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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 ...

  • Thailands US$12b water management programme faces criticisms

    Sasin Chalermlarp, secretary-general of the Seubnakasathien Foundation, said: "Water management is a massive undertaking, since we are talking about the alteration of the biodiversity in a vast area of the central plain (of Thailand), which has been transformed from natural fields to urban areas without any ...

  • BOOK TALK - Preparing for Asias golden age

    By Vidya Ranganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - There is a new gold rush in the Asia-Pacific: rising incomes and consumer spending by Asia's fast-growing middle classes that is generating unprecedented opportunities for multinational firms. If western firms recognise those opportunities in markets for consumer and luxury goods, travel and other services, their strategies will increasingly ...

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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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  • Asian-Americans Smart High-Incomes And ... Poor

    Asian-Americans have the highest income and education levels of any racial group in the country. So it might be surprising that they have a higher poverty rate than non-Hispanic whites. Michel Martin discusses the issue with Algernon Austin of the Economic Policy Institute and Rosalind Chou, co-author ...

  • Pakistan vows to be Asian tiger

    (MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Pakistan's prime minister-in-waiting Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has vowed to turn Pakistan into an Asian tiger in a short span of time.Intensely pro-business Sharif, is Prime Minister for the third time - a rare event in Pakistan where political charms wash off quickly. His strength - a majority in the National Assembly which he won on the strength of his 1990s ...

  • Cosco to Boost Asia-South Africa Trade in Mid-June

    will increase rates for all shipments, including refrigerated cargo, on its trade from the Far East to South Africa, starting June 17.The hike will be $300 per 20-foot container and $600 per 40-foot and 40-foot high-cube container, according to the ...

  • Lippi’s Guangzhou poised for Asia’s last eight

    Marcello Lippi's Guangzhou Evergrande will look to sweep aside the challenge of Central Coast Mariners and book their spot in the AFC Champions League last eight for the second year running this week.The Chinese domestic double-winners hold a 2-1 advantage from last week's round of 16 first leg, when goals from Lucas Barrios and Muriqui secured a stylish win at the Mariners' ...

  • Plague of deforestation sweeps across south-east Asia

    deforestation is dizzying, threatening the region's remarkable biodiversity, which includes more than 1,700 species discovered in the last 15 years alone. Many of the forests in Vietnam have been cut down for the furniture export market and the trees replaced by coffee bushes; in less than 10 years, Vietnam has gone from zero to number two in global coffee production. So much forest has ...

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