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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Asia Bulletin.com http://www.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/10/id/bf053b50c46383e0/ en-us Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:29:03 -0500 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:29:03 -0500 30 Tokyo/Mazda Motor Corp and other business partners plan to buy back a 20-percent stake of the Japanese automaker from Ford Motor Co Wednesday, the automakers said Tuesday. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431741/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:04 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431741/cs/1/ Beijing, Nov 18 (Xinhua) Yet another vessel, a Hong Kong cargo ship, was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near the Yemen coast Tuesday, the maritime search and rescue centre of China said here. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431725/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:00:28 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431725/cs/1/ Thirteen Muslim separatist rebels were killed Tuesday in clashes in the southern Philippines, the military said. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431653/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:01:47 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431653/cs/1/ Tokyo, Nov 18 (Xinhua) Tokyo stocks closed lower Tuesday with the key Nikkei index dropping 2.28 percent amid investors' anxieties about the ongoing global economic recession. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431531/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:38 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431531/cs/1/ An ethnic Indian businessman has announced his candidature for the deputy president's post in the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), saying the organisation that represents the two million-plus community in the country needs 'fresh blood'. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431481/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:00:23 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431481/cs/1/ Jiaxian (China), Nov 18 (Xinhua) Rescuers pulled 32 of the 34 trapped miners out of a flooded coal mine in central China's Henan province early Tuesday, 23 hours after the accident occurred. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431401/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:00:02 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431401/cs/1/ Foshan (China), Nov 18 (Xinhua) Thousands of workers in south China's Guangdong Real Faith Enterprises Group Co. have been living a more relaxed life lately, working strictly 40 hours a week. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431361/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:01:05 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431361/cs/1/ Banking giant HSBC axed 450 jobs in Hong Kong Monday because of the impact of the global financial crisis, a government-run radio station reported. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431326/cs/1/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:01:32 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431326/cs/1/ New Delhi/Mumbai, Nov 18 (ANI/Business Wire India): ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia's leading Sports Broadcaster, has been appointed the preferred bidder as the long-term global television production partner for the Champions League 2020 tournament by Champions League 2020. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431630/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:23 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431630/cs/1/ New Delhi, Nov 18 : The Ministry of Rural Development will organise a third South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-III) here today. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431441/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:01:58 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431441/cs/1/ Dhaka, Nov 18 (Xinhua) The European Union (EU) will send an observation mission for the parliamentary elections in Bangladesh scheduled Dec 18, private UNB news agency reported Tuesday. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431452/cs/1/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:02:12 -0500 Asia Bulletin.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/431452/cs/1/ Seoul: Asia will take a substantial hit from slowing demand for its exports as the global downturn unfolds but will remain the world's most economically-dynamic region, an Asian Development Bank econo... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19651209/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:03:50 -0500 Gulf News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19651209/ TOKYO (AP) -- The knuckleball - the fluttering, hard-to-hit pitch that's rare in the major leagues - is propelling a 16-year-old girl to the pros in Japan. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19650560/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:13:50 -0500 Associated Press http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19650560/ Police raids on several hundred buildings in the United Kingdom have recovered dozens of sex trafficking victims, mostly from East and South-East Asia, and led to legal charges against dozens of suspe... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649153/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:49:32 -0500 UN News Centre http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649153/ By Chris Oliver Asian markets fell on Tuesday, as banks and real-estate shares in China and Hong Kong fell on concern that economic growth may be even slower than currently expected and as property... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649046/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:53:43 -0500 Smart Money http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649046/ WASHINGTON: The US military has launched a coordinated operation with Pakistani forces to put pressure on insurgents on both sides of Afghanistan's wild eastern frontier, a US military commander sa... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649971/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:36 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649971/ Munster: D Howlett; B Murphy, R Tipoki, L Mafi, I Dowling; P Warwick, P Stringer; F Pucciariello, F Sheahan, T Ryan; M O'Driscoll (capt), D Ryan; J Coughlan, N Ronan, D Leamy. Replacements: D Fogarty,... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649958/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:17:47 -0500 BBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649958/ ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's top Islamic advisory body has urged the government to amend divorce laws to give more say to women, triggering a controversy with religious hardliners vowing to resist the mo... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649972/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:33 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649972/ WASHINGTON: The US administration found itself in an awkward position after Afghanistan's offer of peace talks with Mullah Mohammad Omar, the fugitive Taliban leader long seen by Washington as an ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649970/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:37 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649970/ More than 7,000 live monitor lizards, almost 900 owls—plucked and plastic wrapped for easy cooking—and other wild animals were seized in two raids in a single week by http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19652828/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:15:44 -0500 National Geographic News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19652828/ WASHINGTON: Primary care doctors in the US feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649973/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:34 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649973/ United Nations, 19 November, (Asiantribune.com): Despite significant progress Asia and the Pacific has made in utilizing information and communication technology (ICT), such as with the rapid growth o... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19653222/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:35:19 -0500 Asian Tribune http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19653222/ KATHMANDU: Close on the heels of an international furore over California's decision to ban same-sex marriages, the apex court of Nepal has given its nod to such unions. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649968/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:38 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649968/ Dubai: Dubai International Film Festival on December 11-18 has announced its lineup for Indian and Asia-Africa segments. The Indian Cinema segment will include Kanchivaram set in the 1940s, telling th... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649886/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:03:43 -0500 Gulf News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649886/ International Criminal Police Organization recently confiscated $6.65 million worth of counterfeit HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis drugs in Southeast Asia and made 27 arrests as part of a five-mont... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649652/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:36:49 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649652/ BEIJING: A high-ranking Chinese military official has hinted that China's fast-growing navy is seeking to acquire an aircraft carrier, a move that would surely stoke tensions with the US military a... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649975/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:30 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649975/ In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey, there lived in the eighth century BC a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw the completion of an inscribed stone monument, or stele, t... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649969/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:38 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649969/ SEOUL: To conservative critics, a widely used textbook's version of how US and Soviet forces took control of Korea from Japanese colonialists in 1945 shows all that is wrong with the way South Kore... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649977/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:32:27 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649977/ would bring to three the number of airlines eligible for cash injections underscored the difficulties mainland firms were facing. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index ended down 2.3% at 8,328.41. South Kore... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649334/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:28:53 -0500 Morning Star http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19649334/ Daewoo Logistics of South Korea has secured farmland in Madagascar to grow food crops for Seoul, in a deal that diplomats and consultants said was the largest of its kind. The company said it had leas... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19648832/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:28:20 -0500 Financial Times http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19648832/ Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer and emitter of greenhouse gases through deforestation, on Tuesday dealt a blow to hopes it would step up efforts to combat climate change.Anton Apriy... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19650126/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:28:18 -0500 Financial Times http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19650126/ A South Korean woman walks past an advertisement for the Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, at the headquarters of Hyundai Asan, which operates the resort as a tourist enclave inside the communis... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19648340/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:30:41 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19648340/ TOKYO : The volatile stock market and a strong yen may be hurting Japanese companies which are largely export-driven. But there are some businesses trying to take advantage of the strong Japanese curr... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19648339/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:36:49 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19648339/ BEIJING: Chinese leaders are again facing the wrath of small land owners even after they passed a new property law and cracked the whip on speculators to tackle the widespread resentment over land ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645196/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:44:24 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645196/ TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese police posted guards at the homes of former health ministry bureaucrats Tuesday after attacks on the families of ex-officials left two people dead and another wounded, reports s... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19644435/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:22:56 -0500 Associated Press http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19644435/ The government of the western Indian state of Maharashtra has asked businesses to give preference to "locals" when recruiting staff. It says that priority for jobs should be given to anyone who has l... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645404/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:26:16 -0500 BBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645404/ MACAU, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, tonight announced the winners of the Asia Mobile Awards 2008 in a glittering ceremony at the Mobile Asia Congre... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645713/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:42:12 -0500 Hispanic Business Magazine http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645713/ PRAGUE: The Czech Republic has suspended the issuing of new visas for Vietnamese until the end of the year because of criminality in the Vietnamese community, a newspaper reported. While the gove... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645195/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:44:24 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645195/ LONDON: Eight of Britain's fattest pets are set to embark on a 100-day diet and fitness regime in a bid to be crowned this year's pet fit club champion. The seven dogs and one cat, who are all m... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645198/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:44:19 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645198/ Christmas has come early to Australian sailors after the country’s navy ordered an extended two-month holiday in response to staff shortages and a drive to attract and retain sailors with a better w... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19644681/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:39:42 -0500 Financial Times http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19644681/ The mood during the panel hearings at the World Economic Forum this week in New Delhi was complacent, even self-congratulatory.India would duck the worst of the global financial crisis, many of the sp... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645785/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:39:39 -0500 Financial Times http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19645785/ India’s property and IT chiefs see severe slowdown By James Lamont, Joe Leahy and Amy Kazmin in New Delhi Published: November 18 2008 15:31 | Last updated: November 18 2008 15:31 http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19644621/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:39:36 -0500 Financial Times http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19644621/ Asian stock markets slid this morning in the wake of Citigroup’s announcement that it will cut up to 52 thousand jobs and experts forecasts of at least one more year of financial woes.Despite ba... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19639610/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:04:40 -0500 Spero News http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19639610/ SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- A Chinese migrant worker faces a possible death sentence after he said he stabbed a Canadian model to death in her Shanghai apartment building, his lawyer confirmed Tuesday. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640721/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:36:21 -0500 Associated Press http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640721/ MOSCOW: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will in December repeat his presidential custom of holding a live nationwide phone-in, an official said on Tuesday, reinforcing his image as Russia's true lead... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640557/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:00:19 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640557/ By Ashok Sharma Dharmsala, India - The prime minister of Tibet's exiled government said on Tuesday that leaders would push for Tibetan independence if a key meeting of exiles this week decides to d... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19641910/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:33:26 -0500 IOL http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19641910/ HANOI, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Southeast Asia's largest glass exhibition, Glasstech Asia 2008, will open in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, Vietnam News Agency reported on Tuesday. The t... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19639275/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:28:52 -0500 Eview Week http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19639275/ WASHINGTON: The US administration found itself in an awkward position after Afghanistan's offer of peace talks with Mullah Mohammad Omar, the fugitive Taliban leader long seen by Washington as an arch... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19643670/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:50:49 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19643670/ HONG KONG (AP) -- HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe's largest bank by market value, plans to cut 500 jobs in Asia due to the global economic slump.The cuts will be made in various parts of the business, inclu... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19639500/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:41:33 -0500 CNN Money http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19639500/ Japan appears likely to approve the importation of a consignment of whalemeat from Iceland and Norway. A senior official from Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry told BBC News that an imp... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640530/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:39:43 -0500 BBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640530/ THE HAGUE: The UN's highest court said on Tuesday it will entertain a genocide claim against Serbia by neighbouring Croatia for alleged ethnic cleansing committed during the Croatian war of the ear... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640560/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:00:12 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640560/ BEIJING: The United States, preparing to open its first Food and Drug Administration offices outside the country, said on Tuesday that it has embarked on a new strategy with Beijing to ensure that ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640559/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:00:15 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640559/ Beijing - China on Tuesday called on the United States to lift its ban on Chinese dairy products, saying it had cracked down on the use of the toxic additive melamine in milk. The United States iss... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640539/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:33:20 -0500 IOL http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640539/ HONG KONG: Asian stock markets sank on Tuesday after Wall Street retreated and global financial firms announced another round of massive layoffs, adding to gloom about the world economy. http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19639091/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:45:36 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19639091/ WELLINGTON: Two New Zealand men were convicted on Tuesday of murdering a 3-year-old girl after several months of abuse that included spinning her in a hot clothes dryer and beating her using wrestl... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640561/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:59:53 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640561/ Asian stocks recouped some losses after three straight losing sessions Friday, as markets across the region adopted an upbeat tone following a super- sized gains for U.S. stocks, although initial mo... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19641057/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:57:13 -0500 Morning Star http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19641057/ (AFP)--Ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who faces having billions of dollars in assets seized by the Thai courts, has set up a fund to help Asia weather financial turmoil, an adviser said Tue... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640792/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:57:03 -0500 Morning Star http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19640792/ HONG KONG (Menafn - MarketWatch) -- Asian shares declined Tuesday, with shares of Japanese auto makers and banks leading the action to the downside in Tokyo, while regional commodity stocks traded mix... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635783/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:45:49 -0500 MENAFN http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635783/ BOSASSO: A Saudi supertanker hijacked by pirates with a $100 million oil cargo in the largest ever such seizure may have reached the coast of north Somalia, a regional maritime group said on Tuesda... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636707/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:48:07 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636707/ NEW YORK: UN attack helicopters have mounted reconnaissance flights and "are poised to respond to any and all eventualities" in the eastern Congo after rebel forces violated a ceasefire and seized ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636709/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:48:05 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636709/ CHICAGO: US president-elect Barack Obama and vanquished rival John McCain met for the first time since the November 4 election on Monday, pledging to work together to face the financial crisis and ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636714/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:48:02 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636714/ Companies in two Chinese provinces, Shandong and Hubei, have been told they must seek official consent if they want to lay off more than 40 people. The order highlights the Chinese authorities' conce... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636680/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:27:54 -0500 BBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636680/ WASHINGTON: As US President-elect Barack Obama pondered over naming Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of sate, media reports suggested that her husband Bill Clinton's complicate... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636713/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:48:01 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636713/ Two New Zealand men have been convicted of murdering a three-year old girl, after months of torturing the child. Wiremu Curtis, 19, and his brother Michael, 22, face life sentences for the murder of ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636681/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:27:53 -0500 BBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636681/ HONG KONG - Asian stocks fell on Tuesday after Citigroup cut 52,000 jobs in a dramatic move to save itself and downbeat policymaker comments reflected worsening economic conditions that will unlikely ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19638508/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:47:55 -0500 Daily Monitor http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19638508/ Australia's biggest investment bank, Macquarie Group, has posted a sharp drop in its first-half profit but said it did not need to raise cash. The bank's net profit for the six months to 30 September... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636682/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:27:50 -0500 BBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636682/ Britain's most senior Asian police officer spoke out today to deny his race claim against Scotland Yard has been settled. Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur said reports that the matte... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636141/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:31:34 -0500 Independent UK http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636141/ CANBERRA: Australia's navy has been sent on a two-month Christmas vacation, with military chiefs saying on Tuesday the long shutdown would not leave the country unprotected and was the only way to ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636706/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:48:06 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636706/ GLEN CARBON: It took some fancy footwork, but a Goodwill store in Illinois has found the owner of $7,500 in cash mistakenly donated with old shoes. A newcomer to the United States from Bulgaria ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636715/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:47:57 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19636715/ HONG KONG, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong stocks end sharply lower on Tuesday on rising concerns over corporate earnings and global growth after the Wall Street's overnight decline and plunges in Asi... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635808/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:16:42 -0500 Eview Week http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635808/ Returned Afghan refugee boys attend a class at a makeshift school in a refugee camp in Sheikh Mersi in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. The U.N.'s refugee chief c... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633254/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:01:37 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633254/ TAIPEI - Around 100 supporters of Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian protested outside the hospital where he is on hunger strike Tuesday, criticising his ongoing detention as political persecuti... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635638/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:06:53 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635638/ LOS ANGELES: Stunned, bedraggled evacuees began returning home on Monday to three areas of southern California ravaged by wildfires, some finding their homes and cars reduced to piles of smoulderin... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633050/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:15:41 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633050/ NEW YORK: South Africa's Academy Award winning actress and activist Charlize Theron said on Monday that a woman is raped every 26 seconds in her country, a situation she described as "quite horrifi... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633052/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:14:58 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633052/ SEOUL: South Korea Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of a historic tour programme designed to promote reconciliation with North Korea, which has been halted for months amid icy cross-b... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635635/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:06:56 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635635/ (2 hrs 5 mins ago) US banking giant Citigroup said it remains committed to the Asia-Pacific region despite a move to cut 50,000 jobs worldwide due to the financial crisis. Jobs in the region will ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19632058/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:53:15 -0500 The Standard http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19632058/ DUBAI: Somali pirates have captured a fully laden Saudi supertanker far off east Africa, seizing the biggest vessel ever hijacked with a cargo of oil worth over $100 million in an attack that pushe... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633056/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:14:09 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633056/ SEOUL : North Korea's prison camps hold about 300,000 people and authorities hold annual mass executions of inmates seen as defiant, a new group formed by defectors said Wednesday. Torture and sexual ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635637/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:07:01 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635637/ PARIS: French lawmakers approved today raising the retirement age of pilots from 60 to 65 despite a four-day strike that caused havoc for Air France's operations. The French Senate approved the ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633055/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:14:08 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633055/ KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court has slashed a 75-year sentence given to a man convicted of raping his stepdaughter, saying that judges should not "react vengefully" to shocking crimes, a report sai... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633062/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:13:51 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633062/ TOKYO -- Japan's economy slid into a recession for the first time since 2001, the government said today, as companies sharply cut back on spending in the third quarter amid the unfolding global financ... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19632436/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:49:34 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19632436/ region, the memo said. He replaces Damian Chunilal, who left last week. Forbes has been with Merrill for 11 years and is currently head of global healthcare investment banking, based in http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635642/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:11:11 -0500 Morning Star http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635642/ KATHMANDU: A serious row has erupted between Nepalese premier Prachanda and Maoist hardliners on whether to consolidate the democratic republic or pursue a Communist- style dispensation, with the f... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633061/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:13:53 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633061/ KHAR: Taliban militants attacked Pakistani tribal leaders near the Afghan border, triggering a gunbattle and an explosion that killed seven people, an official said on Tuesday. The clash occurre... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633053/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:14:36 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633053/ NEW YORK: A Pakistani woman accused of trying to kill a US soldier and FBI agents while she was in custody in Afghanistan is mentally unfit for trial, a court-ordered psychological evaluation deter... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633051/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:15:19 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633051/ BUOL, Indonesia: The death toll from a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen to six with more than 150 people injured, officials said Tuesday. Two more b... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635636/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:06:58 -0500 Channel News Asia http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635636/ DUBAI: A British couple convicted of having sex on a Dubai beach has appeared in court to appeal their conviction. Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors were sentenced to three months in prison on Oct... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633058/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:14:12 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633058/ MANILA, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Emerging Asia's local currency bond markets have shown great resilience to global credit turmoil and can be a key source of funds for Asian countries looking to finance e... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633186/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:43:34 -0500 Eview Week http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633186/ Reporting from Tokyo -- Cash-strapped General Motors Corp. will sell its entire stake in Suzuki Motor Corp. for $230 million, the automaker's latest move to stay afloat while awaiting a decision on g... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635640/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:49:33 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19635640/ COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's navy and air force battled Tamil Tiger boats near the eastern port of Mullaitivu on Tuesday, destroying two craft and killing at least six rebels, the military said. The navy... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633060/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:13:52 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633060/ TEHRAN: Iran has said it is closely observing the administrative restructuring in Washington under president-elect Barack Obama for any possible change of attitude toward the Islamic country, offic... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633057/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:14:11 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633057/ BEIJING: The risks of an economic downturn in China are growing and protectionist sentiment abroad could hurt global growth, the country's central bank said on Tuesday. "The impact of the intern... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633059/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:14:13 -0500 Times of India http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633059/ TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Indonesian rupiah hit a fresh seven-year low against the dollar on Tuesday, once again at the fore of declines in Asian currencies spurred by falling stock markets and increasing... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633181/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:02:45 -0500 Inquirer http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633181/ Troubled US carmaker Ford Motor is selling a 20% stake in Japan's carmaker Mazda Motor, the Japanese company has said. Ford owns a 33.4% stake in Mazda. The move will reduce it to just over 13%. For... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19632131/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:55:31 -0500 BBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19632131/ Taleban militants in Afghanistan have rejected an offer of peace talks from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. They have said that there can be no negotiations until foreign troops leave Afghanistan. Th... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633183/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:55:37 -0500 BBC http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633183/ ADB Supports Key Central Asia Transport Corridor MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing financial support for the improvement of a key Central Asian transport corridor, wh... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19632443/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:10:23 -0500 ADB http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19632443/ (RTTNews) - Condemning the recent upsurge in violence in the Gaza Strip, India has called for "an immediate end" to the unrest in the region that has spawned a humanitarian catastrophe in the Hamas-r... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633438/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:09:03 -0500 Quote.com http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19633438/ Bank of America Corp. (BAC) said Monday it will raise its stake in state-owned Chinese lender to 18.1% from 10.75%. Analysts said Chinese banks stand to benefit by supplying infrastructure- proje... http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19628996/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:41:25 -0500 Morning Star http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/19628996/