Egypt faces legal crisis before presidential poll |
- Egypt faces legal crisis before presidential poll
- Raising retirement age has positive impact on economy: Donald Lim
- Charm of the stories
- Production cost to escalate over next 6 months: survey
- Thousands in need of food, shelter after Myanmar clashes
- Putin uses tough tactics against protest
- Accused British hacker charged in US over LulzSec attacks
- Moderate quake shakes southeast Turkey
- Syrian army systematically killing civilians - Amnesty
- Insight - Germany and Greece - a tale of estrangement
- France wants U.N. to be able to enforce Annan plan
- China could see rate cuts, not stimulus - officials
- Japan to pass bill to insure Iran oil imports - report
- Violence tests Myanmar's media, and its censors
- VIDEO: Amnesty accuses Syria of war crimes
- 28 dead in Myanmar communal unrest: official
- China probes 'forced abortion' case amid uproar
- S. Korea starts work on international seaport
- Communal unrest threatens Myanmar's future: UN
- 'Xena' pleads guilty over N.Zealand oil protest
| Egypt faces legal crisis before presidential poll Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:41 AM PDT Egypt's top court will on Thursday examine a law which could disqualify one of two presidential candidates, in a legal crisis that threatens to derail an already tumultuous transition from Hosni Mubarak's rule.
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| Raising retirement age has positive impact on economy: Donald Lim Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:41 AM PDT The plan to raise the retirement age of private sector employees to 60 is expected to have a positive impact on the country's economic growth, says Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai.
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| Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:39 AM PDT Great stories add connotations to beautiful lakes and mountains, as well as classic historical buildings and make them fascinating. Stories can also help further impress visitors.
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| Production cost to escalate over next 6 months: survey Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:13 AM PDT Manufacturers are concerned that labour, energy and shipping cost will continue to escalate, at a faster pace, over the next six months against a backdrop of better business conditions, says the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM).
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| Thousands in need of food, shelter after Myanmar clashes Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:14 AM PDT SITTWE (Reuters) - Thousands of displaced Muslim Rohingyas and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists were in need of food, water and shelter in northwestern Myanmar on Thursday after fleeing the country's worst sectarian clashes in years. 
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| Putin uses tough tactics against protest Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:07 AM PDT MOSCOW, June 14 — Police showed up on Ksenia Sobchak's doorstep at 8 a.m. in the middle of a sleepy long weekend and started a search. They spent hours in her apartment on Monday, going through the belongings of the 30-year-old TV personality, socialite and restaurateur before she had a chance to get properly dressed, Sobchak recounted to a Moscow ... 
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| Accused British hacker charged in US over LulzSec attacks Posted: 13 Jun 2012 09:11 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, June 14 — A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a 20-year-old British citizen on charges related to attacks by the LulzSec hacking group on the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony's film and TV studio, authorities said yesterday. Ryan Cleary, who is already jailed in the United Kingdom where he faces prosecution over ... 
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| Moderate quake shakes southeast Turkey Posted: 13 Jun 2012 11:22 PM PDT ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 shook Sirnak province in southeast Turkey on Thursday, the Kandilli Observatory in Istanbul said. 
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| Syrian army systematically killing civilians - Amnesty Posted: 13 Jun 2012 11:19 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Syrian government forces are killing civilians in organised attacks on towns and villages that amount to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said on Thursday, citing evidence from over 20 locations in the country's northwest. 
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| Insight - Germany and Greece - a tale of estrangement Posted: 13 Jun 2012 11:12 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - In early October of last year, German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler landed in Athens on a plane packed full of corporate executives, carrying a message of hope. 
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| France wants U.N. to be able to enforce Annan plan Posted: 13 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT PARIS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - France will propose giving the United Nations the power to enforce Kofi Annan's Syrian peace plan, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday, adding that a no-fly zone was an option under consideration to stem what was now a civil war. 
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| China could see rate cuts, not stimulus - officials Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:56 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government is more likely to implement further reforms or cuts in interest rates and reserve ratios, rather than launching an expensive new stimulus plan, current and former officials told a conference on Thursday. 
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| Japan to pass bill to insure Iran oil imports - report Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:34 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's lower house is set to pass a bill on Friday to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian crude cargoes, making it the first of Iran's big Asian buyers to find a way to keep the oil flowing in the face of tough new EU sanctions. 
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| Violence tests Myanmar's media, and its censors Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:32 PM PDT (Reuters) - When Myanmar emerged last year from army rule, state censors started to loosen their powerful grip, allowing newspapers to report freely on what had been unthinkable, from the views of opposition politicians to allegations of government corruption. 
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| VIDEO: Amnesty accuses Syria of war crimes Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:44 PM PDT The human rights group, Amnesty International, has accused the Syrian government of war crimes and adopting a scorched earth policy.
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| 28 dead in Myanmar communal unrest: official Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:59 PM PDT Twenty-eight people have been killed and dozens more wounded in several days of sectarian clashes in western Myanmar, a government official said Thursday.
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| China probes 'forced abortion' case amid uproar Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:50 PM PDT China said Thursday it was investigating the case of a woman who was allegedly forced to abort seven months into her pregnancy, after images posted online of the baby's corpse caused an uproar.
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| S. Korea starts work on international seaport Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:34 PM PDT South Korea started work Thursday on a major international seaport, part of a massive project to turn reclaimed land into an industrial, tourism and agricultural hub.
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| Communal unrest threatens Myanmar's future: UN Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:33 PM PDT A UN envoy has warned that communal violence in western Myanmar poses a threat to the country's shift towards democracy and said discrimination against the minority Muslim Rohingya was behind the unrest.
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| 'Xena' pleads guilty over N.Zealand oil protest Posted: 13 Jun 2012 10:33 PM PDT "Xena: Warrior Princess" actress Lucy Lawless pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court Thursday to unlawfully boarding a ship in protest at plans to search for oil off Alaska.
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