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Ministries Partners and Experts to Meet at AfDB Africa-Asia Knowledge Exchange on Universal Health Coverage
The African Development Bank is organizing is a dialogue forum between African and Asian countries on achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Lusaka, Zambia on June 25-28, ...
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Video Corporate Asia perks up but for how long
The latest Thomson Reuters/INSEAD Asia Business Sentiment Survey shows firms growing more optimistic. But with China looking shaky and costs set to rise, the celebrations may be ...
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ASEAN China eye more cooperation in search rescue in South China Sea
Some 40 representatives from ASEAN and China Wednesday attended a workshop on strengthening ASEAN- China cooperation in search and rescue of persons and vessels in distress in the South China Sea.Addressing the workshop, Pham Quang Vinh, Vietnamese deputy minister of foreign affairs, said the workshop is a part of the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China ...
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22 dead in monsoon floods in Nepal
At least 22 people have been killed in landslides and floods triggered by heavy monsoon rain in remote parts of Nepal, a government spokesman said ...
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UNs Ban meets Chinas Xi for talks
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met Chinese president Xi Jinping for talks on Wednesday, with North Korea and Syria expected to dominate ...
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SE Asia Stocks-Flat to weaker ahead of Fed Indonesia off high
BANGKOK, June 19 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian stock markets ended mostly weaker to flat on Wednesday as investors trimmed positions in the emerging region ahead of the results of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting. Share markets rose in early trade as the recently oversold region extended a rebound this week. But trading volume of all six Southeast Asian bourses dropped below a monthly ...
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Japan finds highly toxic substance in Fukushima groundwater
Testing of groundwater outside the turbine building of reactor No. 2 had shown the level of strontium-90 had increased by more than 100 times between December 2012 and May this year. (Reuters ...
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Nigella Lawson’s husband admits to throat grab
husband Charles Saatchi admitted assault and accepted a police caution after published photos showed him grasping her throat at a restaurant last ...
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PHL eyes working with USASEAN on genetically modifiedcrop...
In his remarks during the agriculture and food security conference for the ASEAN diplomatic community in Washington DC, Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia Jr. said the Philippines is willing to share the knowledge and experience it has obtained in the 10 years it has implemented its science-based regulatory system for products of modern biotechnology and also learn from the experiences of the US and ...
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Two Thai monks arrested in child sex scandal Police
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai police said on Wednesday they had arrested two monks for procuring a 14-year-old boy to perform sexual acts with an abbot, in the latest scandal to shake the kingdom's Buddhist clergy. The pair, who deny any knowledge of the alleged abuse, could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted, Police Colonel Wirachon Bunthawi said from the northern city of Chiang Mai. ...
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Group decries Sri Lankas proposed media code
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -; An international rights group says a media code proposed by Sri Lanka's government could have a severe and chilling effect on free speech in the ...
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Asian Stocks Fall On Uncertainty Over Fed Policy
Asian stocks fell broadly on Wednesday as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of the outcome of the two-day policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve. With Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke scheduled to hold a press conference shortly after the meeting, investors wait to hear what he has to say about possible tapering of bond purchases and the future course of Fed policy. Japanese shares bucked ...
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UN US ask Filipinos not to leave Golan Heights
MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippines' top diplomat says U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have appealed to Manila not to withdraw more than 300 Filipino peacekeepers from the Golan Heights to avoid "maximum volatility" in the restive Middle East region.Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Wednesday the diplomats made the appeal to ...
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Afghanistan suspends peace talks after US-Taliban move as Hamid Karzai protests at being left out of initial negotiations
Afghan peace talks could be derailed before they even begin after president Hamid Karzai halted talks with the US on a new security deal to protest at being left out of initial negotiations with the Taliban aimed at ending the 12-year ...
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Musical spectacular to open first-ever Asia Pacific Special Olympics
Asia Pacific Games in December, with well-known Australian performers to take the stage in a two-hour spectacular of music, dance, theatre, lights and fireworks. Details of the gala event, planned for Dec 1, 2013 at the 30,000-seater Hunter Stadium in Newcastle were released on Wednesday. Aussie singers Anthony Callea, Marcia Hines and Marina Prior are among the line-up of entertainers, which ...
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China N Korea hold strategic dialogue officials
A high-ranking North Korean official with long experience as his country's international nuclear negotiator held talks on Wednesday with Chinese officials, Beijing's foreign ministry ...
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N.Korea threatens to kill authors of Hitler report
North Korea has angrily denied a report that its ruler used Adolf Hitler's memoir as a leadership guide, threatening to kill the authors of the report. The article by New Focus International, an online news portal run by North Korean defectors, said Kim Jong-Un had given copies of "Mein Kampf" to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills manual. He handed ...
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Bribery trial of former Finmeccanica CEO opens
MILAN (AP) -- The former head of the Italian aerospace and defense giant Finmeccanica goes on trial in a case involving alleged bribes to win a 560 million euro ($670 million) helicopter contract in ...
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Global Gold Demand Reinforced by Asian Consumers
Gold Council published a market update recently, which examines the effect of the recent fall in the gold price.The report also provides new consumer perspectives in India and China on gold price expectations and future purchasing ...
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ASIA CREDIT CLOSE Credits weaken ahead of FOMC results
Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:58am EDT SINGAPORE, June 19 (IFR) - Asian credit spreads widened and bonds weakened in a very quiet market. With every single market participant waiting on Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke's speech this evening in the US and the outcome of a two-day FOMC meeting, there were no brave souls willing to take new positions, thus resulting in few trades going through in the ...
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Monsoon floods kill 69 in India strand pilgrims
A view of the Hindu holy town of Kedarnath from a helicopter after a flood, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Monsoon torrential rains have cause havoc in northern India leading to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides as the death toll continues to climb and more than 1,000 pilgrims bound for Himalayan shrines remain stranded. (AP ...
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Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidation
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Cu Huy Ha Vu's books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his trial or to see his wife ...
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American predator professor suspected to have abused Filipino children roamed Asia
Mexican authorities have arrested an American professor who was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in the resort city of Playa del Carmen. Prosecutor Gaspar Armando Garcia Torres said Walter Lee Williams, 64, (pictured) a former university professor, is wanted on charges of sexual exploitation of children and traveling to Philippines for child sex. Garcia said Williams was ...
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Plot against Wall Street foiled NSA chiefThe director of the National Security Agency said Tuesday the US governments sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide including one directed at the New York Stock Exchang
Keith Alexander said the two recently disclosed programmes, one that gathers US phone records and another that is designed to track the use of US-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism, are critical in the terrorism fight. Alexander, seated side by side with top officials from ...
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Mexico arrests man on FBIs top 10 Most Wanted list
Walter Lee Williams , an alleged child sexual predator on the FBI's list of top 10 Most Wanted criminals. Williams was arrested in Playa del Carmen, a seaside resort town just south of Cancun on ...
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Mongolia coal mine sparking international interest
The government, after much deliberation, has announced that it will sell a 30% stake in the state-owned company that owns one of the largest coking coal reserves in the world, generating a flurry of interest in the industry.
Tavan Tolgoi is a huge coal mine in the Tsogttsetsii district of the southern Mongolian province of Ömnögovi. It is an extremely rural open pit coal mine that is hundreds of miles from any form of efficient transport and faces many difficulties because of this, the nearest railway, for example, is over 400 kilometers from the mine, making the transport of coal time-consuming, expensive and laborious. Read more
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