India govt panel cuts growth forecast to 8.5%

India govt panel cuts growth forecast to 8.5%

India govt panel cuts growth forecast to 8.5%

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:25 AM PDT

The top economic adviser to India's prime minister has cut his estimate for economic growth in the current fiscal year by half a percentage point to 8.5 percent, citing inflationary pressures.

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6.1-magnitude quake hits Indonesia

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:22 AM PDT

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday, government seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

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Hundreds rally for bin Laden in Pakistan

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:21 AM PDT

Hundreds of people took to the streets near the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday to pay "homage" to Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and call for holy war against America, witnesses said.

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France expels 14 Libyan diplomats

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:20 AM PDT

France has ordered 14 people who served as Libyan diplomats under Moamer Kadhafi's regime to leave the country within two days, the French foreign ministry said on Friday.

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Thai PM sets stage for tough election

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:19 AM PDT

Thailand's premier fired the starting gun Friday for the first general election in the politically divided nation since deadly protests rocked Bangkok last year, with a vote expected by early July.

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Malaysia needs to check on brain drain: TalentCorp

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:16 AM PDT

Malaysia has to find ways to check brain drain to its advantage as it is a global phenomenon currently, says the man tasked with wooing Malaysian professionals working overseas back to the country.

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Affordable housing for younger generation soon: Najib

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:15 AM PDT

The government will launch an affordable quality housing programme for houses priced at RM220,000 and below to enable the younger generation to oordable quality housing programme for houses priced at RM220,000 and below to enable the younger generation to own a house, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

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Workers Party focus of Malaysians in Singapore election

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:15 AM PDT

Tomorrow, Singapore undoubtedly, will be the focus of most Malaysians as the island republic goes to the polls. While their interest -- albeit only from across the causeway -- would be purely in its democratic process, there is bound to be keener interest on the Singapore Workers Party, one of only two opposition parties which have won seats in the 87-member parliament.

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Thousands of Hmong stage rare Vietnam protest

Posted: 06 May 2011 01:13 AM PDT

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam has deployed troops to contain a rare protest by ethnic Hmong Christians, some of whom were calling for an independent kingdom, diplomatic and other sources said on Friday, and the government indicated the unrest was still going on.

Revolution spurs Egypt's tourist revival

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:46 AM PDT

(Egypt-AFP) - Just weeks after a popular uprising sent foreigners fleeing from Egypt in droves, tour operators are hoping to turn the heart of the uprising into a money-spinner to rival the Pyramids. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.

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Gehry's new tower shines in lower Manhattan

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:38 AM PDT

(NEW YORK-AFP) - VIDEO: Frank Gehry's tower at 8 Spruce Street rises like a beacon above Lower Manhattan, a shining, striking 76-floor assemblage of apartments that remakes the skyline. Many hail the project as bringing architectural daring and creative optimism back to the cityscape, just a few blocks from the former World Trade Center -- and a decade after the fall of the Twin Towers. And in just a few weeks, the first residents move in. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.

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Thousands of Hmong stage rare Vietnam protest

Posted: 06 May 2011 12:01 AM PDT

  HANOI, May 6 — Vietnam has deployed troops to contain a rare protest by ethnic Hmong Christians, some of whom were calling for an independent kingdom, diplomatic and other sources said today, and the government indicated the unrest was still going on. The demonstration by as many as 7,000 people in the far-flung mountains of Dien Bien Province, ...

Japan PM rival widens ruling party rift over crisis

Posted: 05 May 2011 11:43 PM PDT

  TOKYO, May 6 — A heavyweight rival to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan from his ruling party today publicly blasted the leader's handling of a nuclear crisis, as deepening rifts in the group threaten to stall policies after the March earthquake and tsunami. The ruling party's image could also take a hit after the deputy head of its disaster ...

CIA watched bin Laden from nearby safe house inside Pakistan

Posted: 05 May 2011 11:04 PM PDT

  ABBOTTABAD, May 6 — Extensive surveillance of Osama bin Laden's hideout from a nearby CIA safe house in Abbottabad led to his killing in a Navy Seal operation, US officials said, a revelation likely to further embarrass Pakistan's spy agency and strain ties. The US officials, quoted by the Washington Post, said the safe house was the base for ...

Air France crash body lifted to surface from seabed

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:22 PM PDT

PARIS, May 6 — The body of one of the 228 victims of the Air France Rio-Paris flight that crashed into the ocean off Brazil in 2009 was painstakingly lifted to the surface yesterday from a depth of 3,900 metres. The body — preserved by high pressure and low temperatures as it lay in the submerged wreckage for nearly two years — was still belted to ...

Brazil’s supreme court recognises gay partnerships

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:13 PM PDT

  BRASILIA, May 6 — Brazil's Federal Supreme Court yesterday legally recognised homosexual partnerships in a landmark case for gay rights in a country with the world's largest population of Roman Catholics. Justices at the STF, as the country's top court is known, voted 10 to nil in favour of gay partnerships, setting a legal precedent in Latin ...

At least 8 Pakistani Shi’ites killed in suspected militant attack

Posted: 05 May 2011 08:55 PM PDT

QUETTA, Pakistan, May 6 — Suspected Islamist militants today opened fire on a group of Pakistani Shi'ites in the town of Quetta, killing at least eight and wounding 15, police said, the first major violent incident since the death of Osama bin Laden. The killing of the al Qaeda leader by US commandos in a Pakistani town has triggered fears of a ...

Obama defends bin Laden sea burial as ‘respectful’

Posted: 05 May 2011 08:06 PM PDT

  WASHINGTON, May 6 — President Barack Obama said US forces were "respectful of the body" of Osama bin Laden when they buried his remains at sea, despite criticism from some Muslim clerics that it violated Islamic practice. "We took more care on this than, obviously, bin Laden took when he killed 3,000 people," Obama told CBS's "60 Minutes" ...

Assad deploys his troops before Friday prayers

Posted: 05 May 2011 07:11 PM PDT

  AMMAN, May 6 — Security forces have moved into central Syria and coastal areas ahead of Friday prayers in a test of will for demonstrators determined to maintain protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. In a show of force, tanks have taken up positions near the urban centres of Homs, Rastan and Banias in the past two days. Last ...

Libyan rebels get cash pledge from West and Arabs

Posted: 05 May 2011 06:51 PM PDT

  ROME, May 6 — A coalition of Western and Arab countries has agreed to provide Libyan rebels with millions of dollars in aid to help them in their campaign to drive out Muammar Gaddafi, in power since 1969. Ministers from the anti-Gaddafi Libya contact group, among them the United States, France, Britain and Italy, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan, ...

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