Latest News
Nepal court lets ex-prince off with warning
april 27, 2011by latadmin
KATHMANDU (AFP) – A court in Nepal on Wednesday found former crown prince Paras Shah guilty of disturbing the peace after he allegedly fired his gun during a...
Signs of inside job in Afghan jailbreak: Kabul (AFP)
april 26, 2011by latadmin
AFP – There are signs that a huge Afghan prison break in which hundreds of Taliban inmates escaped through a kilometre-long tunnel was an inside job, the office of...
Radicalism Is Now Thriving?
april 26, 2011by latadmin
Fears of growing religious radicalism are once again coming up to the surface in recent days following a suicide-bomb explosion in Cirebon and several parcel bomb cases...
Commonwealth Games probe triggers Indian anger (AP)
april 26, 2011by latadmin
AP – One man threw a shoe at the organizer of India’s Commonwealth Games and activists ransacked his office after his arrest on a corruption charge unleashed...
Lost Japan sales hurt U.S. company profits (Reuters)
april 26, 2011by latadmin
Reuters – The Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis are cutting into the sales and profits of U.S. companies that serve Japanese consumers, from Coca Cola...
Turkey: Bosnia and Serbia should join NATO, EU
april 26, 2011by latadmin
KARADJORDJEVO, Serbia – Turkey wants to help turn the war-ravaged Balkans into a region of cooperation with a joint future in the European Union and NATO, Turkish...
Pakistan raps move to ‘defame’ spies
april 26, 2011by latadmin
KARACHI (AFP) – Pakistan on Tuesday angrily rejected leaked documents showing that US investigators considered its top spy agency a terror group, which could...
Malinga defends Sri Lanka Test retirement
april 26, 2011by latadmin
COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka paceman Lasith Malinga on Tuesday brushed aside criticism that he quit Test cricket to be able to make quick money from tournaments such...
MYANMAR: Early warning system needed for fishermen
april 26, 2011by latadmin
Photo: Lynn Maung/IRINThe wife of a lost fisherman awaits news of her husbandKYONEKADWNE, 26 April 2011 (IRIN) – The plight of hundreds of small fishermen lost at...
PHILIPPINES: Cholera strikes remote ethnic group
april 26, 2011by latadmin
Photo: ReliefWebMANILA, 21 April 2011 (IRIN) – Health officials in the Philippines are struggling to contain a cholera outbreak in a remote area on the western...