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Myanmar says govt not to blame for religious riots
maart 30, 2013by latadmin
Yangon: The Myanmar government today rejected remarks by a UN human rights official suggesting that the authorities bear some blame for recent mob attacks by Buddhists...
Myanmar says govt not to blame for religious riots
maart 30, 2013by latadmin
Yangon: The Myanmar government today rejected remarks by a UN human rights official suggesting that the authorities bear some blame for recent mob attacks by Buddhists...
Sri Lanka violence prompts security measures
maart 29, 2013by latadmin
Elite police commandos are patrolling a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital after hundreds of Buddhist hardliners torched a Muslim-owned business in the latest in a series...
Marie-Hélène de Taillac
maart 29, 2013by latadmin
Enlarge Image Close WHEN SHE WAS a little girl, around age 3, Marie-Hélène de Taillac would sit and draw color charts. “They were dots of color on white...
Jailed China Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo’s relative held
maart 29, 2013by latadmin
The brother-in-law of jailed Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is being held on fraud charges, his lawyer says. Liu Hui was detained in January over a property dispute,...
Cost of Environmental Degradation in China Is Growing
maart 29, 2013by latadmin
BEIJING — The cost of environmental degradation in China in 2010 was about $230 billion, or 3.5 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, an official...
Khmer Rouge figure deemed fit to stand trial
maart 29, 2013by latadmin
A war-crimes court in Cambodia has ruled that Nuon Chea, former deputy of the late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, is fit to continue to stand trial, after the death of one...
San Pedro street to be closed off for skateboard festival
maart 29, 2013by latadmin
By Donna Littlejohn donna.littlejohn@dailybreeze.com @donnalittlejohn on Twitterdailybreeze.com Posted: 03/28/2013 04:16:49 PM PDT March 29, 2013 4:35 PM GMTUpdated:...
Analysis: NKorea threat may be more bark than bite
maart 29, 2013by latadmin
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards...
China: Landslide buries 83 in Tibet gold mine area
maart 29, 2013by latadmin
BEIJING (AP) — A massive landslide engulfed a gold mining area in mountainous Tibet, burying 83 workers believed to have been asleep early Friday morning, Chinese...
