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Pakistan-Azerbaijan Youth Association chair visits Ireli
Editor in chief of The Diplomatic Insight & Media Diplomacy magazine, Chairman of the Pakistan-Azerbaijan Youth Association Muhammad Asif Noor has visited Ireli Youth Centre. The guest first familiarized with the centre and its projects, talked to the youth and then met with Ireli Public Union's Chairman Rauf Mardiyev and Secretary General Narmin Mammadova. The meeting discussed ...
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Nepal to lay Nepal-India cross-border petroleum pipeline
Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has said it has initiated the process of land acquisition for the proposed Nepal-India cross-border petroleum pipeline. The corporation has proposed a 200 x 300 metre land plot on the southern side of the existing Amalekhgunj depot, according to the NOC. "The proposal has been sent to the National Planning Commission (NPC)," said NOC Acting Managing ...
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More efforts needed to uphold womens rights in Nepal
On Saturday, a rape victim from Parsa district alleged mistreatment at the hands of a police officer at the Narayani Zonal Police Office where she had gone to file a complaint. This was not a complaint about the rape, which had already been established by a doctor, but of a subsequent abduction. Friends of Binod Sah and Bideshi Mahato, the accused duo, forcefully took away the victim after she ...
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BEX Asia 2013 Southeast Asia gears up in Green City Drive
With new partnerships and greater content, BEX Asia 2013 is set to lend strong support to Asia's green agenda Singapore, June 18, 2013 - (ACN Newswire) - As part of the plan for sustainable development for Singapore's built environment, Singapore rolled out its second Green Building Masterplan in 2009, with focus to green the large stock of existing buildings by 2030. Also, just ...
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Singapore takes precautions over smoky haze after air pollution briefly hits 16-year-high
SINGAPORE - Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work Tuesday after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia caused air pollution to briefly hit its worst level in nearly 16 years. The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore's main measure to determine air quality, crept into the ...
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Pakistans Punjab government allocates mlns of rupees for JuD centre
Jamaat-ud-Dawah , considered a front for the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba. Besides a grant-in-aid of over Rs 61 million for the JuD centre known as 'Markaz-e-Taiba', the provincial government has allocated Rs 350 million for setting up a 'Knowledge Park' at the centre and other development initiatives. Details of the allocations were presented in budget documents tabled in the ...
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Silent Protesters Arrested in Turkey
Turkey has seen violent anti-government protests in several cities across the country for nearly three weeks. The government said Monday it may use the army to help stop the protests, if police power is not enough. Two major Turkish trade unions held a nationwide strike Monday against the police crackdown on Gezi Park demonstrators. The unions, which together represent hundreds of thousands ...
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Obama Skeptical About Syria No-Fly Zone Potential
In a television interview broadcast late Monday, Mr. Obama said if there was a move to restrict flights by the Syrian air force, that "may not be actually solving the problem." The president also said he will "preserve every option" available to him, and that the U.S. will be involved in a "careful, calibrated way." The White House has not completely ruled out a ...
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Sri Lanka Kidney disease takes at least two lives a day
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), the causes of which have not been fully unidentified, is taking at least two lives a day in Sri Lanka's North Central and Uva provinces. It has already killed more than 20,000 people, mainly from poor farming families, over the past two decades. Currently over 200,000 patients, including children as young as 10, suffer from the disease. At least 15 percent of ...
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US scientists family says Singapore inquest a sham
SINGAPORE (AFP) - The family of an American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year dismissed on Tuesday the city-state's findings that he committed suicide as "a sham and a cover-up" for a murder."I am not surprised by the state's findings because the state refused to consider murder, they only investigated suicide," Mary Todd, mother of the late electronics ...
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Harry Surjadi From swords to cell phones
Paper Edition | Page: 28 Farmers in remote villages in West Kalimantan have turned their cell phones into formidable weapons to fight land grabbing, illegal logging and illicit land clearing.For years violation after violation, often committed by plantation companies, has gone unpunished and farmers were forced from their land.Things began to change last year after some farmers were mobilized ...
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A different look at Minangkabau fashion
Paper Edition | Page: 21 The Minangkabau Fashion Carnival boasted new versions of traditional West Sumatran clothing never before seen in the region. The inaugural fashion street pageant held in Padang on June 9 enlivened the closing stage of the Tour de Singkarak V, an international cycling race in the province. The event presented 39 pieces for adults and 20 for children, created by ...
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Analysis 5 questions you should ask your ad agency
Paper Edition | Page: 14 If you are a marketing professional, an executive or shareholder in a company that spends a significant amount of money on advertising and promotions, here are a few pointers you may wish to ponder. If you are wondering why you should invest 10 minutes reading the musings of a stranger, consider my dubious distinctions. I was once the youngest vice president of the ...
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RI US talk deforestation environment and trade
Paper Edition | Page: 14 The government will engage the US through a business forum to fight deforestation, reduce carbon emissions and increase trade.Kerri-Ann Jones, US assistant secretary of state for oceans, international environmental and scientific affairs, said during her visit to the Forestry Ministry on Monday that a Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA) dialogue -- formed through a ...
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Maluku looks set to get 10 of Masela
Paper Edition | Page: 13 The Maluku provincial administration will get a 10 percent participating interest in the gas-rich Masela block, located in the Arafura Sea, pending the inauguration of a new governor, a top official says.Deputy Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Susilo Siswoutomo said on Monday the central government was waiting for a new "de facto" provincial leader to ...
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Michelin Chandra to set up $435m factory
Paper Edition | Page: 13 French tire maker Compagnie Financire Groupe Michelin has reached a deal with a subsidiary of Jakarta-listed PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical to build a US$435 million synthetic rubber plant.The two entities said on Monday that they had signed an agreement to establish a joint venture that would be 55 percent owned by Michelin and 45 percent by Chandra Asri's wholly ...
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Sritex climbs on first day of trading on IDX
PT Sri Rejeki Isman (Sritex) independent commissioner Sudjarwadi (second left) talks to deputy president director Iwan Kurniawan Lukminto (left), president director Iwan Setiawan (second right) and finance director Allan Moran Severino during the first trading day of the textile company's shares in Jakarta on Monday. ...
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PLN to expand power capacity as electricity demand increases
State electricity firm PLN president director Nur Pamudji (left) listens to finance director Setio Anggoro Dewo on the sidelines of the company's bond sale in Jakarta on Monday. ...
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Thai government set to cut rice intervention price
BANGKOK (REUTERS) - Thailand plans to cut prices and limit the amount of rice bought in a controversial support scheme for the grain as it attempts to retain vital political support from farmers and sustain a budget-draining programme. Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom told reporters a proposal will be put to the Cabinet on Tuesday under which the price to be paid to farmers for their ...
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Dead American researchers mother slams Singapore sham
The family of an American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year dismissed the island’s findings that he committed suicide as ';a sham and a cover-up'' for a murder. ';I am not surprised by the state's findings because the state refused to consider murder, they only investigated suicide,'' Mary Todd, mother of the late electronics engineer Shane ...
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Lynas drops case against Malaysia greens
In April last year, Lynas initiated legal proceedings against Save Malaysia Stop Lynas.Two months later, independent media website Free Malaysia Today apologised for running stories sympathetic to the activists, who opposed plans for a processing plant.Lynas Corporation chief executive Eric Noyrez on Tuesday said solicitors had been instructed to discontinue legal action against the activist ...
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Award-winning photographer Mark Baker named AP bureau chief for Malaysia Singapore
BANGKOK - Mark Baker, photographer and acting bureau chief for The Associated Press in Kuala Lumpur, has been promoted to chief of bureau for Malaysia and Singapore. The appointment was announced Tuesday by Brian Carovillano, the AP's Asia-Pacific news director. Baker joined the AP in 2003 in Sydney as chief photographer responsible for photo coverage for Australia, New Zealand and the ...
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Badminton Singapore Open hit by late pull-outs
SINGAPORE (AFP) - A large-scale withdrawal on the eve of competition has robbed badminton's Singapore Open of several seeded players after superstars Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei also chose to skip the event.Eleven players pulled out on Monday, citing fatigue and injury, though many may be keen to avoid exerting themselves in what is the last Super Series event before the world championships ...
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RI PNG agree to ‘soft’ border approach
Indonesia and its neighbor Papua New Guinea (PNG) agreed to use a "soft" approach in the border areas between the two nations often used by separatists to evade Indonesian security forces, leaders of the two countries stated on Monday.PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill led a delegation of government officials and business leaders on a three-day visit to Jakarta on Monday, aimed at ...
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Jokowi opposed to govt’s poverty relief plan
Paper Edition | Page: 9 Despite his populist pro-poor policies, Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says he is against the central government's planned poverty relief program following the expected cut in fuel subsidies.The central government is planning to compensate poor citizens with temporary direct cash assistance (BLSM), which many believe will be modeled on 2008's ...
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Cambodia reliant on China for a range of infastructure projects
Cambodia is in need of foreign investment for a number of major infrastructure projects and China is becoming the country’s biggest investor on several key ventures. This is part of a broader expansion in China’s influence in Asia as the country continues to develop into the world’s second superpower.
Cambodia suffered through the economic downturn that came about following the financial crash toward the end of 2008. In 2009, the economy contracted 1%, which wrought significant hardship for many hundreds of thousands of people, most notably those employed in the garment sector as the export of clothing fell by around 20% in value. Read more
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