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Outrage over $2.5bn projects to mark Mao’s birth 18 Oct 2013 - 04:04 am

BEIJING: More than $2.5bn is being poured into the hometown of Communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong for projects marking the 120th anniversary...

Abe makes another offering to war shrine 18 Oct 2013 - 04:04 am

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made his third ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, but again he...

UK lawmakers attack government ‘timidity’ over Sri Lanka 18 Oct 2013 - 04:04 am

LONDON: Britain’s decision to set aside worries about Sri Lanka’s human rights record and back its selection as host of a Commonwealth leaders’...

Govt clears roads as toll reaches 161 18 Oct 2013 - 04:03 am

A destroyed road in Sagbayan, Bohol province, in central Philippines after the earthquake hit the island on Tuesday. LOBOC: The Philippines started to...

Ex-Marcos aide on trial for selling $32m Monet work 18 Oct 2013 - 04:02 am

NEW YORK: A debt-ridden onetime aide to Imelda Marcos wrongly sold a hidden treasure: A $32m Monet painting the former Philippine first lady...

Army clears two war-torn villages in Zamboanga 18 Oct 2013 - 04:02 am

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Security forces have cleared two of the four barangays that were placed under siege by Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebels...

Risk assessment maps distributed 18 Oct 2013 - 04:02 am

MANILA: Risk assessment maps were turned over yesterday to local governments in the Greater Metro Manila area to help them craft effective disaster...

Aquino defends Korea trip amid quake devastation 18 Oct 2013 - 04:02 am

MANILA: The government has allocated P12m ($273,000) for the two-day state visit of President Benigno Aquino III to South Korea. An article posted...

Passengers escape bus fire 18 Oct 2013 - 04:01 am

MANILA: A passenger bus travelling on the south-bound lane of EDSA caught fire yesterday morning as it approached Cubao, the Metropolitan Manila Development...

Ex-minister held over graft 18 Oct 2013 - 04:01 am

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency arrested a former sports and youth minister yesterday in a multimillion-dollar graft case, one of several to rock the...

US SHUTDOWN DEBT CEILING OBAMA ENOUGH GOVERNMENT FISCAL CLIFF ECONOMY 18 Oct 2013 - 03:16 am

Group: ViewsAmerica Credit: LEAHY Source: The Courier Mail - Brisbane, Australia Keywords: COLOR US SHUTDOWN DEBT CEILING OBAMA ENOUGH GOVERNMENT FISCAL CLIFF ECONOMY...

Australia bushfire 18 Oct 2013 - 03:12 am

A bushfire jumps the Bells Line Road north of Lithgow, Australia, yesterday. A pink haze hung over Sydney as the fire blazed on...

UK’s Charles warns of pensions misery 18 Oct 2013 - 03:11 am

LONDON: Britain’s Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, has urged the pensions industry to bolster itself against looming global turbulence to avoid...

Tymoshenko should be free in a month: Kin 18 Oct 2013 - 03:11 am

KIEV: The daughter of Ukraine’s jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko sees two years of pain and “psychological torture” ending for her mother with...

US Navy rescues 128 Somali migrants in rough seas 18 Oct 2013 - 03:11 am

ROME: A US warship has rescued 128 migrants from an inflatable raft that was threatening to capsize in rough seas in the Mediterranean...

Merkel, SPD agree to seek grand coalition 18 Oct 2013 - 03:10 am

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and her defeated election rivals the centre-left Social Democrats agreed yesterday to launch formal talks to build...

NSA deeply involved in US drone strikes, says report 18 Oct 2013 - 03:10 am

WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency is deeply involved in US drone strikes against Al Qaeda militants, using electronic surveillance tools to track down...

At the crossroads 18 Oct 2013 - 03:09 am

Iranian women wearing headscarves in line with strict Islamic rules imposed after the 1979 Revolution, which gave birth to the Islamic Republic following...