Australia still the world's happiest nation |
- Australia still the world's happiest nation
- Men with guitars are more attractive to women: study
- N. Korea invites S. Korea managers to joint zone
- Overloaded express boat sinks near Belaga
- BlackBerry OS updates coming – what to expect
- Adidas unveils its data-tracking smart soccer ball
- Cockroaches can sense danger in sugar
- Top chefs say Latin America will reach food's zenith
- Open-door approach?
- 170,000 living in subdivided flats in Hong Kong: study
- Money laundering distorts Colombia's economic comeback
- Three Lebanese soldiers killed by gunmen - military source
- White House security adviser calls for deeper China military ties
- South Korea halts more nuclear reactors over fake certificates
- U.S. report says major weapons designs compromised by Chinese
- VIDEO: Indian women taking on 'male' jobs
- Stop bickering, focus on uplifting Indian community: experts
- Five security personnel killed in Thai south: police
- US F-15 crashes in Japan, pilot ejects safely
- China newborn rescued from toilet pipe: report
| Australia still the world's happiest nation Posted: 28 May 2013 12:28 AM PDT Australia has once again topped the world as the happiest industrialised nation, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). |
| Men with guitars are more attractive to women: study Posted: 28 May 2013 12:15 AM PDT For men wanting to be more attractive to the opposite sex, new research suggests grabbing a guitar. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| N. Korea invites S. Korea managers to joint zone Posted: 28 May 2013 12:07 AM PDT North Korea said Tuesday it would allow South Korean businessmen to visit their plants in a shuttered joint economic zone, but declined Seoul's offer of official working-level talks on the complex. |
| Overloaded express boat sinks near Belaga Posted: 27 May 2013 11:28 PM PDT An express boat packed with passengers returning home for the Gawai Dayak Festival this weekend sank at the Jeram Tukok/Jeram Bungan area about 40-minute journey from here between 8.30am and 9am this morning. |
| BlackBerry OS updates coming – what to expect Posted: 27 May 2013 11:28 PM PDT As the Canadian phone-maker prepares to roll out the first updates to its new operating system, the company's product manager has revealed that a second update, with even more new features, is scheduled before the end of 2013. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Adidas unveils its data-tracking smart soccer ball Posted: 27 May 2013 11:26 PM PDT On the heels of debuting its fitness-tracking soccer cleat, Adidas has unveiled a new miCoach Smart Ball, a soccer ball that can measure the speed, spin, and trajectory of each strike while feeding that data to an iOS device via Bluetooth in real-time. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cockroaches can sense danger in sugar Posted: 27 May 2013 11:21 PM PDT Cockroaches will eat anything. Except sugar, that is. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Top chefs say Latin America will reach food's zenith Posted: 27 May 2013 11:20 PM PDT The world's top chefs say it's only a matter of time before Latin America, home to Brazil's black bean stew "feijoada," Peru's refreshing raw fish "ceviche" and Mexico's street tacos, cooks its way into gastronomy's elite. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 27 May 2013 11:11 PM PDT However, reform requires great courage and sacrifice. Do BN leaders have a high degree of sense of crisis? Would they abandon racial politics and form a cross-racial party, or repeat the same mistakes and make only some minor changes? |
| 170,000 living in subdivided flats in Hong Kong: study Posted: 27 May 2013 10:22 PM PDT More than 170,000 people in Hong Kong are living in cramped subdivided flats, a government-commissioned study has found, underlining the scale of the city's housing crisis. |
| Money laundering distorts Colombia's economic comeback Posted: 27 May 2013 10:44 PM PDT PUERTO NUEVO, Colombia (Reuters) - Rotting wooden planks heave as dozens of barefoot Wayuu Indians carry washing machines, fans and stereos on their backs from the hull of a cargo ship docked on the tip of northern Colombia. |
| Three Lebanese soldiers killed by gunmen - military source Posted: 27 May 2013 10:18 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a military checkpoint in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley on Tuesday, killing three soldiers before fleeing to the nearby Syrian border, a Lebanese military source said. |
| White House security adviser calls for deeper China military ties Posted: 27 May 2013 09:20 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States called for deeper military ties with China on Tuesday, including working closer together in areas like peacekeeping, fighting piracy and disaster relief, despite growing tensions between the two on a range of security issues. |
| South Korea halts more nuclear reactors over fake certificates Posted: 27 May 2013 11:20 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is suspending the operations of two nuclear power reactors and extending a shutdown of a third for maintenance to replace cables that were supplied using fake certificates, the country's nuclear regulator said on Tuesday. |
| U.S. report says major weapons designs compromised by Chinese Posted: 27 May 2013 11:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON/CANBERRA (Reuters) - Designs for more than two dozen major U.S. weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, a U.S. report said on Monday, as a news report in Australia said Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints for Australia's new spy headquarters. |
| VIDEO: Indian women taking on 'male' jobs Posted: 27 May 2013 10:35 PM PDT BBC News speaks to one trailblazing Indian woman, who has broken into the traditionally male-dominated industry of nightclub security. |
| Stop bickering, focus on uplifting Indian community: experts Posted: 27 May 2013 10:20 PM PDT MIC leaders should stop bickering over positions and appointments, and focus on uplifting the Indian community, a researcher at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) said today. |
| Five security personnel killed in Thai south: police Posted: 27 May 2013 10:16 PM PDT Five Thai security personnel have been killed in a fresh spate of gun and bomb attacks which the government on Tuesday blamed on insurgents seeking to disrupt a fragile peace process. |
| US F-15 crashes in Japan, pilot ejects safely Posted: 27 May 2013 10:15 PM PDT An American F-15 fighter crashed into the sea after its pilot ejected from his plane off Japan's southernmost Okinawa prefecture on Tuesday, the US Air Force said. |
| China newborn rescued from toilet pipe: report Posted: 27 May 2013 10:13 PM PDT A newborn baby boy was rescued from a sewage pipe in a Chinese apartment building after being flushed down a toilet, state media said. |
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