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Suu Kyi’s party complains of campaign restrictions Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party said Monday that campaign restrictions threatened the fairness of by-elections seen as a key test of the regime’s reform credentials. The Nobel Peace Prize winner’s National League for Democracy (NLD) called a news conference to complain that it was being [...]
Party to meet to rally behind new N.Korea leader North Korea said its ruling party will hold a rare special conference in April, in an apparent attempt to quickly wrap up the power transfer to new national leader Kim Jong-Un. The young and untested Jong-Un took power when his father, longtime leader Kim Jong-Il, died [...]
Thailand issues warrant for fifth bomb suspect A court in Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for a fifth Iranian suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to kill Israeli diplomats in Bangkok, police said Monday. The suspect, named as 57-year-old Norouzi Shaya Ali Akbar, faces charges of possessing and making explosives, said deputy national [...]
Quake-weary Christchurch still on edge, one year on Christchurch residents have been living on their nerves for more than 12 months amid constant aftershocks, afraid that next tremor could be another “big one”, repeating the disaster that ripped their lives apart a year ago. “The hand of God comes down and gives us another smack,” [...]
Philippine police wanted for S.Korean kidnap Philippine authorities have ordered the arrest of ten policemen accused of kidnapping four South Korean tourists in a plot involving their countrymen tour guides, the Manila City government said Monday. The capital’s mayor, Alfredo Lim, also ordered that the 10 be dropped from police rolls after they went into [...]
Japan logs record trade deficit in January Japan posted a record trade deficit in January, latest data showed, as fuel imports rose following last year’s nuclear disaster while exports were hit by a strong yen and slumping demand in Europe. The January deficit came in at 1.475 trillion yen ($18.5 billion), the highest since records [...]
Jeremy Lin makes privacy plea for Taiwan relatives National Basketball Association star Jeremy Lin made a public plea for reporters in Taiwan to respect the privacy of his family members there. Lin’s fairy-tale run, and the media storm that has accompanied it, has had an affect on those in his ancestral homelands. The US-born Lin [...]
Indonesian bomb suspect never met bin Laden: lawyer Suspected Indonesian bombmaker Umar Patek’s stay in the same Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed in a US raid was a coincidence and the pair never met, according to his lawyer. Patek, 45, faces six counts of murder, bomb-making and illegal firearms possession over [...]
North Korea’s ruling party to meet in April North Korea announced its ruling party will hold a rare special conference in April to “glorify” late leader Kim Jong-Il and rally around his young son and successor Kim Jong-Un. The meeting was expected formally to appoint Jong-Un as Workers’ Party chief, further strengthening his grip on [...]
Ponting’s axing may end long ODI career Former captain Ricky Ponting’s one-day international cricket career appeared over after he was dropped from Australia’s team for the tri one-day series against India and Sri Lanka. Chief selector John Inverarity on Monday said Ponting, the second all-time leading runscorer in ODIs, was axed because of his poor [...]