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Breaking News Tue, 7 Sep 2010
Migrant workers in Dubai creek, UAE, November 2007
Migrant   People   Photos   World   wikipedia:Migrant  
Asian Migrant Workers See Exploitation in Sweden
| The image of migrant workers freezing, locking up their bosses and marching for better pay and conditions is not typically Swedish. | Yet these are among the catalog of incidents that have occurred ... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
The New York Times
In this Korean Central News Agency photo taken on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 and distributed by Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korea leader Kim Jong Il, center in the front row, and high ranking North Korean officials sit in front of a giant red flag with an image of his father late Kim Il Sung during a gathering at an auditorium in the capital Pyongyang to mark the 15th anniversary of the death of the country's late founder.
Communism   N Korea   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: North Korea  
North Korea blows off the cobwebs
|      Sep 8, 2010 North Korea blows off the cobwebs | By Andrei Lankov | SEOUL - In the next few days, a large gathering of North Korean officials is expected to open in Pyongyang... (photo: AP / Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
Asia Times
 Technicians work at the reactor building of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, some 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Iran inaugurated two minor plants at its Bushehr nuclear reactor on Tuesday, showing Powers urge defiant Iran to cooperate with IAEA
| PARIS (Reuters) - Russia and China called on trade partner Iran on Tuesday to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog after the Vienna-based organisation accused Tehran of making its work more diff... (photo: AP) The Star
IAEA   Iran   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran  
Construction material lies scattered outside the newly inaugurated Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, one of the venues renovated for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. India's reputation is at risk
| Three years ago, an old school-friend of mine in Mumbai bragged that the Commonwealth Games, to be held in New Delhi in October 2010, would be India's answer to China's Olympic Games. | China's Olym... (photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi) Gulf News
Commonwealth Games   Corruption   India   Photos   Wikipedia: 2010 Commonwealth Games  
Top Stories
Stock broker watch Bombay Stock Exchange,BSE, index on their trading terminal as sensex rises by more than 850 points during an intra day trading, in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Feb 14, 2008. Sensex ruling high in afternoon trade
Mumbai, Sep 7 (IANS): Tuesday, September 07, 2010 --> | A benchmark index for Indian equities opened on a positive note Tuesday and is ruling 61 points higher than its pr... (photo: AP / Rajesh Nirgude) Deccan Herald
Business   India   Mumbai   Photos   Wikipedia :Bombay Stock Exchange  
U.S. actor John Travolta arrives at a cinema in London for the UK premiere of his film 'Wild Hogs', Wednesday, March 28, 20 Sideshow: Travolta case is dropped
| By Tirdad Derakhshani | Inquirer Staff Writer A judge in the Bahamas on Monday dismissed charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta... (photo: AP / Sang Tan) Philadelphia Daily News
Case   People   Photos   Travolta   Trial  
A Tokyo Stock Exchange employee reacts during the afternoon trade in Tokyo Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. Japan's benchmark stock index plunged more than 4 percent in Tuesday morning trading in the second day of a frenetic sell-off over fears of a possible global slowdown. The benchmark Nikkei index lost 587.63 points, or 4.41 percent, to 12,738.31 points on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at the end of the morning session. Asia stocks down modestly as economy worries ease
| BANGKOK - Asian stock markets mostly fell Tuesday but losses were limited amid easing worries over the pace of the global economic recovery. AC = 1234 | --> | Investors... (photo: AP / Koji Sasahara) Herald Tribune
Asia   Economy   Nikkei   Photos   Stocks  
The bus of 2010 Manila hostage crisis Hostage-taker saw brother's arrest—bus driver
| MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) The driver of the hijacked tourist bus said Tuesday that hostage taker Rolando Mendoza started shooting the Hong Kong tourists after seei... (photo: Creative Commons / Sakuradate) Inquirer
Hostage   Investigation   Manila   Photos   Wikipedia: Manila hostage crisis  
Workers pour steel, recycled from the World Trade Center, into a mold, which will form the bow stem of the Amphibious Transport Dock ship USS New York (LPD 21) Steel Stocks Lead Asian Markets
By COLIN NG And WEI-ZHE TAN | SINGAPORE—Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday though steel companies led the region on expectations for higher Chinese steel prices... (photo: US Navy) Wall Street Journal
Market   Photos   Steel   Stock   Wikipedia: Steel  
Airlines - Airport - PAL Solons buck flag carrier employees' strike plans
| MANILA, Philippines—Key members of the House Committee on Tourism have appealed to protesting Philippine Airlines (PAL) employees to call off their planned strike, warn... (photo: WN / Dominic Canoy) Inquirer
Aviation   Manila   Photos   Strike   Wikipedia: Philippine Airlines  
WHO wants more flu vaccine production, and faster WHO wants more flu vaccine production, and faster
| The vaccine used to contain the recent swine flu pandemic was effective, but health authorities will need to ramp up the speed and volume of production during the next ... (photo: WN / Geeta) Indian Express
H1N1   Photos   Vaccine   WHO   Wikipedia: Influenza A virus subtype H1N1  
Facebook - Social Networking - Laptop Oops! Door opened for Facebook attack
BY REGINA BENGCO | HIS Facebook and other social networking accounts might just see a resurgence of stinging comments. | According to President Aquino, the Philippines wi... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag) Malaya
Attack   Facebook   Photos   Problem   Wikipedia: Facebook  
Travel Annual madness at travel fair
| CROWDS thronged the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (Matta) Fair at the Putra World Trade Centre in hopes of scoring good deals on travel packages. | Th... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam) The Star
Malaysian   Photos   Trade   Travel   Wikipedia: Travel  
Guangzhou Beijing
China spells out its fears
Rashid to lead India
China 1-1 Paraguay: Barrios Goal Not Enough To Give Albirroj
Paramore, Framed
China Southern Airlines Cargo Boeing 777-F1B B-2073
China Southern Rolls Out Premium Economy Class To Australia
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U.S. team to discuss N.Korea in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing
World powers urge defiant Iran to cooperate with IAEA
Powers urge defiant Iran to cooperate with IAEA
India PM warns China against its expansionist policies
 Technicians work at the reactor building of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, some 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 3, 2007. Iran inaugurated two minor plants at its Bushehr nuclear reactor on Tuesday, showing
Powers urge defiant Iran to cooperate with IAEA
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Shanghai Wuhan
U.S. team to discuss N.Korea in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing
Beijing set to push overseas investment
Doubts over China's 'wonder weapon'
China spells out its fears
In this Korean Central News Agency photo taken on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 and distributed by Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korea leader Kim Jong Il, center in the front row, and high ranking North Korean officials sit in front of a giant red flag with an image of his father late Kim Il Sung during a gathering at an auditorium in the capital Pyongyang to mark the 15th anniversary of the death of the country's late founder.
North Korea blows off the cobwebs
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HK, Shanghai shares take breather; steel stocks rise
HK, Shanghai shares take breather; steel stocks rise
2,010-meter art scroll for Guangzhou Asian Games
Hon Hai Taps China's Interior
Eurostar and Thalys TGV at Paris Gare du Nord In November 2007, various British newspapers reported that Deutsche Bahn, Germany's national train company, had applied to use the Channel Tunnel and High Speed 1 rail line into St Pancras Internationa
U.S. Plays Catch-Up on High-Speed Rail
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Fujian Macau
Beijing set to push overseas investment
Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.
Chinese girl, 2, falls into mixing machine's moving blad
World Investment Forum opens in Xiamen
Milk - Dairy
Tainted milk woes boil over
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Just 10 days of Rain in Manila
Las Vegas Sands: This Land Is Their Land
Tech sector runs dry of jobs
President praises city where China's "economic mira
China's President Hu Jintao delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing, Monday, May 24, 2010.
President praises city where China's "economic miracle" began
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Tianjin Taiwan
Chinese Offshore Development Blows Past U.S.
Iron Ore Prices Set to Fall Further
Summer Davos in Tianjin will focus on sustainability
Tianjin shines to welcome Davos Forum
Milk - Dairy
Tainted milk woes boil over
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Bookstores risk an unhappy ending
Doubts over China's 'wonder weapon'
Samsung worried about oversupply
Hau loss could hurt Ma: Jaw Shaw-kong
Travel
Annual madness at travel fair
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