Australian surfer killed by shark |
- Australian surfer killed by shark
- Diehard phone card collector
- Iran tells West to stay out of woman's stoning case
- China says foreign direct investment up 20.7%
- Pakistan wins more flood aid
- The resistance to change is the big obstable
- More heavy rains in western China kill 51
- World Bank pledges $900 mln in flood aid to Pakistan
- Death toll in Iraq suicide bombing rises to 39
- FACTBOX - China's growing military clout
- Girl band singer confesses to unprotected HIV sex
- U.S. nuclear waste issue could be solved, if…
- The battle to combat child trafficking in Haiti
- Taiwan parliament debates China trade pact
- Australia mother slams 'lies' 30 years after dingo took baby
- Singapore export growth slows sharply in July
- 43 die in suicide attack on Iraq army recruitment centre
- S.Korean president defends unification tax
- Azhar to know fate in Nov
- World Bank to lend $900m to Pakistan
| Australian surfer killed by shark Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:03 AM PDT SYDNEY, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - An Australian surfer died after being mauled by a shark Tuesday, the first fatal attack by one of the marine predators in Australian waters in almost two years.
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| Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:01 AM PDT Collection of over 5,000 cards At a time when mobile phones are leading the vogue, it seems that phone cards have been reduced into "antiques." Lai Hong Yi, nevertheless, is still very much attached to the thousands of phone cards he has collected over the years. Phone cards of each country are generally printed with contemporary well-known figures, objects and events. While Malaysia's phone cards are almost printed with pictures of the national car, Penang Bridge, Twin Towers, among others.
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| Iran tells West to stay out of woman's stoning case Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:58 AM PDT TEHRAN, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - Iran told Western nations on Tuesday to stay out of the case of a woman who faces death by stoning, warning it will not tolerate any interference in the matter still under examination.
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| China says foreign direct investment up 20.7% Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:57 AM PDT BEIJING, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - Foreign direct investment in China rose 20.7% on-year in the first seven months of 2010, the government said Tuesday, underlining growing confidence in the country's economic might.
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| Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:56 AM PDT ISLAMABAD, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - Pakistan won more aid pledges Tuesday after concerns that money is not coming through fast enough to help 20 million people hit by unprecedented floods and stave off a "second wave of death" from disease.
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| The resistance to change is the big obstable Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:53 AM PDT A country can start its reform programme only when it can feel the crisis and is pushed by external and internal factors. The current situation of the country is, there is an external force trying to break the inertia of economic practices and correct the structural weaknesses.
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| More heavy rains in western China kill 51 Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:48 AM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Heavy rains in western China have killed at least another 51 people, state media said on Tuesday, adding to the more than 2,000 people who have died in flooding and landslides nationwide so far this year.
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| World Bank pledges $900 mln in flood aid to Pakistan Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:48 AM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The World Bank will release $900 million to help fund relief efforts for Pakistan's flood disaster as international agencies warned millions of people were at risk from disease.
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| Death toll in Iraq suicide bombing rises to 39 Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:48 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll in a suicide bombing at an Iraqi army recruiting centre in the Iraqi capital Baghdad rose to 39 on Tuesday, the Baghdad operations command said.
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| FACTBOX - China's growing military clout Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:48 AM PDT (Reuters) - China's military modernisation raises the risk of "misunderstanding and miscalculation," the Pentagon said in an annual assessment released on Monday, following naval tensions in the seas off China's shore.
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| Girl band singer confesses to unprotected HIV sex Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:48 AM PDT Nadja Benaissa from German girl band No Angels is standing trial for causing grievous bodily harm in one instance and attempted grievous bodily harm on four other occasions when she had sex with the men between 2000 and 2004.
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| U.S. nuclear waste issue could be solved, if… Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:48 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nuclear energy offers several advantages: It's clean, powerful and relatively cheap. But it also yields hazardous waste, a fact that terrifies a public haunted by memories of accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear reactors.
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| The battle to combat child trafficking in Haiti Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:34 AM PDT OUANAMINTHE, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - On market days, Clarine Joanice sits on a plastic chair by the crowded bridge marking the northern border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Every time a child walks by, she gently grabs its arm and asks the accompanying adults for travel papers.
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| Taiwan parliament debates China trade pact Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:32 AM PDT TAIPEI, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - Taiwan's parliament Tuesday started a much-anticipated debate about a controversial trade pact with China and could vote on it later in the day, a report said.
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| Australia mother slams 'lies' 30 years after dingo took baby Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:30 AM PDT SYDNEY, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - Lindy Chamberlain Tuesday remembered "beautiful little Azaria" and slammed Australia's media, 30 years after a dingo apparently snatched her baby at Ayers Rock in a case which caused a worldwide sensation.
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| Singapore export growth slows sharply in July Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:29 AM PDT SINGAPORE, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - Singapore said Tuesday that export growth eased sharply in July from the year before, mirroring weaker demand as key markets struggled to recover from the global recession.
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| 43 die in suicide attack on Iraq army recruitment centre Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:28 AM PDT BAGHDAD, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded army recruitment centre in Baghdad killing 43 people Tuesday, officials said, as violence coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan surges in Iraq.
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| S.Korean president defends unification tax Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:27 AM PDT SEOUL, Tuesday 17 August 2010 (AFP) - President Lee Myung-Bak on Tuesday defended his proposal to introduce a unification tax, saying South Korea should prepare for reunification with the North rather than endure tense division.
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| Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:44 PM PDT The Rights and Privileges Committee will inform the State Legislative Assembly the action it will take on opposition leader Datuk Azhar Ibrahim for allegedly uttering seditious words in May, Speaker Datuk Abdul Halim Hussain said.
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| World Bank to lend $900m to Pakistan Posted: 16 Aug 2010 11:51 PM PDT The World Bank is to loan $900m (£574m) to Pakistan to help it recover from its worst ever flooding.
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