Monday, July 8, 2013

China End Involuntary Rehousing Relocation of Tibetans

  • General Sources - Sunday 7th July, 2013

    Malaysia's central bank has imposed measures on household lending, including limits to loan tenures, which economists Sunday said will reign in "excessive" consumer borrowing and curb property speculation. Bank Negara Malaysia said it will now only allow personal loans of up to 10 years while financing for both residential and non-residential properties will have a maximum ...

  • China End Involuntary Rehousing Relocation of Tibetans

    Human Rights Watch - Sunday 7th July, 2013

    Chinese government is subjecting millions of Tibetans to a policy of mass rehousing and relocation that radically changes their way of life, and about which they have no say, Human Rights Watch said in a new report published today. Since 2006, under plans to "Build a New Socialist Countryside" in Tibetan areas, over two million Tibetans have been "rehoused" ? through ...

  • Blasts at one of Buddhisms holiest sites India police

    General Sources - Sunday 7th July, 2013

    0 PATNA: Indian police reported multiple low-intensity blasts at the Bodh Gaya Buddhist temple complex on Sunday, saying two people had been wounded but the temple was safe.Buddhists from all over the world visit the site in eastern Bihar state as it is believed to house the tree under which the Buddha reached enlightenment."The holy bodhi tree is safe and there is no damage to it," ...

  • Panda from China delivers first cub in Taiwan

    Globe and Mail - Sunday 7th July, 2013

    Two giant pandas eat bamboo at a breeding base in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province, January 28, 2005. China's endangered pandas grab world attention each time they give birth. (CHINA ...

  • Chinese athlete sets new Asian record in womens pole vault

    Global Times - Sunday 7th July, 2013

    Chinese athlete Li Ling set new Asian record in women's pole vault with a height of 4.54 meters in the 20th Asian Athletics Championships here on Saturday evening.The former Asian record is 4.53 meters set by Gao Shuyin from China in 2005.Her teammate Ren Mingqian came second, followed by Sukanya of Thailand.The 20th Asian Athletics Championship is held in Pune of India from July 3 to 7. ...

  • Japan set to restart reactors after nuclear crisis

    San Diego Union-Tribune - Sunday 7th July, 2013

    TOKYO -; Japan is moving a step closer to restarting nuclear reactors as utilities are set to file for safety inspections at their idled reactors, the clearest sign of Japan's return to nuclear energy nearly two and a half years after the Fukushima ...

  • Series of small blasts at Buddhist sites in India injure 2

    Canada.com - Sunday 7th July, 2013

    PATNA, India - A series of small blasts hit three Buddhist temples in eastern India early Sunday, injuring at least two people, police said. Senior police officer S.K. Bhardwaj said a gate at one of the shrines was badly damaged in Bodhgaya, a town 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Patna, the capital of Bihar state. No other damage was reported to the Buddhist centres. Bhardwaj said four ...

  • Fire chief All accounted for from SF plane crash

    San Diego Union-Tribune - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    A fire truck sprays water on Asiana Flight 214 after it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah ...

  • Japan to launch satellites to monitor oceans

    General Sources - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    The Senkaku islands, known as Diaoyu in China. AP Photo TOKYO--Japan is planning to launch satellites to monitor the world?s oceans, a report said Sunday, as Chinese government ships plied waters around islands controlled by Tokyo and claimed by Beijing. The Cabinet office plans to launch nine satellites in the next five years to counter piracy and monitor the movements of foreign ships ...

  • The San Francisco plane crash at a glance

    San Diego Union-Tribune - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    A fire truck sprays water on Asiana Flight 214 after it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, July 6, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah ...

  • Official 2 dead more than 60 unaccounted for in S.F. plane crash

    Record Net - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Stephanie Turner saw the plane going down and the rescue slides deploy, but returned to her hotel room before seeing any passengers get off the jet, she told ABC News. Turner said when she first saw the flight she noticed right away that the angle of its approach seemed ...

  • Snowden set for Latin America refuge

    Times of India - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    NSA ) contractor took a new turn late on Friday when Venezuela's leftist President Nicolas Maduro offered to grant the 30-year old "humanitarian asylum". Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega had only moments earlier also said his Latin American country could offer a safe haven for one of US's most wanted men "if circumstances ...

  • Top Italian cocaine boss nabbed in ColombiaItalian and Colombian police say a fugitive Italian mobster who is a global cocaine trafficker has been captured in a Bogota shopping mall.

    Times of India - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Roberto Pannunzi had a false Venezuelan ID when nabbed earlier in the week. They say Pannunzi imported 2 tons of cocaine every month from Colombia to Europe. Italian prosecutor Nicola Gratteri told reporters in Italy that Colombia was expelling Pannunzi, and that the convicted drug dealer would arrive Saturday night on a flight to Rome. Pannunzi, 67, has fled twice from arrest in Italy, ...

  • Chile debates abortion for 11-year-old rape victim

    Times of India - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Chile by her mother's partner has set off a national debate about abortion in one of the most socially-conservative countries in Latin America. Chileans were outraged on Friday after state TV reported that the girl is 14 weeks pregnant and was raped repeatedly over two years. Police in the remote southern city of Puerto Montt arrested her mother's partner, who confessed to abusing the ...

  • Mali state of emergency lifted ahead of electionMali has lifted a state of emergency ahead of the start of political campaigning for a presidential election on July 28 a spokesman for West African nations army said.

    Times of India - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Mali has lifted a state of emergency ahead of the start of political campaigning for a presidential election on July 28, a spokesman for West African nation's army said. The state of emergency, which handed the army sweeping powers and banned gatherings of over 50 people, was imposed in January following a French-led military offensive aimed at driving out Islamist militant groups that had ...

  • Asiana Airlines flight crash lands at San Francisco airport 10 injured

    Times of India - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Seoul crashed while landing on Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, the US federal aviation administration said. (Reuters ...

  • Railway says has reports of deaths after Canada derailment

    Times of India - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Montreal , Maine & Atlantic Railway said it has had reports of a number of fatalities and injuries in Lac Megantic, Quebec, after one of its trains carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in the middle of a town on Saturday. In a statement, the railway said the train had been stopped at 11:25 pm and tied down for a crew change at Nantes, 6.8 miles (11 km) west of Lac Megantic. The train, ...

  • 2 killed as Korean jet crashes at San Francisco airport

    Times of India - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 jet with more than 300 people on board clipped a seawall short of the runway at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, snapping off its tail and bursting into flames. Media reports said at least two people who were aboard Flight 214 from Seoul were killed. At least 10 others, including two children, were in critical condition, one of the city's hospitals ...

  • Jonathan Gold | L.A. Restaurant Review Chego The Sequel Opens With Familiar Pan-Asian Flavors - Latimes.com

    Huffington Post - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    If you were obsessed with the Kimchi Spam Bowl, and dismayed when the original Chego, the one in Palms, closed a few months ago, then you were probably all over the news that the new Chego 2.0, Roy Choi's rice bowl joint, has been transplanted into a faded walking mall, behind Ocean Seafood in downtown's Chinatown. Chego is all blasting reggae, sticky picnic tables in the courtyard, ...

  • Two Koreas agree on inspection of joint industrial zone

    Channel News Asia - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    North and South Korea agreed Sunday to inspect a joint industrial zone shuttered amid high cross-border tension and to hold talks on preventing another closure, reports ...

  • Pakistan bomb attack kills three injures 38 officials

    Fox News - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    Pakistani police and volunteers search the site of bomb explosion on a food park in Lahore on July 6, 2013. Three people were killed and 38 injured on Saturday when a bomb exploded in a bustling food market in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, officials ...

  • NTSB to investigate San Francisco Crash

    Tampa Bay Online - Saturday 6th July, 2013

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety. It was not immediately known whether there were any ...

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