| |
| Home | AsiaPacific News |
| |
| AsiaPacific News |
| |
| Kabul steps in to stop run on biggest bank |
| 2010-09-07 05:04:17 |
|
Abdul Qadir Fitrat, Afghanistan's central bank governor, said that the central bank and the finance ministry had agreed to support Kabul Bank |
|
| Chennai finds solution to water shortages |
| 2010-09-07 01:20:09 |
|
In many Indian cities, water shortages have emerged as a regular feature of summer life, but Chennai, a production hub for global car giants such as Ford and Hyundai, has found a solution to its water woes - desalination |
|
| Search on for clues at N Korean congress |
| 2010-09-06 18:15:44 |
|
North Korea's state news agency usually specialises in tedious bulletins, but now these dreary dispatches will have unusually expectant readers as experts across the globe scour them for a name that has never before appeared in the official news media: Kim Jong-eun |
|
| Suicide bomber kills 17 in Pakistan |
| 2010-09-06 16:21:39 |
|
An attacker rammed his car into a police station in the town of Lakki Marwat, killing at least 17 people in the third in a string of attacks by al-Qaeda-linked militants over the last week |
|
| Japan convicts whale activists of theft |
| 2010-09-07 02:40:26 |
|
Verdict appears to reflect a toughening stance by Japanese authorities against critics of the country's whale hunts |
|
| Gillard to discover fate of power bid |
| 2010-09-07 02:23:58 |
|
Australia's Labor prime minister is about to discover whether she will be able to form a minority government with the support of three independents, ending a period of uncertainty after the August 21 elections |
|
| Kan in close fight to remain Japanese PM |
| 2010-09-05 18:16:00 |
|
Naoto Kan, Japan's prime minister, is locked in an extremely close race with ruling Democratic party challenger Ichiro Ozawa, according to polls of the party members that will decide this month's DPJ leadership election |
|
| Cricketers play on despite fresh allegations |
| 2010-09-06 05:14:56 |
|
Pakistan's tarnished tour of England is limping on amid a flurry of new corruption claims and the retreat of the country's high commissioner from his staunch defence of the players at the centre of the storm |
|
| South Korea foreign minister offers to resign |
| 2010-09-05 19:35:21 |
|
South Korea's foreign minister has offered to resign over nepotism allegations involving his daughter, dealing a fresh blow to the government of President Lee Myung-bak |
|
| Attack on Pakistan Shia rally kills 43 |
| 2010-09-04 22:13:22 |
|
A blast ripped through a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 65 people, the second major attack this week, piling pressure on the civilian government already struggling with a flood crisis |
|
| Powerful earthquake hits New Zealand |
| 2010-09-04 21:53:56 |
|
Authorities declared an overnight curfew on Saturday after a major earthquake hit New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, bringing down power lines and bridges and wrecking roads and buildings |
|
| Gates rallies troops in Kandahar |
| 2010-09-04 03:52:41 |
|
US defence chief strikes an optimistic note on his trip to the spiritual homeland of the Taliban, the new front line in the war in Afghanistan, forecasting 'an inexorable process' in strategy over the next two to three years |
|
| Japan toughens sanctions against Iran |
| 2010-09-04 01:55:34 |
|
Tokyo has tightened its sanctions against Iran, banning new investment in energy development, restricting financial dealings and freezing the assets of people and institutions linked to Tehran's 'nuclear activities' |
|
| China and US stage Yellow Sea war games |
| 2010-09-03 22:49:13 |
|
China and the US stage near-simultaneous naval exercises this week in the oceans around the Yellow Sea in one of the most open displays of the rising competition between the two rival forces in north Asia |
|
| Block on Thailand chemical plants is removed |
| 2010-09-03 03:21:13 |
|
A Thai court has given the green light to almost all the suspended plants at a controversial petrochemicals and metals refining complex south of Bangkok to resume operations |
|
