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South Korean president to visit China South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak arrives in China on Monday for talks with his counterpart Hu Jintao that will focus on the North Korean leadership transition following the death of Kim Jong-Il. Both countries are closely watching North Korea after the death of its longtime leader Kim Jong-Il on [...]
Tibetan dies after setting himself on fire A Tibetan died after he and another man set themselves on fire in southwest China, state media said Sunday, taking the total number of such acts in the restive region to 14 in less than a year. The incidents happened Friday near the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province’s [...]
Indonesia jails wife of alleged Bali attacks mastermind An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced the wife of the alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings to 27 months in jail for falsifying her identity. Philippine national Ruqayyah Husein Luceno was arrested in Pakistan early last year with her husband Umar Patek in the town where [...]
Lee beats foe Lin Dan in Seoul final World number one Lee Chong Wei stormed back to defeat arch-rival and holder Lin “Super” Dan in the final of the Korea Open on Sunday to prevent a rampant China for sweeping all five titles. The first Superseries of the new season, which is also an Olympic [...]
N. Korea hails ‘genius’ new leader on birthday North Korea praised its young new leader Sunday as “the genius among the geniuses” in military strategy on what is believed to be his birthday, the first since he took command after his father’s death. In a documentary about Kim Jong-Un’s virtues, state television showed the leader [...]
“South Africa’s recent economic performance has been impressive. Good macroeconomic policies which, together with a flexible exchange rate and sound financial sector, have mitigated the output drop during the global recession,” she said in a statement. “South Africa has become increasingly integrated into the global economy,” she said following talks with President Jacob Zuma. “In [...]
The commission, the European Union’s executive body, has rejected Belgium’s 2012 budget as overly optimistic, and demanded it shave off 1.2 billion to 2.0 billion euros to avoid breaching the three percent deficit threshold. “The commission has given us the choice to either come up this weekend with savings of 1.2 billion euros, which we [...]
“The euro is not in crisis, the currency has solidly maintained its exchange rate with the dollar,” Monti said on RAI 3 public television, adding that Italy’s “banking system is not under threat”. “The problem we are facing is that some EU countries have a public debt crisis,” he said. “Our crisis is a systemic [...]
R&D industry in Singapore SINGAPORE: Some 120 top international scientists including Nobel Laureates, Prof Ada Yonath and Prof Kurt Wuthrich are now in Singapore to discuss cross—disciplinary science. They are here for the 2nd Molecular Materials Meeting (M3) @ Singapore 2012 organised by A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE). Molecular materials science cuts [...]
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti met France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris as the single currency bloc’s second and third biggest economies sought to head off doubts about their deficit reduction plans. The pair announced a mini-summit with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel on January 23 but also revealed a split in Europe’s position, with France [...]