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Sharjah eyes more Korean Asian tourists and investments ahead of Seoul summit
WAM SHARJAH, May 25, 2013 (WAM)--The Third UAE-Korea Economic Partnership Forum that opens tomorrow will help provide a direct impetus to the travel and tourism industry in Sharjah and the UAE by way of more Korean and Asian tourists and investments in the promising tourism and hospitality sector, said Mohamed Ali Al Noman, Chairman, Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority. This ...
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Mumbai case Trial of Pakistani suspects adjourned till June 1
Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks was today adjourned till June 1 as the government is yet to appoint a chief prosecutor to handle the case. The trial suffered a major setback when chief ...
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Friend of suspect in London attack arrested after BBC interview
LONDON: Counter-terrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected of the savage killing of a British ...
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17 children and six policemen killed in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: ISLAMABAD: At least 17 children and a female teacher were burnt to death when a gas cylinder fitted into a school van exploded on Saturday in Pakistan's eastern city of Gujrat. At least 10 more children also sustained injuries when the van caught fire. According to police officials, the children were aged between five and 15 years. Emergency teams reached the scene to rescue the ...
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Blast in mosque kills 12 people in eastern Afghanistan
KABUL - Authorities in eastern Afghanistan say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque, killing 12 people. Local official Qasim Desewal said Saturday that four civilians and eight militants died in the blast during evening prayers the night before in Ghazni province's district of Andar. He said that the Taliban had ...
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Balloons bring smiles in war-weary Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after a major Taliban siege on an international compound in the ...
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Radiation leak at Japan lab small impact expected
TOKYO (AP) -- A nuclear research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected 55 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the ...
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Aberdeen favours Asia in tough year for investors
Asian companies could offer some of the best opportunities in 2009, in what promises to be another ';extremely tough year'; for investors, says Aberdeen Asset Management. The group expects investment in the key asset classes of equities, fixed income and property to continue to be challenging as evidence of a global economic slowdown accumulates. Aberdeen forecasts that both the ...
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At least four exposed to radiation after Japan laboratory leak
TOKYO: At least four people, and possibly up to 55, were exposed to radiation when radioactive material leaked during a laboratory experiment in Japan, the facility's operators said on Saturday, although authorities were not told of the leak for two days. The radioactive material also leaked outside the nuclear physics laboratory in Tokaimura, 110 km (65 miles) northeast of Tokyo, during ...
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2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with their Buddhist neighbors after deadly sectarian ...
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Send money to India
Maruti's Swift Dzire overtook its sibling for the first time to become the country's second-highest sold car after Alto. We take a look at the entry-level sedans that are giving high-end hatchbacks a run for their ...
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China seeks shared development pragmatic cooperation with ASEAN FM
China strives for shared development and pragmatic cooperation with ASEAN countries to promote peace, stability and prosperity in East Asia, said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the ASEAN Plus China Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Bali, Indonesia Thursday.Yang said this year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the China-ASEAN dialogue relationship and in the past ...
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For weeks killers hunted for soldiersA man has said he was on the brink of meeting the same fate as drummer Lee Rigby at the hands of the two killers weeks before the attack.
Woolwich killers , both British men of Nigerian origin, went out hunting for soldiers in weeks before the attack in the same area. According to 46-year-old Paul Ramsamy, the pair confronted him after apparently mistaking him for a soldier because he was wearing combat trousers and boots. The incident took place in Greenwich as Ramsamy walked home. The father of two said the ...
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China seeks win-win development with Asia
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Residents in Hekou in southwest China can still recall its former days as a quiet, anonymous town that attracted few visitors from neighboring Vietnam for business or sightseeing.But major changes have hit the town in Yunnan province. With two roads and one rail line linking it with Vietnam, Hekou has become a bustling hub for Vietnamese visitors buying bargain ...
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After Kabul attacks 10000 peace balloons
After a day of explosions and gunfire, residents of Kabul woke up on Saturday morning to be greeted by a public art project in which volunteers handed out 10,000 neon-pink "peace" ...
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Three survive US bridge collapse new span sought
MOUNT VERNON , Washington: Authorities searched for a temporary span after a key bridge linking the US and Canada collapsed, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into the icy water. All three people who fell into the Skagit River in northwestern Washington state escaped with only minor injuries. The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge collapsed about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver, British ...
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UK fighter jets escort Pak plane after midair scare
Pakistan International Airlines pilot sent out an emergency call alarmed by two men trying to barge into the cockpit. Both the men were arrested after the plane was escorted by Royal Air Force fighters and diverted from Manchester to the ...
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2014 Asian Golf Tourism Convention to be held at Mission Hills Haikou
Asia’s golf tourism industry will be gathering on China’s tropical island of Hainan next spring as the region’s most important golf tourism convention moves to award-winning golf resort Mission Hills Haikou. The baton for the 3rd Asia Golf Tourism Convention was passed to China at a signing and hand-over ceremony on the final day of AGTC 2013, held at the Royal Cliff Hotel ...
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Obamas drone speech welcomed in Pakistan YemenPresident Barack Obamas speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two key countries affected by the policies — Pakistan and Yemen.
Obama cast drone strikes against Islamic militants as crucial to US counterterrorism efforts but acknowledged in his landmark speech on Thursday that they are not a ...
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Workers Struggles Asia Australia and the Pacific
Permanent and contract employees at privately-owned Brahmani Steel protested outside the Revenue Division office in Kadappa on May 20 to demand payment of six months' outstanding wages. Management told workers that they would be paid if they accepted voluntary retirement. The workers, who had been employed at the company for at least six years, rejected the "offer" and submitted a ...
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Gas cylinder blast on Pakistan school bus kills 17
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A pair of suspected militant attacks killed nine people in two different areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.In the deadlier of the two attacks, suspected militants armed with heavy weapons attacked a police convoy in Mattani, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar, killing six policemen and wounding seven others, said senior ...
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Militants attacks kill 9 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A pair of suspected militant attacks killed nine people in two different areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday, police ...
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Radical preacher claims to know Woolwich attacker
LONDON: A radical Islamist preacher has now been identified who is believed to have brainwashed Britain's most hated man this moment--Michael Adebolajo. Photographs and videos have been found showing Adebolajo taking part in Islamic rallies by Anjem Choudary, former head of the banned Islamist organisation Al Muhajiroun. Adebolajo beheaded British ...
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Security services tried to recruit London killing suspect Friend
An alleged friend of London soldier murder suspect Michael Adebolajo was arrested at the BBC after telling the broadcaster that British security services had tried to recruit his ...
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US push on Myanmar enters new phase
After a landmark visit by Thein Sein, the United States is looking to a new phase of greater cooperation to encourage reform with Myanmar as it runs out of major symbolic ...
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Nepal reaches out for help to save tiger population
Nepal’s tigers, along with tigers across the Asian region, are being killed off by poachers and human encroachment on their habitats, with an extinction crisis mounting, the government has appealed to the international community for help.
The tiger, there is arguably no land animal so beautiful and majestic as this magnificent member of the Felidae family. These creatures have invaded the human imagination for centuries and are the national animals of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia, as well as North and South Korea. Read more
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