Australia election set for neck-and-neck finish |
- Australia election set for neck-and-neck finish
- Floods cut water supply to 300,000 in NE China
- Rocket hits Jordanian port, injures four -source
- Crisis talks as violence rocks Indian Kashmir
- Dewan Negara: More medical graduates serving under health ministry
- What’s stopping JB from going forward?
- State govt questioned for allowing foreigners to buy Malay reserve land
- Prosecution team should take blame on alleged affair, says Karpal
- Indonesia inflation puts pressure on rates
- US envoy holds talks in Seoul on new N.Korea sanctions
- Rockets hit Israel’s Eilat port, none hurt
- Floods cut tap water supply to 300,000 in northeast China city
- Let cabinet decide proposal to declare assets - Zahid
- Pro-Cantonese protesters scuffle with China police
- Poll: Australian election result on a knife's edge
- UAE bans Blackberry over security defect
- Pro-Cantonese protesters scuffle with China police
- Soldiers search N.Korea border area after deadly mine blast
- Australia election set for neck-and-neck finish
- Chile senator says to sponsor gay marriage bill
| Australia election set for neck-and-neck finish Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:51 AM PDT SYDNEY (Reuters) - Support for Australia's government has fallen sharply, polls show, making the Aug. 21 election likely to be decided by marginal seats where voters are focused on the divisive issues of mining tax, climate and immigration.
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| Floods cut water supply to 300,000 in NE China Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:51 AM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Heavy rains damaged water pipelines supplying an industrial city in northeastern China's Jilin province, cutting drinking water to about 300,000 residents, the Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
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| Rocket hits Jordanian port, injures four -source Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:51 AM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - A rocket fired from outside Jordanian territory hit a hotel area in the Red Sea port of Aqaba on Monday and injured four civilians, one seriously, an interior ministry source said.
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| Crisis talks as violence rocks Indian Kashmir Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:48 PM PDT SRINAGAR, Monday 2 August 2010 (AFP) - The chief minister of Indian Kashmir flew to New Delhi for crisis talks Monday over an eruption of violence between anti-India protesters and police that has left more than 30 people dead.
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| Dewan Negara: More medical graduates serving under health ministry Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:38 PM PDT The number of medical graduates serving under the Health Ministry is expected to increase to 3,793 this year compared to 3,702 last year and 1,124 in 2006, the Dewan Negara was told today.
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| What’s stopping JB from going forward? Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:19 PM PDT Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Singapore can all progress in style. Why can't Johor Bharu? Would it be because our young generations are not as ambitious as the young people in Hong Kong and Shenzhen?
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| State govt questioned for allowing foreigners to buy Malay reserve land Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:15 PM PDT The Kedah state government was today taken to for allowing foreigners to buy and build houses on Malay reserve land in Langkawi.
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| Prosecution team should take blame on alleged affair, says Karpal Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:13 PM PDT Lawyer Karpal Singh today called the entire prosecution team of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy case to step down and urged Solicitor-General II Datuk Mohamed Yusof Zainal Abiden to take blame on the alleged affair between star witness Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan and Deputy Public Prosecutor Farah Azlina Latif.
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| Indonesia inflation puts pressure on rates Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:10 PM PDT JAKARTA, Monday 2 August 2010 (AFP) - Indonesia's annual inflation rate climbed to its highest this year in July due to rising food prices, officials said, putting pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates this week.
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| US envoy holds talks in Seoul on new N.Korea sanctions Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:09 PM PDT SEOUL, Monday 2 August 2010 (AFP) - The United States hopes new sanctions on North Korea will be strong enough to discourage "provocative activities" and encourage it to scrap its nuclear weapons programme, a senior US envoy said Monday.
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| Rockets hit Israel’s Eilat port, none hurt Posted: 01 Aug 2010 10:41 PM PDT JERUSALEM, Aug 2 — At least three rockets or mortar bombs struck in and around Israel's southern port of Eilat today but caused no casualties, Israel Radio reported, citing initial information received from emergency services. Israel's Army Radio said five rockets were believed to have been fired, one of them landing inside neighbouring Jordan. An ...
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| Floods cut tap water supply to 300,000 in northeast China city Posted: 01 Aug 2010 10:08 PM PDT BAISHAN (Jilin), Monday 2 August 2010 (Bernama) -- Torrential rains have damaged water pipelines leaving 300,000 people without tap water in Tonghua, an industrial city in northeast China's Jilin Province, Xinhua news agency quoted Head of the public utility bureau in Tonghua Wang Ruimin said.
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| Let cabinet decide proposal to declare assets - Zahid Posted: 01 Aug 2010 10:06 PM PDT Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the proposal for Cabinet members to declare their assets to the public in the interest of transparency, must be decided by the Cabinet.
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| Pro-Cantonese protesters scuffle with China police Posted: 01 Aug 2010 10:57 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Hundreds in China's southern export hub of Guangdong scuffled with police at a weekend protest to support the local Cantonese dialect, a witness said, with a small group of reporters and protesters briefly detained by police.
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| Poll: Australian election result on a knife's edge Posted: 01 Aug 2010 01:40 PM PDT  SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's party has lost its lead in the polls against its conservative rivals ahead of Aug 21 elections, putting the outcome on a 50-50 knife edge, a poll showed today. The new Newspoll for The Australian newspaper showed Gillard's Labor Party neck-and-neck with the opposition Liberal Party, with 50% of the vote each, down from the government's 52% to 48% lead a week ago. The latest bad news for Gillard, who took power five weeks ago in a party coup against former leader Kevin Rudd, came two days after a Nielsen poll showed Labor heading for defeat with 48% of the vote to the Liberals' 52. Labor's vote has collapsed amid a series of damaging high-level Labor leaks against Gillard and after unpopular announcements about how she intends to tackle the key issues of climate change and boat people heading to Australia. But Gillard retained her strong opinion polls lead against opposition leader Tony Abbott as preferred prime minister, scoring 50% support against the gaffe-prone Abbott's 35%. Gillard today overhauled her campaign strategy to take advantage of that lead, scrapping the traditional highly-stage managed party approach and opting instead to cast the election as a simple choice between her and Abbott. But Labor's primary vote -- the tally that does not take into account Australia's highly complex system of party preferences -- has also suffered, down three points in a week to 37% against the opposition's 44%. Some 42% of the 1,717 people polled by telephone across Australia between Friday and yesterday said they were satisfied with Gillard's performance against 44 for Abbott. Those polled said that of the three most crucial electoral issues, Gillard was ahead of Abbott only on climate change policy and was trailing on economic management and the issue of stemming the flow of boat people to Australia. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 2.4%. - AFP
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| UAE bans Blackberry over security defect Posted: 01 Aug 2010 09:11 PM PDT DUBAI, August 2: The banning of BlackBerry's messaging services, which include the smartphone's signature push-email service, will affect all residents and visitors to the UAE.
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| Pro-Cantonese protesters scuffle with China police Posted: 01 Aug 2010 09:34 PM PDT BEIJING, Aug 2 — Hundreds in China's southern export hub of Guangdong scuffled with police at a weekend protest to support the local Cantonese dialect, a witness said, with a small group of reporters and protesters briefly detained by police. The second rally in as many weeks — sparked by a proposal to switch much programming on local television ...
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| Soldiers search N.Korea border area after deadly mine blast Posted: 01 Aug 2010 09:48 PM PDT SEOUL, Monday 2 August 2010 (AFP) - Hundreds of South Korean soldiers searched the border area with North Korea Monday for unexploded land mines after a blast killed one man and wounded another, military officials said.
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| Australia election set for neck-and-neck finish Posted: 01 Aug 2010 09:59 PM PDT SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Labour government and the opposition are neck-and-neck ahead of an Aug. 21 election, an opinion poll showed on Monday, prompting a call by Prime Minister Julia Gillard for an aggressive election campaign.
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| Chile senator says to sponsor gay marriage bill Posted: 01 Aug 2010 09:59 PM PDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The head of Chile's Socialist party, Fulvio Rossi, told reporters on Sunday that he planned to sponsor a bill to legalize gay marriage in the country, as occurred last month in neighboring Argentina.
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