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Vietnam to license $22 bln refinery early 2015 22 Dec 2014 - 11:06 am

HANOI---Vietnam will grant a licence for a $22 billion refinery and petrochemical complex by Thai top energy company PTT Pcl and Saudi Aramco,...

China promises medical care for HIV-positive boy 22 Dec 2014 - 10:50 am

Kunkun BEIJING---China's health ministry has promised to provide medical care and a living allowance for an eight-year-old HIV-positive boy targeted by villagers for...

Hong Kong tycoon and former senior official faces trial 22 Dec 2014 - 10:38 am

Thomas Kwok HONG KONG---Lawyers for Hong Kong property tycoon Thomas Kwok and the government's former deputy leader Rafael Hui pressed for leniency Monday...

Families of 43 missing Mexicans promise protests over holidays 22 Dec 2014 - 10:29 am

SAN CRISTõBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico---Family members of 43 missing Mexican students said Sunday they would continue pressing for answers over the fate...

Australian PM under fire for women comments 22 Dec 2014 - 10:03 am

SYDNEY---Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was accused Monday of craving "a world where men do the big jobs and women do the ironing"...

US Navy chopper crashes in Kuwait, minor injuries 22 Dec 2014 - 09:52 am

DUBAI--A US Navy helicopter has crashed during a training mission in the Gulf state of Kuwait, slightly injuring three crew members, the Bahrain-based...

Anti-Islamist claims victory in disputed Tunisia election 22 Dec 2014 - 09:45 am

Beji Caid Essebsi TUNIS---Anti-Islamist candidate Beji Caid Essebsi has claimed victory in Tunisia's first free presidential election but bitter rival and incumbent Moncef...

Exchange Rates in Qatar 22 Dec 2014 - 08:58 am

DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Monday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying Selling Saudi Riyal...

No BJP-RSS conflict on conversions: Naidu 22 Dec 2014 - 08:06 am

A tribesperson (right) participates in a conversion ritual of some 200 Christians into Hinduism at Valsad of Gujarat. Hyderabad: Parliamentary Affairs Minister M...

Bull run 22 Dec 2014 - 08:06 am

Nomads from Maharashtra along with their decorated bull perform during a street show in which the animal steps on the six-year-old boy Ram...

Manmohan Singh: Busy as always, but not writing memoirs yet 22 Dec 2014 - 08:05 am

New Delhi: He has just completed 200 days out of office, but former prime minister Manmohan Singh (pictured) keeps himself perhaps as busy...

Protest against terrorism 22 Dec 2014 - 08:04 am

RSS activists burn the effigies of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who is wanted for the 1993 Mumbai bombings (right), Pakistan chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa...

Will form next Kashmir govt on our own: PDP 22 Dec 2014 - 08:01 am

Jammu: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said it was confident of forming the next government in Jammu and Kashmir on its own...

BJP keeps everyone guessing about Jharkhand CM 22 Dec 2014 - 08:00 am

Ranchi: Exit polls are predicting a BJP government in Jharkhand, but nobody appears to know who will be the next chief minister in...

BJP aims big in TN; DMK’s Napoleon joins party 22 Dec 2014 - 08:00 am

Chennai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will make a serious bid to take power in Tamil Nadu by leading an alliance in the...

24-year-old rape case reopens with arrest 22 Dec 2014 - 07:59 am

New Delhi: A 24-year-old rape case that was begging for justice due to non-appearance of the accused has been reopened in a fast-track...

Kerala’s Congress chief isolated over liquor policy 22 Dec 2014 - 07:59 am

Thiruvananthapuram: State Congress president VM Sudheeran, who has blamed “external forces” for diluting Kerala’s liquor policy, yesterday came under heavy attack from within...

Advani backs Bharat Ratna for Vajpayee 22 Dec 2014 - 07:59 am

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani has backed awarding the Bharat Ratna to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and said he...