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Cambodian ceremony honors victims of Khmer Rouge - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports
(AP Photo/Heng Sinith). A Cambodian woman stands with burning incense sticks as she visits a memorial holding skulls of the Khmer Rouge victims at Choeung Ek "Killing Field" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, May 20, ...
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Report North Korea holding Chinese fishing boat crew
China has asked North Korea to immediately release a Chinese fishing boat and its crew, who have been held since May 5, diplomats said. The Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang asked North Koreans to ensure the safety of the detained fishermen, Chinese diplomat Jiang Yaxian told the official Chinese Xinhua News Agency. China's Global Times reported 16 Chinese fishermen were kidnapped May 5 by ...
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Li Keqiang makes India first stop on his foreign visit
China's official media, in its extensive coverage of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's Indian visit, sought to play down the Asian neighbors' border disputes. Li, who made India the first stop on his first foreign tour since becoming the China's No. 2 leader, arrived in New Delhi Sunday on a three-day trip. The visit comes after last month's tense situation resulting from a ...
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Sri Lanka No Progress 4 Years On
Four years after Sri Lanka's horrific civil war ended, many Sri Lankans await justice for the victims of abuses, news of the 'disappeared,' and respect for their basic rights. Instead, the Rajapaksa government has rejected investigations, clamped down harder on the media, and persisted in wartime abuses such as ...
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Car bombs in Baghdad south Iraq kill at least 34
BAGHDAD -; A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people on Monday, Iraqi officials ...
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China Communists must slash membership academic
BEIJING:China's ruling Communist Party should cut its more than 80 million members by nearly half to avoid the bloat that felled the Soviet Union, a political scientist has written in a party magazine.The Communist Party of China is the world's largest political party, having recruited a wide swathe of citizens in recent years in an effort to broaden support as its original ideological ...
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North Korea fires fifth missile in three days
North Korea fired another short-rangemissileinto the Sea of Japan on Monday, the latest in a series ofmissiledrills that have been condemned by South Korea and UN chief Ban ...
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Technology apps to help Asia lifestyles
Poor infrastructure, healthy eating, and blood donation are among the topics tackled by a new wave of apps unveiled at the recent Apps for Asia - Redesigning Development programme in Uttar ...
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SKorea NKorea fires 5th projectile into waters
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea says North Korea has fired a short-range projectile into its own eastern waters - for the fifth time in three ...
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UPDATE 1-Asia Softs-Inventories weigh on rubbersugar premiums firm
Mon May 20, 2013 4:28am EDT * TOCOM rubber seen in range of 270 to 300 yen a kg this week * Thai sugar premiums supported by artificial tightness * Vietnam, Indonesia robusta beans at premiums (Adds technicals, TOCOM closing prices) By Lewa Pardomuan SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) - Tokyo rubber futures could trade in a wide range this week, with bulging inventory in top consumer China holding ...
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Aberdeen favours Asia in tough year for investors
Asian companies could offer some of the best opportunities in 2009, in what promises to be another ';extremely tough year'; for investors, says Aberdeen Asset Management. The group expects investment in the key asset classes of equities, fixed income and property to continue to be challenging as evidence of a global economic slowdown accumulates. Aberdeen forecasts that both the ...
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Send money to India
For NRIs, one of the key concerns while living abroad is sending money back to their loved ones in India. Plagued by inordinate delays, huge fees to wire the money or to be paid to the agent etc, sending money was often tougher than earning money!! But that's where the online remittance came into the picture. Doing away with all the inefficiencies of traditional options of sending money, ...
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China seeks shared development pragmatic cooperation with ASEAN FM
China strives for shared development and pragmatic cooperation with ASEAN countries to promote peace, stability and prosperity in East Asia, said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the ASEAN Plus China Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Bali, Indonesia Thursday.Yang said this year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the China-ASEAN dialogue relationship and in the past ...
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Macau lawyer says assault was intimidation attempt
Macau was rocked by gangland killings in the run-up to its handover to China in 1999 but violence abated as its gambling industry boomed and foreigners opened ...
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Suicide bomber kills 8 at Afghan province council
KABUL, Afghanistan -; Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has struck outside a provincial council building in the country's north. A lawmaker says the council chief and at least seven others were ...
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Business Briefs May 20
* May 30 is announced as the ex-dividend date of Pharmedic Pharmaceutical Medicinal JSC (PMC) to receive dividend of the first round 2013 in cash at a rate of 10 percent. The final registration date is June 3. The payment date is June 20. * HCM Stock Exchange has decided to delist share of Ben Tre Forestry and Aquaproduct Import Export (FBT) because as of December 31 2012, its cumulative loss ...
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Hosts target Asias last eight
FC Seoul and last year's runners-up Al Ahli, meanwhile, enter their home games hoping to build on draws at El Jaish and Beijing Guoan respectively. Despite being stunned 2-1 ...
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Asia Naphtha-Malaysias Titan seeks up to 130000 T
SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) - Malaysia-based Lotte Chemical Titan, a unit of South Korea's top ethylene maker Lotte Chemical, is seeking up to 130,000 tonnes of naphtha for July 2013 to June 2014 delivery, traders said on Monday. The volumes are lower than the 200,000 tonnes of full-range naphtha it bought last year for October 2012 to September 2013 delivery at about $2 a tonne ...
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Europe stocks extend rally track U.S. Asia gains
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets on Monday tracked another record close for U.S. stocks last week and an overnight rally in Asia, with banks leading most indexes higher. The Stoxx Europe 600 ...
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Malaysia hydropower meeting to open amid controversy
KUCHING, Malaysia (AFP) - The world hydroelectric industry's decision to meet in a Malaysian state where dams have uprooted rainforests and native peoples is drawing bitter fire from environmental and tribal groups. The International Hydropower Association's (IHA) four-day biennial meeting to push "sustainable hydropower" opens on Tuesday in Kuching, the languid capital of ...
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Pakistan Gunmen attack polio team kill policeman
Local government administrator Faramosh Khan says the gunmen attacked the team on Monday in the town of Mamound in the Bajur tribal area, just as it had started a vaccination ...
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Chinese premier Peace requires India-China trust
Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang, right, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wave during Li's ceremonial reception at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign three-day trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old ...
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Natural Organic Products Asia Trade Show to Launch in Hong Kong in 2014
Diversified Events Hong Kong LLC , organisers of the highly successful, Restaurant & Bar exhibition, has today announced the launch of a major new trade show, Natural & Organic Products Asia, to take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on the 27-29 August ...
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Dollar eases in Asian trade
Hong Kong - The dollar eased in Asia on Monday after a Japanese minister said the recent correction against the yen was nearly over, but analysts said the greenback would soon resume its ...
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Chinese premier pledges mutual trust during India trip
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged Monday to build trust with India and declared that ties between the Asian giants were key to world peace as he visited New Delhi only weeks after a border ...
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Mumbai taxis to be better ambassadors of the city
Taxi drivers in Mumbai are going to be educated on the finer points of etiquette, according to Mumbai news reports, and the local government insists this will improve tourism and local transport in the city and wider state.
All residents of Mumbai know that their city is the largest in India, the richest by GDP in South and Central Asia and the second biggest city in the world by population. It is the economic powerhouse of the country and is advanced to a world-class level in many ways, such as the Bombay Stock Exchange, the oldest in Asia, major development initiatives such as Nairman Point and the location in Mumbai of five Fortune 500 companies. Read more
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