Archive for May 12th, 2012
Lawyers for China dissident’s nephew say they face threats
Chinese authorities have confiscated a lawyer’s licence and threatened to do the same to another after they volunteered to defend the nephew of blind Chinese activist [...]
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Tokyo at lowest in 3 months
Asian markets slipped further on fears over the eurozone debt crisis yesterday as politicians in Greece struggled to form a coalition after pro-austerity parties were lashed [...]
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Indonesian crews find 12 bodies in Russia jet crash
Indonesian rescuers on Friday found the bodies of 12 of the people killed when their Russian jet crashed into the face of a mountain during a sales flight. Questions mounted [...]
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Thai PM insists no reform of royal defamation law
Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Friday she would not seek to change the country’s harsh royal defamation law despite outcry over the death of a grandfather [...]
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Hundreds mourn killed Cambodian activist
Hundreds of Cambodians held a memorial service Friday in a remote forest where a prominent environmental activist was shot dead two weeks ago, vowing to keep his legacy [...]
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Fear miners set to fall off ‘supercycle’
For a decade, life has been kind to miners. Perhaps more than any other, the mining industry has ridden the Chinese boom – or “supercycle” – in [...]
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Lynas on track to start Malaysia plant in June
Lynas Corp Ltd said on Thursday it was on track to start up its rare earths plant in Malaysia next month after an official in the country called it “the safest rare [...]
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Burma legislators visit EU parliament
Myanmar lawmakers paid the country’s first ever visit to the European parliament on Thursday in a new sign of growing warmth between the European Union and the [...]
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Lonely end for popular Ginza guide
The body of a man who had been a popular English-language volunteer guide in Tokyo’s Ginza district for decades was found in his apartment in March, apparently after [...]
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China’s big banks look more like paper tigers
After spending time combing through the financial reports of China’s biggest publicly traded, state- owned banks, I now understand what Jim Chanos, the famous short- [...]
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The Thai Capital Fund Reports First Quarter Earnings
The Thai Capital Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) TF -1.45 percent, an emerging markets closed-end management investment company seeking long-term capital appreciation [...]
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UN: Asia at risk from eurozone, oil shock, trade wars, capital inflows
Slowing growth, falling exports, the impact on Asia of the eurozone debt crisis and a potential surge in oil prices: there were some stark warnings issued on Thursday by the [...]
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Sun Life CEO sees fit with ING’s Asian assets
Sun Life Financial Inc sees a fit with the Asian assets of big Dutch financial services firm ING Groep NV, and would be willing to issue stock to finance a large acquisition, [...]
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Asia faces threat to crops if El Nino unleashed again
A return of the El Nino weather pattern may threaten food output in Asia, the world’s top producer of rice and palm oil, but drier conditions in some areas could also [...]
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Asia-Pacific set for slower growth: UN
Asia-Pacific nations face a year of slowing growth caused by troubled export markets and rising commodity prices, an annual United Nations report warned Thursday. But despite [...]
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