Apriyani faces her first trial today
Source: The Jakarta Post
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2012-06-26 04:18:29 -0700 | disasters-news
Jakarta A suspect in a car crash that killed nine pedestrians earlier this year will face her first trial later today, a prosecutor has confirmed. Rusmanto, head of crime division of the Central Jakarta Prosecutors' Office, said Wednesday that his...
Obama grateful for service of selfless heroes
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Darwin :: Australia | updated 2012-06-25 17:54:00 -0700 | political-news
Nick O'Malley in Washington April 26, 2012 Read later Side by side ... the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, holds a joint news conference with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Mrs Clinton acknowledged the service of Australian soldiers...
Digger loses his father's war medal
Source: The Courier-Mail
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | updated 2012-06-25 17:50:00 -0700 | disasters-news
A 66-year-old Digger marching in today's Anzac Day parade has lost his father's treasured World War II medal...At the end of the march he looked down and saw the Campaign War Medal, which had been awarded to his father, JG...
242m rural people lack access to safe water
Source: China News
Beijing :: China | updated 2012-06-25 07:28:29 -0700 | business-news
As many as 242 million residents of China's rural areas still lack access to safe drinking water, Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei said Wednesday. Problems in ensuring rural access to safe drinking water are expected to be solved by...
Militants protest outside Palace against violent demolition
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2012-06-25 02:03:15 -0700 | political-news
Philippines Militants staged a protest outside Malacanang to denounce the violent demolition in Paranaque City early this week, Radyo Inquirer reported. TV footages also showed angry protesters just outside the gate of Malacanang. At least one person was killed and...
Wayne Swan honours father and grandfather
Source: The Courier-Mail
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2012-06-24 15:49:09 -0700 | business-news
It's the day he honours his grandfather David Swan, who was gassed in France during World War I, and his father Maurice, who was shelled, bombed and attacked by enemy infantry in Borneo during World War II. "Anzac Day is...
Chinese girl falls into sinkhole
Source: ITN
Shanghai :: China | updated 2012-06-24 10:42:01 -0700 | entertainment-news
Without warning, one of the paving slabs gives way and she vanishes into the ground. A passing taxi immediately stopped and driver Wang Wei jumped down the hole to rescue the unconscious girl...Sinkholes are common where waterlogged ground has been...
Man charged over hostage siege
Source: The Courier-Mail
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2012-06-24 00:35:42 -0700 | political-news
AN 18-year-old man is facing extortion and other charges after allegedly holding his mother hostage west of Brisbane. Police say the armed man held the 48-year-old woman against her will at a Redbank Plains home, sparking a five-hour stand-off with...
Man to appear in court following road rage incident (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2012-06-24 00:35:39 -0700 | political-news
Man to appear in court following road rage incident Newstalk ZB April 24, 2012, 7:43 am A man will appear in the Dunedin District Court this week following a case of road rage over the weekend involving an elderly driver....
Liow: Not enough being done to reduce food poisoning at school canteens
Source: The Star
Shah Alam :: Malaysia | updated 2012-06-23 19:31:08 -0700 | sports-news
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said he was not satisfied with the effort to manage food poisoning cases at school canteens even though the total number of cases for last year at 146 represented only 1.4 percent of...
Crime › 9 children, one parent injured after car hits them in Kyoto Pref
Source: Japan Today
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2012-06-23 04:17:11 -0700 | political-news
Nine young schoolchildren and one parent were seriously injured on Monday morning after a car failed to make a curve and hit them as they were walking along a one-way road in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture. Three of the children are...
Divers search for jet ski wreckage
Source: The Courier-Mail
Brisbane :: Australia | updated 2012-06-23 04:17:04 -0700 | political-news
Gold Coast Broadwater for wreckage from a jet ski crash which claimed the life of a Victorian man during the Australian Watercross National Championships yesterday...Officers guarded the scene overnight and divers will begin a systematic search from 10am today.
US mum on intervention in Phl-China sea dispute
Source: Asian Journal
Beijing :: China | updated 2012-06-22 23:13:19 -0700 | political-news
The United States is mum on the circumstances under which it would intervene on behalf of the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea even as US troops began a joint military exercise with Filipino soldiers off Palawan. The US Congressional...
Afghan translators want asylum in NZ - report
Source: Wellington Dominion
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2012-06-22 13:06:53 -0700 | political-news
Afghans working with Kiwi troops in Afghanistan have asked the Defence Minister for help in seeking asylum to New Zealand, fearing they will be killed once international forces pull out of the country, according to a report. The workers spoke...
Mountain biker airlifted to hospital (Newstalk ZB)
Source: Xtra News
Auckland :: New Zealand | updated 2012-06-22 03:02:14 -0700 | political-news
Mountain biker airlifted to hospital Newstalk ZB April 22, 2012, 6:03 pm The Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter helped a badly injured mountain biker this afternoon. The man fell off his bike in the Kahuterawa Valley near Massey University. The biker...
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