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Sunday 20th May, 2012

  • New US ambassador to Myanmar named, sanctions eased

      New US ambassador to Myanmar named, sanctions eased

    The Asia News.Net

    WASHINGTON - The US has finally rewarded the Myanmar administration for its political reforms by deciding to lift economic sanctions against the former military ruled Southeast Asian nation and ...

  • US leads call to end global hunger, malnutrition

      US leads call to end global hunger, malnutrition

    The Asia News.Net

    WASHINGTON - Leaders of the world's industrial powers Friday turned to the private sector to help fight hunger and malnutrition for up to a billion people, with US President Barack Obama announcing ...

  • China questions US anti-dumping ruling on solar power equipments

      China questions US anti-dumping ruling on solar power equipments

    The Asia News.Net

    BEIJING - China Friday rejected a U.S. antidumping ruling against its solar power equipment with the Chinese manufacturers warning that possible higher tariffs might hurt efforts to promote clean ...

  • VIDEO: Chinese activist Chen 'flies to US'

    BBC

    The Chinese dissident who sparked a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Washington is on his way to the United States. Chen Guangcheng and his family boarded a flight to Newark, near New York, ...

  • China seeks shared development, pragmatic cooperation with ASEAN: FM

    People's Daily

    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 ...

  • China seeks win-win development with Asia

    People's Daily

    BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Residents in Hekou in southwest China can still recall its former days as a quiet, anonymous town that attracted few visitors from neighboring Vietnam for business or ...

  • Japan win Asian Five Nations

    Planet Rugby

    Japan claimed their fifth straight Asian Five Nations title on Saturday when they smashed Hong Kong 67-0 in Tokyo to remain unbeaten in the five-year history of the competition. The rout was ...

  • NATO chief urges Pakistan to help stabilise Afghanistan

    Channel News Asia

    CHICAGO: NATO's chief urged Islamabad to back efforts to stabilise Afghanistan as he prepared for talks on Saturday with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, on the eve of a NATO ...

  • Ruak sworn in as Timor Leste's new president

    Channel News Asia

    TASI TOLU, Timor Leste: Former guerrilla leader and ex-army chief Taur Matan Ruak pledged to "respect the constitution" as he was sworn in as Timor Leste's new president on ...

  • Sri Lanka celebrates end of war anniversary

    Associated Press

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's president rejected international calls to remove military camps in the former northern war zone on Saturday, as the island nation marked the third ...

  • Does the Law Matter in China?

    Human Rights Watch

    HONG KONG - Does the law matter in China? A cursory look at the two crises that have hit the Chinese government in recent weeks - one at the very top, with the purge of Bo Xilai, and one at the ...

  • Betraying human rights, ASEAN style

    Human Rights Watch

    This past week in Bangkok, the ASEAN Inter-government Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) discussed one of the most important documents drafted by ASEAN since the regional grouping adopted the ASEAN ...

  • Nine killed in bomb blast in Syria, Damascus blames foreign plot

    Times of India

    BEIRUT: A car bomb blew up at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, killing nine people, an attack that Syria said was the latest proof that an uprising against ...

  • Japan's fifth straight Asian rugby title

    SBS

    Japan claimed their fifth straight Asian Five Nations title on Saturday when they smashed Hong Kong 67-0 in Tokyo to remain unbeaten in the five-year history of the rugby union competition.In the ...

  • Chen Guangcheng flies out of China, headed for U.S.

    Washington Post

    View Photo Gallery - Chen Guangcheng and other Chinese dissidents: Over the decades, several Chinese dissidents have been detained by China or exiled in the United ...

  • Michal Shapiro: Sufi Pop Rocks the Asia Society

    Huffington Post

    On the day before my own departure for Central Asia, Arif Lohar brought his electrified Sufi music to the Asia Society and pretty much tore the place apart. He and his band transformed the Lila ...

  • Japan sweeps Asian rugby rivals

    Japan Times

    New Japan rugby coach Eddie Jones won his first tournament in charge of the national squad on Saturday, when his team completed a sweep of the Asian Five Nations with a 67-0 victory over Hong Kong ...

  • UAE's aerospace dream blooms in the desert

    Times of India

    Arabian desert and cools them down with some refreshingly candid advice. "You are too expensive. Please take this message back. We will not put up with prices we are paying today. ...

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