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Taiwan indicts two businessmen in latest food scandal 30 Dec 2014 - 10:41 am

TAIPEI--Two Taiwanese businessmen have been charged with using banned industrial dyes to adulterate food products, a case which prompted mass recalls in the...

China businessman jailed for 13 years over tiger feast 30 Dec 2014 - 10:29 am

BEIJING--A Chinese businessman who bought and ate three tigers has been sentenced to 13 years in prison, state media reported Tuesday. The wealthy...

Debris is 'from AirAsia plane': Indonesian civil aviation chief 30 Dec 2014 - 10:18 am

JAKARTA--Debris spotted Tuesday during an aerial search for AirAsia flight QZ8501 is from the missing plane, Indonesia's director general of civil aviation told...

Top Bangladesh Islamist sentenced to hang for war crimes 30 Dec 2014 - 10:16 am

DHAKA--Bangladesh's war crimes court Tuesday sentenced a leading Islamist to death for rape, mass murder and genocide during the country's 1971 independence conflict....

"Hong Kong's first spy" dies in China 30 Dec 2014 - 10:08 am

HONG KONG--A former police officer accused of spying for communist China in one of the former British colony's highest-profile espionage cases has died,...

Missing AirAsia plane caps disastrous 2014 for aviation 30 Dec 2014 - 10:01 am

KUALA LUMPUR--If you weren't already nervous about flying, that may have changed in 2014, a year that stirred our deepest fears about modern...

Taiwan leader files defamation suits against radio host 30 Dec 2014 - 09:39 am

TAIPEI--Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou on Tuesday filed defamation lawsuits against a radio host for alleging that he accepted illicit political donations from a...

Philippine storm death toll rises to six 30 Dec 2014 - 09:35 am

MANILA,--Six people have been killed in two days of heavy flooding as tropical storm Jangmi crossed the central Philippines on Tuesday, with water...

UN urges Myanmar to grant rights to Muslim Rohingya 30 Dec 2014 - 09:31 am

UNITED NATIONS, United States--The UN General Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution urging Myanmar to grant citizenship to its Rohingya Muslim minority and...

Items resembling slide, plane door seen in AirAsia search 30 Dec 2014 - 09:26 am

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia--Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted in the sea during an aerial search Tuesday for...

NEW YEAR 2015 RICH POOL DOLLAR BUSINESS JUMP 30 Dec 2014 - 04:57 am

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Joyous jump 30 Dec 2014 - 04:52 am

Central Armed Police Forces, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel jump with joy as they celebrate after their passing out parade at their training...

NIA can probe Bangalore blast: Rajnath 30 Dec 2014 - 04:50 am

New Delhi: In the wake of the low intensity blast in Bangalore, Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday said if required the case could...

Cabinet nod for land act changes 30 Dec 2014 - 04:50 am

New Delhi: The union cabinet yesterday approved an ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act, adding five more areas which will be exempted...

Govt privatising railways by stealth, says Congress 30 Dec 2014 - 04:50 am

New Delhi: Terming as bluff Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that Indian Railways will not be privatised, the Congress Monday said it is...

Sangh Parivar attacks cinemas screening PK 30 Dec 2014 - 04:49 am

Agra/Bhopal: The “provocative, yet gentle” Aamir Khan-starrer PK has already crossed the Rs200 crore mark at the domestic box office, but the Rajkumar...

Fog blankets northern states 30 Dec 2014 - 04:49 am

New Delhi/Srinagar: It was yet another bone-chilling day across northern India yesterday, and the entire region remained blanketed under dense fog. Temperatures in...

Polio campaign 30 Dec 2014 - 04:48 am

Pakistani polio vaccination worker Sher Khan administers polio vaccine to a child in a poor neighbourhood that hosts Afghan refugees and internally displaced...