gunshots. Another person had died on Thursday night. "The toll keeps rising as street fighting was raging in the city until midnight," said an official from the centre. The official toll did not include the three victims seen by AFP. Emergency services said 141 people had been wounded, three of them foreigners from Canada, Myanmar and Poland. Their condition was unknown. The France 24 television station earlier said one of its journalists -- a Canadian -- had been shot and gravely wounded. Two Thai reporters were also hurt, their employers said. Thousands of anti-government protesters have essentially turned a large area of central Bangkok into occupied territory for two months, crippling an upscale retail and hotel district and disrupting daily life for ordinary residents in the city of about 12 million people. The subway system and elevated train lines were shut today for safety reasons after the violence. The latest unrest began on Thursday night after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva shelved a plan to hold early elections because the protesters refused to disperse. The army then announced a military lockdown on the rally site, cutting telephone and electricity services. Troops with Humvee vehicles descended on the area and used barbed wire to help seal off main roads surrounding the rally site. The army also warned it would deploy snipers around the reds' protest base. On Thursday, night renegade general Khattiya Sawasdipol, a key red shirt supporter, was shot in the head near the rally site. He was in a slightly improved condition today but still in a critical state, said Chaiwan Charoenchokethavee, director of Vachira hospital. Soldiers yesterday used tear gas and gunfire against the demonstrators who fought back with stones, slingshots and fireworks. Protest leaders said the red shirts were unarmed. - AFP
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| Child survivor of Libyan crash set to fly home Posted: 14 May 2010 04:16 PM PDT By Imed Lamloum TRIPOLI: The nine-year-old Dutch boy who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Libyan capital prepared to fly home today, three days after the disaster that killed his parents, brother, and 100 others. Dutch foreign ministry spokesman Christoph Prommersberger said yesterday that the boy, Ruben van Assouw, would be accompanied on the flight home "by his uncle and aunt and the doctor treating him".They are set to leave Tripoli for a destination in the Netherlands that the ministry refused to disclose. The aircraft is expected to depart from Matiga military airport in the capital. The Dutch federation of tour operators said its destination would be Eindhoven military airport. The boy's aunt and uncle said that Ruben has now been told that his mother, father and 11-year-old brother died in Wednesday's crash at Tripoli airport that killed 103 people and whose cause remains unknown. "We have explained to Ruben exactly what happened. He knows that his parents and his brother are dead," they said in a statement read to media in Tripoli. It said Ruben was doing well under the circumstances and had seen the flowers and messages of support sent to him. "The time ahead will be a difficult period for us," the statement said. "We hope that the media will respect our privacy." 'I am in hospital' Earlier, Ruben told a Dutch newspaper he could remember nothing of the crash. "My name is Ruben and I am from Holland," Telegraaf newspaper reported on a telephone conversation with the only survivor of the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 that disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport. "I am fine, but my legs hurt a lot," the boy told a reporter from the newspaper on the mobile phone of one of his doctors. "I am in a hospital," Ruben said. "I don't know how I got here, I don't know anything more. I really want to go home." The Dutch newspaper Brabants Dagblad said Ruben was probably from Tilburg in the southern Netherlands and that he had been on safari in South Africa with his mother Trudy, 41, father Patrick, 40, and brother Enzo. The boy's grandmother, An van de Sande, said in a report on Thursday that the holiday had been to celebrate the couple's "copper" wedding anniversary. A Libyan official said today that a security agent died of shock on the day of the disaster when he saw the bodies at the crash site on Wednesday. "He was a diabetic. He ran towards the scene but at the sight of the bodies his blood sugar levels soared and he died on the spot," the official said on condition of anonymity. He said the man, who had worked at Tripoli airport, was "elderly." Crash investigators have said no technical problems were reported by the pilot before the jet went down. "The pilot did not report any problems. Until the very last moment things were normal between the pilot and the control tower," Neji Dhaou, the head of the Libyan commission of inquiry, said yesterday. - AFP
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| Teen sailor acclaimed a national hero Posted: 14 May 2010 03:23 PM PDT SYDNEY: Round-the-world sailor Jessica Watson was acclaimed an Australian national hero today when she made a triumphant return to Sydney after a 210-day voyage. Watson, who turns 17 on Tuesday, was looking remarkably fit but understandably unsteady on her feet when she clambered out of her 10-metre boat and walked with her parents to be greeted by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the steps of the Opera House."Jess, welcome back to dry land. Welcome back home to Australia," Rudd said as thousands cheered and clapped the plucky schoolgirl. "You may feel a little wobbly on your feet just now, but in the eyes of all Australians, you now stand tall as our newest Australian hero," Rudd said. "You are a hero for all young Australians, you are also a hero for young Australian women." -dpa
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| Sarawak: Poverty in the midst of plenty Posted: 14 May 2010 10:06 PM PDT What a tragedy to befall a people whose only sin is to trust those sworn to protect their native rights.
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| Huge fire leaves 4,000 families homeless in Philippines Posted: 14 May 2010 10:02 PM PDT MANILA, May 15 (AFP) -- A huge fire that engulfed a sprawling shantytown just south of the Philippine capital left around 4,000 poor families homeless Saturday, an official said.
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| Okinawa marks 38th anniversary of reversion to Japan Posted: 14 May 2010 10:01 PM PDT TOKYO, May 15 (AFP) -- Thousands of people rallied in Okinawa on Saturday to mark the 38th anniversary of its reversion to Japan from US occupation, as the island seeks to cut its still heavy US military presence.
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| Malaysia's strategy goes haywire: Rashid Sidek Posted: 14 May 2010 08:59 PM PDT National singles chief coach Rashid Sidek admitted that Malaysia's Thomas Cup strategy did not go as planned as Malaysia went down tamely to China in the semi-finals at the Putra Stadium here tonight.
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| US raises rights with China, mum on results Posted: 14 May 2010 02:37 PM PDT WASHINGTON -The United States has said it has raised concern with China about the fate of dissidents and hoped for regular dialogue on human rights, but activists saw little tangible progress.
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| Bangkok dangerous: 16 dead in unrest Posted: 14 May 2010 10:28 AM PDT
BANGKOK – Shots and an explosion were heard in Bangkok on Saturday as the death toll from the latest clashes between the Thai army and anti-government "Red Shirt" protesters hit 16. Tyres, apparently set alight by demonstrators, were burning in an area
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| Thai protesters say to continue to fight Posted: 14 May 2010 08:52 PM PDT BANGKOK, May 15 — Thai anti-government protesters said today they would keep fighting as troops seek to isolate their sprawling protest encampment but that supplies of food, water and fuel were starting to run low. "We'll keep on fighting until the government takes responsibility," said Kwanchai Praipana, a leader of the red-shirted protesters, ...
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| Fighting spreads in Thai capital, 16 dead Posted: 14 May 2010 10:48 PM PDT BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai troops fired at protesters on Saturday in a third day of fighting on Bangkok's streets that has killed 16 people as soldiers struggle to isolate a sprawling encampment of demonstrators seeking to topple the government.
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| Venezuela's Chavez seeks $1 bln development loan Posted: 14 May 2010 10:48 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela is seeking a $1 billion loan either from international banks or foreign allies to finance development during a recession in the oil-exporting South American nation of some 30 million people.
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| BP scrambles to install device to contain oil spill Posted: 14 May 2010 10:48 PM PDT PORT FOURCHON, La. (Reuters) - Energy giant BP scrambled on Saturday to make good on its latest attempt to contain oil from a gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico as the region's suffering workers braced for environmental disaster.
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| Japan postpones U.S. base decision half yr - report Posted: 14 May 2010 10:19 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will postpone a deadline for resolving a row over relocating a U.S. base by up to half a year to November, abandoning Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's original end-May target, the daily Sankei Shimbun said on Saturday.
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| Australian teenager completes round-world solo sail Posted: 14 May 2010 09:38 PM PDT SYDNEY, May 15 — An Australian teenager sailed into Sydney Harbour to a rapturous welcome today to complete a solo circumnavigation of the globe that will take her into the history books. Accompanied by a flotilla of supporters' boats, Jessica Watson, 16, sailed through the harbour entrance around 2pm, witnesses said, at the end of a ...
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| Thai protesters say to continue to fight Posted: 14 May 2010 08:52 PM PDT BANGKOK, May 15 — Thai anti-government protesters said today they would keep fighting as troops seek to isolate their sprawling protest encampment but that supplies of food, water and fuel were starting to run low. "We'll keep on fighting until the government takes responsibility," said Kwanchai Praipana, a leader of the red-shirted protesters, ...
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