Default / Miscellaneous

Suicides hit all-time high in Singapore in 2012 12 Jul 2013 - 12:15 pm

SINGAPORE: Suicides in Singapore hit an all-time high of 487 in 2012 as more young people bogged down by stress and relationship woes...

Philippine stocks up 2.60pc 12 Jul 2013 - 11:56 am

MANILA: Philippine share prices rose 2.60 per cent on Friday, tracking gains on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve said it would continue...

Japan heatwave kills 12 12 Jul 2013 - 11:45 am

Pedestrians use their parasols to avoid strong sunlight in Tokyo. TOKYO: A severe heatwave that hit Japan a week ago has claimed at...

UAE announces first case of MERS-virus infection 12 Jul 2013 - 11:44 am

ABU DHABI: Health authorities in the UAE have announced that an 82-year-old man has been diagnosed with the MERS coronavirus infection, the first...

Myanmar jails Buddhists over religious violence 12 Jul 2013 - 11:21 am

YANGON: Myanmar has sentenced more than 20 Buddhists to prison for their roles in religious riots in March, including a deadly attack on...

Japan buys 1.9m barrels Mideast medium crude for reserves 12 Jul 2013 - 09:54 am

TOKYO: State-owned Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC) on Friday bought about 1.89 million barrels or 300,000 kilolitres of Middle Eastern...

Tokyo stocks close up 0.23pc 12 Jul 2013 - 09:14 am

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks edged up 0.23 percent on Friday, erasing earlier losses, after Wall Street vaulted to new record highs and as the...

Malala defies Taliban to take world stage 12 Jul 2013 - 08:43 am

UNITED NATIONS: Malala Yousufzai took over the United Nations on Friday, nine months after a Taliban gunman put a bullet in her head...

Myanmar enacts new central bank law 12 Jul 2013 - 08:22 am

YANGON: Myanmar has introduced a new law to overhaul its central bank, the presidential office said Friday, in the latest reform aimed at...

Apple case cracks open e-books, digital goods pricing 12 Jul 2013 - 07:58 am

WASHINGTON: A ruling by an American judge that Apple illegally conspired to fix e-book prices could boost competition in the market for all...

Preparing for iftar 12 Jul 2013 - 05:16 am

A young girl arranges food plates before iftar on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan at the Jama Masjid in...

Fuel subsidy to Bhutan cut in ‘rebuke’ 12 Jul 2013 - 05:16 am

NEW DELHI: India has cut fuel subsidies to neighbouring Bhutan as part of a rebuke to the kingdom for “taking the Indian government...

First Delhi gang rape verdict deferred to July 25 12 Jul 2013 - 05:15 am

NEW DELHI: A New Delhi court trying a teenager over a fatal gang rape last December that shocked India yesterday deferred announcing the...

Indian, Chinese troops were face-to-face in Chumar 12 Jul 2013 - 05:15 am

New Delhi: Indian and Chinese forces were “face-to-face” in the Chumar sector of Ladakh after Chinese troops transgressed into the Indian side on...

Large turnout in Bengal panchayat elections 12 Jul 2013 - 05:15 am

Kolkata: With helicopters hovering above, people turned out in large numbers in West Bengal’s Maoist heartland in phase one of the staggered five-leg...

Caste-based rallies banned 12 Jul 2013 - 05:15 am

Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court yesterday banned caste-based rallies in Uttar Pradesh with immediate effect. A bench of justices Umanath...

Mulayam meets PM over food bill 12 Jul 2013 - 05:14 am

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, whose party lends support to the ruling UPA, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday reportedly...

Two killed by bike bomb 12 Jul 2013 - 05:13 am

Two people were killed and five wounded yesterday when a motorcycle bomb exploded at a roadside restaurant in northwest Pakistan. The remotely detonated...