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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 ...

  • China Pakistan vow to deepen comprehensive strategic cooperation

    Beijing, May 25 (Xinhua-ANI): China and Pakistan agreed to cement their strategic partnership and deepen comprehensive strategic cooperation in various areas, according to a joint statement issued Thursday during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the South Asian country. In the statement, China reaffirms that its relationship with Pakistan is always a priority in its foreign policy and ...

  • 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 ...

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Southland Tales [DVD]

Southland Tales [DVD]

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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  • 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 ...

  • Spotlight grows on Chinas harsh labour camps

    WASHINGTON: When she refused to sign a form renouncingher faith, Wang Chunying said she was handcuffed between twobunk-bedsfor 16 hours, deprived of food, water and sleep as she felt her wrists bleeding."The police would kick the beds apart to the point that my body couldn't stretch any further," she recalled of the time in a Chinese labour prison in late 2007."The pain that ...

  • Uniformed French soldier stabbed in neck while on patrol in Paris

    A French soldier stabbed in the neck Saturday while on patrol in Paris was expected to survive, said authorities, who had yet to make an arrest in the attack. Sky News reported the 23-year-old victim was with two other soldiers when his assailant approached from behind in a busy underground train station about 6 p.m., cut him with a knife or box-cutter and fled. Sky News said CCTV footage ...

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