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  • Google planning to operate wireless networks in African Asian markets using balloons

    Google is believed to be deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets, including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. An article in The Wall Street Journal said that the effort is part of a plan that could connect a billion or more new people to the internet. According to the article, Google is making efforts to build wireless networks ...

  • Pak could plunge into deeper chaos following US go-slow on drone strikes Report

    US President Barack Obama's landmark policy speech has hinted that the country is shifting its focus from Pakistan, possibly posing a risk for the South Asian country. Pakistan, perhaps even more than Afghanistan, has been the central focus of America's 12-year war on Islamist militancy. Now, drone strikes are dwindling, the war in Afghanistan is drawing to a close and the battle against ...

  • VM Go around Asia on luxury cruise this summer

    Aspiring to give every passenger a best-ever cruise experience, Royal Caribbean International's groundbreaking Voyager-class ship Mariner of the Seas, will begin its maiden Asian journey from Singapore in June. The grand liner docked here Friday on its voyage from Dubai to Singapore. It will dock at Kochi Sunday before heading for Singapore, from where it will begin its maiden Asian journey ...

  • UN expert urges help for Japans 2011 nuclear power plant disaster victims

    United Nations expert who investigated the aftermath of Japan's 2011 nuclear power plant disaster says the government and the operator of the facility should do more to help those affected by the catastrophe. A report by special rapporteur Anand Grover, posted on the UN Human Rights Council's website, says the government's takeover ...

  • Oldest Everest climber returns safely from peak

    KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A brief improvement in weather conditions has allowed the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to leave the mountain on a ...

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Southland Tales, Richard Kellys insanely ambitious fever dream of a science fiction/political satire/anti-fantasy, roars at you with unapologetic gusto, inflaming the senses with its rich tapestry of post-millennial visuals and assaulting the mind with its skewering of the ... ...

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  • Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China Xinhua

    Xinhua said. The pipeline has a capacity to transport 30 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Energy released from the explosion knocked over people hundreds of meters away, Xinhua said, without detailing the length of the exploded pipeline. The government is investigating the cause of the explosion, the agency ...

  • Australia to end live betting odds during live sports matches

    Australia will ban the broadcast of bettingodds during live sports matches under new rules unveiled Sunday designed to keep the watching of sport separate from the promotion of ...

  • Opposition parties enforce strike in Bangladesh

    DHAKA, Bangladesh -; Police say opposition activists have set off homemade bombs and smashed several vehicles in Bangladesh's capital as they enforce a general strike demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign before general ...

  • Japan PM holds talks with Myanmars Thein Sein

    Japan's premier met Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Sunday for talks at which he is expected to unveil huge aid and investment deals as he promotes trade with the fast-changing nation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has pledged "all possible assistance" to kick-start Myanmar's long-neglected economy, went into talks with Thein Sein after touching down in Naypyidaw ...

  • Death toll in Indian Maoist attack rises to 23

    The death toll from an ambush by Maoistrebels in central India has risen to at least 23 with many more seriouslywounded, a top police officer said on ...

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