India Friday told Sri Lanka categorically not to dilute a key constitutional provision that promises autonomy to the Tamil minority. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid conveyed the message to Sri Lankan minister Basil Rajapaksa that Colombo should go beyond the 13th amendment to the constitution "to ensure meaningful development of Sri Lanka". Basil Rajapaksa, a brother of President ...
Effort aims for greater disaster resilience in Asia-Pacific
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia ? The Asia-Pacific may be the biggest driver of the global economy, but it is also the runaway leader in a category that no region would covet: natural ...
Thousands of Tibetans celebrate in India as the Dalai Lama turns 78
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures after he was presented the traditional headgear during an event organized to celebrate his 78th birthday at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Bylakuppe, about 220 kilometers (137 miles) southwest of Bangalore, India, Saturday, July, 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Aijaz ...
Retrial of Egypts former ruler Hosni Mubarak adjourned to August 17
CAIRO - A Cairo court has adjourned to August 17 the retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak over charges of corruption and involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ousted him. Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, who are on trial for corruption, appeared at the court session Saturday. Mubarak is charged with both corruption and responsibility for the ...
Train in central Pakistan hits rickshaw kills 12
LAHORE, Pakistan -; A police officer says a train traveling through central Pakistan hit an overloaded rickshaw at an unmanned railway crossing, killing 12 ...
China probes Swiss-based packaging giant Tetra Pak
BEIJING -; China's national market regulatory agency says it is investigating possible abuse of market dominance by Switzerland-based food processing and packaging giant Tetra Pak, in a sign that Beijing is widening its scrutiny of operations by foreign companies in ...
At least 10 killed in Pakistan train accident Officials
LAHORE: At least 10 people including two children were killed on Saturday after a train collided with a packed motorcycle rickshaw in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, officials said. A high-speed train traveling from country's largest city Karachi to the capital of Punjab ...
Egypt Interim president meets with army chief
View Photo Associated Press/Hassan Ammar - Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi clash in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Tens of thousands of Islamists streamed across a Nile ...
APEC G20 and ASEAN chart way forward on joint connectivity and infrastructure development
WAM MEDAN, INDONESIA, July 6th, 2013 (WAM) -- Senior officials of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) , G20, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have met for the first time to identify synergies and recommend a way forward on joint connectivity and infrastructure development. The meeting took place at a roundtable meeting in Medan, Indonesia on Thursday. Officials ...
Singapore terms India as close ASEAN partner upward trending
Business India News: Underscoring the importance of bilateral ties, Singapore has termed India its close ASEAN partner, noting that relations with New Delhi are multi-faceted and on an upward ...
India add 3 silver 1 bronze at Asian Junior weightlifting
Gold continued to elude India but the country's weightlifters added three silver and a bronze medal to their tally on the second day of the 20th Women's and 27th Men's Asian Junior Championships in Bishkek, Krygyzstan.The Indian medal tally now stands at eight silver (five from men and three from women) and seven bronze (two from men and five from women).On the second day of the ...
Bomb attack kills policemen in Yemen
A bomb blast has killed three policemen and wounded a fourth in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, officials say. Saturday?s blast occurred close to the police check point in the north of the capital, a security services official confirmed, adding the device was concealed in a plastic bag. The deadly blast came after a period of relative calm in the Yemeni capital. Yemen's politicians are ...
UNs adviser on sports diplomacy visits NKorea
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is visiting North Korea on an unusual sports diplomacy ...
Family feud is like spitting in Mandela?s face TutuSouth Africa?s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu on Thursday pleaded with Nelson Mandela?s family not to ?besmirch? his name after they engaged in a public spat fuelle
Desmond Tutu on Thursday pleaded with Nelson Mandela's family not to "besmirch" his name after they engaged in a public spat fuelled by a legal dispute over a burial site. The family of the global icon has been involved in a bitter legal squabble over the reburial of Mandela's three children whose remains were exhumed from a family graveyard in Qunu in 2011 and reburied in ...
Quake hits Indonesias Sumatra days after deadly tremor
JAKARTA (AFP) - A strong 6.0-magnitude quake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra on Saturday, US seismologists said, just days after a tremor on the vast island killed dozens and left thousands homeless.No tsunami warning was issued and there were no reports of damage after the quake struck at a shallow depth of just 23 kilometres (14 miles) off the southwest coast of the vast island, said the ...
Malaysia withdraws controversial one-parent conversion law
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia has withdrawn an Islamic law that allows one parent to give consent for the religious conversion of a child, reports said on Saturday, after an outcry that it discriminated against minorities. The government previously considered amending existing legislation so that children's conversion requires the consent of both parents. Conversion is a sensitive issue in ...
Dumped Australian PM opens up on sexism
misogyny speech in her final interview before being ousted. Gillard, an unmarried, atheist lawyer, was dumped as Australia's prime minister by her ruling Labor party last month, almost three years to the day since she ...
Britains royal baby will have surprising family tree
Prince William and his wife Kate, genealogists are looking into its family tree, and are coming up with many surprises. The baby's relations will stretch from a simple Parisian actress via the Dracula princes in Romania, to even an Islamic sultan from Seville in Spain, who descended from the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, experts say. The family tree of the baby's father Prince William, who ...
US UN condemn violence in Egypt
, and asked Egyptians to resolve their differences peacefully. "We condemn the violence that has taken place today in Egypt. We call on all Egyptian leaders to condemn the use of force and to prevent further violence among their supporters," the State Department spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said. At least 17 people died in violence as supporters of the deposed Egyptian President, clashed ...
Egypt on edge after clashes and Islamist pushback
View Photo Associated Press/Hassan Ammar - Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi clash in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 5, 2013. Tens of thousands of Islamists streamed across a Nile ...
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Medical tourism in Thailand on the rise
Medical tourism is a billion dollar industry in Southeast Asia -- and countries like Singapore and Thailand are growing the share of the market by offering state-of-the-art medical services at affordable ...
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