SPECIAL REPORT - China migrant unrest exposes generational faultline |
- SPECIAL REPORT - China migrant unrest exposes generational faultline
- China's communist princelings tread red carpet to power
- Russia says not expecting visit by N.Korea's Kim
- Images of Hugo Chavez shown to quell health rumors
- Myanmar's govt warns Suu Kyi planned tour could cause riots
- Asia looks to "friend" Lagarde to honour IMF pledges
- FACTBOX - Highlights of "Costs of War" research
- Police search Kabul hotel after Taliban attack kills 10
- Japan lobbies local governments on nuclear reactor restarts
- Myanmar’s government warns Suu Kyi planned tour could cause riots
- China’s communist princelings tread red carpet to power
- US cost of war at least US$3.7t and counting
- In Thailand, money can buy anything, including a vote
- Venezuela’s Chavez shown walking with Cuba’s Castro
- First Atlantic storm forms in Gulf of Mexico
- Toyota recalls more than 110,000 hybrid cars
- 10 killed as Taliban storm Kabul hotel
- Myanmar tells Suu Kyi to halt political activities
- 1,135 compounds issued in May
- Australian shoelace killer jailed for 22 years
| SPECIAL REPORT - China migrant unrest exposes generational faultline Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:59 AM PDT ZENGCHENG, China (Reuters) - In a backstreet pool hall in southern China's factory belt, young migrant workers gather around the tables, their eyes flitting between the worn green baize and the anti-riot police patrolling the grimy alleys. 
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| China's communist princelings tread red carpet to power Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:59 AM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - In China, ancestor worship still matters. Only these days it's ambitious successors of Chairman Mao's comrades who hope to gain from a blaze of nostalgia for communist forebears. 
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| Russia says not expecting visit by N.Korea's Kim Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:28 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has no plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during a trip to the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. 
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| Images of Hugo Chavez shown to quell health rumors Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hailed the release of new footage of the socialist leader as evidence he was recovering from surgery in Cuba despite speculation he may have cancer. 
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| Myanmar's govt warns Suu Kyi planned tour could cause riots Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT YANGON (Reuters) - A possible tour of Myanmar by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi could cause riots, state media warned on Wednesday, implying she would be responsible for her own safety. 
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| Asia looks to "friend" Lagarde to honour IMF pledges Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia's fast-rising economies set their sights on securing key IMF appointments under newly named chief Chistine Lagarde on Wednesday, hopeful she would be the one to make good on oft-heard pledges to swing more power to emerging markets. 
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| FACTBOX - Highlights of "Costs of War" research Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major findings from the "Costs of War" study on the financial and human costs of U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2001 by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. 
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| Police search Kabul hotel after Taliban attack kills 10 Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:57 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police sifted through one of Kabul's landmark hotels room by room on Wednesday for any more casualties or security threats after an overnight assault by Taliban suicide bombers killed 10 Afghan civilians and police. 
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| Japan lobbies local governments on nuclear reactor restarts Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:12 PM PDT SAGA, June 29 — Japan's trade and energy minister tried today to persuade local governments in the country's southern Saga prefecture that it was safe to restart nuclear reactors shut since a deadly earthquake and tsunami in March. Banri Kaieda's trip to Saga, his first such visit since the disaster, was interpreted as a sign that Tokyo was hoping ... 
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| Myanmar’s government warns Suu Kyi planned tour could cause riots Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:52 PM PDT YANGON, June 29 — A possible tour of Myanmar by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi could cause riots, state media warned today, implying she would be responsible for her own safety. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi is planning her first trip outside the former capital Yangon since she was freed from home detention last year just after ... 
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| China’s communist princelings tread red carpet to power Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:25 PM PDT BEIJING, June 29 — In China, ancestor worship still matters. Only these days it's ambitious successors of Chairman Mao's comrades who hope to gain from a blaze of nostalgia for communist forebears. Facing uneasy times, China's ruling Communist Party has been mining messages of resolve and unity from its revolutionary past to address economic ... 
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| US cost of war at least US$3.7t and counting Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:15 PM PDT NEW YORK, June 29 — When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a US$1 trillion (RM3.05 trillion) price tag for America's wars. Staggering as it is, that figure grossly underestimates the total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the US Treasury and ignores more imposing ... 
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| In Thailand, money can buy anything, including a vote Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:37 PM PDT BANGKOK, June 29 — A well-heeled candidate championing the poor in the Thai election sits back in the shade outside a Bangkok Buddhist temple and says: "In Thailand, money can buy anything." And that includes votes in a pivotal election that many fear will deepen the divide between the poor on one side and the elite on the other, a rift that drove ... 
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| Venezuela’s Chavez shown walking with Cuba’s Castro Posted: 28 Jun 2011 07:08 PM PDT CARACAS, June 29 — Venezuela and Cuba released new photographs and video footage of President Hugo Chavez yesterday in an effort to stop speculation the socialist leader was seriously ill after undergoing surgery in Havana. The 56-year-old's disappearance from public view since the June 10 operation has convulsed the volatile and politically ... 
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| First Atlantic storm forms in Gulf of Mexico Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:31 PM PDT MEXICO CITY, June 29 — Arlene, the first tropical storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season, formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico yesterday but looked set to spare Mexico's oilfields from a direct hit. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 65kph and was located about 390km east of Tuxpan in Mexico, the US National Hurricane Center ... 
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| Toyota recalls more than 110,000 hybrid cars Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:24 AM PDT Toyota said Wednesday it will recall more than 110,000 hybrid vehicles in the United States, Japan and Europe because of faulty transistors in electrical power control boards.
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| 10 killed as Taliban storm Kabul hotel Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:24 AM PDT Eight heavily armed Taliban militants stormed a top Kabul hotel, sparking a ferocious battle involving Afghan commandos and a NATO helicopter gunship that ended hours later with 10 people dead.
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| Myanmar tells Suu Kyi to halt political activities Posted: 29 Jun 2011 12:00 AM PDT Myanmar's new military-backed government has warned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party to halt all political activities, official media said Wednesday.
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| Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:48 PM PDT The Health Ministry issued a total of 1,135 compounds worth RM549,600 under the Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects Act 1975 for the control of dengue outbreak during the month of May
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| Australian shoelace killer jailed for 22 years Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:18 PM PDT An Australian man who strangled two of his lovers in sex games gone wrong was jailed on Wednesday for 22 years after pleading guilty to murder.
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