Provides the latest RSS feeds for Southeast Asia News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page India Gazette.com http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/cat/303b19022816233b/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 22:07:22 -0400 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:07:22 -0400 30 KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan. Kabul's overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad where a new government led by two-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif is set to take office ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619478/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 18:15:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619478/scat/303b19022816233b The Joint Indo-Nepal Army Mountaineering Expedition Team successfully climbed Mount Everest. According to the Nepal Army Directorate of Information, the first team of the Joint expedition reached the world's highest peak at nine local time this morning. From the Indian army five, including Major R. M Jamwal , Mingmamagar Gurung, Sudhir Singh, Chhatar Singh and Sukvir, have reached the summit. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615342/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615342/scat/303b19022816233b Vietnam Sunday successfully conducted test flights of six indigenously-made unmanned aerial vehicles, a media report said. The "made-in-Vietnam" drones flew over the Central Highlands Lam Dong province, Xinhua reported citing the Van Hoa The Thao (Culture and Sports) newspaper. After three days of tests - May 17-19 - in Da Lat city and Lac Duong district of Lam Dong, six vehicles made by the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614231/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 09:20:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614231/scat/303b19022816233b Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman, has said that Pakistan and the United States should acknowledge each other's roles in the good work they do, adding that the two countries have improved their ties considerably from a low-point in 2011. Rehman, who was addressing a gathering of senior American officials and Pakistani-Americans, added that Washington should end drone ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613152/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:03 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613152/scat/303b19022816233b A Russian tourist died in Vietnam after a fight with a compatriot and fellow-traveller in the coastal city of Nha Trang. The two Russians, who were travelling in Vietnam together and shared a room at a hotel in Nha Trang, entered a heated argument that resulted in a fight, the Tuoi Tre news website said. In the course of the fight, one of them inflicted a wound in the neck of the other with a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613148/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613148/scat/303b19022816233b The Chinese ambassador to Pakistan has said that China is ready to act as an arbiter in Kashmir dispute but any such arrangement is subject to India's consent. Envoy Liu Jian affirmed that the India and Pakistan could see rapprochement over Kashmir issue through China, reports The Nation. Jian, at a farewell reception, said that Pakistan and China would sign a wide range of trade and economy ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612970/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:00:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612970/scat/303b19022816233b The death toll in an avalanche in the Siachen glacier region last year has risen to 128, following the recovery of three more bodies, the Pakistani military said. The bodies of three soldiers were recovered from Gayari sector of Siachen Saturday, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported. On April 7, 2012, at least 140 soldiers of the 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion and a few civilians came ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612474/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:40:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612474/scat/303b19022816233b A one-man inquiry tribunal comprising Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of Lahore High Court may visit India to complete the judicial inquiry into the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, a media report said. Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan, died May 2 after a group of Pakistani prisoners attacked him April 26 Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sarabjit was on death row since 1990 ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612473/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:30:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612473/scat/303b19022816233b Religious discrimination and acts like forced conversion of Hindu girls in Pakistan should be declared as crimes against humanity and legal action should be taken to curb it, speakers at a consultation on minority rights have said. The speakers who attended the ceremony on 'Religious Minority and Human Rights: Democratic Process and New Opportunities', underlined the need for formulation of laws ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612034/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:10:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612034/scat/303b19022816233b A man was lynched to death and two others, including an alleged prostitute, were injured after they were caught in an "objectionable" condition in a house near the Pakistani capital, a media report said Sunday. The incident took place in Golra on the outskirts of Islamabad Saturday, Dawn News reported. Police said the man hired the services of a sex worker and brought her to a friend's house. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612027/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:00:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612027/scat/303b19022816233b A senior woman politician in Pakistan's port city of Karachi was gunned down by motorcycle-riding assailants outside her residence late Saturday, a media report said Sunday. Zahra Shahid Hussain, vice president in Sindh province of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was killed in an attempted robbery on the eve of re-polls in Karachi's NA-250 constituency, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612017/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:50:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612017/scat/303b19022816233b Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has demanded that a high level judicial inquiry be conducted into the events surrounding the murder of senior vice president in Sindh of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Karachi. MQM deputy convener Farooq Sattar, while speaking at an emergency press conference, extended their party chief's condolence and condemnation message to the family of Zahra ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612018/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:50:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612018/scat/303b19022816233b A Pakistani newspaper Sunday lauded army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani for breaking convention and calling on incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "The meeting augurs well for a smooth and trouble-free transition within the country keeping the larger national security interests in view," The News International said in an editorial. The daily described Kayani's gesture to call on Sharif at ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611895/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:30:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611895/scat/303b19022816233b Britain has been funding surveys in Pakistan's Tribal Areas which reveal that US drone strikes in the region are causing deep resentment among the local population. Foreign Minister, Alistair Burt, confirmed that the Foreign Office had "supported" surveys which showed the proportion of respondents in the tribal areas who believed drone strikes were "never justified" had risen from 59 percent in ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611455/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 02:40:03 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611455/scat/303b19022816233b Pakistan Army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has met Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and expected prime minister for the next parliamentary tenure Nawaz Sharif at his residence, and exchanged views on internal and external security issues confronting the country. According to PML-N sources, Kayani held a three-and-a-half-hour-long discussion with Sharif and both discussed the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611126/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 02:10:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611126/scat/303b19022816233b The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which is set to lead the government at the Centre, has reportedly told Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani that Pervez Musharraf should leave Pakistan before the elected government takes charge from the caretakers. The PML-N, which has reportedly pardoned the former president under the pressure of international guarantors now desires that Musharraf should ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611055/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 01:50:02 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611055/scat/303b19022816233b Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million -- the highest Powerball jackpot in history.It's an amount too high for many to imagine. Compare it to the budget for the city of Zephyrhills: This year's figure is just more than $49 million. The winning Powerball jackpot is 12 times ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621289/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 21:02:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621289/scat/303b19022816233b Thailand’s leaders say they’re concerned delays of the high speed rail link between Thailand and Laos via China could continue, after the Laos side placed the project on hold over Chinese involvement. Speaking at a Thai and Laos cabinet meeting last week, Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said his cabinet has convened with Lao’s government about the delay, and ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621216/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 20:53:23 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621216/scat/303b19022816233b Bandar Seri Begawan - A group of students from Lambak Kanan Primary School arrived in Singapore yesterday to attend the School Twinning Programme (STP) at Concord Primary School, Singapore. Four teachers and eight students are participating in the STP led by Cikgu Mariah Hj Zaidi. Students selected for this programme were assessed based on their achievements, be it academically or their active ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621290/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 20:38:28 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621290/scat/303b19022816233b Bandar Seri Begawan - Pusat Belia recently welcomed 10 Korean youths here on a youth exchange programme arranged by Brunei Darussalam and the Republic of Korea. The youths were treated to an array of cultural performances and activities lined-up by youths and joint-organisations who base their headquarters at Pusat Belia. Catching the interest of the youths were a 'Mat' drawing ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621291/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 20:38:21 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621291/scat/303b19022816233b A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police say. Cheznye Emmons, 23, was traveling with fellow Briton Joseph Cook, 21, through lush rainforest on Sumatra island, where many tourists go to see endangered orangutans, according to a police report into the incident. The pair, accompanied by a third tourist, drank ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621292/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 20:38:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621292/scat/303b19022816233b Scotland's second One-Day International with Pakistan was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Sunday.Misbah Ul Haq's men were due to play the second of two warm-up games ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy, which starts on June 6, but the game was called off after heavy rain forced the umpires to rule that no play would take place.The match had been due to start at 10.45 (British ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621293/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 20:27:51 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214621293/scat/303b19022816233b WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China's backyard and trying to defend human rights when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years on ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620643/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:47:34 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620643/scat/303b19022816233b WASHINGTON -- A groundbreaking visit by Burma’s president and continuing probes of U.S. government scandals highlight a busy week ahead in Washington. Six months after President Barack Obama visited Rangoon, President Thein Sein reciprocates Monday with a visit to the White House. Last November, Obama hailed democratic reforms in Burma. "A dictatorship of five decades has ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620139/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:22:43 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620139/scat/303b19022816233b Over 60 people were injured when a two-car train derailed on Hong Kong’s light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday. Groups of passengers sat dazed on the pavement near where the train derailed, some bleeding and being treated by medics. Others were taken away on stretchers by dozens of paramedics and firefighters, television news ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620158/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620158/scat/303b19022816233b Taiwan and Singapore have concluded two-year talks about a bilateral trade pact and will release an official report once an assessment has been completed, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said in a statement. The two sides are in the process of selecting appropriate legal texts for an official report, the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore and the Trade Office of the Republic of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620159/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:48 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620159/scat/303b19022816233b The Philippine envoy to Taiwan on Friday advised thousands of Filipino workers there to eat at home and avoid the streets while emotions run high on the island over the shooting death of a fisherman by the Philippine coast guard. Philippine representative Amadeo Perez said after returning to Manila from Taipei late Thursday that his government has verified at least one attack, in which a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620160/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620160/scat/303b19022816233b North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, UN experts say in a new report. Key parts of the expert panel’s report, obtained Friday by the Associated Press, provide further information on North Korea’s attempts to evade four rounds of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620162/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:46 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620162/scat/303b19022816233b How does North Korea celebrate World Press Freedom Day? First of all, two weeks late, on May 15 rather than May 3, presumably (and tellingly) because that’s how long it took to get around to it. But get around to it North Korea did, with a special editorial in the state-run Rodong Sinmun, the country’s preeminent newspaper. Entitled ';Mockery of Press,'; it targets the US ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620161/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:46 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620161/scat/303b19022816233b A small crack has appeared in the international show of unity against North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons, following the ';secret'; visit to Pyongyang this week by a special adviser to Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe. Isao Iijima arrived in the North Korean capital on Tuesday for a four-day visit that many believe was aimed at restarting talks on the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620163/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:43 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620163/scat/303b19022816233b When you think about centres of technological innovation, Silicon Valley, Seattle and Seoul are probably the first places that come to mind. After all, they are the homes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Samsung – companies whose innovations transform the way other sectors, from financial services to telecoms and media, do business. Now, however, the rise of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620164/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620164/scat/303b19022816233b Foxconn Technology Group said on Friday it needs more time to reduce overtime at its China factories after labour monitors appointed by top client Apple Inc said cutting workers’ hours by a July 1 target would be a challenge. Apple last year commissioned the Fair Labour Association (FLA) to investigate working conditions at the plants after Foxconn, the holding company for Hon Hai ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620165/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:41 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620165/scat/303b19022816233b China’s private sector wages in urban areas grew 17.1 percent in 2012, official figures showed Friday, even as the country’s economy expanded at its slowest pace in 13 years. Average urban pay in private companies increased to 28,752 yuan ($4,681) last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on its website. But the rise was slower than the 18.3 percent of the previous ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620166/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620166/scat/303b19022816233b The dire manners and ';uncivilised behaviour'; of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country’s image, said a top official who lamented their poor ';quality and breeding';, according to state-run media. Wang Yang, one of China’s four vice premiers, singled out for condemnation ';talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and wilfully ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620167/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:39 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620167/scat/303b19022816233b Three Chinese government ships entered the waters of disputed islands on Friday, Japan’s coastguard said, more than a year after then-Tokyo governor set off the row by announcing plans to buy them. The Chinese maritime surveillance vessels were spotted off the Senkaku islands, which China calls the Diaoyus, in the East China Sea at around 2:30 pm (0530 GMT), the coastguard said. It is ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620168/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:37 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620168/scat/303b19022816233b Prime minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview Friday the right of Japan’s leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism. Amid the latest flare-up with China and South Korea over history, Abe quoted a US scholar as comparing the Yasukuni shrine to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, which has a section for ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620169/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620169/scat/303b19022816233b The fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fishing boat by a Philippine government vessel may involve criminal conduct and violates the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday. A joint patrol of the Philippine Coast Guard and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources shot up a Taiwanese fishing boat, the Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28, while it was ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620170/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620170/scat/303b19022816233b Shortly after my piece on the Philippines’ continuing structural economic vulnerabilities, which generated considerable controversy and heated discussions among experts and observers alike, the country’s stock markets managed to record new historic highs – breaching the 7,000 mark and beyond. Meanwhile, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, following in the footsteps of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620171/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:30 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620171/scat/303b19022816233b The long-awaited labour agreement on Filipino household service workers (HSW) will finally be signed by the Kingdom and the Philippines tomorrow. Labour minister Adel Fakeih and his Philippine counterpart Labour Secretary Rosalinda Dimapiliz-Baldoz are scheduled to ink the bilateral labour agreement. Baldoz arrives today with key Filipino labour officials for the signing, said Labour Attache ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620172/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620172/scat/303b19022816233b A clan whose chiefs are on trial for the Philippines’ worst political massacre secured big wins in local elections this week, results showed Friday, deepening fears that justice may never be served. Leaders of the Ampatuan family and their gunmen are accused of massacring 58 people, including 32 journalists, in the southern province of Maguindanao more than three years ago in a bid to ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620173/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:28 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620173/scat/303b19022816233b Voters in the Philippines appear to have delivered a resounding victory to President Benigno Aquino in midterm elections. The son of former President Corazon Aquino looks set to control both houses of Congress, giving him a mandate to continue his reform policies. His biggest worry now is making them stick. In the first half of his six-year term, Aquino arrested his predecessor on corruption ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620174/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:27 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620174/scat/303b19022816233b Thailand has agreed to offer duty free market access of selected Bangladeshi products to its market as it seeks to increase bilateral trade and investment, a commerce ministry statement said. The agreement came at the 3rd meeting of Bangladesh-Thailand Joint Trade Committee, held from May 14-15, 2013 in Bangkok. Commerce minister Ghulam Muhammed Quader led an eight-member Bangladeshi ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620175/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:26 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620175/scat/303b19022816233b Struggling to cope with a slump in demand, Tata Motors has taken a call to postpone the development of its new assembly plant in Thailand worth 10 billion baht (around Rs 1,839 crore). The automaker has instead decided to break into Thailand’s passenger car market during the third quarter of this year with the introduction of its Nano budget car. At the end of 2012, Tata Motors had ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620178/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:25 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620178/scat/303b19022816233b Rescuers are working for a fourth day to dig through a caved-in tunnel at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia to try to reach 23 trapped workers. The operator of the Grasberg mine in Indonesia’s province of Papua, PT Freeport Indonesia, said Friday that rescuers had successfully cleared two passages to provide access for heavy equipment to help expedite the rescue efforts. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620177/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:21 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620177/scat/303b19022816233b Malaysia’s economy will grow stronger in the second half this year, driven by the removal of the political uncertainty and the government’s firm economic policy, said Credit Suisse Securities (M) Sdn Bhd managing director Stephen Hagger. He said Malaysia would join an exclusive club currently comprising the Philippines and Thailand which had all the three certainties: primarily ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620176/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620176/scat/303b19022816233b Malaysia’s UMW Holdings Bhd plans to sell 39 percent of its oil and gas unit in an initial public offering this year that could raise up to $1 billion, a source said Friday. The state-backed conglomerate’s announcement is the latest in a slew of planned listings, looking to build on last year’s momentum that saw the Southeast Asian nation become one of the world’s top ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620179/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:19 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620179/scat/303b19022816233b Australia reported its first ever case of the deadly bat-borne lyssavirus in a horse Friday, warning that transmission to humans was possible as it quarantined a property. Biosecurity Queensland said the horse was euthanised last week after falling ill with what was initially suspected to be infection with another deadly virus, Hendra, which has killed four Australians since its discovery in ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620180/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:18 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620180/scat/303b19022816233b President Thein Sein’s historic invitation to the White House is an endorsement of ';Myanmar’s Spring'; and a further sign that the former pariah’s reforms are irreversible, a senior Myanmar official said. Washington will welcome the former general on Monday in a hugely symbolic reward for sweeping changes since he took power two years ago. He will be the first ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620181/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:14 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620181/scat/303b19022816233b Myanmar released about 20 political prisoners on Friday, a top official said, hours before its reform-minded leader was due to leave on a landmark visit to the United States to meet President Barack Obama. President Thein Sein, a former general, has freed hundreds of political detainees since coming to power in early 2011 as part of sweeping changes that have led to the end of most Western ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620182/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620182/scat/303b19022816233b Disgusted by corrupt local leaders, an angry miner picks up a shotgun. A migrant worker returning home looks to armed robbery to escape a life of relentless bleakness. A pretty receptionist at a sauna is driven to the limit when a gangster tries to rape her. And a young man drifts nightmarishly from job to job to try to make ends meet. These tableaux would not be out of place in a gritty ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620183/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 19:14:10 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620183/scat/303b19022816233b Nawaz Sharif, incoming prime minister and leader of political party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), smiles as he talks to journalists after visiting Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), outside the Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore May 14, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620131/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 18:57:58 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214620131/scat/303b19022816233b VF Corp. VF confirmed on Saturday it was still using Liz Apparels to make its clothing following an inspection ordered by the factory owner, Nassa Group, on May 12. VF, whose other clothing brands include North Face, Timberland and Nautica, said its philosophy was to "stay and improve" working conditions."We are in daily contact with the facility and VF's leadership is closely ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619503/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 18:22:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619503/scat/303b19022816233b MOSCOW, Russia - A Russian tourist died after a fight with his compatriot and fellow-traveler in a coastal city of Nha Trang in southern Vietnam, The Tuoi Tre News website reported. According to the website, the two Russians, who were traveling in Vietnam together and shared a room at the Sheraton hotel in Nha Trang, entered a heated argument with each other that resulted in a fight. In the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619596/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 18:09:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619596/scat/303b19022816233b (eTN) - After a short and pleasant flight on SriLankan Airllines, the national airline for Sri Lanka, from the Maldives, I arrived at Colombo International Airport. Immigration forms were given to passengers on this flight. I had the form filled out and after disembarking approached the immigration counter. The officer looked at my form and passport and asked, "Where is your visa?" No ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619597/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 18:09:30 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619597/scat/303b19022816233b Mirza Ali , who becomes the third and youngest Pakistani male to scale the mountain. Nepal mountaineering department official Tilak Padney said 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides reached the peak after climbing all night from the highest camp on South Col - the pass between Everest and a neighbouring ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619584/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 18:00:39 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619584/scat/303b19022816233b Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart Sunday discussed efforts to resolve a decades-old border dispute between the world's two most populous ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619092/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 17:45:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619092/scat/303b19022816233b Nigeria's military says it killed 14 Boko Haram militants and captured 20 others Sunday, as it presses its offensive against the al-Qaida-linked group in the country's restive ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619091/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 17:45:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619091/scat/303b19022816233b public hospitals . The program, introduced in November, gave health insurance to around 5 million people in Jakarta categorized as poor. Long queues quickly formed at already stretched hospital emergency rooms as many patients, some who were not even ill, sought to take advantage of being covered for the first time. Some health experts said it was a sign of the chaos to come when the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619170/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 17:26:54 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619170/scat/303b19022816233b GAZIPUR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world's largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619000/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:52 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619000/scat/303b19022816233b SHANGHAI, China - It has taken almost no time, but it was anticipated by many - China has become the number one source market for many Southeast Asian countries including Thailand. In my capacity as a former hotelier, a new travel agent, a journalist, and National President of SKAL International-Thailand, I had the opportunity to visit Shanghai and Nanjing, to experience first-hand China's ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619101/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:11 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619101/scat/303b19022816233b White House in nearly half a century, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to support his reforms. In a scene that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, the former general will meet with ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619116/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 17:18:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619116/scat/303b19022816233b Over the past two years, Burma has been emerging from 50 years of brutal military rule at a breathtaking pace. The country has made some impressive and unprecedented changes, including the release of many political prisoners, the rolling back of censorship and the lifting of restrictions to allow opposition political parties, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, to ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619117/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 17:13:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214619117/scat/303b19022816233b She was considered an extremely efficient and dynamic Minister of Tourism, and she can be credited with many initiatives such as boosting home stays and promoting new tourism activities such as art tourism. But unfortunately, she was also highly unpopular among the tourism trade as well as voters. Most people found her to be totally disconnected from the real world and looked down on others. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214618626/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 16:30:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214618626/scat/303b19022816233b Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, on Sunday blamed the killing of a political activist on the eve of a partial rerun of voting in Karachi on Altaf Hussain, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, who runs his party from exile in London.Zahra Shahid, the vice-president of Khan's PTI party in the southern province of Sindh, was gunned down outside her home in the upmarket Defence area of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214618166/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 15:41:14 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214618166/scat/303b19022816233b President Barack Obama and White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, right, react to a reporter's question as they leave the Treasury Department in Washington, Jan. 16, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617635/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 15:13:44 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617635/scat/303b19022816233b HBT: Robinson Cano homered twice while David Phelps had the longest outing of his career as the Yankees topped the Blue Jays 7-2 this afternoon at Yankee ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214618011/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 15:06:36 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214618011/scat/303b19022816233b TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Ministry of Justice yesterday provided evidence suggesting that the Philippine coastal guard intentionally targeted sailors aboard a fishing boat during a shooting incident that left one Taiwanese fisherman dead, while noting that it is currently negotiating with its Philippine counterparts regarding a possible joint ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617667/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:55 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617667/scat/303b19022816233b KARACHI -- Under tight security, Pakistani officials Sunday held a repeat election in a district of violence-plagued Karachi, despite the killing of a senior politician in the city the day ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617668/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 15:00:55 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617668/scat/303b19022816233b RESCUERS have recovered the bodies of four more workers from a collapsed underground room at a giant gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to nine. Nineteen other workers were missing and feared dead. The Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine collapsed last Tuesday when 38 workers were undergoing safety training. Ten injured ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617670/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 14:38:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617670/scat/303b19022816233b DHAKA, Bangladesh // The High Court in Bangladesh's capital asked authorities yesterday to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country, a lawyer said. The High Court made the request in response to a petition seeking the arrest of Delwar Hossain, the owner of Tazreen Fashions Ltd. It also asked authorities to bring Hossain before ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617048/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 14:19:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617048/scat/303b19022816233b The Finance Ministry is pointing a finger at commercial banks, accusing them of being behind the steady rise of the baht this year. Somchai Sujjapongse, director-general of the ministry's Fiscal Policy Office, said in the first quarter a number of commercial banks had raised US$2 billion (Bt59.6 billion), or about half of capital inflows into the local bond market. In the first quarter, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617172/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 14:14:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617172/scat/303b19022816233b Dutch high street brands Hema, Zeeman, Prenatal and Coolcat have not signed an agreement to improve safety and working conditions for textile workers in Bangladesh, according to the final list of signatories published online. C&A, V&D, G-Star and WE have signed up to ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617008/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 14:09:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617008/scat/303b19022816233b David Ross, managing director of Fonterra Brands in Malaysia, says the milk giant's success comes from identifying and meeting nutritional needs. Photo / Sarah Ivey Fonterra's Malaysian operation has doubled its revenue in local currency terms over the past five years. David Ross, managing director of Fonterra Brands in Malaysia, said the forces at work there are similar to ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617030/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:33 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214617030/scat/303b19022816233b Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. She was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh.No one has claimed responsibility for the killing.Mr Khan's party has claimed it was the victim of vote rigging in several areas of Pakistan, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616992/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 14:01:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616992/scat/303b19022816233b A spokesman for the Afghan president says Mr. Karzai will ask for assistance for the strengthening of the country's military and security institutions. Afghanistan and India signed a strategic partnership in 2011 which included India's training of Afghan forces as they prepare to takeover security from foreign troops in 2014. Pakistan has also offered a strategic partnership ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616588/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:29:33 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616588/scat/303b19022816233b Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed late Saturday after being approached by two unknown gunmen outside her home in Karachi. Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Khan, leader of Pakistan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, blamed Saturday's slaying of Zahra Shahid Hussain on the rival Muttahida Qaumi Movement party, or MQM. The party has denied any ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616589/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:29:33 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616589/scat/303b19022816233b PM's secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva yesterday dismissed media reports that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is planning a Cabinet ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616627/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:23:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616627/scat/303b19022816233b The ruling Pheu Thai Party yesterday demanded that opposition and Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva and Democrat MP Suthep Thaugsuban apologise to the families of those killed and injured in the 2010 red-shirt ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616629/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:23:19 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616629/scat/303b19022816233b Higher cost of living was cited as the most likely cause of a drop in support for the government by 85.2 per cent of the 2,115 respondents in 17 provinces. Charter amendment (81.9 per cent) was the second most cited threat to the government's stability. Of all respondents, 73.8 per cent believed that constant efforts to explain its policies to the public could strengthen the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616628/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:23:19 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616628/scat/303b19022816233b At its public forum in Chiang Mai, the People's Network of North and Northeastern River Basins yesterday condemned the Thai government's "top-down" approach to water management. However, its members did not show up at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Summit (APWS) being held in the same province. The convention centre, which hosts the summit and related activities till today, was ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616630/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:23:18 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616630/scat/303b19022816233b A Taiwan investigation team that was sent to Manila to probe the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coast guard returned to Taipei on Saturday, slamming the Philippines' attitude toward the joint investigation "capricious."Chen Wen-chi, head of the investigation team, said the team has been negotiating with the Philippine government on a joint investigation, but ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616631/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:20:15 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616631/scat/303b19022816233b Pakistan -- Here, trucks rule the road. Whether by blaring their horns at pedestrians or blocking a narrow street with an awkward parking job, Karachi's trucks always get the right of way. But aside from being a nuisance to already harassed drivers, the trucks add a welcome splash of color to a remarkably bleak city. The images they bear, often whimsical, adorn every possible surface of the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616498/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:19:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616498/scat/303b19022816233b KFC and a host of other American icons are finally coming to Burma as the army-ruled nation known officially as Myanmar ends five decades of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616500/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:13:52 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616500/scat/303b19022816233b SANTO NIO of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Cebu, seat of Archbishop Jos Palma. The design incorporates the letters and symbol of the Holy Name of Jesus, "IHS," found in the church's pediment. Without a doubt, the most popular and most widespread Catholic devotion in the Philippines is the Santo Nio, the devotion to the Holy Infant of Jesus. Proof of this is that while having ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616632/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 13:09:53 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616632/scat/303b19022816233b ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616455/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:42:45 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616455/scat/303b19022816233b PARIS -- Police in Tunisia fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing Islamists in two cities after the government banned the hardline Ansar al-Shariah group from staging its annual congress Sunday. The events underscore the growing clout of Muslim extremists in the once staunchly secular North African country. The assassination of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid in February sparked ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616038/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:39:04 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616038/scat/303b19022816233b An advisor to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan says the government is encouraged by the progress of the ongoing military offensive against the Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram. "The majority of the various camps where the terrorists have converted into their hideouts have been heavily bombarded, both by air and on land. And I’m just receiving a report that about 55 ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616039/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:39:03 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616039/scat/303b19022816233b Three students of Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University (UMY) have invented a device that can help detect blood vessels on children under five and reduce the risk of inaccurate needle insertion which can damage blood vessels."Children's blood vessels are very fragile and they can be damaged by failure in inserting the injection needle," said Ade Pajar Pirdianto, a student of the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616085/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:37:15 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616085/scat/303b19022816233b Mexico is in a great moment. Macroeconomic stability and a low debt rate are part of our strengths as one of the top 15 economies in the world. We are an economy with a broad social perspective fully inserted into international trade, with an exchange of goods and services that amounts more than $700 billion each year. We offer a secure and trustworthy environment for foreign investment. Our ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616051/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:29:38 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616051/scat/303b19022816233b was shot dead on Saturday outside the gates of her home in Karachi, Pakistan, hours before several re-elections were scheduled to take place in the country on ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616086/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616086/scat/303b19022816233b Bangladesh's top court on Sunday ordered police to prevent the owner of a garmentfactory that catered to top Western retailers from leaving the country, six months after 111 of his employees died in a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616421/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:26 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616421/scat/303b19022816233b Changi Airport , Southeast Asia's largest freight airfield, plans to attract more gold bars, tuna and vaccines to Singapore as it seeks to increase handling of high-value cargo to make up for slowing trade. The airport may process 7 percent more cargo by volume for pharmaceutical products such as vaccine and test drugs, as well as perishable goods including tuna and meat this year, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616087/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:20:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616087/scat/303b19022816233b KANDANA, SRI LANKA - A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon’s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid to radically change perceptions of the brew, which manufacturers say can sell for less than water in some markets. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616088/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:15:00 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616088/scat/303b19022816233b Michael Byrne grabbed the crucial goal after 74 minutes to wrap it up. Mid-table duo Army United and Songkhla played out a 1-1 draw in Sunday's other ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616089/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 12:10:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214616089/scat/303b19022816233b DUBAI, UAE -- Iranian authorities executed two men on Sunday convicted of working for Israeli and U.S. spy agencies, Iran's Fars news agency reported. Mohammad Heidari, accused of passing security-related information and secrets to Israeli Mossad agents in exchange for money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, accused of gathering information for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, were hanged at ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615460/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 11:48:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615460/scat/303b19022816233b Broadcasters are more frequently embracing the cable TV idea of limited run series, of taking favorites off the air for a time instead of showing reruns, and of not treating summer as an ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615394/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 11:44:30 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615394/scat/303b19022816233b Military Attack and Zac Purton are led in after the Singapore Airlines International Cup by George Moore, son of trainer John Moore. Photograph: Neville ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615373/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 11:38:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615373/scat/303b19022816233b Editor's Note: This is the second part of a four-part series based on the new book, "Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions." The Christian Post series looks at racism and multi-ethnicity in the church from the perspective of African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American Christian leaders. Part One, an ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615510/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 11:36:16 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615510/scat/303b19022816233b TEEN karter Gabe Tayao-Cabrera triumphed by just a fraction of a second to capture the Formula 125 Open Junior crown and emerge as the top Filipino finisher in the Philippine leg of the 2013 Asian Karting Open Championships held over the weekend at Carmona Racetrack in Cavite. Cabrera completed the 22-lap final race in 16 minutes and 12.090 seconds, just 0.424 ticks ahead of Singaporean Jon Lee ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615511/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 11:33:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615511/scat/303b19022816233b Several independent candidates belonging to influential political families of Punjab and Sindh provinces are among those who have joined the PML-N, which emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615485/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 11:13:18 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615485/scat/303b19022816233b Syrian state television says government troops have entered the rebel town of Qusair as part of a weeks-long offensive to recapture the strategic area connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615012/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:58:16 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615012/scat/303b19022816233b The bodies of four more victims of a tunnel collapse at the Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine have been recovered by the company's Emergency Response Group (ERG).The victims were identified as Aris Tikupasang, Hengki Hendambo, Jhoni Tulak and Viktor Sanger.Jhoni's body was brought out at around 10 p.m. local time on Saturday; it was subsequently ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615051/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:14 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615051/scat/303b19022816233b Scores of Egyptian police have blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel to protest the abduction of their colleagues in the volatile Sinai peninsula.The closure Sunday left around 40 trucks stranded at Awja crossing, according to Ahmed Osman, a civil servant there.Suspected militants abducted seven Egyptian policemen on Thursday. Security officials said the kidnappers are demanding the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615052/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:10 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615052/scat/303b19022816233b Regional Commission on Children Monitoring and Protection (KPPAD) in Riau Islands says violence against children in the province continues to increase and most the cases are sexual.KPPAD commissioner Erry Syahrial said on Sunday that the commission dealt with 152 cases of violence against children in 2012, up from 110 the previous year."The biggest number was of sexual violence against ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615053/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615053/scat/303b19022816233b Delwar Hossain, owner of the Tazreen Fashions garment factory, where 112 workers died in a devastating fire last month, speaks during an interview at the office of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BGMEA) in Dhaka November 29, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614949/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:36:58 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614949/scat/303b19022816233b Pakistan: Doctors wanted the family to pay a bribe to get into the Intensive Care Unit – corrupt system contribute to unnecessary ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615054/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:29:04 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214615054/scat/303b19022816233b US Serena Williams returns the ball to Belarus' Victoria Azarenka during their final match at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614680/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:07:19 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614680/scat/303b19022816233b Radical Islamists in Tunisia have engaged in street battles with police after authorities banned thousands of them from holding an annual conference in the center of the country. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police who deployed heavily in the central town of Kairouan to prevent them from gathering on Sunday. Police responded to the stone throwers by ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614623/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:07:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614623/scat/303b19022816233b Military Attack ran out an ultra-impressive winner of the Singapore Airlines International Cup at Kranji. Raced under the name of Rave for John Hills in Britain, Military Attack has developed a new lease of life as a five-year-old in Hong Kong and put this race to bed within a matter of strides. Ed Dunlop's globetrotter Red Cadeaux was forced to concede plenty of ground by making his move ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614651/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 10:03:11 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614651/scat/303b19022816233b VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned the Catholic Church to not close in on itself at a Mass to mark Pentecost Sunday attended by more than 200,000 people, urging the faithful to be open and present in a new and changing ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614821/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 09:53:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614821/scat/303b19022816233b A bloody campaign season in which about 150 people were killed nationwide ended with the death of Zara Shahid Hussain, a top politician in Pakistan's Tehrik-i-Insaf party. On Sunday, some constituencies accused of vote-rigging voted ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614652/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 09:33:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614652/scat/303b19022816233b MANILA -- Advocates for Philippine migrant workers say they are concerned about the effects of a hiring freeze Taiwan's government has put in place against the Philippines. The move came less than a week after a Philippine Coast Guard crew admitted shooting at a Taiwanese vessel, killing a fisherman. Statistics from ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614248/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 09:16:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614248/scat/303b19022816233b By HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing recent tension, including near-daily ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614482/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 08:58:15 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614482/scat/303b19022816233b Intertek, a London-listed inspection, product testing and certification company, officially opened its RM4.14 million regional centre in Kuala Lumpur last week, which allows it to expand its locally delivered services for its existing exploration and production (E&P) business in Southeast Asia. The new 10,000 sq ft facility has been operational since November 2012. It boasts two ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614271/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 08:57:26 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614271/scat/303b19022816233b BAMAKO (Reuters) - After winning adulation across Mali for a five month military offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614247/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 08:55:17 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614247/scat/303b19022816233b Thai foreign minister is scheduled to visit the United Sates of America from Saturday to Wednesday, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry. Surapong Tovichakchaikul, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, will leave Bangkok for the States on Saturday and will be back on Wednesday. He will meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington DC, said Thai Foreign ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614272/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 08:39:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214614272/scat/303b19022816233b HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channels must be translated into Vietnamese. Foreign governments and a leading pay TV trade group have urged the Vietnamese government to modify the decree, saying it is tantamount to ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613994/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 08:08:04 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613994/scat/303b19022816233b A member of Hamas security forces stands guard in front of the closed gate of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 17, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613850/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 08:05:14 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613850/scat/303b19022816233b KABUL - An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai would seek ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613932/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:29 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613932/scat/303b19022816233b Pakistani voters have cast their ballots in a partial re-run election in Karachi a day after a local political leader was gunned down outside her ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613598/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 07:31:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613598/scat/303b19022816233b BANGLADESHI authorities have announced a one-month ban on political rallies to facilitate relief operations after Cyclone Mahasen. "It is not possible to protect the fundamental rights like holding meetings and rallies when the country was hit by a natural disaster," Local Government and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters in the capital Dhaka. The category-one ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613931/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 07:12:12 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613931/scat/303b19022816233b Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, India Inc termed the agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613520/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 07:08:17 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613520/scat/303b19022816233b MOSCOW (AP) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is holding out hope that an international conference to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Syrian civil war will be held in early ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613564/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:58:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613564/scat/303b19022816233b Qusair has been under fire for weeks as government troops seek to re-capture it with airstrikes and shelling. The town is strategically important because it links the capital, Damascus, with the coast. Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he will not step down before next year's elections. Mr. Assad's comments were published Saturday in the Argentine newspaper ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613256/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:44:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613256/scat/303b19022816233b China says placing India first on the itinerary of new Premiere Li Keqiang demonstrates the importance Beijing places on the relationship between the two countries. The Chinese premier and his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are expected to address how to smooth over a lingering border dispute - a root cause of their trust deficit. The Chinese leader's visit comes ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613255/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:44:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613255/scat/303b19022816233b CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AFP) - Asia's flood-prone megacities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for their booming populations, experts said on Sunday. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613283/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:42:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613283/scat/303b19022816233b Executives and students at 27 universities vow against "cheating", ready to support national anti-corruption campaigns. Together, they signed the declaration on Sunday at Thammasat University's stadium, to launch the campaign "Thai students not cheating". Thammasat rector Somkid Lertpaitoon likens the campaign to the vaccination. Upon graduation, these students would be ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613284/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:39:00 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613284/scat/303b19022816233b JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613176/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:20:39 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613176/scat/303b19022816233b ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 38 others injured when a suicide blast hit a police vehicle in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city on Monday morning, police and hospital sources said. Muhammad Faisal, Superintendent Police of Peshawar, said that a suicide bomber carrying an estimated of five to six kg of explosive materials blew himself up near a police ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613196/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 06:05:54 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613196/scat/303b19022816233b Pakistani politician and former cricket star Imran Kahn has blamed the killing of a top member of his political party on a rival party, as voters in Karachi re-vote a parliamentary election originally held last ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612871/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:53:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612871/scat/303b19022816233b Anguished relatives and friends react to the news that Zahra Shaid Hussain, a politician in the PTI party was gunned down by unknown assailants. Deborah Gembara ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612893/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:51:45 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612893/scat/303b19022816233b As Indonesia scrambles to implement universal health care reforms, crowded hospitals in Jakarta feel the brunt, faced with more patients than they can handle. Sarah Charlton ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612894/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:51:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612894/scat/303b19022816233b Higher cost of living is cited as a major reason that could weaken public supports to the Yingluck government, according to a poll by Assumption ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612895/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:47:12 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612895/scat/303b19022816233b SEOU: North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official said. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating. On Saturday the communist state fired three short-range missiles off the east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612881/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:39:13 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612881/scat/303b19022816233b Sun May 19, 2013 5:35am EDT * Bollywood films have struggled at global box office * Four Indian films screened at Cannes film festival * Industry keen to lure investment to India By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES, May 19 (Reuters) - Indian movie actors and a new wave of directors are on a mission at the Cannes film festival - to show that their industry, which turns 100 this year, is more than just ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613199/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:06 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214613199/scat/303b19022816233b Former cricket star Imran Khan has blamed a UK-based political rival and the British government after a female party colleague was shot dead. Zara Hussain, 59, was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi. She was vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province. The killing came on the eve of a partial ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612870/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:34:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612870/scat/303b19022816233b The United Nations chief has voiced hope that North Korea will abandon its missile tests, after the Stalinist state fired three short-range missiles into the sea on ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612567/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:02:09 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612567/scat/303b19022816233b Oxbow, ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens and trained by veteran trainer Wayne Lukas, Saturday led the Preakness in Baltimore, Maryland from start to finish. Oxbow was the surprise winner with 15-to-1 odds. Itsmyluckyday finished second and Mylute was third. Kentucky Derby champion and favorite Orb finished fourth in the Preakness -- the second jewel in horse racing's Triple ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612569/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:02:08 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612569/scat/303b19022816233b Millions of people across the U.S. have been waiting anxiously to hear the results of a record U.S. Powerball lottery drawing late Saturday worth $590.5 ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612568/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:02:08 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612568/scat/303b19022816233b Like fashion designers, jewelers are discovering creative ways to reconcile modern tastes with inimitable cultural flourishes. From a dainty white gold pendant in the iconic shape of Hello Kitty's head to a diamond necklace worth over Rp 1 billion (US$103,000), the coruscation of gemstones at the recent Jakarta International Jewelry Fair had visitors oohing and aahing over the glass cases at ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612591/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:00:07 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612591/scat/303b19022816233b Under the heat of the March summer, Mysore stands out from the rest of the cities in the Karnataka state of India. Just two-and-a-half hours away from Bangalore megalopolis, Mysore is one of the most visited cities in India. The ride to the Mysore may be uninteresting, but upon reaching your destination it's obvious that the city presents a different flavor of India. Two famous tourist spots ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612592/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 05:00:05 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612592/scat/303b19022816233b By By Katharine Houreld, Reuters ISLAMABAD - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition parties. It was not immediately clear who killed Zohra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. The PTI ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612593/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:55:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612593/scat/303b19022816233b The senior vice-president of the party led by Pakistani international cricketer Imran Khan has been shot. Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed outside her home in the upmarket area of Defence in the southern city of Karachi. Local reports suggest Hussain, 60, a member of the Pakistan’s Movement for Justice ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612563/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:37:14 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612563/scat/303b19022816233b BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Myanmar President, U Thein Sein, has gone to the United States for a landmark visit. It is the first official visit to the US by the country's head of state in 47 years. U Thein Sein will meet US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday to discuss democracy building in the Southeast Asian country. Two agreements on trade and investment are expected ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612594/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:24:40 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612594/scat/303b19022816233b By M K Bhadrakumar The return of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to power in Pakistan after a hiatus of 14 years electrifies the regional politics of South Asia. Signals passing back and forth between New Delhi and Lahore underscore a subtle change having already appeared in the political vibes. Typically, even as the results from the previous day's parliamentary poll were pouring ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612595/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:23:59 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612595/scat/303b19022816233b Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos arrived in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on Sunday, to attend the 2nd International Conference of the Centrist Asia Pacific Democrats International (CAPDI).People's Welfare Coordinating Minister Agung Laksono will officially open the conference, scheduled to take place in Aryaduta Hotel, Makassar, from May 20 to 21.A ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612152/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 04:09:32 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612152/scat/303b19022816233b Amadeo Perez, chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Center) AFP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is waiting for tempers in Taiwan to cool before settling the dispute over a shot Taiwanese fisherman, the head of an office in charge of relations said Sunday. Issues like Manila’s ';one-China'; policy and comments by Taiwanese investigators ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612136/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:51:37 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612136/scat/303b19022816233b TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency. Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with classified information in return of money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, who allegedly gave the CIA intelligence on Iran, were hanged. The report didn't say when ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612147/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:46:38 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214612147/scat/303b19022816233b The Indonesian government is ready to take full control of PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) after Japanese consortium Nippon Asahan Aluminum's 30-year contract to manage Inalum expires on Oct.30, an official says."We no longer depend on Japan and are ready to continue developing PT Inalum as a state-owned enterprise company [BUMN] as of Nov.1," Inalum's director of ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611695/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:19:12 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611695/scat/303b19022816233b Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot and killed a senior member of a leading Pakistani political party. Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Ms Hussain was the vice president of former cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (Movement for Justice) in Sindh. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. Mr ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611696/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:17:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611696/scat/303b19022816233b Islamabad, May 19 (BNA) - Just hours before re-elections in some polling stations of NA-250 were due to begin, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central vice president was shot dead outside her house in Karachi. Zara Shahid Hussain was shot dead outside her house in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday evening, according to Pakistan's (Dunya News). The motive of the attack could not be immediately ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611697/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:07:51 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611697/scat/303b19022816233b The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage. Photograph: Reuters ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611645/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 03:04:11 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611645/scat/303b19022816233b President Ali Mohamed Shein has said that Zanzibar needs stronger relations with development partners including Indonesia and Demark to achieve its development goals. In separate meeting with Indonesia ambassador Mr Zakaria Anshar, and Denmark envoy Mr Johnny Flento, Shein said Zanzibar has been recording admirable progress in development programmes but support remains important. According to ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611668/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:47 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611668/scat/303b19022816233b The Election Commission of Pakistan had ordered re-polling after political parties alleged that election officials had been forcibly stopped from reaching the polling stations on May 11 polling ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611230/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 02:18:59 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611230/scat/303b19022816233b ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two major opposition ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611231/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 02:07:37 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214611231/scat/303b19022816233b The UAE's Gareth Armstrong tries to advance the ball against the Philippines Volcanoes in their Asian Five Nations closer at Manila on Saturday ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610775/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 01:38:50 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610775/scat/303b19022816233b Growing up with the Cold War, the space race and watching men landing on the Moon, Berthold Sinaulan found himself captivated when he first saw Star Trek on television."I was a junior high school student when I saw the show, then aired by [government broadcast company] TVRI. It was on a black-and-white television, but it was very colorful to me," 54-year-old Berthold told The Jakarta ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610777/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 01:38:24 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610777/scat/303b19022816233b West Tanjungjabung administration in Jambi province is providing Rp 400 million (US$40,996) worth of funds to combat HIV/AIDS in 2013 due to the large number of cases reported in the regency this year."All of the HIV/AIDS control funds come from the West Tanjungjabung regional budget because there has been no financial assistance provided by the central government for that purpose this ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610776/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 01:38:23 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610776/scat/303b19022816233b Four suspects were arrested yesterday in connection with an explosion at a Narathiwat hotel in the morning that left six people injured. The bombing took place at around 11am at Asia Hotel, in Sungai Kolok district of the southernmost Muslim-majority province. Room Nos 306 and 307 on the third floor of the hotel were severely damaged. The impact of the explosion brought down the ceilings of both ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610778/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 01:27:21 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610778/scat/303b19022816233b Paper Edition | Page: 4 Asia will one day be filled with "millions of men desperate for women", Chinese government researchers warned last week.You mean it isn't now? These guys should look out the windows a bit more. Being desperate for women is pretty much the default state for guys aged 13 up.Already, Tianmen city in China's Hubei province is like a World of Warcraft ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610275/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 00:47:20 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610275/scat/303b19022816233b Paper Edition | Page: 4 The confession by a young woman that she was paid Rp 10 million (US$1,050) to have sex with a flamboyant defendant in a corruption scandal that has rocked a political party, which itself claimed to be corruption-free and based on religious ethics, was a startling relevation for millions of television viewers during a broadcast trial hearing on Friday.The 20-year-old woman ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610276/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 00:47:19 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610276/scat/303b19022816233b Paper Edition | Page: 1 More than a million people worldwide have joined online calls for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to block the Aceh administration's plan to open protected forests for commercial exploitation.Rudi Putra, an Acehnese activist who won the 2013 Future for Nature Award, initiated an online petition on Avaaz.org on May 7, demanding the President step in to the plan. As ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610277/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 00:47:18 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610277/scat/303b19022816233b The monthly full-moon party on Ko Phangan draws tens of thousands of tourists, but there’s much more to the Thai island than hard partying - and a new airport may bring far-reaching ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610278/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 00:37:32 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610278/scat/303b19022816233b Muzaffarabad (Pakistan): A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) was being held today after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Quran, officials said.Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by co-Pakistani workers of throwing the Quran ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610279/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 00:28:42 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610279/scat/303b19022816233b NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier is heading to India on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to expedite efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610250/scat/303b19022816233b Sun, 19 May 2013 00:12:04 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214610250/scat/303b19022816233b KARACHI (AFP) - Gunmen have killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan's party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial re-run of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings.Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province of Sindh, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her home in ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609758/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:56:35 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609758/scat/303b19022816233b It's more than just muscle cars and packed racing scenes -- Indonesian action star Joe Taslim is giving the latest Fast & Furious 6 action flick some of his own kicks.The judo athlete-turned-actor admitted he was nervous at times during the filming but thrilled to become part of the famous Hollywood franchise, sharing the big screen with names like Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609762/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:56:01 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609762/scat/303b19022816233b Getting a role in Hollywood's blockbuster Fast & Furious 6 is a life-changing moment for actor Johannes "Joe" Taslim."My life has been great. I cannot complain," said the man when summing up the latest development in his five-year acting career.His rise to fame came following his successful role in The Raid action flick by Welsh Gareth Evans in 2011. A year later, Joe ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609761/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:56:00 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609761/scat/303b19022816233b Paper Edition | Page: 1 "What kind of light should an educator share with his or her students?" This is the million dollar question that keeps bothering me.In the hope of easing my mind, I asked third year university students in my class: "What do you want to take home from this class?" Their replies varied from an A to a pass. No one said he or she was there to learn. I ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609760/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:55:59 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609760/scat/303b19022816233b A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, in a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. New York's police commissioner called the killing a hate crime.Before opening fire early Saturday, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich Village ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609759/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:55:58 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609759/scat/303b19022816233b Ramadian, 30, rushed out of the Bank Indonesia museum in the historic Old Town area in West Jakarta on Saturday when his three-year-old son started crying. "He became scared because some of the rooms at the museum were too dark," he said, adding that he had not managed to see all the collections at the museum because of his son's outburst. Ramadian, who visited the Old Town with ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609763/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:55:57 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609763/scat/303b19022816233b The Taiwan investigation team, tasked with conducting a probe into the fatal shooting of a Taiwan fisherman, has returned to Taipei from Manila. On arrival, the team held a press conference at Taipei Airport. The team has called on the Philippine government to conduct a joint investigation with Taiwan into the incident. It's accused the Philippine authorities of dishonesty, saying the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609741/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:48:31 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609741/scat/303b19022816233b Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Myanmar from Friday to Sunday, the first Japanese prime minister to do so in 36 years, informed sources said Saturday. He will be accompanied by several dozen business leaders who are interested in investing in the country, the sources said. Abe is expected to have talks with President Thein Sein during his three-day visit. Abe plans to stress the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609660/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:45:37 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609660/scat/303b19022816233b Workers surround an ambulance following the freeing of a trapped worker on Friday. On Saturday, 23 PT Freeport Indonesia workers were still trapped the company's site in Mimika, ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609323/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 23:04:49 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609323/scat/303b19022816233b RUK, Pakistan - Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. "Cutbacks," Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug. Ruk Station, in the center of Pakistan, is a dollhouse-pretty building, ringed by palm trees and rice paddies. Once, it stood at the ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609324/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 22:54:55 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609324/scat/303b19022816233b -- Pakistani lawmaker Zahra Shahid Hussain, who alleged vote rigging in Karachi, was shot to death Saturday on the eve of a highly contested re-run of balloting in her district, sources close to the family told ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609325/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 22:49:24 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214609325/scat/303b19022816233b Police in Pakistan say gunmen have killed a woman politician who was a member of former cricket star Imran Khan’s party. Police said Zohra Shahid Hussain was shot outside her home in the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday. The gunmen escaped, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Police said it was unclear whether the killing was a murder or the result of a ... http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214608910/scat/303b19022816233b Sat, 18 May 2013 22:08:33 -0400 http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/214608910/scat/303b19022816233b