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  • North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace

    BEIJING - A senior North Korean envoy delivered a letter from his leader Kim Jong-un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him that Pyongyang was ready to take "positive action" to re-join stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. The letter was handed over by envoy, Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae. Choe told Xi that North Korea is willing to take positive actions to solve problems ...

  • World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty

    LONDON - Global rights body Amnesty International has said that the world is "increasingly" becoming "dangerous place" for refugees due to inaction on human rights. The London-based group in its annual report cited the increasing number of refugees around the world, and highlighted the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. It said that the number of ...

  • UN rights experts call for stronger protection of victims of caste-based discrimination UN rights experts call for stronger protection of victims of caste-based discrimination

    24 May 2013 150 More than 260 million people across the world are still victims of human rights abuses due to caste-based discrimination, United Nations independent experts warned today, urging South Asian countries to strengthen legislation to protect them. "Caste-based discrimination remains widespread and deeply rooted, its victims face structural discrimination, marginalization and ...

  • China clears Boeing 787s for commercial service

    Beijing, May 24 (Xinhua-ANI): The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued a certification for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Thursday, a milestone for the 787 to begin commercial service in China. The CAAC presented Boeing with a Validation of Type Certification (VTC), indicating that the design of the 787 Dreamliner is compliant with China's aviation regulations and that China endorses ...

  • 5 climbers feared dead on worlds third-highest peak in Nepal

    Five men who disappeared earlier this week trying to climb the world's third-highest mountain are feared dead, searchers leading the recovery effort in Nepal said on Friday, saying few could survive this ...

Movie Review

Ratcatcher [DVD]

Ratcatcher [DVD]

Lynne Ramsey's feature debut Ratcatcher won't win any awards for originality of subject matterafter all, the pains of adolescence in the lower economic strata depicted in a social-realist manner is hardly new in British filmmakingbut it is done so deftly, with such a exquisitely poetic touch and keen understanding of the paradoxical coexistence of filth and beauty in the world, that you ca ... ...

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  • Asia Stocks Cap Worst Week Since XXXX Japan Plunges

    Asian equities fell the most since July this week as Chinese manufacturing data missed estimates and amid concern that the U.S. might begin to unwind stimulus. Japanese shares had the largest one-day plunge since March 2011. The Topix Index plummeted 6.9 percent on May 23, wiping $314 billion from the world's best-performing stock market this year. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. ...

  • Senate confirms Sri Srinivasan 97-0 to Court of Appeals in US Capital

    Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan whose nomination to the US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit as a judge was unanimously approved by the Senate in Washington. (PTI ...

  • Tokyo plunges more than 7pct as Asian markets fall

    Asian markets fell Thursday with Tokyo plunging more than seven percent as investors took profits after weak Chinese data and signs the US Federal Reserve could start tapering off its massive stimulus measures. Tokyo dropped on record volumes in the afternoon as investors panicked in the rush to take profit, with the index suffering its biggest daily percentage fall since the March 2011 ...

  • Is China Inserting Itself Into the Taiwan-Philippines Spat

    This week a Chinese warship and a couple of maritime agency vessels conducted a patrol in the areas of the Spratly Islands that the Philippines claims, prompting an official rebuke from Manila. According to Philippines officials, at least three Chinese ships and 10 fishing boats were spotted near the Ayungin Shoal, which is part of the Spratly Islands and about 200 kms off the coast of the ...

  • Obama’s silence on Taiwan masks its significance in Asia

    For decades, when US policymakers contemplated conflict with China, their fears focused on Taiwan. Today, by contrast, Sino-American tensions seem to be on the rise everywhere but Taiwan, where relations between this island and the mainland have significantly improved. Since Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou took office in 2008, the government in Taipei has inked 18 agreements with China, ...

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