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Politics › U.S. naval shift to Asia on track despite budget cuts: admiral
Yokosuka :: Japan | 14 days ago
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Plans to expand the American naval presence in the Pacific with new ships and hi-tech weaponry will go ahead despite steep budget cuts, the U.S...Admiral Jonathan Greenert told AFP in an interview he will seek to reassure partners during a nine-day
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Five Australian universities break global top ten
São Paulo :: Brazil | 14 days ago
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University of Melbourne leads the way, making the global top ten in six subjects: education (3rd), law (5th), linguistics (6th), psychology (7th), accounting and finance (7th) and medicine (9th). Melbourne ranks top nationally in 15 subjects while
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No cut in loans for India, Asia
New Delhi :: India | 16 days ago
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A sian Development Bank [ Get Quote ] will maintain annual lending of $2 billion (Rs 10,750 crore) to India [ Images ] over the next three years. This assurance was given on Sunday by ADB President Takehiko Nakao at a press conference here, on the
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Television Review: ‘Seeking Asian Female' on PBS Shows an Internet-Order Bride
Neuilly :: France | 16 days ago
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May 5, 2013 Steven is a 60-year-old parking-garage attendant who lives in a small apartment above a store in the Northern California suburbs. He's white, which is significant because he has what is politely known as an Asian fetish and popularly
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Asia gov'ts fight for citizens' right to clean air
Singapore :: Singapore | 16 days ago
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Asian cities can go further by providing an infrastructure for vehicles powered by cleaner fuels like natural gas, electricity and in the longer term hydrogen. As Asia grows and develops, many governments are grappling with the environmental impact.
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China's border rows mirror grim history
Berlin :: Germany | 19 days ago
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Asia's security future will follow one of these paths, but which one? Events on the Indian-Chinese border have a distinctly familiar flavor.
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Violence in Burma Edges Closer to Rangoon
Yangon :: Myanmar | 21 days ago
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Police said Wednesday that a person died of his injuries following clashes a day earlier in the small town of Okkan, which lies less than 100 kilometers north of Rangoon. Residents say a group of at least 300 Buddhists armed with makeshift weapons
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Anoop Singh: Global outlook positive for NZ
Auckland :: New Zealand | 21 days ago
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Asian growth will help counter domestic headwinds, including the drought, writes Anoop Singh. The New Zealand economy has proved relatively resilient during the global financial crisis and will benefit from the more benign international outlook that
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IMF warns of overheating
Asia :: Philippines | 23 days ago
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United States and Europe eases, Asia must now look inward and guard against the risk of overheating, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. The global economy has shown signs of improvement, the IMF said in its Regional Economic Outlook that
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Q. and A.: Using Books to Build a Ladder Out of Poverty
Hong Kong :: China | 23 days ago
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Wood is the founder of Room to Read , a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving literacy in developing countries, particularly in Asia and Africa. He left his job at Microsoft in 1999 to found the charity, which has opened 15,000
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