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Zardari visit signals slow progress in India-Pakistan ties
april 07, 2012by latadmin
With Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari making a rare visit to India, the BBC's Delhi correspondent Andrew North looks at the fraught state of relations between...
Fang Lizhi, Chinese Physicist and Seminal Dissident, Dies at 76
april 07, 2012by latadmin
BEIJING — Fang Lizhi, whose advocacy of economic and democratic freedoms shaped China’s brief era of student dissent that ended with the 1989 Tiananmen...
China, Taiwan 1-1 in Davis Cup
april 06, 2012by latadmin
China and Taiwan both scored one victory at the Davis Cup Oceania Group 1 relegation play-off in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Friday.
‘Hafiz Saeed helping Pak de-radicalise militants’
april 06, 2012by latadmin
Islamabad: An Islamist leader who had a USD 10 million American bounty placed on his head this week has been helping Pakistan de-radicalise militants under efforts to...
China warns military to ignore internet rumours
april 06, 2012by latadmin
China's official military newspaper has warned soldiers to ignore internet rumours and maintain absolute loyalty to the party. This follows the arrest of six people...
Writer fled China to ‘publish book’ on dissident
april 06, 2012by latadmin
A Chinese dissident who wrote a book critical of the country’s leadership has said he fled into exile after being warned against publishing a biography of a jailed...
Myanmar, Karen Rebel Group Firm Up Cease-Fire
april 06, 2012by latadmin
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government and its most enduring ethnic rebel group agreed Friday to firm up a cease-fire while negotiating a more a...
Thaworn stays ahead in Singapore
april 06, 2012by latadmin
Thaworn Wiratchant held his lead on 11-under-par through five holes of his second round after play was suspended due to darkness at the weather-hit ISPS Handa Singapore...
Gandhi statue vandalised in Sri Lanka
april 06, 2012by latadmin
Statues of Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi and Britain’s Robert Baden-Powell have been vandalised in Sri Lanka amid an anti-Indian and anti-Western...
Kaneria ‘unaware’ of ECB corruption hearing
april 06, 2012by latadmin
Former Pakistan cricketer Danish Kaneria said Friday he was in the dark about a disciplinary hearing in Britain over corruption that led to the jailing of an English...