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Singapore urged to end all executions
juli 10, 2012by latadmin
Rights groups on Tuesday hailed Singapore’s decision to ease mandatory death sentences for homicide and drug trafficking but urged the government to go further and...
Muddy Waters Stigma Means $1 Billion Cost to Exit U.S.
juli 10, 2012by latadmin
China Development Bank Corp., the state-owned lender charged with strengthening the country’s competitiveness, is providing more than $1 billion to help smaller...
Newly ordained bishop goes missing in Shanghai
juli 10, 2012by latadmin
A newly ordained bishop is reportedly being held after announcing he was quitting the body that oversees…
India buys Gandhi archive to halt auction
juli 10, 2012by latadmin
India has paid $1.1 million to buy a collection of letters, papers and photographs relating to Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi, preventing their sale at a...
Warrant issued for SKorean president’s brother
juli 10, 2012by latadmin
SEOUL, South Korea-A court issued an arrest warrant late Tuesday for the elder brother of South Korea’s president on bribery allegations, a major embarrassment to...
Malaysia ups badminton gold stake at London Olympics
juli 10, 2012by latadmin
Malaysia’s gold mining magnate Andrew Kam Tuesday offered a two million ringgit ($627,844) gold bar to any member of his country’s badminton team who brings...
Burma nominates new vice-president Myint Swe
juli 10, 2012by latadmin
Burma's military has nominated a former general to be one of the country's two vice presidents. Myint Swe is widely considered to be a hardliner and has…
Indian state’s grip on rare lions may be too tight
juli 08, 2012by latadmin
GIR SANCTUARY, India-A peacock shrieks. A monkey scrambles higher into the fire-colored canopy of a kesudo tree. And an Asiatic lion — one of the last few hundred...
China plans huge tourism project in Tibet capital
juli 08, 2012by latadmin
China on Sunday started work on a 30-billion-yuan ($4.8-billion) tourism project in Lhasa city, state media said, as it seeks to draw more travellers to the restive...
Islamists protest NATO supply line in Pakistan
juli 08, 2012by latadmin
Thousands of hardline Islamists streamed toward Pakistan's capital in a massive convoy of vehicles Sunday to protest the government's decision to allow the...
