Category: Regional
Burma on alert as cyclone grows
Myanmar’s authorities were on alert Saturday as a cyclone threatened to hit the west of the country where around 140,000 people displaced by communal violence languish [...]
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India says working on new border agreement with China
India said Saturday it was working with China on a new border defence cooperation agreement as the neighbours seek to repair the damage from a border flare-up that [...]
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India opposition urges PM to quit
India’s opposition demanded Saturday the resignation of Congress prime minister Manmohan Singh, raising the stakes after forcing the exit of two cabinet ministers over [...]
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Burma moves internal refugees as cyclone nears
Myanmar on Sunday began moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees. [...]
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As vote nears, Cambodia opposition urges sanction threat
Cambodia’s opposition leader is calling on the United States to impose sanctions against strongman Hun Sen if upcoming elections are unfair, saying that Myanmar showed [...]
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Two Indian ministers quit graft-tainted government
Two Indian cabinet ministers quit late Friday over corruption scandals that have engulfed Premier Manmohan Singh’s graft-tainted Congress government, which faces [...]
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Survivor pulled from Bangladesh ruins after 17 days
Bangladeshi rescuers pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a collapsed garment factory complex on Friday after she spent 17 days trapped in a basement under the rubble. [...]
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Primark says it will use INGO scale to pay Bangladesh victims
British retailer Primark said it would pay compensation to the victims of the Bangladesh factory collapse in line with a framework recognised by aid organisations, unions and [...]
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Gigantic balloon creature splits opinion in Australia
A gigantic whale-like balloon with pendulous udder-like appendages, designed to mark the centenary of Australia’s capital Canberra, has divided opinion, with some [...]
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Google+ trends: Australia’s solar eclipse, Mother’s Day
On Friday, May 10, Google+ users in Australia are sharing pictures and news of the most recent solar eclipse while those in the US and elsewhere are looking forward to [...]
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Australian sky-gazers witness ‘ring of fire’ eclipse
Sky-gazers were treated to an annular solar eclipse in remote areas of Australia on Friday, with the Moon crossing in front of the Sun to leave a “ring of fire” [...]
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Bangladesh’s collapsed building death toll passes 1,000
The death toll in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster on Friday soared past 1,000 after more bodies were found in the rubble of a collapsed nine-storey building [...]
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Bangladesh Islamist sentenced to hang for war genocide
A war crimes court sentenced a top Bangladeshi Islamist to death on Thursday for masterminding the slaughter of at least 120 farmers in one of the bloodiest single episodes [...]
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Bangladesh sentences Islamist to death for 1971 war crimes
A Bangladesh tribunal convicted and sentenced an Islamist party leader to death on Thursday for atrocities in the country’s war of independence, bringing a wave of [...]
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Australia hunts for cruise ship pair who fell overboard
A search is underway off Australia for a couple who fell overboard into shark-infested waters from a cruise ship returning to Sydney from a Pacific tour. The 30-year-old man [...]
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