Government supporters rally in Cambodia as election tension rises

Government supporters rally in Cambodia as election tension rises


Government supporters rally in Cambodia as election tension rises

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:38 AM PDT

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thousands of government supporters rallied in Cambodia on Sunday against comments allegedly made by an opposition leader about atrocities during the "Killing Fields" era, as the United States denounced moves to expel opposition lawmakers from parliament.

High heels don't cause bunions: study

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:17 AM PDT

High-heeled shoes are known to shorten calf muscles, cause pain, and even trigger migraines, but according to new research, they won't lead to bunions. For that, you can thank your parents.

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Summit opens new chapter in trans-Pacific cooperation

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 12:08 AM PDT

During their first summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Barrack Obama increased mutual trust, reached consensus on an array of issues and mapped out a blueprint for China-U.S. ties, and these achievements signal the opening of a new chapter in cooperation across the Pacific Ocean, Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi said Saturday.

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Hungary defences hold firm as Danube flood nears Budapest

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:58 PM PDT

Hungary's flood defences held firm Sunday morning as central Europe's worst floods in a decade moved through the northwest of the country toward the capital Budapest.

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Malaysia to outperform wealth creation forecast

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:47 PM PDT

Together with Indonesia, Malaysia is among growth leaders in the Asean community with fixed investment and consumption the two main pillars of this growth, but given its much smaller population the scale is less than in Indonesia, according to the Julius Baer Lifestyle Index.

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Consumers in crisis-hit Spain put brakes on spending

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:42 PM PDT

Spaniards are buying fewer cars, fewer clothes and even cutting back on smoking as a grinding recession and rising unemployment force them to slash spending, dealing a severe blow to manufacturers and shops.

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Cambodians hold mass protest over KRouge prison denial

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:39 PM PDT

About 10,000 Cambodians protested in the capital on Sunday to show their anger at an opposition leader who allegedly described a notorious Khmer Rouge prison as a Vietnamese invention.

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Economy, nuclear top agenda as Iran elects president

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:26 PM PDT

Iran elects on Friday a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose eight years in office have been marked by stiff Western sanctions over Tehran's controversial nuclear drive and the economic turmoil they have caused.

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London's Royal Academy presents Summer Exhibition

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:23 PM PDT

(United Kingdom, London-AFP) - Next week London's Royal Academy of Arts opens the doors of its Summer Exhibition, the world's largest show of open-submission contemporary art. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.

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China ex-railways minister tried for graft

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:46 PM PDT

China's former railways minister went on trial on Sunday charged with accepting millions of dollars in bribes, state media reported, in the first high-profile corruption case under President Xi Jinping.

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A new wave of gesture computing

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:16 PM PDT

WiSee could bring full gesture control to every appliance in every room of the home and all from the comfort of the living room.

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Parts of the internet set to disappear for Windows XP PCs

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:56 PM PDT

oogle's upcoming changes to the way that computers recognize and validate some websites could cause problems for Windows XP users.

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Turn content development into major industry: Najib

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:10 PM PDT

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has asked broadcasters to turn content development into a major industry, in line with the country's aspirations to be a developed nation by 2020.

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Redelineation study to begin year-end

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:52 PM PDT

An electoral boundary re-delineation study will begin at the end of the year, said Election Commission (EC) deputy chairman Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar.

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Najib wishes Mandela speedy recovery

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:29 PM PDT

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak wishes former South African president Nelson Mandela, who is hospitalised again, will have a speedy recovery.

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Brother-in-law of Chinese Nobel winner jailed for 11 years

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:48 PM PDT

HUAIROU (China), June 9 — A Chinese court today sentenced the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison on charges of fraud in a case that rights activists have called another example of official retribution on the Liu family. Supporters of Liu Hui say his case was trumped up, aimed at thwarting the ...
    


Two Koreas in first talks in over two years ‘without argument’

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:33 PM PDT

PAJU (South Korea), June 9 — North and South Korea opened their first official talks in two years today at a border village "without argument", the South said, building on an easing in tensions from nearly daily threats two months ago of impending nuclear war. The meeting in Pammunjon, where the armistice was signed in the 1950-53 Korean War, was ...
    


Bloggers rally against Singapore ruling

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:10 PM PDT

me 2,500 Singaporeans led by local bloggers staged a protest at the Speakers' Corner in Hong Lim Park Saturday, seeking the government to withdraw its new licensing requirement imposed on local news websites.

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Abe hints at possible tax hike delay

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:37 PM PDT

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday an upper house election will take place on July 21 and voiced the possibility of delaying a consumption tax hike scheduled for next year if the economy remains weak.

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98,700 affected by extreme weather in NW China

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:32 PM PDT

Torrential rain, hail and floods have affected about 98,717 residents in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region since Tuesday, local authorities said on Sunday.

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Report: Iran sets up space monitoring center

Report: Iran sets up space monitoring center


Report: Iran sets up space monitoring center

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:00 PM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's media says that it has set up its first center to monitor objects passing in orbit overhead.

Back Off, Man. I'm A Scientist! Greene, Carroll And Frank Open Seattle Science Festival 2013

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:26 PM PDT

The Seattle Science Festival 2013 opened Thursday night at Seattle's Paramount Theatre. The event, emceed by journalist Jennifer Ouellette, brought together some of the country's top theoretical physicists: Brian Greene, Sean Carroll and Adam Frank. The evening also featured a performance of the West Coast premiere of Icarus at the Edge of Time with live narration by Kal Penn, music by Philip Glass, which was performed by the Garfield Orchestra under the direction of Marcus Tsutakawa. The Seattle Science Festival 2013 continued today with Science Expo Day, adding more events through next week with the Best of UW Science Now on Monday and ends with its closing night event on June 15.

Many dead as asylum boat sinks off Australia

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:14 PM PDT

Search and rescue under way for dozens missing after boat sinks near remote Christmas Island, killing at least 13.

US gunman was ex-California college student

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:26 PM PDT

Shooter was a former student of Santa Monica College where he was ultimately killed after he had shot dead three people.

U.N. says Mali still precarious, future peacekeepers need equipment

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:29 PM PDT

Koenders, United Nations special envoy for Mali, is greeted by Mali's foreign affairs General Secretary Cisse upon his arrival at Bamako airportBy Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Armed groups in Mali continue to pose a serious security threat to the entire region while African troops forming the core of a U.N. peacekeeping mission deploying next month are not yet properly equipped, the U.N. chief said in a new report. France launched a massive military campaign in January which broke al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters' control over the northern two-thirds of Mali and allowed the Tuaregs to regain control of their traditional fiefdom of Kidal. But U.N. ...


China Inflation Data Point to Weakness

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:25 PM PDT

China showed fresh signs of a less-than-robust economy in May as two measures of inflation revealed surprising weakness.

Koreas Begin Talks in Border Village

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:07 PM PDT

Delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at a village on their border aimed at setting ground-rules for a higher-level discussion on easing animosity and restoring stalled rapprochement projects.

U.N. says Mali still precarious, future peacekeepers need equipment

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:29 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Armed groups in Mali continue to pose a serious security threat to the entire region while African troops forming the core of a U.N. peacekeeping mission deploying next month are not yet properly equipped, the U.N. chief said in a new report.

China's 'first lady' Peng avoids California limelight

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 06:53 PM PDT

Peng Liyuan takes a photograph as Xi Jinping talks with Enrique Pena Nieto during a visit at the archaeological site of Chichen Itza in the peninsula of YucatanBy John Ruwitch RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - China's photogenic "first lady" Peng Liyuan played steel drums in Trinidad, strolled hand-in-hand with a coffee farmer's daughter in Costa Rica and snapped pictures with her iPhone in the shadow of Mayan ruins in Mexico. But the glamorous and popular wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping stepped out of the spotlight for two days in California while her husband held unprecedented informal talks with U.S. President Barack Obama at a lush retreat in the desert on the last leg of a four-country trip. ...


President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping agree to wind down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 05:29 PM PDT

The agreement between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday to wind down the production and consumption of a class of chemicals commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners could mark a key step toward eliminating some of the most potent greenhouse gases.

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Brazil President Rousseff's popularity falls for first time: poll

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:42 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's approval rating fell for the first time since her term began in January 2011 as concern about inflation and sluggish economic growth grew, the Datafolha polling agency said on Saturday.

Court: 11 years for jailed Nobel winner's relative

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 09:18 PM PDT

A relative comforts Liu Xia, left, wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, while she cries outside Huairou Detention Center where her brother Liu Hui has been jailed in Huairou district, on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Sunday, June 9, 2013. A court sentenced Liu Hui, the brother-in-law of China's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, to 11 years in prison Sunday — an unusually harsh punishment for a business dispute that the activist's wife immediately decried as a warning to the whole family. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)HUAIROU, China (AP) — A court sentenced the brother-in-law of China's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison Sunday — an unusually harsh punishment for a business dispute that the activist's wife immediately decried as a warning to the whole family.


Brother-in-law of Chinese Nobel winner jailed for 11 years

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 07:43 PM PDT

HUAIROU, China (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Sunday sentenced the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison on charges of fraud in a case that rights activists have called another example of official retribution on the Liu family.

Graft trial opens of former China railways minister

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 07:41 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's former railways minister, Liu Zhijun, went on trial on Sunday charged with corruption and abuse of power, state media said, in a case which will demonstrate newly installed President Xi Jinping's resolve to crack down on pervasive graft.

2 Koreas talk in border village after tensions

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:38 PM PDT

Chun Hae-sung, center, the head of South Korea's working-level delegation, speaks to the media while standing with delegates Kwon Young-yang, left, and Kang Jong-won before leaving for Panmunjom at the Office of the South Korea-North Korea Dialogue in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 9, 2013. North and South Korea will meet in the village straddling their heavily armed border Sunday for the first government-level talks on the peninsula in more than two years as they try to lower tension and restore stalled projects that once symbolized their rapprochement. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)Officials from North and South Korea meet at a "truce village" trying to ease tensions.


China's 'first lady' Peng avoids California limelight

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 06:53 PM PDT

RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - China's photogenic "first lady" Peng Liyuan played steel drums in Trinidad, strolled hand-in-hand with a coffee farmer's daughter in Costa Rica and snapped pictures with her iPhone in the shadow of Mayan ruins in Mexico.

North and South Korea hold official talks

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 06:59 PM PDT

Talks on restoring suspended commercial links came after unexpected proposal from North Korea to open dialogue.

Tecogen Takes Cogeneration Public

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 06:25 PM PDT

Tecogen, the Waltham, Mass.-based manufacturer of combined heat and power (CHP) equipment, has filed for an IPO on NASDAQ, seeking to raise $25 million. It will list under the ticker, TGEN.

VIDEO: Up close with the rare Siberian tiger

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 05:48 PM PDT

Operation Snow Tiger follows wild animal biologist Liz Bonnin and an international team of scientists on an expedition to Russia, documenting one of the world's rarest and most mysterious animals - the Siberian tiger.

US spy agency seeks criminal probe into leaks

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:32 PM PDT

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper accuses media of being "reckless" in revealing monitoring of internet.