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China to face more Wukan-style protests: official A top Chinese official who helped defuse a rare revolt by villagers has said the country should be prepared for further protests as people grow more assertive in demanding their rights. Zhu Mingguo compared the situation in the southern Chinese village of Wukan, where residents angered by years [...]
Wild Oats XI leads Sydney to Hobart yacht race Wild Oats XI was leading the Sydney to Hobart yacht race Tuesday after battling rough conditions overnight, but the fleet is now facing a gripping tactical dash to the finish due to a lack of winds. The supermaxi Wild Oats XI, hot favourite to take its [...]
The mass screening exercise will be rolled out to all other constituencies between March next year and March 2014. (TODAY File Photo) SINGAPORE: As the Republic grapples with an ageing population, policymakers would soon have a snapshot of the state of health of seniors here — a database which would also enable them to formulate [...]
Chancellor Angela Merkel has made no bones about the advantages for Germany of the euro, which went into circulation as banknotes and coins on January 1, 2002, and whose future she has been grimly racing to shore up. “As an exporting nation, Germany has particularly benefited from the euro,” she told lawmakers in her most [...]
“Yes, the plane arrived this morning from the UK and we are grateful,” Innocent Mavhunga told AFP. American General Supplies seized Air Zimbabwe’s Boeing 767-200 at Gatwick over unpaid fees of $1.2 million resulting in the airline cancelling the flight and reimbursing stranded passengers. The airline has also suspended flights to neighbouring South Africa over [...]
2002 – January 1: Euro notes and coins are introduced across 12 states (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain), becoming legal tender and replacing their national currencies. The currency enters, three years after its birth on January 1, 1999, the daily lives of 304 million Europeans. – March [...]
Indonesia volcano eruption panics villagers One of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes erupted Tuesday, spewing clouds of ash and panicking villagers but no evacuation has been ordered so far, a government vulcanologist said. The first eruption at Mount Lokon was at 3:07 am (1907 GMT Monday), followed by two more bursts within minutes, Farid Bina told [...]
In morning trade, New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for February delivery, was two cents higher at $99.70 a barrel from Friday’s close and Brent North Sea crude for February delivery advanced 21 cents to $108.17. Crude markets were closed Monday. Underlying concerns over tensions between Iran and the West will likely underpin crude [...]
Singapore Skyline (Photo by: Hester Tan, channelnewsasia.com) SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) will release the advance GDP estimates for the fourth quarter and the whole year of 2011 on January 3 at 8.00 am. The details will be available on the websites of MTI , the Department of Statistics and the SG [...]
On the streets of Berlin, Madrid, and Bratislava, the view is similar: despite its clear upsides, the transition to the euro hiked the cost of living even as it introduced deep political and economic uncertainty in the bloc. The euro, the most tangible manifestation of European integration in everyday life, has become a symbol of [...]