The fishing paradise of Kundang

The fishing paradise of Kundang

The fishing paradise of Kundang

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:04 AM PDT

Kundang was once a major tin mining area in the country. All the factories there moved out after tin was no longer available for mining, leaving only a few disused mining lakes.

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No winner in currency wars

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:41 AM PDT

Predictions of an impending currency war must be handled with care: such alarms are often raised in financial circles. But when someone like Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), abandons his customary reserve to warn about a "race to the bottom" between nations eager to devalue their currencies, it is clear that the danger is real.

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Budget blue or Budget bliss?

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 12:24 AM PDT

As we look at the Budget 2011 from different points of views, some see an opportunity while some see a potential crisis. Some commend it while others condemn it.

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Gun battles rage in parliament of Russia's Chechnya

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Armed insurgents mounted a brazen attack on the local parliament in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya on Tuesday, killing at least four people in battles with security forces.


Fear trumps fairness on Myanmar's campaign trail

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

YANGON (Reuters) - Fearful voters and veiled military threats ahead of Myanmar's first election in two decades have turned the campaign trail into a largely one-sided show overwhelmingly in favour of proxies for the ruling army.


China's absent political reforms worry many

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party has vowed ambitious changes on all fronts except the one -- its vast power -- that worried scholars, officials and even Premier Wen Jiabao call the biggest threat to long-term growth and stability.


Chile's miners had lost hope, prepared to die

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's 33 miners had given up hope of being found alive and were prepared to die slowly of hunger but stopped short of taking their own lives in the days before they were found alive, one of the miners told Reuters.


U.S. judge tentatively upholds gays-in-military order

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) - A federal judge tentatively refused on Monday to let the Pentagon reinstate its ban on openly gay men and women in the U.S. military while the government appeals her decision declaring the policy unconstitutional.


Philippines assesses damage as typhoon heads to China

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

ILAGAN, Philippines (Reuters) - Typhoon Megi cleared the Philippines' main island and headed towards China on Tuesday, and authorities said initial estimates showed the super storm had damaged around one percent of the country's unmilled rice crop.


FACTBOX - Facts about Russia's Chechnya republic

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

* A mountainous region in the Caucasus range, Chechnya is inhabited by a mainly Muslim people with a fearsome reputation dating from the late 18th century when warlord Sheikh Mansour led a jihad (holy war) against Russian rule. It has been a thorn on Russia's southern fringe ever since.


CHRONOLOGY - Myanmar's troubled political history

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

Here is a chronology tracing the former Burma's long and rocky road to civilian rule.


Mexico makes record 105-tonne marijuana haul

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a U.S. street value of more than $340 million on Monday in Mexico's biggest-ever pot haul, the army said.


French strikers, marchers test Sarkozy on pensions

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Striking public sector workers will likely gridlock travel in France on Tuesday and protesters will take to the streets en masse as trade unions test President Nicolas Sarkozy over his unpopular pension reforms.


Four in New York bomb plot trial found guilty

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury found four men guilty on Monday of placing explosives outside New York synagogues and plotting to shoot down military aircraft.


All 37 confirmed dead in latest China mine disaster

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - All 37 missing and trapped miners in China's latest colliery disaster have been confirmed as dead, state media reported on Tuesday.


FACTBOX - Parties contesting Myanmar's election

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

However, few will field enough candidates to mount a significant challenge to two big parties seen as proxies for the junta, which is unlikely to cede real power.


Israel might extend settlements freeze - ambassador

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel might renew a moratorium on building Jewish settlements in the West Bank after its end last month abruptly froze peace talks with the Palestinians, Israel's new U.N. ambassador said on Monday.


Pentagon cautions news media on WikiLeaks documents

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon urged news organizations on Monday not to publish classified U.S. documents due to be released by WikiLeaks as U.S. officials brace for a mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistle-blower website.


Several people shot dead in Chenchn parliament-agency

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Several people were shot dead in the parliament of the restive Chechen Republic on Tuesday, Interfax news agency reported quoting a security source.


FACTBOX - Signs isolated North Korea is reaching out

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 01:01 AM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, feeling the strain of toughened sanctions by Seoul and Washington after the sinking of a South Korean warship, has made some conciliatory moves after saying it wants to restart six-party talks.


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