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Government Officers Depart To UK And Indonesia
Bandar Seri Begawan - Two senior officers from the office of the Malay Islamic Monarchy (MIB) Executive council Secretariat have left for Indonesia to attend an international seminar entitled 'Historical Awareness through Strengthening the National Pillars towards a Smart and Civilised ...
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Wyndham enters into Singapore with 2 brands.
Wyndham Hotel Group announced the company's entry into Singapore with the opening of two properties: Ramada Singapore at Zhongshan Park and Days Hotel Singapore at Zhongshan ...
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Woman political leader killed in Pakistan
Imran Khan 's Movement for Justice in Pakistan was gunned down Saturday outside her Karachi home, police said. Investigators said the killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain, carried out by two men on motorbikes, was a robbery gone wrong, The (London) Guardian reported. But Khan, the cricket star turned politician, suggested the United National Movement or MQM party, which dominates politics in ...
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Pakistan to benefit fromChinese hybrid rice technology
BEIJING, China - Pakistan wants to benefit in the field of agriculture and particularly in enhancing rice production by employing Hybrid rice technology developed by an expert from Hunan province, said Pakistans Ambassador to China, Masood Khan. Pakistan largely benefited from the Hybrid rice seeds developed by Professor Yuan Long Ping, who is popularly known as Father of Hybrid Rice, said ...
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Myanmar leader starts landmark US visit
Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Saturday began the first visit to Washington by a leader of his country in nearly 50 years as the United States throws its support behind his ...
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U.S. state cancels subsidy for investment from Pakistani company
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in ...
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Senior member of Pakistani political party gunned down say police
Police say gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh. No one has claimed ...
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Invasive Asian stink bugs threaten fruit crops in Michigan
An invasive insect from Asia first spotted in Michigan two years ago could pose a major threat this year to fruit growers, officials say. The brown marmorated stink bug was reported in 12 counties last year, The Detroit News reported Saturday. While it has not yet been seen in Macomb County, just north of Detroit, growers there are apprehensive. Paul Blake grows strawberries, peaches, cherries ...
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At Least 5 Dead in Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
Authorities in Texas say at least five -- possibly as many as 15 -- people have been killed in the southwestern U.S. state as a result of Wednesday's massive explosion at a fertilizer ...
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Al Ahli blank Ajman to punch Asian Champions League ticket
Al Ahli's Abdulaziz Sanqour, right, tackles Founeke Sy of Ajman in Dubai on Saturday night. Al Ahli's 3-0 win sealed second place in the league table. Al ...
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Member of Pakistani cricket stars party killed
Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in ...
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Female politican fatally shot in Pakistan
Gunmen have killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election re-polling. Zohra Hussain, 59, the vice president of PTI women's wing in the southern Sindh province, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her residence in the city's upmarket Defence neighbourhood. The ...
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Pakistani politician gunned down outside home
Pakistan A senior female Pakistani politician has been shot dead outside her home in the southern city of Karachi.Zahra Shahid Hussain, 59, was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party, led by former international cricketer Imran Khan.She "was leaving her home for some work when three gunmen attacked her. She thought they wanted to snatch her purse and ...
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North Korea Launches Short-Range Missiles Into Sea
(CNN) — North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast Saturday; South Korea’s semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap reported. The missiles were fired in a ...
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Fmr. Pakistani PM Sharif Returns to Power
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Shaif is set to return to office after an overwhelming victory in weekend parliamentary elections. Sharif was ousted in a military coup. His latest victory comes as some say relations between the United States and Pakistan are deteriorating. In a post-election interview with ...
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UK funds poll in Pakistan on US drone attacks
Pakistan 's Federally Administered Tribal Areas that reveal US drone strikes in the region are causing deep resentment among the local population.In an answer to a parliamentary question, the foreign minister, Alistair Burt, confirmed that the Foreign Office had "supported" surveys which showed the proportion of respondents in the tribal areas who believed drone strikes were ...
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Former Pakistani premier claims third term in power according to unofficial resu…
Former Pakistani premier claims third term in power according to unofficial results from Saturday's elections ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Navaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N claimed an early victory in Saturday's parliamentary elections, according to unofficial results.Sharif, toppled 14 years ago in military takeover, was ahead with 130 seats while his main ...
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Musharraf remains under house arrest
Pervez Musharraf will remain on house arrest for at least another two weeks, a Pakistani court ruled Saturday. Musharraf, who returned from self-imposed exile in March in a failed bid to return to power, has been charged with jailing judges who opposed his institution of martial law during his 9-year rule. Pakistan's special Anti-Terrorism Court has barred the retired general from ever ...
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RP to export for first timehybrid corn seed to Vietnam in2...
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines will be able to export for the first time its hybrid corn seed once nearby Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam opens up to biotechnology products within the next two ...
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Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
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Nigerian Military Says It Captured Dozens of Boko Haram Militants
ABUJA -- Less than five days after the Nigerian armed forces began a massive attack on militants in the north, Nigeria's Department of Defense says 65 suspected Boko Haram militants have been arrested and ten have been killed. The Nigerian military says Boko Haram militants are fleeing their camps. Some are in search of fuel while others are running from the armed forces that are ...
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Jatuporn set for Cabinet
Apiwan will also be appointed next month, party source says Red-shirt leaders Jatuporn Prompan and Apiwan Wiriyachai are likely to be appointed ministers in the next Cabinet reshuffle expected early next month, according to a source from the ...
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Korn rejects Thaksins claim on BOT
Former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij yesterday disputed ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's claim that an independent central bank was Thailand's problem in the face of a strengthening baht. Korn said he suspected ...
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Political interference behind the sacking of GPO chief rural doctors
The sacking of the Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO)'s managing director was due to political interference, health advocates and the Rural Doctors Society said yesterday. The claimed that Friday's decision by the GPO's executive board to fire Witit Artavatkun for negligence could be part of a broader plan to privatise the state drug maker. "Personally, I believe ...
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A man for all seasons
Filmmaker Banjong Pisanthanakun talks about his runaway success 'Pee Mak' and his hopes for the Thai film industry As a teenager, Banjong Pisanthanakun would spend hours watching the images on a cinema screen and dreaming of the day that he would be involved in the world of celluloid. Today, less than two decades later, his name is on just about every movie lover's lips as the ...
Laos Digest
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Laos looking ahead
The new stock exchange in Laos may be a sign of changes to come in our otherwise centrally-run economy.
Laos is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia, but as the globally economy recovers and commodity prices pick up, the country looks set for a future of relatively strong growth, if not widespread prosperity, and this has been exemplified in the government’s recent decision to open a stock exchange in the country, which it is hoped will bring much-needed capital flowing into the country to fund investment projects in industry and infrastructure, catalysts for further growth in the economy. Read more
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