Missing HK cargo ship: 11 rescued by Japan coastguard
 05.04.2012 18:57  2963178 views  0 comments
Japan's coastguard has rescued 11 of 17 crew members from a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship that went missing in a storm on Tuesday. The 4,143-tonne ship, called New Lucky VII, went missing about 100km (60 miles) west of the southern Japanese island...
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China’s Hawaii to Face Hotel Slump as Supply Triples
05.04.2012 18:55 2578081 views 0 comments
China’s resort city of Sanya is expected to face a “huge correction” in its hotel market in the next two years as the supply of luxury accommodation triples by early 2013, the head of its tourism association said. The average hotel occupancy rate in Sanya, located on the tropical island known as China’s Hawaii, will drop about 10 percentage points from last year’s 65 to 70 percent, Michel Goget, Ritz-Carlton Sanya’s general manager and chairman of the city’s Tourism Association, said in an interview yesterday. “There’s going to be a huge...
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Pak: Malik's helicopter makes emergency landing
05.04.2012 18:41 1648013 views 0 comments
Islamabad: Interior Minister Rehman Malik escaped unhurt on Thursday when a helicopter he was travelling in made an emergency landing after developing technical problems in Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan. The pilot made an emergency landing in...
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Chinese Export Machine Upgraded as Cranes Replace Toys
05.04.2012 18:37 3101641 views 0 comments
From a sprawling manufacturing base deep in China’s southwestern Hunan province, some 100 kilometers from where Mao Zedong was born, construction-machinery maker Sany Group (SANYIZ) plans to take on the world. While workers in blue overalls and yellow hard hats crawl over cranes and cement mixer trucks in a gleaming factory, Sany President Tang Xiuguo sits nearby, discussing the opening of factories in Brazil, India, and Alabama and the $475 million acquisition of a German maker of cement pumps, Putzmeister Holding GmbH. Tang, a founder of the 22-year-old company, aims to lift overseas sales, now some 5 percent of its $16 billion revenue, to up to one-fifth of revenues within five years....
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China urges 'direct' talks on maritime disputes
05.04.2012 18:21 1564080 views 0 comments
China urged "direct" talks with Southeast Asian nations Thursday to resolve overlapping maritime disputes, a day after regional leaders pledged to work towards easing tensions. China and several Asian countries have rival claims to uninhabited islands in the South China Sea, which is believed to be...
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S. Korea poll watchdog rebukes finance ministry
05.04.2012 18:21 3416914 views 0 comments
South Korea's election watchdog accused the government Thursday of violating its duty to remain neutral ahead of a closely fought general election next week. The rare rebuke from the National Election Commission came as rival parties were neck-and-neck in the run-up to the April 11 poll, a key test of sentiment before a presidential vote in...
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‘Abducted Pakistani starved to death in Greece’
05.04.2012 18:06 2474169 views 0 comments
Athens: A Pakistani youth was starved to death in Greece after being held to ransom by kidnappers for over more than months, the semi-state Athens News Agency reported Thursday, citing police sources. The 17-year-old had been found dead by relatives in January on a street...
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Japanese swim trio qualify for Olympics
05.04.2012 17:50 3268237 views 0 comments
World 50-metre bronze medallist Aya Terakawa set a new Japanese record to win the women's 100m backstroke and qualify for the London Olympics on Thursday. Terakawa clocked 59.10 seconds to...
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Land acquisition remains a problem for river-widening attempts: BNPB
05.04.2012 17:49 1555589 views 0 comments
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) acknowledged that land acquisition remained a big problem when trying to widen Jakarta's rivers despite a total budget of Rp...
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Pilot forced to land after snake is found in cockpit
05.04.2012 17:11 2638950 views 0 comments
Australian pilot Braden Blennerhassett was forced to turn his...
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Thai Police Rescue Wife From Knife-Wielding Spouse
05.04.2012 17:00 2159424 views 0 comments
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors BANGKOK (AP) — Police have subdued a man they said was high on drugs when he held his wife at knifepoint for six hours along a major road in Bangkok. The standoff in front of a large crowd Thursday ended when a plainclothes officer waited for knife-wielding Sakdawut Hamsiri to turn away, then fired a high-voltage Taser he had been holding behind his back. Police rushed to grab the stunned man as the crowd cheered. The woman appeared to have minor cuts but was otherwise unhurt. Thai police have rarely if ever used stun guns. But it is not unusual for them to...
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U.S. and Its Allies Still Wrangling Over Afghan Policies
05.04.2012 16:49 3160508 views 0 comments
More than two years after it embraced a revised strategy to end the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration is still wrangling with its Afghan and Pakistani allies over two of the most important elements of the war plan. In Kabul, Afghan leaders want suspected insurgents captured in special operations raids to be handed over to them immediately. Across the border, the Pakistanis want the right to approve in advance drone strikes on al-Qaeda, Taliban and other targets in their country. U.S. officials say that one risks losing valuable intelligence in Afghanistan and the other could tip off the enemy in Pakistan to impending attacks. The negotiations reflect the differences and suspicions...
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3 U.S. soldiers among dead in northern Afghanistan
05.04.2012 16:46 2732159 views 0 comments
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three American soldiers were among at least nine people who were killed Wednesday when a suicide bomber wearing civilian clothes blew himself up in the northwestern Afghan province of Faryab, local officials said. The blast, which wounded at least 26 others, occurred near a crowded market in Maimanah, the provincial capital, said Faryab’s governor, Abdul Haq Shafaq. The U.S.-led military coalition said three of its soldiers had been...
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Sri Lanka records best-ever economic growth
05.04.2012 16:35 1378893 views 0 comments
Sri Lanka's economy grew by 8.3 percent last year, the quickest expansion since independence from Britain in 1948, the census and statistics department said Thursday. The rate compared with an expansion of 8.0 percent in 2010, the first full year after...
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Abducted Pakistani teen starved to death in Greece
05.04.2012 16:21 1351235 views 0 comments
A Pakistani youth was starved to death in Greece after being held to ransom by kidnappers for over more than a year, the semi-state Athens News Agency reported on Thursday, citing police sources. The 17-year-old...
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Pakistan, US still 'far from deal', says Islamabad
05.04.2012 16:21 2738455 views 0 comments
Pakistan indicated Thursday it was still far from reaching an agreement with the United States on how to patch up turbulent relations after a series of major crises. One day after a senior US diplomat held a further round of talks in Islamabad, Pakistan's foreign ministry said both sides were still at odds over US drone strikes and attacks that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November. Ministry spokesman Abdul...
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Buy train tickets easily: try Rail Card and Rail Box
05.04.2012 16:18 2619203 views 0 comments
State-owned railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) is cooperating with two other state enterprises, lender PT Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and telecommunications giant PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), to launch on Thursday a prepaid card called Rail Card and an automatic...
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DNA test ends India parents' dispute over newborn baby
05.04.2012 16:17 2218638 views 0 comments
Results of a DNA test have ended an 11-day dispute over a newborn baby between two families in India. The test confirmed that Poonam Kanwar and husband Chain Singh were the parents of the baby girl who was left unwanted in a hospital in Jodhpur city. They had instead...
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April 3: French voter intentions for presidential race
05.04.2012 16:15 1427032 views 0 comments
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Pakistan: Suicide bomber targeting police kills 4
05.04.2012 16:05 1182201 views 0 comments
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying a senior police official in a southern Pakistani port city on Thursday, killing four people, officials...
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