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  • China accepts there are some problems with India but wants to resolve all issues peacefully

    Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, alluding to recent skirmishes on their Himalayan border, acknowledged on Monday, that there were some problems with good friend India but said that the two Asian giants should take a leaf out of their vast history to resolve all issues peacefully. "Since we are strategic partners and we are good friends that can speak to each other with candour, so we do not deny ...

  • Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Salman Khurshid

    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid here on Monday, as he sought to strengthen mutual trust and deepen cooperation between the two nations after a recent military standoff in Ladakh threatened to derail ties between the two Asian giants. The Chinese premier also visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi and paid homage to the father of the Indian ...

  • India China ties essential for Asia world Manmohan Singh

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday that India and China's relationship is essential for stability and prosperity in Asia and the world, while stressing the need "for an early resolution of the boundary dispute. "There are many areas of convergence between us. We agreed that the relationship is of growing significance and essential for peaceful development and stability and prosperity in ...

  • US says Pakistan curbing explosive fertilizers

    ISLAMABAD -; Pakistan has taken a number of steps to prevent fertilizers made within its borders for agriculture from being used as explosives in roadside bombs that target American troops in Afghanistan, said a top U.S. military officer ...

  • Silver drops despite steady market tone elsewhere

    A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji ...

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A Prairie Home Companion [DVD]

A Prairie Home Companion [DVD]

With his hangdog mug and mellifluous voice, Garrison Keillor has been a mainstay of public radio since the mid-1970s when he came up with the idea of producing a musical-comedy variety show with fictional commercials that would recall the 1930s heyday of radio, when ... ...

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  • Mobiles offer financial lifeline to Asian migrants study

    Asia's mobile revolution is set to transform the region's financial services industry, offering a cheap way for millions of migrant workers to send money home to their families, a report said on Monday.Nearly 60 million migrant workers from the Asia-Pacific region sent almost $260 billion home to their families in 2012, according to the study, co-authored by the World Bank and the ...

  • A Real Life Hunger Games

    Human Rights Watch, we’ve been documenting abuses of unaccompanied migrant children for more than 10 years, and I’ve personally interviewed hundreds of these children. The kids I met with are sent abroad in a last ditch effort to find a better life or escape persecution. Traveling with smugglers-under trucks, by foot, and in rickety boats-at least 10,000 unaccompanied children enter ...

  • US Pakistan moves to curb dangerous fertilizers

    ISLAMABAD -; A top American military officer says Pakistan has taken steps to prevent fertilizers made in Pakistan from being used for roadside bombs targeting American troops in ...

  • Saudi Saudi Arabia signs accord to protect Philippine maids

    maids from being exploited in the Middle Eastern kingdom. The agreement guarantees Filipina maids benefits like a day off each week while preventing their hiring costs from being deducted from their salary among other safeguards, said labour secretary Rosalinda Baldoz in a statement. "We are very confident that cases of abuse will be less after this agreement takes effect because the ...

  • Caluag rules Asian BMX Elite category

    LONDON Olympian Daniel Caluag greatly admired the undulating course at the Tampines Bike Park in Singapore, and it's not difficult to figure why. The Filipino-American validated his status as the continent's No. 1 BMX rider with a sizzling run on the dusty 355-meter Tampines course to win the gold medal in the men's Elite category of the recent 8th Asian BMX Championships. ...

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