• Weekend Plantings Downy Jasmine Asian Fruit Tree More

  A plant so common that it often fades into the background is downy jasmine, a sprawling, viney shrub from East Asia. An evergreen species, downy jasmine (Jasminum multiflorum) bears small, starry, white flowers with a pleasing fragrance. Blossoms are produced year-round but peak in the warm months. Although this versatile, glossy-leaved plant can grow 10 feet tall in sun or light shade, ...

• Business Briefs May 24

  * The Securities Depository centre said that it has transferred the ownership of 389,057 shares of Long Hau JSC (LHG) from Ban Viet Securities Investment Fund to 21 investors on May 22. * PetroVietnam general Services Joint Stock Corp (PET) has sold 788,880 treasury shares as registered at an average price of ...

• Asia Roundup US Fed and China news spook marts

  Hawkish comments by United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and weakness in China’s factory activity rocked Asian markets yesterday,Thursday May 23 3013 taking the dollar to three-year highs, sending share markets lower, and hitting the Japanese government bond market as yields rose to their highest in a year. Stock and bond markets took their cue from the drop in US equities ...

• Asia to be largest LTE market says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head

  Asia is expected to be the largest LTE market among regions around the world in 2015, Greater China president Markus Borchert for Nokia Siemens Networks said at the LTE Marketing Forum in Taipei on May ...

• No guarantee of peace NKorean envoy warns China

  BEIJING (AP) -- China's state media says an envoy from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned there is no guarantee of peace on the Korean Peninsula, but also stressed that his country is willing to hold talks with all sides to find a ...

• Li still flying the Asian flag by herself

  Paris – Li Na's momentous French Open title win of 2011 was expected to open the floodgates for Asian – and in particular Chinese – players in world ...

• Asia Markets Japan stocks end up after roller-coaster ride

  HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares ended modestly higher Friday after a roller-coaster ride that subjected the Nikkei Stock Average to a swing of more than 3% on both sides of the previous day's ...

• Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East off Kamchatka

  LONDON (Reuters) - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Russia's Far East in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicentre of the quake was located 244 miles west north west of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy at a depth of 385 miles, the USGS said. (Writing by John ...

• Police Suicidal jumpers fall kills SKorean girl

  South Korea (AP) -- South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a 5-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside the apartment building. ...

• Most Asian stock indexes are lower

  The appetite for risk is neutral after improving in the US session on Thursday upon dissecting Wednesday's Federal Reserve reiteration of the likely scaling back its asset purchase program in June. All eyes are on Germany's Ifo report. But volatility persisted in the Nikkei 225. Most foreign currencies remain relatively firm after all reversed losses the day before. Most Asian stock ...

• GLOBAL MARKET-Volatile Nikkei keeps Asian stocks on edge

  Fri May 24, 2013 3:45am EDT * Nikkei ends a seesaw day up 0.9 pct * Asian stocks outside Japan dip to 1-month lows * Yen rises vs USD and euro on turbulent Nikkei * European stocks expected to fare better By Ian Chua SYDNEY, May 24 (Reuters) - Asian stocks fell to one-month lows on Friday and the yen rebounded broadly as extreme volatility in the Nikkei kept investors on edge. The Nikkei has ...

• US Boy Scouts to allow gay members

  gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors. Of the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council who cast ballots, 61 percent supported the proposal drafted by the governing Executive Committee. The policy change takes effect on January 1. "This has been a ...

• 5 climbers feared dead on worlds 3rd highest peak

  KATMANDU, Nepal — A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain. The five disappeared Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching the base camp. Mountaineering Department official Dipendra Poudel said Friday the climbers were descending from the summit when they were ...

• 2 former sex slaves cancel Japan mayor meeting

  Two Korean former sex slaves have canceled a meeting with an outspoken Japanese mayor who last week said Japan's wartime practice of using many Asian women as prostitutes was necessary to maintain military ...

• Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual US war on terror

  Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign ...

• North Korea town opens to Western tourists Travel agents

  BEIJING: North Korea's authorities have opened the border town of Sinuiju to Western tourists, Chinese-based travel agencies said, despite international tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear test in February. The move opens up the possibility of foreign tourists being able to make day tours to the secretive state, a considerably cheaper option than the more expensive multi-day trips ...

• Asia stocks extend losses after big sell-off

  View Photo A man walks past an electronic stock indicator showing the Nikkei 225 index which nosedived 1,143.28 points, or 7.3 percent to close at 14,483.98 in Tokyo Thursday, May 23, 2013. Japanese stocks plummeted Thursday after a spike in government bond yields and unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing spooked investors sitting atop months of massive gains in share prices. (AP Photo/Shizuo ...

• Asia’s Benchmark Equity Index Swings as Australia Banks Decline

  stock index swung between gains and losses as Australian banks declined and the yen rose after Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the central bank had announced sufficient stimulus. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slid 0.2 percent to 138.42 as of 2:46 p.m. ...

• Japans ANA to resume Boeing 787 flights on Sunday

  TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering ...

• Suspected Kashmiri rebels kill 3 Indian soldiers

  SRINAGAR, India (AP) -- An official says suspected rebels have ambushed and fatally shot three Indian army soldiers in the Indian portion of ...

• Highway bridge collapses in US no deaths reported

  MOUNT VERNON , Washington: The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed Thursday evening, dumping at least a handful of vehicles and people into a river, ...

• Oil falls below $94 on weak outlook for demand

  Benchmark oil for July delivery was down 40 cents to $93.85 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile ...

• Barack Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester

  WASHINGTON: The woman who interrupted President Barack Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy on Thursday is well-known around Washington as a perennial protester on national security ...

• Obama lifts ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen

  Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen , a step toward his goal of closing the US military-run prison that he said "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." Nearly 100 of the 166 terrorist suspects held at the prison in Cuba are from Yemen and have had nowhere to go even if they had been cleared for transfer. Obama wouldn't send them home, and ...

• New concerns for Chinas rising middle class

  middle class created by China's decades of rapid economic growth -- and its resulting worries. Li Na, 42, a caterer at the capital's zoo, and her husband Chi Shubo, 48, who works for a state-owned investment company, have seen their fortunes transformed since she arrived in Beijing 20 years ago from Shandong, a coastal province. Then, she cycled for hours from a shared dormitory to ...

• China End Violence Against Sex Workers

  In China, the police often act as if by engaging in sex work, women had forfeited their rights. The government must abandon its repressive laws against sex workers, discipline abusive police, and end the suppression of sex workers rights ...

• Yen weakens in Asian trade

  TOKYO–The yen weakened against other major currencies in Asian morning trade on Friday as risk sentiment improved, with Tokyo stocks bouncing back following the previous day’s seven-percent plunge. The dollar rose to 102.33 yen in Tokyo from 101.82 yen in New York late Thursday as the benchmark Nikkei 225 index at the Tokyo Stock Exchange jumped over three three percent in early ...

• US kidnap case hero gets burgers for lifeThe man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his hometown.

  The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reports that the restaurant where Ramsey worked as a dishwasher initially created a special burger in his honor, but eateries in the city decided a larger tribute was ...

• Willing to start talks North Korea saysHowever that prospect seems unlikely as North Korea has repeatedly said it will not abandon nuclear weapons while the United States insists North Korea must take meaningful steps on denuclearization before there ca

  BEIJING: North Korea is willing to take China's advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as saying, following weeks of tension on the Korean peninsula after the North's latest nuclear test. However, that prospect seems unlikely as North Korea has repeatedly said it will not abandon nuclear weapons while the United States ...

• Taliban influence in Afghanistan to grow Russian intelligence agency

  the situation in Afghanistan poses a "serious challenge to international stability" and that the withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in 2014 could increase the threat of terrorism and religious extremism. "A diversified terrorist network, including suicide bomber training camps has already been established in the country and the Taliban has close links ...

• Barack Obama says US faces real threat from radicalised individuals

  Washington: Citing Wisconsin Gurdwara shootout last year that killed six Sikh worshippers, the US President Barack Obama, has expressed concern over increasing instances of acts of violence inside the country by home-grown terrorists."We face a real threat from radicalised individuals here in the United States. Whether it's a shooter at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, a plane flying into a ...

• Chinese PM singles out Germany for EU visit

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• China threatens to end the military rule of the U.S. in Asia

  In mid-April, the Chinese government said the increased U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region causes a lot of tension, and they plan to send more military forces and strengthen their partnerships with neighboring countries. A recent study found that China increasingly threatens to end the military supremacy of the ...

• Barred from poll ex-president Rafsanjani calls Iranian leaders ignorant

  Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has accused Iran's leadership of incompetence and ignorance just days after he was barred from standing in an election next month, the opposition Kaleme website reported on Thursday.Rafsanjani's comments appeared to add to the political conflict between those loyal to the leadership and opposition groups who have been marginalized since ...

• ASIA MARKETS Japan Stocks Recover Modestly After Steep Sell-off

  HONG KONG – Japanese stocks jumped Friday to stage a modest recovery, with relief buying emerging after the extreme losses they suffered the previous day, amid expectations that the rally that began late last year may have further to go.The Nikkei Stock Average climbed 3% after diving 7.3% in the previous session, while the broader Topix advanced 2.6% after Thursday's 6.9% ...

• Soldier accused of filming female cadets in shower

  WASHINGTON: A sergeant first class on the staff of the United States Military Academy at West Point has been accused of videotaping female cadets without their consent, sometimes when they were undressed in the bathroom or the shower, according to army officials. The army is contacting about a dozen women to alert them that their privacy may have been violated by the suspect, identified as Sgt. ...

• 89-yr-old chronicler of Everest completes 50 years of mountain record-keeping

  American expedition to the Everest . That set off what was to become one of the most unique pursuits in mountaineering history. Hawley has since then met every single expedition that has come to climb not just Mount Everest but the rest of Nepal's mountain peaks. In fact no team goes for its summit without meeting her. As the world celebrates the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of ...

• Phurba Tashi climbs Everest for 21st time equals record

  Mount Everest on Thursday with Phurba Tashi Sherpa reaching the top of the mountain for the 21st time, equalling the record set by another Nepalese, Apa Sherpa, in 2011. Earlier in the day, 80-year-old ...

• Human safaris Blow to Andamans

  Survival International's call for a tourism boycott of the islands until 'human safaris' are stopped. The organization is asking nearly 200,000 tourists who visiting the islands every year to stay away - until tourists are banned from the road through the Jarawa forest and an alternative sea route set. Survival's director Stephen Corry said on Thursday, "In ...

• Plus Three Boost For Asean Youth

  Bandar Seri Begawan - China, Korea and japan, Asean's Plus Three partners are ready to provide continued support and cooperation to the Mean Youth Programme and have came up with new initiatives to give more opportunities for youths in Asean and Plus Three partners to interact as well as cooperate among thethselves while acquiring technical know-how. The close bond of friendship within ...

• Royal Audience To Asean Delegates

  His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, yesterday afternoon consented to receive in audience Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Heads of Delegate who are currently in Brunei Darussalam attending the 8th Asean Ministerial Meeting on Youth and the 4th Asean Plus Three Ministerial Meeting on Youth. Also present at the ceremony was His Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee ...

• Youths Play Vital Role In Building An Asean Of Tomorrow

  Asean Ministerial Meeting on Youths (AMMY VIII) concluded on Tuesday as the ministers recognised that young professionals are in a unique position to boost Asean solidarity by offering voluntary community services in areas such as rural development, disaster relief, health, education and the environment as well as supporting vulnerable groups, including people who are differently-abled whilst ...

• Youths Hold ‘Key’ To Aseans Future

  AMMY+3) in Brunei Darussalam concluded yesterday with the release of joint ministerial statement agreed by attending officials from Asean members countries including their Plus Three partners China, Japan and Korea. The joint statement stated that ministers exchanged views on youth cooperation between Asean and the Plus Three nation whilst further exploring possibilities to strengthen ...

• Sultan Meets Foreign Delegates Participating In Asean Ministerial Meeting On Youth

  Bandar Seri Begawan - His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, yesterday afternoon consented to receive in audience, Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Heads of Delegate who are currently in Brunei Darussalam attending the 8th Asean Ministerial Meeting on Youth (AMMY) and the 4th Asean+3 Ministerial Meeting on Youth. Also present at the ceremony was His Royal Highness ...

• London killers are Britons of Nigerian origin

  LONDON: Britain experienced a communal backlash against Muslims within 24 hours of a young, serving soldier being butchered with "stone age savagery" ...

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