Scientists seek climate clues in shattered glass |
- Scientists seek climate clues in shattered glass
- Iran hangs man convicted of spying for Mossad - IRNA
- Japan's Shadow Shogun to testify over funds scandal
- Russia starts probe as airport chaos sparks protests
- China's Zijin Mining makes payout over deadly dam collapse
- Iran hangs 'Mossad spy': state media
- S.Korean court rules anti-rumour law unconstitutional
- Mahathir tells Proton to look at India
- More fund raising next year due to ETP
- North Korean troops' new uniform alarms Seoul
- Iran hangs 'Mossad spy'
- Japan DPJ's Ozawa to appear at ethics panel
- N.Korea cracks down on lax border patrols: report
- Philippines denounces rebel extortion ahead of talks
- Indonesia drivers face tax hike in bid to cut Jakarta jams
- The wish of the people
- Japan sounds alarm as yen rises against dollar
- South Korea opens airport railway... 10 years after airport
- Iran hangs man convicted of spying for Mossad - IRNA
- Japan DPJ's Ozawa to appear at ethics panel
| Scientists seek climate clues in shattered glass Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:59 AM PST SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Studying the way glass or other brittle objects shatter can help scientists hone their weather forecasts and predictions of future climate, a study released on Tuesday says. 
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| Iran hangs man convicted of spying for Mossad - IRNA Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:59 AM PST TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday hanged an Iranian convicted of spying for the Islamic Republic's arch foe Israel, the official IRNA news agency quoted a statement from the judiciary as saying. 
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| Japan's Shadow Shogun to testify over funds scandal Posted: 28 Dec 2010 01:04 AM PST TOKYO, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - A veteran powerbroker of Japan's ruling centre-left party, Ichiro Ozawa, on Tuesday said he would testify before a parliamentary ethics panel over a political funds scandal.
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| Russia starts probe as airport chaos sparks protests Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:41 AM PST MOSCOW, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - Russian prosecutors Tuesday launched a probe into how bad weather caused massive disruption at Moscow's two largest airports as passengers staged protests against the chaos that left thousands stranded.
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| China's Zijin Mining makes payout over deadly dam collapse Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:40 AM PST HONG KONG, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - China's Zijin Mining said Tuesday it would pay out about 7.5 million US dollars to help victims of a dam collapse near a tin mine that killed at least 22 people.
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| Iran hangs 'Mossad spy': state media Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:36 AM PST TEHRAN, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday hanged a man found guilty of feeding Israeli spy agency Mossad with Iranian military secrets and information on its missile programme over a period of six years, news agency IRNA reported.
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| S.Korean court rules anti-rumour law unconstitutional Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:29 AM PST SEOUL, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that a clause in a telecommunications law that was used to crack down on Internet rumourmongers is unconstitutional.
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| Mahathir tells Proton to look at India Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:22 AM PST Former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said national car maker, Proton (Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Sdn Bhd), should leverage on India's low cost production to foray into the burgeoning automobile market.
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| More fund raising next year due to ETP Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:21 AM PST More fund raising activities are expected next year, largely driven by the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), says AmInvestment Bank Bhd.
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| North Korean troops' new uniform alarms Seoul Posted: 27 Dec 2010 03:30 PM PST SEOUL: Some North Korean troops stationed along the border have donned a camouflage uniform similar to that worn by South Koreans, apparently to practise intrusion drills, a defence ministry official said today. The move prompted the South to advance the supply of new uniforms for its own troops to avoid confusion, the official told journalists in a background briefing. "It's been confirmed some North Korean frontline troops are wearing uniforms with woodland camouflage pattern which is similar to those of South Korean uniforms," the official said. "Our judgment is that the North's special forces stationed there are staging intrusion drills wearing the uniforms." The South's military has begun supplying new "digital camouflage" uniforms and is considering speeding up the distribution following the North's move. The North is believed to have some 200,000 special forces and to have deployed some 50,000 of them along the border with the South, the ministry said. Tensions are high following the North's shelling last month of a South Korean border island, which killed four people including civilians. The South's forces are on alert for any fresh attacks. - AFP
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| Posted: 27 Dec 2010 03:26 PM PST By Jay Deshmukh TEHRAN: Iran hanged today a man found guilty of feeding Israeli spy agency Mossad with Iranian military secrets and information on its missile programme for a period of six years, news agency IRNA reported.Ali Akbar Siadat was hanged in Tehran's Evin prison after being condemned to death for "working for Mossad", IRNA quoted the Tehran prosecutor's office as saying. Siadat was found guilty of having had links with Mossad for six years. "He had received US$60,000 to give classified information to the Zionist regime," the state news agency said. Siadat had acknowledged having established contacts with one Israeli embassy overseas and that he had been giving information "about missiles belonging to the Revolutionary Guards". He was also transferring information "to the enemy of military bases, fighter jets, the number of training flights, airplane accidents and air systems of the Revolutionary Guards", the report said. Three years ago Siadat had received a computer and other equipment for his work. He used to meet his contacts from the Israeli intelligence service in Turkey, Thailand and Netherlands in different hotels, IRNA said. It added that when he was arrested two years ago with his wife while trying to leave Iran he was found with 29 pages of classified information. Iranian media on Sunday announced that another Iranian had also been sentenced to death for working as a "spy" for Israel. His identity will be revealed after confirmation of the sentence, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said, according to Mehr news agency. In late October, media reports quoted Dolatabadi as saying that two Iranians had been charged with spying for Israel, which accuses Tehran of seeking to develop atomic weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme. Hostile activities Iran routinely accuses arch-foe Israel of carrying out hostile activities against the Islamic republic, including espionage against its armed forces and its nuclear programmes. Iranian officials have accused the Israeli intelligence services, as well as the United States and Britain, of attacking two of its top nuclear scientists on Nov 26. Majid Shahriari, a senior scientist involved in Iran's nuclear activities, was killed by a bomb placed against his car. Fereydoun Abbassi Davani, another top nuclear expert, was wounded in a similar attack. Israel and its ally the United States have not ruled out a military strike against Iran to stop its nuclear programme. Iran denies that its programme of uranium enrichment is aimed at making nuclear weapons. IRNA reported that another man, Ali Saremi, was also hanged on Tuesday in Evin prison after he was found guilty of anti-revolution activities. Saremi, a member of the People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), the main armed opposition group, was charged with participating in activities of counter-revolution groups and providing them with information. He had been arrested several times since the 1979 Islamic revolution for similar anti-revolution activities. The latest two hangings bring to 171 the total number of people executed in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP count based on media reports. At least 270 people were executed in 2009. Along with China, Saudi Arabia and the United States, Iran has one of the highest numbers of executions each year. The Islamic republic says the death penalty is essential to maintain law and order and is applied only after exhaustive judicial proceedings. Murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery are other crimes punishable by death in Iran. - AFP
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| Japan DPJ's Ozawa to appear at ethics panel Posted: 28 Dec 2010 12:24 AM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese political powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa told a news conference on Tuesday that he would appear at a parliamentary ethics panel over a funding scandal, in an about-face likely to ease a rift in the ruling party. 
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| N.Korea cracks down on lax border patrols: report Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:38 PM PST SEOUL, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - North Korea has launched a crackdown on military border guards suspected of assisting in the trafficking of people and drugs in exchange for bribes, a Seoul-based defectors' group said Tuesday.
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| Philippines denounces rebel extortion ahead of talks Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:37 PM PST MANILA, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino's government on Tuesday denounced communist rebel extortion of businesses, which his spokeswoman said could scare away investments and jobs.
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| Indonesia drivers face tax hike in bid to cut Jakarta jams Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:16 PM PST JAKARTA, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - Drivers in Jakarta are to face a rising tax bill for each vehicle they own from January in a bid to ease worsening traffic jams in the Indonesian capital, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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| Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:14 PM PST In other words, in the world of "1Malaysia", no one can enjoy special privileges. If the king breaks the law, he or she will have to be treated like the common people, not to mention those cronies or corrupt officials. So, be it BN or the Pakatan Rakyat, their first job is to prove that they can give back to the people what they have taken from them.
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| Japan sounds alarm as yen rises against dollar Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:09 PM PST TOKYO, Tuesday 28 December 20100 (AFP) - Japan's Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda Tuesday warned against a resurgence of the yen and said the government was ready to step into forex markets for a second time in three months.
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| South Korea opens airport railway... 10 years after airport Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:08 PM PST SEOUL, Tuesday 28 December 2010 (AFP) - South Korea Tuesday officially opened a railway linking its main international airport at Incheon to central Seoul, almost 10 years after the airport itself began operations.
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| Iran hangs man convicted of spying for Mossad - IRNA Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:48 PM PST TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday hanged a man sentenced to death for spying for Israel's intelligence services, the official IRNA news agency quoted a judiciary statement as saying. 
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| Japan DPJ's Ozawa to appear at ethics panel Posted: 27 Dec 2010 11:48 PM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese political powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa told a news conference on Tuesday that he would appear at a parliamentary ethics panel over a funding scandal, in an about-face likely to ease a rift in the ruling party. 
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