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Rocket’s Red Glare (By Dawn’s Early Light)
Share Tweet JRT attended the Japanese space agency’s rocket launch in southern Japan early Friday. The first of two dispatches: In the hours before Japan’s space agency launched its H-2A rocket, dozens of bleary-eyed journalists assembled in the Takasaki [...]
5-18, 2012 5:24
US suspends Burma sanctions
Share Tweet The US will suspend sanctions barring American investment in Burma in response to political reforms, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, announced last night. Asia news, all the latest and breaking Asian news [...]
5-18, 2012 3:51
Kazakh police officer imprisoned in riot trial
Share Tweet A court in Kazakhstan has imprisoned a police officer for allowing a protester to die in custody last year, the first sentencing in a series of trials linked to a riot that shook the former Soviet state. [...]
5-18, 2012 3:05
Pilots’ predeliction for high life could bring down Air India
Share Tweet The high-life of Indian pilots and crew has plunged its national carrier into a nosedive towards bankruptcy, the country’s aviation minister has revealed, with staff stealing whisky and caviar and being chauffeured in limousines to five star [...]
5-18, 2012 0:45
Move over Superman, it’s time for Astanaman
Share Tweet A competition has started in Kazakhstan to create a superhero named after the former Soviet state’s capital city, Astana – Astanaman. Asia news, all the latest and breaking Asian news [...]
5-18, 2012 0:00
Bo Xilai: mystery French architect Patrick Devillers discovered in Cambodia
Share Tweet A French architect who was a close associate of the family of the disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, and of Neil Heywood, the British businessman allegedly murdered by Mr Bo’s wife, has been traced to Cambodia. Asia [...]
5-17, 2012 22:27
Hafiz Saeed sues Pakistani journalists over US ambassador meeting claims
Share Tweet One of the world’s most feared Islamists, Hafiz Saeed, is suing two Pakistani journalists for claiming that he held a secret meeting with the US ambassador to Islamabad. Asia news, all the latest and breaking Asian news [...]
5-17, 2012 21:39
Giant fish caught in Chinese river
Share Tweet A sturgeon weighing more than half a ton is caught by startled fishermen in northeast China. Asia news, all the latest and breaking Asian news [...]
5-17, 2012 20:54
Pensioner survives being dragged under truck
Share Tweet An elderly man in China was left with just bruising after he was run over by a lorry and dragged under the vehicle for 20 metres along the road. Asia news, all the latest and breaking Asian [...]
5-17, 2012 20:54
Pensioner survives being hit by a truck and dragged down road
Share Tweet An elderly man in China was left with just bruising after he was run over by a lorry and dragged under the vehicle for 20 metres along the road. Asia news, all the latest and breaking Asian [...]
5-17, 2012 19:20
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