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LHASA: Hundreds of Tibetans have been rounded up in Lhasa and armed paramilitaries are patrolling the streets in the run-up to the anniversary of a bloody riot in 2008.
The authorities are anxious to avoid a repeat of the anti-Chinese attacks that left about 20 people dead when Tibetans rampaged through the streets of the Himalayan [...]
JAKARTA: The alleged mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings is believed to have been killed in a shoot-out with Indonesian police on the outskirts of Jakarta today.
Dulmatin, nicknamed “the Genius”, was an explosives expert who was believed to have set off one of the Bali bombs with a mobile phone, as well as helping to [...]
Burma’s military dictatorship has set out laws governing a general election promised later this year, reinforcing the predictions of its opponents that it will be a hollow exercise intended to consolidate military power under a democratic façade.
The country’s state-run newspapers today published the election commission law, the first of five pieces of legislation which were [...]
BEIJING: The new Chinese-appointed governor of Tibet has said that only socialism can “save” the remote region and guarantee its development, and blamed the Dalai Lama for Tibet’s problems.
China has defended its iron-fisted rule in Tibet, saying not only did it free a million Tibetan serfs but it also poured billions of dollars into the [...]
TAIPEI: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake that hit Taiwan early on Thursday injured 64 people, cut power supplies, briefly hit stocks and caused fires in the southern half of the island.
The quake caused a brief dip in the island’s stock market, with semiconductor firms including TSMC, the world’s No.1 contract chip maker, falling on concerns production could [...]
JAKARTA: Indonesian police have captured 13 suspected militants including some who were foreign-trained during a crackdown on a possible cell of the Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah in restive Aceh province, an official said Wednesday.
The men were caught in several raids since Feb. 22, when the first four were arrested by police after a [...]
TOKYO: Japan and Russia went on alert Sunday, clearing tens of thousands of people out of vulnerable coastal areas as a tsunami triggered by Chile’s massive killer quake powered across the Pacific.
Tsunami warnings were lifted in other nations across the Pacific Basin’s “Ring of Fire” as fears of destructive waves eased, but Tokyo and Moscow [...]
The highest court in military-ruled Burma dismissed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s latest bid for freedom earlier today, turning down an appeal to end 14 years of house arrest.
The Supreme Court’s decision had been expected since legal rulings in Burma rarely favour opposition activists.
Defence lawyer Nyan Win said he would launch one final “special [...]
BEIJING: In a statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said that the improvement and development of Pak-India relations are not only conducive to the peace and development of South Asia but to the whole region of Asia on Thursday.
“China welcomes the steps for normalization of relations by Pakistan and India and expresses hope that [...]
Life expectancy in North Korea has declined over the past 15 years, with an increase in infant mortality and more mothers dying in childbirth, according to new census figures.
The communist regime’s legendary military might also appears to be far smaller than claimed, with figures showing just over 724,000 people working in government and defence
The census [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: The wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said she was not involved in framing sex charges against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, which he says is an attempt to kill his political career.
Anwar, a former deputy premier who is battling charges of sodomising an aide, claimed Thursday the sex charges were masterminded by [...]
MANILA: A drought in the Philippines has destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops, reduced the country’s water supply and is threatening widespread blackouts as power companies contend with low water levels in hydroelectric dams, officials said Friday.
“It is such a difficult situation because we have just survived the typhoons in October that destroyed 1.5 [...]
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama hosted the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday, brushing aside China’s warning that the talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained Sino-U.S. ties.
Obama’s first presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama was sure to draw a fresh round of angry complaints from Beijing, which is increasingly [...]
NEW DELHI: Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama headed Wednesday for the United States and a long-awaited meeting with President Barack Obama that has infuriated China.
For the 74-year-old Dalai Lama — vilified by Beijing as a “wolf in monk’s robes” — recognition by the White House is crucial to maintaining a critical international spotlight [...]
SEOUL: North Korea Tuesday heaped praise on leader Kim Jong-II as it marked his birthday with the customary national holiday, but took a softer tone towards the United States and South Korea after a turbulent year.
Children nationwide received bags of sweets and biscuits, and the birthday has also been marked by a synchronised swimming display [...]
SYDNEY: Five Australian Muslim men convicted of plotting to commit violent jihad in Australia were jailed on Monday for terms ranging from 23 to 28 years.
The men were found guilty in October 2009 of conspiring to commit a terror attack between July 2004 and November 2005, by stockpiling weapons and chemicals to make bombs, in [...]
TOKYO: The Internet plays an increasingly vital role as a forum of public opinion in China as other forms of media remain under tight Communist Party control, though government restrictions on the Web will likely intensify, experts said at a recent symposium held in Tokyo.
The recent threat by the U.S. search engine giant Google to [...]
TOKYO: He was charming and single, she was bored and stuck in a sterile marriage, and their encounter in the aisles of a local supermarket seemed like a chance for them to change their lives for the better.
But the affair ended in betrayal, recrimination and death after a sequence of events as lurid as the [...]
JAKARTA: A suspected member of late terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top’s network appeared in an Indonesian court Wednesday charged over twin suicide attacks on luxury hotels in Jakarta last year.
The bombings killed seven people as well as the two suicide bombers and marked the bloody end of a four-year hiatus in attacks attributed to Noordin [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim moved today to have the judge in his sodomy trial disqualified.
The trial, which Anwar says is a plot to end his political career, began last week with a graphic testimony from a 24-year-old former aide Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan who accuses Anwar of sodomising him. Anwar has complained [...]
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