- Friday, May 1, 2015 from RFA HomeBlogger Dieu Cay speaks to RFA about freedom of the press and expression in Vietnam.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaPrivate online car-hire service Uber has its offices in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou raided by authorities, according to reports.
- The Chinese government publishes 21 pictures of scenic tourist spots where civil servants are banned from meeting.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from RFA HomePetitioners engage in a cat-and-mouse game with police and officials as they seek to lodge complaints about local governments.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatFour months after its launch, the union is alive but struggling.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaA South Korean student group holds a sleeping contest to give their exam-weary peers a rest.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaThe son of Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who first conquered Everest, has described the moment the earthquake struck in Nepal.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaTwo people die and four are injured after an accident at an amusement park in south-eastern Zhejiang province in China, say officials.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatA deepening U.S.-Japan alliance might actually hurt Japan's security interests
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from CNN.com - AsiaAre you a boxing fan? Fancy the best seats in the house for Saturday night's showdown in Las Vegas between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao? Got a spare $361,894 for a couple of tickets?
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaTwo titans of Asian business and technology battle for the contract to build America's first bullet train.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatChina is committed to the exploitation of advanced information and communications technologies in all walks of life.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatNepal's path to reconstruction after it was hit with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake won't be easy.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from International Business TimesNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un cancelled his planned visit to Russia to attend the country’s World War II anniversary celebrations on May 9 because Moscow refused to comply with Pyongyang's request to provide him with “special treatment...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaGerman climber Jost Kobusch describes the moment an avalanche hit the Everest base camp on Saturday 25 April.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaAustralian police are investigating a seven-year-old boy's death following his attendance at a "slapping workshop" by a visiting Chinese therapist.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from CNN.com - AsiaManny Pacquiao is a force to be reckoned with, but bookmakers still have him as a firm underdog in the lead up to Saturday's fight with Floyd Mayweather. We take you through the sport's biggest shocks and ask the question: can Manny rain...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatYoung South Koreans have different attitudes on family issues, from caring for parents to cohabitation before marriage.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaEU officials say they are struggling to locate 1,000 citizens unaccounted after Nepal's earthquake, amid fresh calls for foreign help and humanitarian aid.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatAmerican lawmakers are still in favor of killing militants with UAVs in Pakistan despite civilian casualties.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from RFA HomeShortages in electricity and raw materials have held back production, sources say.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatPlus, Hong Kong's splintered protest movement and China's take on the Baltimore riots. Friday China links.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from CNN.com - Asia
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaThe distinctive song of a secretive and elusive bird in central China helps researchers to describe it as a new species to science.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from International Business TimesThe family of Mary Jane Veloso, one of the convicts set to be executed by firing squad in Indonesia on Wednesday, criticized the Philippines government over its alleged mishandling of the case. The Filipina received a temporary stay of e...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatThe region is set to be a growing source of demand for the precious metal.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatKMT Chairman Eric Chu will visit Beijing this weekend, opening up possibilities for a step forward in cross-strait ties.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from BBC News - AsiaPolice in Thailand find dozens of graves in an abandoned jungle camp in southern Thailand, on a route regularly used by people smugglers.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The DiplomatNew analysis of satellite imagery suggests North Korea's Yongbyon reactor is back up and running.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NYT > Asia PacificThe sentences of the men, whose arrests were announced in September 2014, were handed down by an antiterrorism court in the Swat Valley.
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- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » WorldOne out of 6 species faces extinction as a result of climate change, and urgent action must be taken to save large numbers of animals from being wiped out, an analysis said Thursday. The study, published in the U.S. journal Science, foun...
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Left-wing groups and trade unions are staging rallies across Europe, the Middle East and Asia on Friday to mark International Workers Day.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » WorldA cocaine seizure off the coast of Britain last week yielded what is thought to be the country’s biggest-ever haul of hard drugs, potentially worth $750 million, authorities said on Thursday. More than 3 tons of cocaine was found a...
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The Sun newspaper on Thursday urged readers to vote for the Conservative party of British Prime Minister David Cameron in next week's election but its Scottish edition backed rival nationalists.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from [KBS WORLD RADIO] NEWS[Economy] : Consumer prices have grown less than one percent for a fifth consecutive month. According to ... [more...]
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- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo NewsMILAN - A world exposition on the theme of food opened Friday in the northern Italian city of Milan, with so...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalState-owned financial conglomerate Japan Post recruits tech giants Apple and IBM to find care solutions for senior citizens. The post Japan Post enlists Apple, IBM in search for ways to help vulnerable elderly appeared first on The Japan...
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- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalTwo so-called advanced treatment hospitals should have their state certifications revoked because of deaths caused by safety problems, a health ministry subcommittee said in a report. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is set to hear...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - NationalA 3-year-old boy died after falling into a river in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, police said Friday. According to police, the incident occurred at around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Ayase River. Saitama Shimbun reported that Shogo Kurokawa h...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo News
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - RIYADH - Saudi Arabia said its forces on Thursday killed dozens of Iran-backed rebels from Yemen who launched their first major attack on the kingdom since Saudi-led air strikes began last month.
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen cried out to Joan of Arc for help at the party's annual May Day march while bare-chested Femen activists used a bullhorn to drown out a speech by his daughter, the party presi...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » WorldBritain has informed a United Nations sanctions panel of an Iranian nuclear procurement network linked to two blacklisted firms, according to a confidential report by the panel. The existence of such a network could add to Western concer...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from [KBS WORLD RADIO] NEWS[Politics] : The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has intensified his criticism of ... [more...]
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- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalThe nation’s new nuclear regulator ignored earthquake risk and its own rules in approving the safety of the Sendai nuclear plant, said Kobe University professor and seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi. Ishibashi, well-known in Japan f...
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The United Nations warned fuel shortages threaten to halt all relief operations in Yemen “within days” as Saudi-led air strikes and ground fighting killed 47 people in second city Aden.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalWhat a nuclear attack didn’t take from them, old age will. Seventy years have passed since the United States shocked the world by dropping atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As nuclear powers gather this week to ...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - WASHINGTON - Baltimore police enforced a curfew for a third night Thursday, as new reports emerged over how the black man at the center of the latest US racial unrest sustained fatal injuries while in police custody.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo News
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- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalAll Nippon Airways Co. and Japan Airlines Co. said Friday that their Boeing 787 Dreamliners won’t be affected by a recently discovered software error that could result in a total loss of power even during flight. U.S. federal aviat...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Chosun IlboThe National Intelligence Service found itself with egg on its face on Thursday when media reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un canceled his planned trip to Moscow for Russia's Victory Day celebrations. The NIS had confidently t...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » WorldThe Albanian parliament passed a law Thursday opening secret police files on civilians that have been kept shut tight since the fall of the feared communist regime. Unofficial sources have estimated that about 20 percent of Albanians col...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo News
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Former U.S. and Russian commanders Thursday called for scrapping “hair-trigger” alerts on nuclear weapons that carry grave risks of a potential atomic disaster — especially in an age of cyberattacks.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo News
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalPrime Minister Shinzo Abe touts Japan’s innovation plans during a visit to American technology giants and pitches bullet trains to California Gov. Jerry Brown. The post Abe pushes innovation, investment in Silicon Valley tour appeared fi...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from China feed'Contaminated' servers redirect social media users from cnn.com and games website runescape.com to a software website wpkg.org and travel website ptraveler.com
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion - NationalThe government on Friday launched its annual Cool Biz energy-saving campaign for late spring and summer. Cool Biz, which will last until Oct 31, encourages workers to dress down, ditching their suits and ties for open-necked, short-sleev...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalThe government on Thursday released a list of 10,723 Japanese, including soldiers and civilians, who died while being held as prisoners by the former Soviet Union following World War II. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare posted t...
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Eight-year-old Angie was running to catch up with her cousins on their way home from church when she stepped on a landmine that exploded and ripped off her leg.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » WorldThe only spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury ended its four-year tour with a crash on Thursday. NASA’s Messenger plunged from orbit as planned and slammed into the sun’s closest planet at about 8,750 mph (14,081 kph), creating a...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from [KBS WORLD RADIO] NEWS[Politics] : Presidential Chief of Staff Lee Byung-kee has denied his alleged involvement in the growing Sung ... [more...]
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalThe Kanagawa Prefectural Police said they have arrested a 26-year-old former professional soccer player on suspicion of intruding into a woman’s apartment and raping her. Sho Kamimura of Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, an employee of a...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo News
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » News category » WorldThe Calbuco volcano erupted again Thursday, sending dark bursts of ash and hot rock billowing 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) into the air and prompting Chilean officials to order a new evacuation of nearby residents. Thick clouds boiled out of...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo News
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- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A feisty audience grilled Britain's political leaders on Thursday over what deals and compromises could be in store after an election expected to produce a hung parliament next week.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo News
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from China feedUnited States, Japan and South Korea are among countries to extend length of visas and lower threshold for travel approval to attract big-spending mainlanders
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Japan Times » NationalKansai Electric becomes the first utility in the nation to request permission to run Japan’s oldest nuclear reactors for 20 more years. The post Kepco asks for permission to run 40-year-old reactors for 20 more years appeared first on Th...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from News - Kyodo News
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from China Post Online - International News, 國際新聞(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A former top judge has accused the Canadian military of being “hostile” to women and gays, in a scathing report released Thursday that calls for broad changes in the ranks.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AJW by The Asahi ShimbunLabour Day the old mine foreman lights a pipe
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- India & World News
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from Zee News : India NationalEminent scientist CNR Rao was conferred with Japan's highest civilian award for his outstanding contributions to science and Indo-Japanese science coperation.
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from Zee News : India NationalIndian spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has held a rare meditation session at the Capitol Hill here, attended by several US lawmakers many of whom described it as a self-empowering experience.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Hindu - NationalTehreek-e-Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Friday visited the families of two youth killed in Tral in south Kashmir last month. A large number of people gathered for Mr. Geelani’s...
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from Zee News : India NationalCPI(M) on Friday demanded prosecution of yoga guru Ramdev for allegedly branding of a medicine manufactured by his pharmacy as one which helps conceiving a male child under laws on sex determination and consumer protection.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Hindu - NationalAn earthquake of moderate intensity hit Andaman Islands on Friday afternoon, authorities of the Indian Meteorological Department said in Kolkata. “The earthquake measured 5.4 on the Richter scale....
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NDTV News - Top StoriesIt may not be space debris, errant asteroids, supply shortages, thruster malfunctions or even the malevolent aliens envisioned in so many Hollywood films that thwart astronauts on any mission to Mars....
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Hindu - NationalWith the Modi government taking over the affairs of the akademi, the case of the missing paintings appears all but forgotten.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Indian Express » Section » IndiaAfter the meeting, Rahul said the Congress has already been making efforts to provide help to Nepal and “reassured the ambassador that if they need any help they should let us know”.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NDTV News - Top StoriesA Baltimore police officer was charged with murder and five others with lesser charges in the death of a black man who suffered a critical neck injury while riding inside a police van, the city's chie...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Indian Express » Section » IndiaRamdev said that a disclaimer will be added on the package of the medicine that it does not promise a male child.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Hindu - NationalSenior advocate Rajeev Dhawan submitted that Article 124A of the 99 Constitution Amendment Act 2014 allowed “random lay people to be appointed by a three-member panel whose majority is politico.”...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of IndiaAt 21, Anant Singh Yadav, is perhaps the only farmer in Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh who is a lakhpati.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of IndiaRuling that a separate high court for Andhra Pradesh should be located within the territory of AP only and not outside it, the Hyderabad High Court on Friday made it clear that the current HC would continue to function as a common court ...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Hindu - NationalA group of Muslims in Agra, who converted to Hinduism on Christmas last year became Muslim again on Friday.About 17 members of ‘Nat’ community, an extremely backward community in Mahuar Lat...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Hindu - NationalArun Shourie, a Minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet, hit out at the Narendra Modi government on Friday, saying its economic policy was “directionless” while the social climate was causing “great anxi...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaThe death toll from Nepal's devastating earthquake rose steadily past 6,200 on Friday as fresh aftershocks and the stench of rotting bodies made it hard for nervous survivors to return to their homes.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from The Hindu - NationalDays before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit West Bengal, Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan who arrived here on Friday heaped praises on Chief Minister Mamata B...
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from Zee News : India NationalIndian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary SA Jaishankar on Friday took stock of the situation in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Nepal and called for speedy distribution of relief material in some r...
- Saturday, May 2, 2015 from Zee News : India NationalWith a US Congress-established panel criticising attacks on minorities in India, Congress on Friday said it was a "ground reality" that BJP leaders have been making "divisive and communal" statements but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is t...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of IndiaMahatma Gandhi was married to Kasturba in 1883 when he was just 13 years old. No wonder he understood why the practice of child marriage was wrong and was therefore dead against it.
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- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Malaysian Insider : MalaysiaThe International Islamic University (IIUM) will explain in writing to the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur its reasons for the last-minute cancellation of the forum “Everything in Moderation” yesterday. IIUM head of c...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Bangkokpost.com : Top StoriesThe baht dropped, capping its biggest weekly loss since 2013, as the Bank of Thailand eased curbs on fund outflows a day after unexpectedly cutting interest rates.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NationMANILA - The Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to heed proposals to elevate Mary Jane Veloso's case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NationChina criticizes the joint military drills between the Philippines and United States, calling it "muscle-flexing."
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NST Online Latest News - AllBUKIT MERTAJAM: Police have not received application from the anti-Goods and Services Tax (GST) rally organiser scheduled to be held at the Seberang Jaya expo site here tomorrow.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Breaking News - RSS Khaosod EnglishBANGKOK — A Thai court said today it lacked sufficient evidence to determine who killed a Japanese reporter and two demonstrators during the military crackdown on Redshirt protesters in 2010.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from BERNAMA - English VersionPUTRAJAYA, April 30 (Bernama) -- The Global Children Wellbeing Fund today contributed over USD100,000 (RM393, 130) for the victims of Nepal's worst earthquake in the last 80 years.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Star Online News HighlightsKATHMANDU (Reuters) - Rescue teams toiling amid rubble left by Nepal's devastating earthquake pulled a teenage boy to safety on Thursday after he had been trapped for five days, a rare moment of joy for a country struggling to cope w...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Star Online News HighlightsBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker issued a strong demand to Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban on Thursday to drop his suggestion that the country might reintroduce capital punishment.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NationAnti-drug police officers are looking at the West African drug syndicate as the ones behind Mary Jane Veloso’s foiled smuggling of 2.6 kilos of heroin into Indonesia in 2010.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Rakyat Post » NewsSEPANG, April 30, 2015: An Australian woman faces a possible death sentence for drug trafficking in Malaysia after a prosecutor said today a chemist’s report confirmed the substance found in her bag was crystal methamphetamine. Mar...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Malaysian Insider : MalaysiaPKR threw a “lobster” barbeque party at Kampung Jalan Baru in Permatang Pauh this afternoon, to make a point about the goods and services tax (GST). As the expensive seafood were put over the grill, campaigners stood by the b...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Thanh Nien News Online | Thanh Nien Daily
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NationChina on Thursday said a military drill by the United States and the Philippines is "muscle flexing," and not good for the region's peace and stability.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NationMultimedia.com - TopstoriesFootball Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi failed in his bid to retain his seat on Fifa's decision-making executive committee, which he had held for 17 years, following his defeat in the election at the Asian Football Confe...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from theSundaily.my Local NewsPETALING JAYA: Pandan MP Mohd Rafizi Ramli's counsel objected to the prosecution's application to send a laptop belonging to a reporter for analysis, in the middle of a trial. Rafizi's lawyer Eric Paulsen objected saying t...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Star Online News HighlightsKIEV (Reuters) - One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed in fresh separatist attacks on government forces in eastern Ukraine despite a ceasefire, Interfax news agency quoted the Ukrainian military as saying.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Malay Mail Online | MalaysiaKUALA LUMPUR, April 30 — Malaysians did not elect an emperor as their prime minister in the last federal polls, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim told Datuk Seri Najib Razak today as he joined calls for the latter’s resignation. He pointed ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Star Online News HighlightsBEIJING (Reuters) - China's Defence Ministry expressed concern on Thursday at the Pentagon's updated cyber strategy that stresses the U.S. military's ability to retaliate with cyber weapons, saying this would only worsen tens...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Bangkokpost.com : Top StoriesThe Japan Civil Aviation Bureau has reminded Thailand to keep its promise of regular updates on steps being taken to resolve safety problems after the agency postponed sanctions against Thai airlines.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NationTiniyak ni DILG Secretary Mar Roxas na walang special treatment sa umano'y recruiter ni Mary Jane Veloso, na si Maria Kristina Sergio, sa ilalim ng PNP protective custody.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Malay Mail Online | MalaysiaPULAU TIOMAN, April 30 — The process to return mobile prepaid reload values to their original prices cannot be done by tomorrow as it involves technical issues, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery C...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Malay Mail Online | WorldMANILA, April 30 — Philippine President Benigno Aquino today thanked Indonesia for granting a reprieve to a Filipina on death row, crediting his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo for his quick action. Aquino told reporters that he...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from theSundaily.my Local NewsJOHOR BARU: Johor police have crippled a drug syndicate, seizing 2.2kg of methamphetamine (syabu) Heroin and 4,401 ecstasy pills, with a market value estimated at RM500,000. Johor deputy police chief Datuk Ismail Yatim said in a press co...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NationThe Philippines inched one spot up to 86th place in the rankings on global press freedom among 199 countries and territories assessed in the Freedom of the Press 2015 report.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Rakyat Post » NewsGEORGETOWN, April 30, 2015: PKR was established for the management of a family, hence it could not be considered as a political party, said former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today. “The party (PKR) will always place imp...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NationMultimedia.com - TopstoriesPHETCHABURI Court yesterday sentenced to death a police doctor and his adult son for killing a Myanmar worker and burying his body at the doctor's ranch five years ago.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Malaysiakini :: NEWSPresident of BN ex-elected reps council says nepotism in Umno is different.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NST Online Latest News - AllKEMAMAN: A 33-year-old factory operator was killed when his motorcycle hit a car at a junction in Telok Kalong, here, this morning.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Thai PBS English NewsThe two women, Ms Rosarin, and her mother are being held in police custody at Banpot Pisai district police station on charges of conspiring with the other people in murdering Mr Rapin Klinkesorn, brother of Pol Lt-Gen Rewat. The victim...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Lastest news from VietNam NewsAs severe drought continues to affect the central region, the Viet Nam Red Cross will provide urgent aid for 900 poor and near-poor households.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Lastest news from VietNam NewsRescuers pulled a teenage boy and a woman in her thirties alive from the rubble of Nepal's earthquake Thursday, as the Red Cross warned of "total devastation" in areas near the epicentre.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NationCustoms Chief Bert Lina detailed his plan for dealing with the conflict of interest question, including not just selling but even closing one of his businesses.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NationMultimedia.com - TopstoriesLabour groups demand Bt360 a day from January 2016; poll shows sharp rise in the debt of low-income earners
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NationMANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ruled out the possibility of going back to a manual system of voting in 2016 as they narrowed down their options to two major courses of actions.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Breaking News - RSS Khaosod EnglishBANGKOK (DPA) — A Thai court has allowed independent verification of the DNA evidence against two suspects in the beach murder of two British holidaymakers last year, officials said Thursday.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from NationMultimedia.com - TopstoriesThe board of the National Broadcasting and Telecommun-ications Commission (NBTC) will hold a meeting on May 22 to discuss the acquisition of Nation Multimedia Group (NMG) shares by News Network Corporation (NEWS), formerly known as Solut...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Malay Mail Online | WorldTAIPEI, April 30 — Taiwan’s top court today upheld a life sentence handed down to a man who murdered his sister and pickled her head in a gruesome crime that shocked the island. Chen Chia-fu, 39, was arrested and later indict...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from NationMultimedia.com - TopstoriesContent will be broadcast via different media, legal fight will continue: Weng
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from The Malay Mail Online | MalaysiaPUTRAJAYA, April 30 — The Customs Department has postponed its directive to telecommunication companies to revert to the original prices of prepaid reload cards, without the Goods and Services Tax (GST) included, which was to take ...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsNepalese soldiers in the British army - the Gurkhas - marked the 200th anniversary of their brigade's foundation on Thursday in an event marred by the devastating earthquake in their homeland.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsChannel NewsAsia's Anand Krishna, Taufex Khamid and Steve Clark visited the 150-year-old World Heritage Site on Thursday and found parts of the temple complex reduced to rubble.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Pajhwok Afghan News (English)By Pajhwok Report on 01 May 2015 TRINKOT (Pajhwok): At least two policemen were killed on Friday morning in insurgents’ ambush in the Deh Rawud district of central Uruzgan province, a security official said. 1st Lieutenant Noorzai, dist...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Pajhwok Afghan News (English)By Khwaja Basir Fitri on 01 May 2015 KABUL (Pajhwok): Calling for an end to the Afghan conflict, religious leaders in capital Kabul say they support Imam-i-Kaaba’s recent remarks that the Taliban and Daesh had no link to Islam. Imam-i- K...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsThousands of union workers gathered on May Day to march through the streets of Tokyo, demanding more pay and better working conditions.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsThe Red Cross warned on Thursday that nearly all homes had been wiped out in some towns and villages near the epicentre of Nepal's devastating earthquake.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsOfficials from the public security, traffic, and industry and commerce authorities visited Uber's office on Thursday night and seized numerous iPhones, the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily said.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from bdnews24.com - BangladeshThe Indian High Commission in Dhaka will organise a series of events to commemorate the first international day of Yoga.
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsChinese media on Thursday (Apr 30) slammed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for failing to issue an apology for Japan’s wartime actions in his historic speech to the US Congress on Wednesday.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsPrime Minister Shinzo Abe said that though the gap between Japan and US has widened, with inspiration from Silicon Valley, Japan can still be a world economic force.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaIndonesia will not allow Filipina death row convict Mary Jane Veloso to travel to the Philippines to appear in court on May 8 and May 14 as requested by her government, an official said on Thursday. The Attorney General's Office (AGO) sp...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsWhile the joyous rescue of two survivors reinvigorated the search for further signs of life in the ruins of Kathmandu, the Red Cross warned of "total devastation" in far-flung areas of the poor Himalayan nation.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaLeading food manufacturer PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk (INDF) booked net sales of Rp 15.02 trillion (S$1.5 billion) in the first quarter of 2015, down by 0.1 per cent compared to the same period last year. INDF president director and Ch...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsThe United States and other countries will be welcome to use civilian facilities China is building in the South China Sea for search and rescue and weather forecasting "when conditions are right", China's navy chief has told a senior U.S...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaHONG KONG - The kidnapping of a tycoon's granddaughter, an armed robbery and a spate of high-profile burglaries in the homes of Hong Kong's elite have stirred concern in a city ranked as one of the safest in the world. Hong Kong, which h...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Pajhwok Afghan News (English)By Pajhwok Report on 01 May 2015 KABUL (Pajhwok): A massive fire that engulfed a dried fruit market in the central capital Kabul was extinguished after two hours on Friday, but the blaze caused huge financial losses to some shop owners. ...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaAs the number of people claiming damages from the UFUN Store's alleged pyramid scheme rose to almost 500, police urged other claimants to file complaints during this long holiday period. Police are trying to gather clear evidence, partic...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaThe executions of eight drug convicts by Indonesia have been condemned by Australia, Brazil and the United Nations. But while analysts do not expect any long-term damage to diplomatic relations, they say people-to-people ties may suffer....
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaThe Attorney General's Office (AGO) will make an evaluation next week whether to proceed with executing more death-row convicts in the near future after the two recent batches of executions drew international outcry. AGO spokesman Tony S...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaBANGKOK - Around 30 graves believed to belong to migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh were discovered Friday in southern Thailand, officials said, in an area criss-crossed with trafficking routes. The grave site was found in Sadao distri...
- Thursday, April 30, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsThe US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said "a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected."
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Pajhwok Afghan News (English)By Mohammad Haroon on 01 May 2015 KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Three people were injured on Friday afternoon when two back-to-back bomb blasts rocked the provincial capital of southeastern Khost province, police said. The injured included a tra...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaNational Police chief detective Comr. Gen. Budi Waseso confirmed on Friday that Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan had been arrested just after midnight at his residence in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta. "...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Pajhwok Afghan News (English)By Abdul Maqsud Azizi on 01 May 2015 PUL-I-ALAM/TARINKOT (Pajhwok): Two dead bodies of men have been found in central Logar province and a tribal elder has been gunned down in Uruzgan province, officials said on Friday. The two dead bodi...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News"The world will stop on Sunday" in the Philippines, when hot favourite Manny Pacquiao enters the boxing ring for the "fight of the century" against Floyd Mayweather.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaThe National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Canberra has temporarily removed President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo portrait from its exhibition room following the execution of the Australian drug convicts in Central Java on Tuesday. The gallery dire...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsTeam commander Lieutenant-Colonel Adrian Tan says the team of five doctors and 10 medics will continue to see to the local villagers and ailments caused by the earthquake in Nepal.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AsiaMANILA - The family of a Filipina on death row in Indonesia returned home on Friday with scathing criticism of the Philippine government's alleged mishandling of her case. Mary Jane Veloso's mother said President Benigno Aquino should no...
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsA senior U.N. human rights official said on Friday she had visited jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed for two hours in detention and urged the government to take action on his flawed trial.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific NewsIndonesian police detained a top anti-graft investigator on Friday to question him over his role in the deadly shooting of a thief more than a decade ago, the latest blow to the widely popular law enforcement agency.
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- Ministry of Emergency Situations ready to solve problems of foreigners during European Games in BakuFriday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
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- Friday, May 1, 2015 from armenpress.am RSS -The leader of the Armenian men’s chess team Levon Aronian remained in the same place in the FIDE ratings.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from armenpress.am RSS -In a ceremony that was described as "deeply moving", the Armenian Church last week canonised the 1.5 million victims of the 1915-23 genocide at the hands of the Ottomans: Church Times
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from armenpress.am RSS -Photo-story is filmed by the participation of the members of "Eurovision-2015" Song Contest representative “Genealogy” band.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from armenpress.am RSS -"Spartak" Moscow has put the two footballers of Armenia's national team Aras Ozbiliz and Yura Movsisyan in for transfer.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from armenpress.am RSS -The Syrian refugees and the military in Mardin province of Turkey clashed, as a result of which 4 soldiers were wounded.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AzerNews - AzerbaijanThe European Union announced its official refusal to recognize the so-called "parliamentary elections" in Nagorno-Karabakh.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from armenpress.am RSS -Armenian U-17 team will take part in UEFA Development tournament, which will take place from May 2 to 5.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AzerNews - AzerbaijanAzerbaijan and the US discussed the prospects for development of relations, the Azerbaijani ruling New Azerbaijan Party said in a message Apr. 30.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AzerNews - AzerbaijanAs the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh regime is getting ready to host its fictional "election", Baku has intensified its calls on international political figures to refrain from engaging in such an electoral scam.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AzerNews - AzerbaijanNagorno-Karabakh conflict's undermining the peace in the South Caucasus region has been once more put forward in Baku during a high-level meeting.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from armenpress.am RSS -The EU firmly supports the OSCE Minsk Group, and its Co-Chairs’ efforts to progress beyond the status quo and bring about comprehensive peace negotiations.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from armenpress.am RSS -The political analyst sees the necessity of creating appropriate body for the proper development of the legal portfolio of our demands from Turkey.
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az
- Friday, May 1, 2015 from AzerNews - AzerbaijanArmenian armed forces have broken the ceasefire with Azerbaijan 76 times in numerous positions in the last 24 hours, the Azerbaijani defense ministry told Trend May 1.
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- Friday, May 1, 2015 from Today.Az