Price rises highlight China food supply challenges: UN envoy

Price rises highlight China food supply challenges: UN envoy

Price rises highlight China food supply challenges: UN envoy

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 01:03 AM PST

BEIJING, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - Recent food price surges in China have underscored the supply challenges the country faces, as decreasing arable land is making it harder to maintain farm output, a UN envoy said Thursday.

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Oil could guarantee peace after Sudan splits

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:50 AM PST

KHARTOUM, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - Sudan's northerners have a pipeline but little petroleum; the southerners are swimming in oil but have no pipeline.

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Nepal releases S.Koreans held over missing N.Korean

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:48 AM PST

SEOUL, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - Nepal has released two South Koreans held for their alleged involvement in the case of a missing North Korean, the South's foreign ministry said Thursday.

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China again urges calm on Korean peninsula

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:46 AM PST

BEIJING, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - China on Thursday reiterated its call for calm on the Korean peninsula as Seoul's military held a live-fire drill in a major show of strength a month after the North shelled one of its border islands.

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South Korean missing after Philippine boat trip: police

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:44 AM PST

MANILA, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - A South Korean man has gone missing during a solo boat trip off a small southern Philippine island, local police said Thursday.

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S.Korea, China agree on calm handling of boat sinking

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:43 AM PST

SEOUL, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - South Korea and China have agreed to act "calmly" in settling a dispute over the sinking of a Chinese trawler whose crew are accused of illegal fishing, a Seoul official said Thursday.

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Christmas decor in Indonesia excessive: top Muslim body

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:42 AM PST

JAKARTA, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - Indonesia's top Islamic body said Thursday that Christmas decorations in malls, amusement centres and public places were "excessive and provocative" in the Muslim-majority country.

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Two rangers shot dead in Thai south

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:41 AM PST

NARATHIWAT, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - Suspected Islamic militants shot two rangers dead in Thailand's restive south on Thursday as the country unveiled plans to revoke a state of emergency in part of the troubled region.

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China pledges support to eurozone countries

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:39 AM PST

BEIJING, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - China on Thursday pledged its backing to eurozone countries amid an ongoing debt crisis and said Europe would be a "major market" for investment of Beijing's massive foreign exchange reserves.

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Indian govt offers corruption debate to break deadlock

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:38 AM PST

NEW DELHI, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - The Indian government has offered to hold a special corruption debate with opposition lawmakers to break a deadlock that meant no legislation was passed in all of the last parliamentary session.

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'Squatting' Christmas figures of Catalonia

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:04 PM PST

The BBC's Sarah Rainsford meets a maker of caganers, the tradional Christmas statues that show a figure in the act of defecation.


Philippines sees 6-7 percent economic growth this year

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:15 AM PST

MANILA, Thursday 23 December 2010 (AFP) - The Philippines on Thursday tipped the economy to grow up to 7.0 percent this year after election spending propelled expansion in the first half, a senior official said Thursday.

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Who will go bankrupt?

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:14 AM PST

As the next general election is anticipated to be held very soon, the people need to think rationally and make judgment on which governing approach would bankrupt the country.

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Santa sack

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:49 PM PST

Behavioural enrichment is an important part of caring for the animals at Taronga Zoo, with zoo keepers and the Behavioural Studies Unit constantly setting new challenges for the animals.

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South Korea holds drill, North lobs only insults

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:58 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea criticised major land and sea military exercises staged by the South on Thursday, but stopped short of threatening a retaliatory strike as tension remained high on the divided peninsula.

Turning around Rio's favelas

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:34 PM PST

Brazilian authorities are craking down of the level of violence in some favelas allowing business to reinvest in once desolate areas.


Indonesia to make corruption school curriculum

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:32 PM PST

JAKARTA, Dec 23: Following a discussion with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Education Ministry has announced plans to include an anticorruption module in the 2011 curriculum.

New parties keen to buy PLUS get new deadline to submit offers

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:15 PM PST

New parties interested to acquire PLUS Expressways Bhd have until 5pm on Jan 10, 2011, to submit their bids, said Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group corporate services general manager, Lya Rahman.

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MRT tender open to local and foreign companies

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:14 PM PST

The government expects to open the tender process for the first line of the MRT project between Sungai Buloh and Kajang by April, says Land Public Transport Commission Chief Executive Officer Mohd Nur Ismal Kamal.

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N.Korea response muted to South's large drill

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 11:23 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea criticised major land and sea military exercises staged by the South on Thursday, but stopped short of threatening a retaliatory strike as tension remained high on the divided peninsula.

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