Asia leads world tourism recovery in 2010: UN
| MADRID (AFP) – World tourism rebounded strongly this year from the global financial crisis, led by Asia and the Middle East, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) said Friday. ...
NE ultras shifting base to Myanmar post Bangla crackdowns
Agartala, Sep 3 (PTI): Friday, September 03, 2010 --> | With crackdowns on their camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, ultras of the Northeast are now shifting base to Myanmar, a top police official said ...
International tourist arrivals up 7% in the first half of 2010: Asia leads growth
| The first six months of 2010 saw international tourist arrivals grow by 7% according to the August Interim Update of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. This result confirms the recovery trend beginn...
North Korea leans on its major ally to dodge world's arms-trade ban
| North Korea is using China as a transit route as it attempts to dodge international sanctions on its trade in arms and nuclear technology, according to reports in South Korea. | Media reports con...
Asian named as South Philadelphia High's assistant principal
| By Jeff Gammage | Inquirer Staff Writer Kimlime Chek-Taylor, a veteran Philadelphia educator of Cambodian descent, has been named assistant principal at troubled South Philadelphia High School, fulf...
Chinese warships end first Burma visit
Two Chinese warships have completed a first ever trip to Burma. | The five-day visit, by two ships in China's anti-piracy taskforce, highlighted China's growing naval reach and its close ties with Ran...
Humanitarian Efforts Better Organized And Funded
Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:27 am | Press Release: United Nations | UN Humanitarian Efforts More Organized And Better Funded – Outgoing Relief Chief | New York, Sep 2 2010 3:10PM | The way the...
Keep the powder dry
--> Keep the powder dry | Share ARTICLEURL | The recent controversy over China’s provocative denial of a visa to an Indian general and New Delhi’s measured but firm response to the snub is one mor...
Israel, Palestinians agree to 2nd round of talks
Washington: Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Thursday to produce a framework for a permanent peace deal and to hold a second round of direct talks this month, modest achievements reached under U...
How Barack Obama became Mr Unpopular
New York: The Barack Obama that most Hoosiers remember voting for can still be found on YouTube. He stands before a cheering Elkhart high school gymnasium in August 2008, tireless, aspirational, promi...
India Must Master the Great Game
By RORY MEDCALF | Strategic tensions between Asia's rising giants, China and India, are palpably worsening. While there's enough blame for this situation to go around, much of it does lie with China. ...
Myanmar leader Than Shwe to visit China
Beijing: Myanmar military ruler Than Shwe will visit China next week, the Chinese government announced today, in another sign of the close ties between the neighbours. | Foreign Ministry spokeswoman J...
MYANMAR: Rural poor hit by arbitrary "taxes", says report
web | BANGKOK, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - Myanmar’s military government, with soldiers scattered throughout the country, is arbitrarily levying fees from the rural poor, pushing some into hunger and ...
UN to support Mizoram in dealing with HIV/AIDS
Aizawl: The United Nations (UN) will support Mizoram in prevention of HIV/AIDS and in management of prisons in the northeastern state, an official said here Thursday. | Cristina Albertin, representati...
US president plans ASEAN summit on sidelines of UN assembly
| Bangkok - US President Barack Obama has invited the leaders of South-East Asia to a summit on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, reports said Thursday. ...
"Lifeline service": BBC Burmese marks 70th anniversary
By Bethan Jinkinson BBC News | As the BBC Burmese service broadcast a programme marking its 70th anniversary, Sandhobasa, a monk, called in to say that he had been listening for more than two decades....
Myanmar's top leader to make state visit to China+
BEIJING, Sept. 2 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Myanmar's junta chief Senior Gen. Than Shwe will make a state visit to China next week during which he will hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Foreig...
Dusted Reviews Artist: V/A Album: My Friend Rain Label: Sublime Frequencies Review date: Sep. 2, 2010
| Professional ethnomusicologists (and a number of amateur ethnomusicologists as well) tend to have ambivalent feelings about the Seattle label Sublime Frequencies. On the one hand, SF does bring reco...
'China's concern is to balance India'
Washington: With China increasing its military power and influence in the strategically crucial Indian Ocean, a noted American expert has urged the Obama administration to partner India to balance and...
India, US need to partner to balance China in Indian Ocean: US expert
Washington, Sep 2 (PTI) Thursday, September 02, 2010 --> | With China increasing its military power and influence in the strategically crucial Indian Ocean, a noted American expert has urged the Obama...
45 Myanmar nabbed for traffic offences
| KUALA LUMPUR: Forty-five Myanmar nationals were arrested following a sting operation by police in the Ampang area. | Ampang Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Jalil Hassan said those arrested, aged between ...
