China hikes pay amid labour shortages, unrest |
- China hikes pay amid labour shortages, unrest
- Vietnam culls over 2,500 chickens in bird flu fight
- Italy's Mount Etna spewing ash clouds
- US wants China to urge restraint on new N. Korea leaders
- Young voters could sway Taiwan election: opposition
- Kampung champion
- 35 abandoned projects to be revived this year: Chor
- 25 dead, 150 missing in Philippine landslide
- Street demos scare off potential investors: Mukhriz
- Hong Kong property market tipped to fall in 2012
- Iskandar projects will flourish: Najib, Lee
- South Korea says ready for talk with hostile North
- China probes another report of fake cooking oil at factory
- South Korea says ready for talk with hostile North
- Four blasts kill 25 in Iraq's capital
- Taiwan's Tsai puts pragmatism over populism
- Glitch in China's online train ticket system sparks fury
- 10 killed in two bomb blasts in Iraq's capital
- UK to respond positively to more Myanmar reforms - Hague
- Maldives to allow resorts to resume spa operations
| China hikes pay amid labour shortages, unrest Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:30 AM PST China is raising minimum wages in some key cities and provinces as local officials try to combat labour shortages and growing worker unrest.
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| Vietnam culls over 2,500 chickens in bird flu fight Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:08 AM PST Vietnam has culled more than 2,500 chickens from a farm in the Mekong Delta area in an effort to contain a bird flu outbreak, officials said Thursday, amid heightened fears about the virus in the region.
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| Italy's Mount Etna spewing ash clouds Posted: 05 Jan 2012 01:08 AM PST A column of hot ash spewed high into the sky from Italy's Mount Etna on the Mediterranean island of Sicily on Thursday, as Europe's highest active volcano rumbled back to life, officials said.
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| US wants China to urge restraint on new N. Korea leaders Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:47 AM PST The United States has urged China to stress the need for restraint to its North Korean allies as Pyongyang undergoes a leadership transition, a senior US diplomat said Thursday.
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| Young voters could sway Taiwan election: opposition Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:47 AM PST First-time voters could decide Taiwan's neck-and-neck presidential race, the opposition camp said Thursday, urging the young to show up on election day to help shape the island's future.
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| Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:46 AM PST The move of saving these companies is meant to take care of the people's interests. If the bus services are suspended, the people would have to suffer the consequences. However, since the government's assistance is only a temporary solution, they should identify the reasons of the losses or the problem will never be completely solved.
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| 35 abandoned projects to be revived this year: Chor Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:32 AM PST The Ministry of Housing and Local Government has targeted to revive 35 abandoned housing projects throughout the country by this year.
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| 25 dead, 150 missing in Philippine landslide Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:32 AM PST At least 25 people were killed in the southern Philippines on Thursday when a landslide buried gold prospectors who had refused to leave an area declared too dangerous for habitation.
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| Street demos scare off potential investors: Mukhriz Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:31 AM PST Street demonstrations and illegal rallies could scare off potential investors from the country, International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said today.
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| Hong Kong property market tipped to fall in 2012 Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:31 AM PST Hong Kong's real estate market is tipped to extend recent falls this year, analysts said Thursday, as property transactions dived to a five-year low in 2011 after a slew of measures to curb prices.
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| Iskandar projects will flourish: Najib, Lee Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:31 AM PST Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is confident Iskandar Malaysia would continue to flourish and that the project would be completed on schedule despite global economic uncertainties.
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| South Korea says ready for talk with hostile North Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:44 AM PST SEOUL, Jan 5 — South Korea today reached out to rival North Korea, nearly three weeks after the death of the North's iron-fisted ruler Kim Jong-il, saying it wanted to reopen dialogue despite the North's vitriolic outbursts. "We are open to dialogue with North Korea," Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan told a news briefing in the South Korean capital, ... 
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| China probes another report of fake cooking oil at factory Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:26 AM PST HONG KONG, Jan 5 — A factory in southern China is being investigated after reports it sold tonnes of adulterated cooking oil, which was possibly sold to makers of hugely popular instant noodles — the latest in a series of food safety scandals to hit the country. Officials from the Yong Long factory in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan ... 
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| South Korea says ready for talk with hostile North Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:16 AM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea reached out to rival North Korea Thursday, nearly three weeks after the death of the North's iron-fisted ruler Kim Jong-il, saying it wanted to reopen dialogue despite the North's vitriolic outbursts. 
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| Four blasts kill 25 in Iraq's capital Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:07 AM PST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four bombs in mainly Shi'ite Muslim areas in Iraq's capital Baghdad killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens of others on Thursday, police and hospital sources said. 
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| Taiwan's Tsai puts pragmatism over populism Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:56 PM PST TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's first woman presidential candidate, Tsai Ing-wen, is not like the average politician from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). 
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| Glitch in China's online train ticket system sparks fury Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:31 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - A computerised ticketing system in China that was created to help millions of migrant workers buy train tickets home for the Chinese New Year holiday crashed within minutes of its launch, angering thousands of Chinese on Thursday. 
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| 10 killed in two bomb blasts in Iraq's capital Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:08 PM PST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded in a mainly Shi'ite Muslim area of Iraq's capital Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 37, police and hospital sources said. 
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| UK to respond positively to more Myanmar reforms - Hague Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:07 PM PST NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed a pledge by Myanmar on Thursday to continue reforms and release more political prisoners, saying such progress, if sustained, would lead to deeper economic and political ties with the West. 
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| Maldives to allow resorts to resume spa operations Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:41 AM PST  MALE, Jan 5: The government of Maldives is to allow resorts in the country to resume spa operations, president Mohamed Nasheed announced this afternoon.
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