Israel plans 238 new settler homes in east Jerusalem |
- Israel plans 238 new settler homes in east Jerusalem
- World's longest tunnel takes shape under Swiss Alps
- Hackers in China steal S.Korean secrets: Seoul
- Vegetables reduce breast cancer risk
- Police involved in stealing drugs an isolated case: Pahang CPO
- SAPP likely to put up candidate for Batu Sapi
- Japan pulls out of Iran's biggest onshore oil field project
- Heartfelt homecoming for Chile's rescued miners
- DRC troops in rape and murder claim
- Rubber hits record on strong China demand
- Japan's political kingpin Ozawa fights indictment
- Who after Hu?
- Japan warns of more intervention as China raps US over yuan
- The shame of being on blacklist for human trafficking
- Reform calls mount as China's all-powerful Communists meet
- OSK ups Proton revenue forecast
- Simultaneous by-elections for Batu Sapi, Galas
- Former Immigration D-G freed of bribery charge
- Najib presents 2011 Budget to Agong
- Japan PM rival Ozawa sues govt over indictment rule
| Israel plans 238 new settler homes in east Jerusalem Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:25 PM PDT JERUSALEM: Israel has unveiled plans for more than 230 new homes for Jewish settlers in Arab east Jerusalem, reports said today, in a move likely to complicate US attempts to revive the peace process. The move to build around 240 new housing units in the settlement neighbourhoods of Pisgat Zeev and Ramot, was approved late yesterday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Ynet news website said. Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are facing imminent collapse in the face of a row about settlement building on occupied land, which restarted on Sept 26 after temporary restrictions on building expired. Although the 10-month freeze did not cover construction in east Jerusalem, Netanyahu had quietly avoided signing off on any such projects in order to avoid the political fallout, Ynet said. Settlement watchdog Peace Now said the announcement was likely to further damage efforts to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations which are already on the rocks over settlement building. "The fact is that someone -- either the housing minister or the prime minister -- is trying to make a point: they want to make it harder on peace efforts," Peace Now's Hagit Ofran said. "Such a decision is going to be a problem for the continuation of the talks and this is exactly what they were trying to achieve." She said it was the first time such a plan had been approved since March, when Israel gave the green light to plans for the construction of 1,600 new settler homes in east Jerusalem during a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden, prompting a major crisis in relations with Washington. Israel seized Arab east Jerusalem in the Six Day War of 1967 and annexed it shortly afterwards in a move not recognised by the international community or the Palestinians, who consider it the capital of their promised state. The Palestinians see the settlements as a major threat to the establishment of a viable state, and they view the freezing of settlement activity as a crucial test of Israel's intentions. - AFP
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| World's longest tunnel takes shape under Swiss Alps Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT  ANDERMATT: The world's longest tunnel will take shape deep beneath the Swiss Alps today when a giant drilling machine clears a path for a key high speed railway through the heart of Europe. "The Gotthard will forever be a spectacular and grandiose monument with which all tunnels will be compared," said Swiss Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger. The 57-kilometre (35.4-mile) Gotthard base tunnel will form the lynchpin of a new network between northern and southeastern Europe that could shift truck freight onto rail and decongest the Alps in central Switzerland when it opens in 2017. Passengers will ultimately be able to speed from the Italian city of Milan to Zurich in less than three hours and further north into Germany, cutting the journey time by an hour. But the 9.8 billion Swiss franc (RM30.4 billion) tunnel is also the fruit of a popular wave of concern about pollution in the Alps with booming road traffic transiting from neighbouring countries. After 15 years of construction work, the 9.5-metre (31-foot) wide drilling machine will bore through the remaining 1.5 metres of rock to join two ends of the tunnel some 2,000 metres under a mountain. The stage-managed event, attended by 200 dignitaries 30km along the tunnel, will be broadcast live on Swiss television and watched by European Union transport ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg. But the spotlight will also fall on some 2,500 tunnel workers, many of whom will be feasted at a celebration just above the breakthrough point in the mountain village of Sedrun. Eight have died since construction of the new tunnel began 15 years ago, blasting and boring through 13 million cubic metres of rock in hot and humid conditions. The Gotthard tunnel will exceed the 53.8-km Seikan rail tunnel linking the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido and the world's longest road tunnel, the 24.5-km Laerdal in Norway. Green motion Switzerland struggled to convince sceptical European neighbours to support its ambitious and costly transalpine rail plans in the 1990s. But they gained added weight in a shock referendum result in 1994 when Swiss voters supported a green motion to stop heavy trucks crossing the Alps -- including the expanding flow of transiting EU goods traffic. A nationwide opinion poll published on Wednesday suggested that that sentiment is undimmed. Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed support a ban on truck traffic through the St Gotthard road tunnel, according to the poll commissioned by an Alpine environmental lobby group. In recent years, Austria, France and Italy have set in motion two similar and monumental rail tunnel projects through the eastern and western Alps. Around 300 trains should be able to speed through the Gotthard's twin tubes every day, at up to 250 kilometres per hour (155 mph) for passenger trains, according to planners. The current ageing and narrow 15-km tunnel higher up the flanks of the St. Gotthard can cope with just a fraction of that capacity at less than half the speed. It was nonetheless a global engineering feat as well when it was completed 128 years ago although it claimed the lives of some 200 tunnel workers. - AFP
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| Hackers in China steal S.Korean secrets: Seoul Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:39 AM PDT SEOUL, Friday 15 October 2010 (AFP) - Hackers in China have stolen secrets on South Korea's defence and foreign affairs by using bogus emails claiming to come from Seoul officials and diplomats, the intelligence agency said Friday.
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| Vegetables reduce breast cancer risk Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:29 AM PDT WASHINGTON, Friday 15 October 2010 (Bernama) -- Scientists have found that women with high vegetable intake are less likely to develop estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer than women with low vegetable intake, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.
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| Police involved in stealing drugs an isolated case: Pahang CPO Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:28 AM PDT The case where police personnel were believed to be involved in stealing the syabu seized in the country's biggest raid in Rompin last year is an isolated case and does not reflect the overall image of police personnel, Pahang police chief Datuk Sharifuddin Ab Ghani said.
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| SAPP likely to put up candidate for Batu Sapi Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:27 AM PDT The Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) (Parti Maju Sabah) is likely to put up a candidate in the upcoming Batu Sapi by-election, setting the stage for a possible three-corner fight involving SAPP, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and Barisan Nasional (BN).
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| Japan pulls out of Iran's biggest onshore oil field project Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:11 AM PDT TOKYO, Friday 15 October 2010 (AFP) - Japanese oil developer Inpex Corp. said Friday it would withdraw from Iran's Azadegan oil field project, a move believed to be aimed at keeping it off a list of firms subject to US sanctions.
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| Heartfelt homecoming for Chile's rescued miners Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:07 AM PDT COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's rescued miners head home on Friday to a hero's welcome after their miracle survival for two months deep underground, and now yearn to put the psychological trauma of their ordeal behind them.
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| DRC troops in rape and murder claim Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:44 PM PDT The UN special representative on sexual violence has said government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo might have been raping and killing women in the same remote villages where hundreds were raped by rebels in July and August.
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| Rubber hits record on strong China demand Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:36 PM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Friday 15 October 2010 (AFP) - Rubber prices reached their highest price in decades on Friday, fuelled by strong demand from China's auto industry and tight supply caused by wet weather in Southeast Asian producing nations.
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| Japan's political kingpin Ozawa fights indictment Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:34 PM PDT TOKYO, Friday 15 October 2010 (AFP) - Japan's ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa hit back on Friday as he battles a campaign finance scandal, by suing the government in a bid to stop an indictment against him.
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| Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:33 PM PDT The succession line in China will be clear if the Chinese vice-president is given the second-most powerful military post at the annual party meeting that kicked off Friday 15 october 2010.
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| Japan warns of more intervention as China raps US over yuan Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:23 PM PDT HONG KONG, Friday 15 October 2010 (AFP) - Fears of a global currency war mounted Friday after Japan voiced concerns about wild forex movements, while China said the US should not use the yuan as a "scapegoat" for its economic woes.
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| The shame of being on blacklist for human trafficking Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:20 PM PDT How serious is human trafficking in Malaysia? The detention of seven immigration officers and two foreigners under the Internal Securty Act (ISA) has perhaps explained why the United States included Malaysia in the human trafficking blacklist.
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| Reform calls mount as China's all-powerful Communists meet Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:05 PM PDT BEIJING, Friday 15 October 2010 (AFP) - China's Communist Party opened its secretive annual meeting on Friday to discuss the nation's next five-year economic plan against the backdrop of unusually outspoken calls for political reform.
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| OSK ups Proton revenue forecast Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:05 PM PDT OSK Research today raised Proton Holdings' revenue forecast for the 2010 and 2011 financial years by 1.8% and 5.2%, respectively.
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| Simultaneous by-elections for Batu Sapi, Galas Posted: 14 Oct 2010 10:47 PM PDT The Election Commission (EC) today set Nov 4 for the Batu Sapi parliamentary by-election in Sabah, the same day as the Galas state by-election in Kelantan.
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| Former Immigration D-G freed of bribery charge Posted: 14 Oct 2010 10:46 PM PDT The Sessions Court here today acquitted and discharged former Immigration Department director-general Datuk Wahid Md Don of accepting a bribe of RM60,000 to expedite the approval of visas for Bangladeshi workers.
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| Najib presents 2011 Budget to Agong Posted: 14 Oct 2010 10:45 PM PDT Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had an audience with Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at the Istana Negara here today to seek the king's consent to table the 2011 Budget.
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| Japan PM rival Ozawa sues govt over indictment rule Posted: 14 Oct 2010 11:45 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa sued the government on Friday seeking to invalidate a decision by a judicial panel to indict him over a funding scandal that is clouding his prospects for any political comeback.
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