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Tesco sales fall in Korea, up in Malaysia
Feb. 3, 2009
Business Times (Malaysia)
LONDON: Tesco, the world's No. 3 retailer, reported a dip in underlying
sales in South Korea, its biggest market outside Britain, providing
further evidence a consumer downturn in the US and the UK has gone global.
Thailand refuses to grant access to Myanmar boat people
January 21 2009
Thailand's prime minister Wednesday refused to grant UN experts
access to 126 boat people from Myanmar, following allegations that the Thai
army had left them to die on the open seas.
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=845418&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_world&cate_rss=WORLD_eng
East Asia / Pacific - Korea, North,
Korea, South
Tensions Rise on Korean Peninsula
January 18, 2009
South Korea
placed more soldiers at frontier guard posts and told its fishermen to
refrain from sailing near North Korean waters on Sunday, a day after the
North Korean military declared an "all-out confrontational posture” against
the South and threatened a naval clash.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/world/asia/19korea.html?_r=2&ref=world
Vietnam makes TB nation’s top health issue
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam regards
tuberculosis (TB) as the nation’s top health issue, particularly its
prevalence among people aged between 15- 24, and has reported the discovery
of up to 5,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB each year, according to a
government official.
Travel 2 Philippines: Social Issues in the Philippines
Jan 8, 2009
The Citizens Action Against Crime, a non-government organization, claimed
that around 2100 people, many of them Filipino-Chinese businessmen, have
become victims of kidnap-for-ransom gangs in the Philippines
and paid ransom amounting to ...
Travel 2 Philippines - http://travel-2-philippines.blogspot.com/
Treading Softly in the Philippines
Jan 8, 2009
FrontPage magazine.com - Los
Angeles,CA,USA
The more radical among them think that Muslims should rule as far north
as the .... with its remnants focusing increasingly on kidnapping-for-ransom,
...
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=DA5E0B3B-4BE5-4682-ACB0-FA313D2CA0F7
Bangkok airports shut down cost Thailand more than Tsunami
Thailandnews.net
Wed, 07 Jan 2009
3:52 AM PST
Melbourne, Jan 7 : Anti-government protests
that shut down Bangkok's airports last year have cost Thailand 11.5
billion dollars, much more than loses suffered during the Tsunami or SARS, a
central bank study has said.
http://www.thailandnews.net/story/450675
Cambodia marks 30th anniversary of ousting of Khmer Rouge
The Nation - Thailand's English news
Wed, 07 Jan 2009
2:51 AM PST
Phnom Penh - Cambodia on Wednesday marked 30 years since the downfall
of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime with a carefully choreographed stadium
ceremony organised and dominated by the country's powerful ruling party. A
crowd of more than 40,000 at Phnom Penh's Olympic Stadium cheered throughout
the ceremony, which marked the 30th anniversary of the day Vietnamese-led
forces invaded Cambodia and ...
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East Asia / Pacific - Japan
Japan rocked by major earthquake
July 16, 2007
An earthquake has struck central Japan, killing at least seven
people, flattening buildings and triggering a fire at a nuclear power plant.
Hundreds of people were injured when the 6.8-magnitude tremor struck the
Niigata area.
East Asia / Pacific -
China
China food safety head executed
July 10, 2007
State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng
Xiaoyu, has been executed for corruption, the state-run Xinhua news agency
reports.
East Asia / Pacific - Philippines
U.S. warns of attack in Philippines
April 23, 2007
The U.S. and Australia have warned of an imminent terrorist attack in
the Philippines, where seven hostages were this week beheaded by militants.
In an advisory to its citizens the US embassy said an attack could take
place anywhere on Mindanao, in the south of the Philippines.
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East Asia / Pacific - China
Security tight in China riot town
Mar.
15, 2007
Zhushan City,
China:
Security is tight in a town in central China
following riots that involved as many as 20,000 people.
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East Asia / Pacific - Taiwan
Taiwan 'tests new cruise missile' Mar.
6, 2007
Taiwan has test-fired a cruise missile capable of hitting Shanghai or
Hong Kong, a Taiwanese newspaper reports.
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East Asia / Pacific - Indonesia
Mar.
2, 2007
Bomb threat at U.S. embassy in Jakarta, no evacuation
JAKARTA (Reuters) -
The U.S. embassy in Jakarta received a bomb
threat on Thursday relayed by police, an embassy spokesman said.
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East Asia / Pacific - Thailand
Russians shot dead on Thai beach
Feb.
26, 2007
Pattaya, Thailand: The tourists from Kemerovo in Siberia were
killed early on Saturday. Police say each had been shot several times.
Pattaya, some 150km (93 miles) south-east of Bangkok, is famous for its
beaches and buzzing nightlife.
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East Asia / Pacific - Thailand
Muslim insurgency stokes fear in southern Thailand
Feb.
26, 2007
PATTANI, Thailand:
Some are already calling it war, a
brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as
many as 2,000 lives in three years, with almost- daily bombings, drive-by
shootings, arson and beheadings.
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East Asia /
Pacific - Thailand
Thailand PM holds security talks
Feb.
19, 2007
Some 30 bombs went off in southern Thailand in one of the region's worst
outbreaks of violence since a Muslim insurgency flared up three years ago.
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East Asia / Pacific - China
Buddhist beheaded in Thai south
Feb. 9, 2007
A 72-year-old Buddhist rice miller was beheaded in Thailand's rebellious
Muslim south on Thursday in an apparent retaliation for a bomb attack on a
village tea shop owned by Muslims, police said.
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East Asia / Pacific - China
Feb. 9, 2007
6 tried in Shanghai for allegedly pirating drug Tamiflu
Six people have gone on trial in Shanghai on charges of making an unlicensed
version of the anti-bird
flu drug Tamiflu, newspapers
and the court announced Friday.
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East
Asia / Pacific - Indonesia
WB blacklists 40 Indonesian firms
Feb. 8, 2007
Jakarta,
Indonesia:
The World Bank has banned 40
Indonesian firms and 29 individuals from participating in its projects for
between 1 and 5 years due to their alleged involvement in fraud and
corruption, the bank said in its latest report Wednesday.
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East Asia / Pacific - Philippines
Tourists lose valuables, P1-M cash in heist
Feb. 7, 2007
ILOILO CITY -- Two Norwegian
nationals lost valuables and cash of P1 million to unidentified robbers who
ransacked the cottage rented by the foreigners at a beach resort in the
province of Guimaras last Monday.
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East Asia / Pacific
- China
Killing puts focus on corruption in Chinese media
2/1/07
SHANGHAI:
Attacks against journalists are not uncommon in China, even if deaths are
rare. But in ways that few could have expected, the murder on Jan. 11 of
this untested reporter for an obscure publication has become a watershed
event, with reporters and editors around the country seeing in the murky
contours of the case a cautionary tale for their booming but troubled
profession.
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East Asia / Pacific - Thailand 1/30/07
Two explosions in northern Bangkok
Bangkok - Two explosions occurred early on Tuesday
morning along the main road in northern Bangkok. There were no casualties
reported in the blasts near the Daily News newspaper and Rama Gardens Hotel
Bangkok.
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East Asia / Pacific - Australia
1/30/07
SYDNEY, Australia (AP): A
magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocked the coast of Australia's remote Macquarie
Island Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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East Asia / Pacific - Vietnam 1/30/07
Vietnam cuts army business links
Vietnam's leaders have decided to remove dozens
of companies from the control of the armed forces and the ruling Communist
Party.
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