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China shuts down liberal website after call for reform 05 Jan 2013 - 02:05 am

BEIJING: A liberal Chinese journal’s website was shut down yesterday, it said, in the latest and most prominent example of a crackdown by...

UN says 13,000 fled Myanmar, Bangladesh 05 Jan 2013 - 02:05 am

YANGON: About 13,000 boat people, including many stateless Rohingya Muslims, fled Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh in 2012 with hundreds dying during the perilous...

Nepal furious over British arrest of army colonel 05 Jan 2013 - 02:05 am

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s foreign minister yesterday expressed “strong objections” to the arrest of a Nepalese army colonel by British police over allegations of torture...

Drug-fuelled gunman kills 7 in Cavite 05 Jan 2013 - 02:04 am

Police prepare to enter the house of a suspect in the shooting incident in Cavite province, south of Manila, yesterday. Kawit: A gunman...

Vietnam puts up supermarket on occupied Pugad Island 05 Jan 2013 - 02:04 am

MANILA: Vietnam has reportedly put up and is now operating a supermarket in Pugad Island in the hotly contested Spratly archipelago to cater...

Senate files bill to remove imprisonment from libel 05 Jan 2013 - 02:03 am

MANILA: A bill seeking to decriminalise libel has been filed in the Senate. In Senate Bill 3374, Senator Teofisto Guingona III said freedom...

Over 200 rescued as boat runs aground off port city 05 Jan 2013 - 02:03 am

Dumaguete City: More than 200 passengers of a ferry that ran aground in the port of Dumaguete City were rescued on Thursday. In...

Cases rise against Aquino’s rice sufficiency dream 05 Jan 2013 - 02:03 am

MANILA: President Benigno Aquino III declared 2013 the National Year of Rice to intensify the campaign to achieve rice self-sufficiency this year, despite...

UN allocates $10m fund for Bopha victims 05 Jan 2013 - 02:02 am

MANILA: A $10m (P408.6m) allocation from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will be given as lifesaving assistance to thousands of...

Pakistan’s Malala leaves hospital ahead of surgery 05 Jan 2013 - 02:01 am

LONDON: The British hospital treating Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, said yesterday that she...

Karzai heads to US for post-2014 troop decision 05 Jan 2013 - 02:01 am

KABUL: A key decision on how many US troops will stay on in Afghanistan after 2014 could be made next week at talks...

Released Taliban 05 Jan 2013 - 01:46 am

Released Taliban prisoners sit on chairs as they listen during a ceremony in the Pul-e-Charkhi Jail on the outskirts of Kabul, yesterday.

Successor replaces slain warlord in Pakistan: Officials 05 Jan 2013 - 01:46 am

PESHAWAR: A senior Pakistani militant commander has been appointed to succeed warlord Mullah Nazir, who orchestrated attacks in Afghanistan until his death in...

Islamabad resumes polio vaccines under security 05 Jan 2013 - 01:45 am

PESHAWAR: Pakistan is providing paramilitary and police support to polio vaccinations being resumed discreetly in the northwest after a series of attacks on...

Pakistani YouTube star gets visa to perform in France 05 Jan 2013 - 01:22 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan national Muhammad Shahid Nazir has been given French visa within a day after applying for it to appear in one of...

US offers help to combat violence against women 05 Jan 2013 - 01:21 am

Pepper spray products on display in a shop in New Delhi. After nearly three weeks of lurid reporting on a horrifying gang rape...

50 protesters shave off their heads at Jantar Mantar 05 Jan 2013 - 01:20 am

New Delhi: About 50 men had their heads tonsured in public at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi yesterday, protesting that the government had...

RSS chief stirs row, blames ‘westernisation’ for rape 05 Jan 2013 - 01:19 am

New Delhi: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat yesterday stirred a controversy with his remark that westernisation in Indian cities was the reason behind increasing...