Japan says hard to resume 6-way North Korea talks

Japan says hard to resume 6-way North Korea talks


Japan says hard to resume 6-way North Korea talks

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:14 AM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said on Wednesday that resuming six-party talks to denuclearise North Korea is difficult after the reclusive country shelled a South Korean island.


All 29 trapped New Zealand miners dead - police

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:14 AM PST

GREYMOUTH, New Zealand (Reuters) - All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine for five days are believed to be dead following a second explosion, police said on Wednesday, as the government vowed to investigate the disaster.


Slow wheels of justice encourage crimes

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:03 AM PST

The very, very slow wheel of justice in the Philippines is very clear in the turtle-paced progress of the trial of the Maguindanao Massacre.

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Taiwan, China in biggest joint drug bust yet: report

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:03 AM PST

TAIPEI, Wednesday 24 November 2010 (AFP) - Police from Taiwan and China have scored their biggest joint drug bust yet, arresting five men for smuggling more than eight million dollar's worth of narcotics, local media said Wednesday.

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Three Muslim men shot dead in Thai south: police

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:35 AM PST

NARATHIWAT, Wednesday 24 November 2010 (AFP) - Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed three Muslim men -- two government officials and a religious leader -- in an ambush on Wednesday in the restive Thai south, police said.

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Suu Kyi criticises India's ties with Myanmar junta

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:25 AM PST

NEW DELHI, Wednesday 24 November 2010 (AFP) - Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi criticised India in a newspaper interview on Wednesday for doing business with the military dictators who held her under house arrest until 11 days ago.

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S Korea, US to begin fresh war games

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:15 AM PST

SEOUL, Nov 24: The US and South Korea have agreed to hold joint military exercises in the coming days amid growing tensions between North Korea and the South.


N.Korea blames S.Korea for cancelled family reunion talks

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:17 AM PST

SEOUL, Wednesday 24 November 2010 (AFP) - North Korea criticised South Korea Wednesday for scrapping planned talks on family reunions, and repeated claims that Seoul provoked this week's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean island.

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More HIV infection now through sexual transmission, says Heng

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:09 AM PST

Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Heng Seai Kie said today more people, especially women and girls, in the country were getting infected with HIV through sexual transmission instead of through injection as was the case previously.

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M'sian food companies secure RM20.8 mln in sales at Paris trade fair

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:35 PM PST

Malaysian food companies secured RM20.8 million in sales at last month's Salon International de l'Alimentation Paris 2010 trade fair.

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Grounds of judgment can be written in Bahasa Malaysia or English, rules Federal Court

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:33 PM PST

Judges are given wide discretion to write their grounds of judgment either in the national language or English, the Federal Court ruled here today.

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Singapore condemns N.Korea's 'provocative' act on S.Korea

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:30 PM PST

SINGAPORE, Wednesday 24 November 2010 (AFP) - Singapore on Wednesday condemned North Korea for its "reckless and provocative" act of firing artillery shells on South Korea, warning this has "dangerously" raised tensions on the peninsula.

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Cancun's vanishing mangroves hold climate promise

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:58 PM PST

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - This famous beach resort, which will next week host international climate change talks, was itself born from the destruction of a potent resource to fight global warming.


Brazil police battle Rio gang violence

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:12 PM PST

Brazilian police have launched a major operation in Rio de Janeiro to try to stop a new wave of violence.


Knox seeks second chance of freedom

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:26 PM PST

Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend are starting an appeal in Italy against their convictions for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.


Ireland braces itself for austerity cuts

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:37 PM PST

The Irish government is set to publish an austerity plan required for its EU and IMF bail-out.


GT5 tested on Top Gear's track

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 10:10 PM PST

After five years in development Gran Turismo 5 has been released in the UK but how does it compare to the real thing and does it match up to the competition?


GTP yields positive results through NKRA - Koh Tsu Koon

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:20 PM PST

The Government Transformation Programme (GTP), launched last January, has yielded positive results through various initiatives in the six National Key Result Areas (NKRA).

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South Korea in a bind over its wayward neighbour

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 11:17 PM PST

SEOUL, Wednesday 24 November 2010 (AFP) - North Korea's deadly rain of shells has enraged South Koreans but also driven home their chilling dilemma -- how to deal with an unpredictable nuclear-armed neighbour while avoiding all-out war.

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