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05 February 2012, 11:18:24 AM
 AP
- A car bomb exploded just
outside the police headquarters
of a southern Afghanistan city
on Sunday, killing at least
seven people, officials said.
05 February 2012, 11:01:59 AM
Reuters - China has a stake
in helping euro zone countries
get through their debt crisis,
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said
in comments published on Sunday,
pointing to Europe's importance
as a market and hinting at more
possible support for beleaguered
exporters.
05 February 2012, 10:37:41 AM
Reuters - A car bomb in the
south Afghan city of Kandahar
killed at least seven people and
wounded 19 on Sunday, the
province's media office said.
05 February 2012, 09:40:35 AM
 AP
- Protesters attacked seven
Syrian embassies around the
world following reports of the
bloodiest episode yet in
Damascus' nearly yearlong
crackdown on dissent. Mobs
trashed diplomats' offices from
London to Australia and set the
embassy in Cairo on fire.
05 February 2012, 09:22:11 AM
Reuters - The United States
and Japan have agreed to tweak a
six-year-old agreement on
Marines based on the southern
island of Okinawa, allowing
Washington to deploy forces to
the Pacific island of Guam
regardless of the debate over
moving a disputed airbase.
05 February 2012, 09:05:11 AM
Reuters - China has sent a
team of government officials and
company executives to Libya to
discuss post-war reconstruction
and how to protect Chinese
assets, the official Xinhua news
agency reported on Sunday.
05 February 2012, 08:56:14 AM
Reuters - Three Tibetans in
southwestern China have set
themselves ablaze in protest
against Chinese rule, Radio Free
Asia reported, the latest in a
series of self-immolations over
the past year.
05 February 2012, 08:18:36 AM
AP - Three more people have
set themselves on fire to
protest China's policies toward
Tibetans in a politically
sensitive area that already has
seen ethnic violence this year,
a media report and an activist
group said.
05 February 2012, 07:49:35 AM
AP - Two Philippine security
officials say a key Abu Sayyaf
commander killed in a
U.S.-backed airstrike was
planning terror attacks when he
was slain.
05 February 2012, 06:36:46 AM
Reuters - Senior officials
arrested in a corruption
investigation. Subway commuters
trapped underground without
light or proper ventilation.
Flooded roads in the financial
district.
04 February 2012, 05:19:30 PM
 Reuters
- U.S. Senator John McCain
warned China's Vice Foreign
Minister Zhang Zhijun on
Saturday that "the Arab Spring
is coming to China" and
highlighted the number of
Tibetans burning themselves to
death in his country.
04 February 2012, 02:42:48 PM
Reuters - The Afghan Taliban
denied on Saturday that the
group's leader Mullah Omar wrote
to the White House last year.
04 February 2012, 02:25:55 PM
 AP
- German Chancellor Angela
Merkel expressed regret Saturday
that Chinese police blocked a
human rights lawyer from meeting
her and said the Communist
government should have the
confidence to allow dissent.
04 February 2012, 02:10:59 PM
 AP
- Pakistan's prime minister will
travel to Qatar next week to
talk with leaders there about
the prospect of a peace deal to
end the war in Afghanistan, a
government official said
Saturday, a trip that suggests
some progress in a process long
stymied by mistrust.
04 February 2012, 01:57:47 PM
Reuters - India's beleaguered
government won some rare relief
on Saturday when a court threw
out a corruption case against
one its top ministers ahead of
crucial state elections next
week.
04 February 2012, 01:46:38 PM
 AP
- Last year was the deadliest on
record for civilians in the
Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as
insurgents ratcheted up violence
with suicide attacks and
roadside bombs, the United
Nations said Saturday.
04 February 2012, 12:27:05 PM
AP - Indonesian police say
they have arrested an airline
pilot on suspicion of using
illegal drugs three hours before
flying.
04 February 2012, 11:28:51 AM
 AP
- The Afghan Taliban on Saturday
denied that their leader Mullah
Omar had written to President
Barack Obama last July.
04 February 2012, 11:27:07 AM
 AP
- Afghan officials say they are
hopeful that the country's
largest airport will reopen
after being closed due to heavy
snowfall.
04 February 2012, 11:06:31 AM
AP - One of India's most
powerful and controversial
politicians rises from a
throne-like armchair, a clutch
of candidates standing
deferentially behind her and two
large portraits flanking the
stage. A gated semicircle keeps
tens of thousands of supporters
20 yards (meters) away.
04 February 2012, 10:13:10 AM
Reuters - More than 3,000
civilians were killed in the war
in Afghanistan in 2011, the
fifth year in a row the number
has risen, the United Nations
said on Saturday in a report
likely to revive tension between
the Afghan government and its
Western backers.
04 February 2012, 09:20:52 AM
Reuters - Pakistan's prime
minister will travel to Qatar
next week to talk with officials
from the Gulf Arab state on the
Afghan reconciliation process, a
senior government official said
on Saturday.
04 February 2012, 07:09:30 AM
Reuters - Sudanese rebels
said they are looking for ways
to hand over 29 Chinese workers
held in the border state of
South Kordofan, Chinese state
media said, as Sudan's
government confirmed the death
of one worker in a firefight.
04 February 2012, 06:38:04 AM
Reuters - Three Japanese
towns would be willing to
restart their nuclear reactors
if they pass government stress
tests, two were against the idea
but most were undecided, a
newspaper survey suggested
Saturday.
04 February 2012, 02:16:50 AM
AP - Canada's prime minister
heads to China next week where
he'll discuss Canada's vast oil
reserves in a visit that's being
viewed as an "open warning" to
the United States, which
rejected a pipeline from Canada
to Texas.
04 February 2012, 02:03:14 AM
 Reuters
- The White House received a
letter last year purported to
come directly from Mullah Omar,
the reclusive leader of the
Taliban, asking the United
States to deliver militant
prisoners whose transfer is now
at the heart of the Obama
administration's bid to broker
peace in Afghanistan.
04 February 2012, 12:45:45 AM
Reuters - Afghanistan could
end up fighting Taliban
insurgents with a national army
and police force two-thirds the
size envisaged, if plans
discussed on Friday by NATO
defense ministers, trying to
balance security needs with
budget cuts, gain traction.
03 February 2012, 10:38:11 PM
Reuters - The White House
received a letter last year
purported to come directly from
Mullah Omar, the reclusive
leader of the Taliban, asking
the United States to deliver
militant prisoners whose
transfer is now at the heart of
the Obama administration's bid
to broker peace in Afghanistan.
03 February 2012, 10:28:31 PM
ContributorNetwork -
States-side fans of video game
consoles, from the first
Nintendo Entertainment System to
its modern successor the Wii,
know what it's like for a game
that looks awesome to only come
out in Japan.
03 February 2012, 10:15:14 PM
Reuters - Mayor Nobuto Hosaka
had more than saving taxpayers'
money on his mind when he
recently invited bids from
rivals of giant utility Tokyo
Electric Power Co to supply
power to his ward in Japan's
capital.
03 February 2012, 09:40:41 PM
 AP
- Islamist militants attacked a
Pakistani army checkpoint near
the Afghan border Friday,
killing seven paramilitary
soldiers and abducting four, a
government official and a
Taliban spokesman said.
03 February 2012, 07:30:24 PM
Reuters - Detroit automakers
are urging President Barack
Obama to reject Japan's bid to
join talks on a regional free
trade agreement, the head of an
automotive group representing
GM, Ford and Chrysler said on
Thursday.
03 February 2012, 05:44:58 PM
 AP
- A U.N.-backed tribunal's
Supreme Court lengthened the
sentence for the Khmer Rouge's
chief jailer to life
imprisonment on Friday because
of his "shocking and heinous"
crimes against the Cambodian
people.
03 February 2012, 05:20:39 PM
AP - Leaks of radioactive
water have become more frequent
at Japan's crippled nuclear
power plant less than two months
after it was declared basically
stable.
03 February 2012, 04:10:44 PM
 AP
- A day after proclaiming the
death of a top regional
terrorist suspect in a
U.S.-backed airstrike, the
Philippine military acknowledged
Friday that his remains still
have not been found.
03 February 2012, 03:46:39 PM
AP - State media say an
explosion at a coal mine in
southwestern China has killed 11
miners and injured six.
03 February 2012, 03:43:27 PM
 AP
- Police said Friday that local
thugs, not al-Qaida-linked Abu
Sayyaf militants, were likely to
have abducted two European
tourists this week in the
southern Philippines.
03 February 2012, 02:59:32 PM
AP - Nepal's former communist
rebel fighters began leaving the
camps they have called home for
five years on Friday after
receiving government checks as
part of a plan to integrate them
into society.
03 February 2012, 02:34:05 PM
 AP
- More than 110 people were
missing Friday after a ferry
sank off Papua New Guinea's east
coast, and rescuers feared many
had been trapped inside.
03 February 2012, 02:24:57 PM
AP - Eight farmers have died
after their tractor ran over an
anti-tank mine left over from
Cambodia's 1980s civil war.
03 February 2012, 01:36:24 PM
Reuters - India's 1.3
million-strong armed forces,
hobbled by outdated equipment
and slow decision-making, are
undergoing an overhaul as
defence priorities shift to
China from traditional rival
Pakistan.
03 February 2012, 01:29:57 PM
 Reuters
- The U.N.-backed war crimes
tribunal in Cambodia ruled on
Friday that the Khmer Rouge's
prison chief should serve the
rest of his life in jail,
extending a 19-year sentence
handed down in July 2010 that
outraged survivors of the
"killing fields" regime.
03 February 2012, 01:13:11 PM
 AP
- China's premier pledged to
help Europe fight its debt
crisis during a meeting Friday
with German Chancellor Angela
Merkel but a ruling party
newspaper criticized sanctions
on Iran and a human rights
lawyer was blocked from meeting
Merkel.
03 February 2012, 12:23:35 PM
AP - A prominent Chinese
human rights lawyer said Friday
that Beijing police prevented
him from meeting with visiting
German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
a sign of continuing heavy
restrictions on the country's
beleaguered rights advocates.
03 February 2012, 12:11:59 PM
Reuters - Just because
foreign airlines may soon be
allowed to invest in India's
battered carriers doesn't mean
they will.
03 February 2012, 11:41:27 AM
Reuters - In a demonstration
of its growing military power,
China is increasingly willing to
deploy its armed forces to
protect Chinese nationals
abroad, but analysts say it
still lacks the capacity to
mount a complex hostage rescue.
03 February 2012, 11:31:08 AM
 AP
- For an emerging generation of
Japanese innovators, the dream
isn't a job for life at a big
company. They have new
ambitions, and they're
determined to go places.
Especially Silicon Valley.
03 February 2012, 11:16:12 AM
 AP
- Panasonic on Friday nearly
doubled its projected net loss
for the fiscal year to a record
780 billion yen ($10.2 billion)
amid weak TV and mobile phone
sales and ongoing restructuring
costs after acquiring smaller
Sanyo Electronics Co.
03 February 2012, 11:03:41 AM
Reuters - As Hong Kong's
outgoing leader Donald Tsang
looks ahead to retirement, an
unusually toxic public debate
over the burden placed by a
flood of mainland Chinese
visitors has struck at the heart
of Hong Kong's often rocky
transition from British colony
to Chinese special
administrative region that began
in 1997.
03 February 2012, 10:32:49 AM
 AP
- World stock markets were
mostly lower Friday ahead of a
U.S. jobs report that is a key
gauge of how robust the world's
No. 1 economy is.
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05 February 2012, 09:22:11 AM
Reuters - The United States
and Japan have agreed to tweak a
six-year-old agreement on
Marines based on the southern
island of Okinawa, allowing
Washington to deploy forces to
the Pacific island of Guam
regardless of the debate over
moving a disputed airbase.
04 February 2012, 06:38:04 AM
Reuters - Three Japanese
towns would be willing to
restart their nuclear reactors
if they pass government stress
tests, two were against the idea
but most were undecided, a
newspaper survey suggested
Saturday.
03 February 2012, 10:28:31 PM
ContributorNetwork -
States-side fans of video game
consoles, from the first
Nintendo Entertainment System to
its modern successor the Wii,
know what it's like for a game
that looks awesome to only come
out in Japan.
03 February 2012, 10:15:14 PM
Reuters - Mayor Nobuto Hosaka
had more than saving taxpayers'
money on his mind when he
recently invited bids from
rivals of giant utility Tokyo
Electric Power Co to supply
power to his ward in Japan's
capital.
03 February 2012, 07:30:24 PM
Reuters - Detroit automakers
are urging President Barack
Obama to reject Japan's bid to
join talks on a regional free
trade agreement, the head of an
automotive group representing
GM, Ford and Chrysler said on
Thursday.
03 February 2012, 07:08:02 PM
Reuters - A blindingly white
room filled with a single wave
of sound contrasts with a dark
room that is pierced by a cone
of light in the first German
solo exhibition of Japanese
artist Ryoji Ikeda.
03 February 2012, 06:02:25 PM
AP
- For an emerging generation of
Japanese innovators, the dream
isn't a job for life at a big
company. They have new
ambitions, and they're
determined to go places.
Especially Silicon Valley.
03 February 2012, 05:20:39 PM
AP - Leaks of radioactive
water have become more frequent
at Japan's crippled nuclear
power plant less than two months
after it was declared basically
stable.
03 February 2012, 05:09:25 PM
The Motley Fool - In 1991,
former MIT dean Lester Thurow
wrote that "If one looks at the
last 20 years, Japan would have
to be considered the betting
favorite to win the economy
honors of owning the 21st
century."
03 February 2012, 03:24:41 PM
The Christian Science Monitor
- Following the report of Japan’s
first annual trade deficit in
more than 30 years, the country’s
major manufacturers have been
delivering earnings results
soaked in red ink.
03 February 2012, 12:32:02 PM
Reuters - Gobbling down a
huge sushi roll in one go on
Japan's February 3 end-of-winter
festival is thought to bring
good fortune -- just as long as
you don't speak while you eat
and remember to face the right
way.
03 February 2012, 12:16:16 PM
Reuters - Hitachi Ltd said on
Friday it would reorganize its
operational structure in April
by setting up five new groups as
the Japanese conglomerate
continues to overhaul its
sprawling operations to boost
profitability.
03 February 2012, 11:16:12 AM
AP
- Panasonic on Friday nearly
doubled its projected net loss
for the fiscal year to a record
780 billion yen ($10.2 billion)
amid weak TV and mobile phone
sales and ongoing restructuring
costs after acquiring smaller
Sanyo Electronics Co.
03 February 2012, 04:26:50 AM
 AP
- Ukrainian nuclear experts say
Japanese evacuated from around
the stricken Fukushima nuclear
plant should be able to return
to their homes — unlike the
Chernobyl site, which remains
inside a wide no-go zone a
quarter-century after the
accident there.
03 February 2012, 12:29:06 AM
 AP
- Celebrated playwrights
including Stephen Sondheim, Tony
Kushner and Edward Albee have
joined a fundraiser to mark the
anniversary of a devastating
earthquake in Japan.
02 February 2012, 06:41:32 PM
 AP
- An avalanche has killed three
bathers at a hot spring in
northern Japan, where heavy snow
also paralyzed traffic and
forced schools to close.
02 February 2012, 06:38:02 PM
AP
- Ukrainian nuclear experts say
Japanese evacuated from around
the stricken Fukushima nuclear
plant should be able to return
to their homes — unlike the
Chernobyl site, which remains
inside a wide no-go zone a
quarter-century after the
accident there.
02 February 2012, 01:27:41 PM
 AP
- Hammered by weak TV sales, a
strong yen and production
disruptions from flooding in
Thailand, Sony Corp. on Thursday
reported a net loss of 159
billion yen ($2.1 billion) for
the October-December quarter and
more than doubled its projected
loss for the full fiscal year.
02 February 2012, 12:25:54 PM
Reuters - The Tokyo Stock
Exchange suffered a major glitch
in cash-share trading for the
first time in six years on
Thursday that prevented morning
trade in some 240 shares and
instruments, including Sony Corp
(6758.T), and provoked anger
among traders.
02 February 2012, 08:27:00 AM
Reuters - Japan's top banking
group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial
(8306.T), has drawn up a
contingency plan that flags 2016
as the time when the nation's
current account may slide into
deficit and trigger a government
bond sell-off, a newspaper
reported on Thursday.
02 February 2012, 06:21:58 AM
Reuters - Japan's punch-drunk
corporate sector looks to be out
for the count, having been
knocked off its feet by a strong
yen just as it was staging a
wobbly recovery from natural
disaster.
02 February 2012, 04:21:02 AM
AP - Japan has accused China
of unilaterally exploring gas
deposits in the East China Sea,
in violation of an agreement to
jointly develop disputed areas.
02 February 2012, 04:01:25 AM
AP - The Tokyo Stock Exchange
says it has suspended trading in
241 securities, including Sony
Corp. and Hitachi Ltd., due to a
glitch in its electronic trading
system.
01 February 2012, 02:30:56 PM
 AP
- Sony Corp. announced Wednesday
that Kazuo Hirai, who leads the
company's core consumer products
business, will replace Howard
Stringer as CEO and president
effective April 1, as the
electronics and entertainment
company desperately tries to
engineer a turnaround.
01 February 2012, 10:40:20 AM
Reuters - South Korea and
Japan will soon meet U.S.
officials in Washington to ask
how much oil they can import
from Iran under new sanctions
that leave the Asian nations
with few alternative sources for
energy, government officials
said Wednesday.
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05 February 2012, 11:01:59 AM
Reuters - China has a stake
in helping euro zone countries
get through their debt crisis,
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said
in comments published on Sunday,
pointing to Europe's importance
as a market and hinting at more
possible support for beleaguered
exporters.
05 February 2012, 09:05:11 AM
Reuters - China has sent a
team of government officials and
company executives to Libya to
discuss post-war reconstruction
and how to protect Chinese
assets, the official Xinhua news
agency reported on Sunday.
05 February 2012, 08:56:14 AM
Reuters - Three Tibetans in
southwestern China have set
themselves ablaze in protest
against Chinese rule, Radio Free
Asia reported, the latest in a
series of self-immolations over
the past year.
05 February 2012, 08:18:36 AM
AP - Three more people have
set themselves on fire to
protest China's policies toward
Tibetans in a politically
sensitive area that already has
seen ethnic violence this year,
a media report and an activist
group said.
04 February 2012, 05:19:30 PM
Reuters
- U.S. Senator John McCain
warned China's Vice Foreign
Minister Zhang Zhijun on
Saturday that "the Arab Spring
is coming to China" and
highlighted the number of
Tibetans burning themselves to
death in his country.
04 February 2012, 02:25:55 PM
AP
- German Chancellor Angela
Merkel expressed regret Saturday
that Chinese police blocked a
human rights lawyer from meeting
her and said the Communist
government should have the
confidence to allow dissent.
04 February 2012, 07:09:30 AM
Reuters - Sudanese rebels
said they are looking for ways
to hand over 29 Chinese workers
held in the border state of
South Kordofan, Chinese state
media said, as Sudan's
government confirmed the death
of one worker in a firefight.
04 February 2012, 02:16:50 AM
AP - Canada's prime minister
heads to China next week where
he'll discuss Canada's vast oil
reserves in a visit that's being
viewed as an "open warning" to
the United States, which
rejected a pipeline from Canada
to Texas.
03 February 2012, 03:46:39 PM
AP - State media say an
explosion at a coal mine in
southwestern China has killed 11
miners and injured six.
03 February 2012, 01:13:11 PM
AP
- China's premier pledged to
help Europe fight its debt
crisis during a meeting Friday
with German Chancellor Angela
Merkel but a ruling party
newspaper criticized sanctions
on Iran and a human rights
lawyer was blocked from meeting
Merkel.
03 February 2012, 12:23:35 PM
AP - A prominent Chinese
human rights lawyer said Friday
that Beijing police prevented
him from meeting with visiting
German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
a sign of continuing heavy
restrictions on the country's
beleaguered rights advocates.
03 February 2012, 11:41:27 AM
Reuters - In a demonstration
of its growing military power,
China is increasingly willing to
deploy its armed forces to
protect Chinese nationals
abroad, but analysts say it
still lacks the capacity to
mount a complex hostage rescue.
03 February 2012, 11:03:41 AM
Reuters - As Hong Kong's
outgoing leader Donald Tsang
looks ahead to retirement, an
unusually toxic public debate
over the burden placed by a
flood of mainland Chinese
visitors has struck at the heart
of Hong Kong's often rocky
transition from British colony
to Chinese special
administrative region that began
in 1997.
03 February 2012, 09:54:47 AM
Reuters - China over the
years has derided the Dalai Lama
as a jackal in Buddhist robes,
choreographer of a separatist
Peking opera and, lately,
instigator of a plot that led
some Tibetans to set themselves
on fire and other forms of
protest.
03 February 2012, 09:39:56 AM
Reuters - China's headline
consumer price index (CPI) is on
track to fall on a
month-to-month basis in the
coming months and mark a
year-on-year decline in the
second half of 2012, a
government economist said in
comments published on Friday.
03 February 2012, 09:26:13 AM
Reuters - Chinese police
blocked a prominent human rights
lawyer from attending a Beijing
dinner hosted by German leader
Angela Merkel, the lawyer said
on Friday, the latest example of
restrictions on unorthodox views
in a sensitive year.
03 February 2012, 07:54:16 AM
Reuters - Four floors up
overlooking the bustle of the
cavernous Joy City Mall in
Beijing, diners take a break
from shopping to slurp noodles
and nibble on dumplings at an
Ajisen restaurant.
03 February 2012, 06:13:19 AM
Reuters - When Zhang Dong sat
down recently to book train
tickets for his trip home for
the Chinese new year, he got a
taste of the frustration that
has helped make China's railway
ministry a focus of anger
against the country's many
bureaucrats.
03 February 2012, 03:12:16 AM
Reuters - A top Chinese
newspaper stepped up Beijing's
opposition to a Western push for
tighter sanctions against Iran,
warning Friday that tensions
over Tehran's nuclear program
are hurting energy markets and
could stifle the global economic
recovery.
03 February 2012, 01:00:01 AM
Reuters - China is
considering increasing its
participation in the rescue
funds aimed at resolving the
European debt crisis, Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao told
journalists on Thursday.
02 February 2012, 10:53:19 PM
Reuters - Prime Minister
Stephen Harper may still be
smarting from Canada's failed
bid to ramp up oil exports to
the United States, but his plan
B could prove to be even
tougher.
02 February 2012, 11:10:02 AM
Reuters - Facing stiff global
headwinds and a downturn in its
property sector, China should
cut taxes and slash banks'
reserve requirements this year
to underpin growth, a senior
government economist said on
Thursday.
02 February 2012, 09:39:47 AM
Reuters - German Chancellor
Angela Merkel on Thursday urged
China to use its influence to
persuade Iran to give up its
nuclear program, at the start of
a three-day visit when she will
also seek China's support for
the ailing euro.
02 February 2012, 07:28:29 AM
Reuters - China's securities
regulator has for the first time
published a full list of Chinese
companies that have applied for
an initial public offering on
the Shanghai or Shenzhen
markets, in a move aimed at
boosting transparency of the
system.
02 February 2012, 06:02:17 AM
Reuters - Want a slice of the
billions of dollars China spends
each year on farm subsidies?
Become a middleman and open a
toll road.
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February 2012, 09:30:00 AM | Ben
Farmer
A string
of bigger and more complex
suicide attacks by insurgents in
Afghanistan have pushed civilian
deaths to their highest level in
a decade a United Nations report
says.
03
February 2012, 10:08:17 PM |
Barney Henderson
Mullah
Omar, the shadowy Taliban
leader, has purportedly sent a
letter to The White House
indicating an interest in peace
talks.
03
February 2012, 09:10:23 PM |
Telegraph Staff
A Japanese
woman has been jailed after
deliberately breaking the legs
of four babies because she was
jealous of happy mothers.
03
February 2012, 05:09:12 PM | Rob
Crilly
With a
hoot and then a lurch, the 15:30
to Karachi pulled out of
Lahore's railway station bang on
time and trailing tinsel.
03
February 2012, 05:04:02 PM |
Dean Nelson
India is
set to cap the amount poor
families can spend on lavish
weddings in an attempt to reduce
dowry-related crimes.
03
February 2012, 04:34:42 PM |
James Kilner
Increasingly frequent power cuts
and fuel shortages are causing
growing frustration in
Uzbekistan, one of the world's
most repressive countries.
03
February 2012, 03:27:46 PM |
Telegraph Staff
An
aircraft carrying more than 60
passengers was guided in to land
by a low-paid fireman speaking
broken English after air traffic
controllers at an Indian airport
failed to turn up for work.
03
February 2012, 12:48:08 PM |
Telegraph Staff
A Khmer
Rouge jailer known as Duch who
oversaw the deaths of some
15,000 people had his sentence
increased to life.
03
February 2012, 09:05:03 AM |
Neil Tweedie
As his new
book about the Taliban is
released, former newsreader
Sandy Gall explains why it has
all gone wrong in Afghanistan,
writes Neil Tweedie.
03
February 2012, 07:09:21 AM |
Telegraph Staff
A former
Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw
the deaths of some 15,000 people
will spend the rest of his life
in jail, Cambodia's UN-backed
court ruled in a final appeal
verdict.
03
February 2012, 06:58:29 AM |
Telegraph Staff
North
Korea is open to immediate talks
with rival South Korea if Seoul
responds to several
preconditions for dialogue, a
North Korean military official
told the Associated Press.
02
February 2012, 05:44:55 PM |
Dean Nelson
'Ponty'
Chadha, A billionaire liquor
baron and financial backer of
Mayawati, the 'Dalit Queen', is
under investigation for tax
evasion after more than £25
million in cash was seized from
a secret vault in the basement
of one of his shopping malls.
02
February 2012, 02:00:03 PM | Rob
Crilly
Pakistan
is ready to use whatever
leverage it has with the Haqqani
network and the Taliban to help
push for peace in Afghanistan,
according to the country's
foreign minister.
02
February 2012, 01:12:09 PM |
Telegraph Staff
Resentment
of mainland Chinese in Hong Kong
is at an all-time high following
the publication of an
advertisement in a local
newspaper comparing people from
China to locusts.
02
February 2012, 12:16:24 PM |
Telegraph Staff
Guinness
World Records experts are to
travel to Nepal to measure man
claiming to be world's shortest.
02
February 2012, 12:10:22 PM | Rob
Crilly
Pakistan's
highest court is to charge the
country's prime minister with
contempt over his refusal to
reopen corruption cases against
the president.
01
February 2012, 10:32:10 PM |
James Kilner
Six weeks
after Kazakhstan's longest
post-Soviet industrial dispute
ended in a riot and the death of
at least 16 protesters,
officials in the west of the
country have bought their way
out of another strike.
01
February 2012, 10:00:03 PM | Ben
Farmer
Afghan
soldiers are selling their
weapons and vehicles to the
Taliban, sharing intelligence
and even signing covert
ceasefire agreements, report
claims.
01
February 2012, 09:18:48 PM | Ben
Farmer
The leaked
secret report into how thousands
of Taliban prisoners view the
state of the decade-long
conflict touches on the deepest
fears of Nato commanders and no
doubt made uncomfortable reading
for many.
01
February 2012, 08:10:19 PM | Rob
Crilly
The United
Nations is trying to strike a
deal with Pakistan to safeguard
the future of more than two
million Afghan refugees who fled
years of violence in their home
country.
01
February 2012, 07:33:18 PM | Ben
Farmer
Afghan
police or soldiers have opened
fire on their coalition allies
45 times since May 2007, killing
70 and wounding 110, American
figures have disclosed for the
first time.
01
February 2012, 05:54:31 PM |
James Kilner
The
authorities in Kazakhstan have
agreed to free Yevgeny Zhovtis,
the country's most high profile
human rights defender, from
prison where he has been serving
a four year sentence for killing
a pedestrian in a road accident.
01
February 2012, 05:20:47 PM | Rob
Crilly
Police in
Pakistan on Wednesday revealed
that a parcel containing deadly
anthrax powder has been sent to
the official residence of the
country's prime minister.
01
February 2012, 05:18:40 PM |
Dean Nelson
India is
the most dangerous place in the
world to be born a girl, with
females almost twice as likely
to die before reaching the age
of five, according to new UN
figures.
01
February 2012, 04:34:43 PM |
Telegraph Staff
Pakistan
rejects accusations laid out in
leaked Nato report that it
secretly supports Taliban
insurgents in Afghanistan.
01
February 2012, 01:36:34 PM |
Telegraph Staff
The
discharge of 20 tons of the
carcinogenic metal cadmium into
the Longjiang River in southern
China's Guangxi Province is an
environmental tragedy that has
become depressingly familiar.
01
February 2012, 01:13:18 PM |
Telegraph Staff
Supposedly
friendly Afghan security forces
have attacked US and coalition
troops 45 times since May 2007,
US officials say, for the first
time laying out details and
analysis of attacks that have
killed 70 and wounded 110.
01
February 2012, 12:32:46 PM |
Telegraph Staff
Twenty
tons of the cancer-causing metal
cadmium have been discharged
into a river in southern China
in one of the worst chemical
spills of its kind that could
affect up to 4 million people.
01
February 2012, 11:38:35 AM |
Malcolm Moore
Villagers
in the Chinese protest village
of Wukan have voted in elections
in what could be a model for
China reform.
01
February 2012, 11:38:35 AM |
Malcolm Moore
Villagers
in the Chinese protest village
of Wukan have voted in elections
in what could be a model for
future reform in China.
01
February 2012, 11:03:38 AM | Ben
Farmer
Taliban
insurgency is intact, undefeated
and receiving comprehensive
support from Pakistan, Nato
report says.
01
February 2012, 09:13:16 AM | Rob
Crilly
Pakistani
jets bombed insurgent bases in
the country's mountainous tribal
areas before dawn on Wednesday
morning, killing at least 31
Taliban fighters, according to
security officials.
01
February 2012, 09:08:29 AM |
Telegraph Staff
Twins born
in Indonesia and put up
separately for adoption, have
been reunited after finding each
other living just 25 miles
apart, in southern Sweden, three
decades later.
01
February 2012, 08:52:12 AM |
Telegraph Staff
Two
Germans and a Moroccan man are
facing the death penalty on
charges of smuggling more than
10 kilogrammes of
methamphetamine into Malaysia,
known for its strict anti-drug
laws.
01
February 2012, 02:01:20 AM |
Chris Irvine
Pakistan's
security services are
"intimately involved" with the
Taliban in Afghanistan,
according to a leaked Nato
intelligence report.
31 January
2012, 09:22:58 PM | Telegraph
Staff
North
Korea is expected to begin a
prisoner amnesty as of
Wednesday, according to official
statements.
31 January
2012, 07:50:00 PM | Malcolm
Moore
Wukan to
hold what the villagers believe
is China'sfirst wholly
transparent, completely open,
democratic election.
31 January
2012, 07:39:25 PM | Dean Nelson
The Indian
sari has long been admired for
its revealing elegance, but
according to doctors looks
aren't everything: women who
wear them could be at greater
risk of cancer.
31 January
2012, 06:42:43 PM | Matthew Day
A
two-and-a-half ton German
satellite came within minutes of
crashing into Beijing, says ESA.
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Introduction:
The original birth of
civilization began in the
Middle East and migrated
westward - to Greece, to
Rome, and then to the
nations of northern Europe.
As Henry Luce so aptly
quipped in 1941, ''The
twentieth century was the
American Century.'' And
indeed it was. But the
centroid of power continues
to migrate westward: it is
widely anticipated that the
21st century will be the
''Asian Century.''
With recent shifts in
the economic centers of the
world, most notably the
decline of the U.S., the Far
East is quickly rising to
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