French finance ministry confirms cyber attack |
- French finance ministry confirms cyber attack
- Japan PM rejects snap poll after FM quits
- Think tank urges overhaul of Myanmar sanctions
- N. Korea launches electronic attacks on S. Korea
- Philippines to tender $1bn worth of rail, toll roads
- Japan suspends two baby vaccines after deaths
- Man detained for impersonating policeman
- Taib meets senior PBB leaders
- Najib: voters returning to support BN
- Kedah/Perlis Bar Legal Aid Center receives mostly Syariah cases
- Bahrain prince warns against protest escalation
- Turkey charges five more journalists over coup plot
- Japan halts Pfizer, Sanofi vaccines after four die
- North Korea proposes talks to resolve defection row
- Casualties take focus from Gates's Afghan trip
- MRT -- convenient, comfortable, and costly
- Japan PM hangs on but outlook grim
- Gaddafi counter-offensives raise civil war fears
- VIDEO: Estonian election backs government
- Better than a BMI? New obesity scale proposed
| French finance ministry confirms cyber attack Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:58 AM PST PARIS, Monday 7 March 2011 (AFP) - The French finance ministry confirmed Monday it had come under cyber attack in December from hackers mainly targetting G20 documents.
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| Japan PM rejects snap poll after FM quits Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:57 AM PST TOKYO, Monday 7 March 2011 (AFP) - Japan's centre-left premier on Monday vowed to fight on despite media charges that his government was "on the edge of a cliff" after the foreign minister resigned over a donations scandal.
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| Think tank urges overhaul of Myanmar sanctions Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:56 AM PST BANGKOK, Monday 7 March 2011 (AFP) - Two decades of Western sanctions against Myanmar have failed to achieve their goal and need to be urgently overhauled, an influential international think tank said Monday.
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| N. Korea launches electronic attacks on S. Korea Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:55 AM PST SEOUL, Monday 7 March 2011 (AFP) - Seoul confirmed Monday that North Korea has been trying since Friday to jam communications signals across the border, where the US and South Korea are holding a major joint military exercise.
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| Philippines to tender $1bn worth of rail, toll roads Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:54 AM PST MANILA, Monday 7 March 2011 (AFP) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Monday invited investors to help his cash-strapped government build more than a billion dollars' worth of road and rail projects.
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| Japan suspends two baby vaccines after deaths Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:53 AM PST TOKYO, Monday 7 March 2011 (AFP) - Japan's health ministry has suspended two vaccines made by drugs giants Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis as it investigates whether the recent deaths of four infants are linked to them.
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| Man detained for impersonating policeman Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:52 AM PST Police have detained a man for allegedly impersonating a policeman at Taman Perpaduan, Hulu Kinta, here yesterday.
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| Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:51 AM PST Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud held a closed-door meeting with several senior leaders of the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) on the fifth floor of the new State Assembly Complex in Petra Jaya here this morning.
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| Najib: voters returning to support BN Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:51 AM PST The success of the Barisan Nasional (BN) in the two by-elections yesterday reflected an encouraging trend for the coalition with growing support from the voters.
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| Kedah/Perlis Bar Legal Aid Center receives mostly Syariah cases Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:50 AM PST Most of the cases received by the Kedah/Perlis Bar Legal Aid Center last year were on syariah cases, Kedah/Perlis Bar chairman Rao Suryana Abdul Rahman said.
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| Bahrain prince warns against protest escalation Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:29 AM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain's crown prince warned all sides against escalating a standoff with disgruntled majority Shi'ites seeking an elected government in the Gulf Arab kingdom, asking for patience ahead of a national dialogue. 
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| Turkey charges five more journalists over coup plot Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:29 AM PST ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court charged four journalists and a writer early on Monday with involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow the government, but prosecutors said the detentions were not due to their journalism. 
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| Japan halts Pfizer, Sanofi vaccines after four die Posted: 06 Mar 2011 11:59 PM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's health ministry has halted the use of vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Sanofi-Aventis SA to prevent meningitis and pneumonia following the deaths of four children. 
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| North Korea proposes talks to resolve defection row Posted: 06 Mar 2011 11:59 PM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has proposed Red Cross talks to try to resolve a row over the fate of 31 of its nationals in South Korea, four of whom have said they want to defect, officials in the South said on Monday. 
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| Casualties take focus from Gates's Afghan trip Posted: 06 Mar 2011 11:59 PM PST KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Monday at a time of increased strain between Kabul and its Western backers and with important security transition milestones looming. 
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| MRT -- convenient, comfortable, and costly Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:22 AM PST Under the usual circumstance, an average resident of the Klang Valley, especially those dependent on public transportation, will look anxiously forward to the implementation of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT).
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| Japan PM hangs on but outlook grim Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:07 AM PST TOKYO, March 7 — Japan's unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan today refused to step down after the resignation of his foreign minister over a political funding scandal that has added to pressure on him to quit or call a snap election. But it is far from clear how Kan, if he does manage to cling to office, will be able to resolve the political ...
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| Gaddafi counter-offensives raise civil war fears Posted: 06 Mar 2011 11:28 PM PST TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have launched counter-offensives against rebel-held towns, increasing fears that Libya is heading for a civil war rather than the swift revolutions seen in Tunisia and Egypt. 
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| VIDEO: Estonian election backs government Posted: 06 Mar 2011 11:03 PM PST Estonians appear to have endorsed the centre-right coalition led by Andrus Ansip.
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| Better than a BMI? New obesity scale proposed Posted: 06 Mar 2011 10:58 PM PST CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have developed a new way to measure whether a person is too fat without having people step on the scale. 
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