(Channel News Asia) WELLINGTON: A group of mostly Maori protesters forced New Zealand Prime Minister John Key to retreat from a national day ceremony amid rising objections to the planned sale of state assets.
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February 4, 2012
January 30, 2012
China detains seven over river pollution scandal
SHANGHAI: China has detained seven company executives after suspected industrial waste discharges polluted a river with toxic cadmium, threatening drinking supplies for millions, state media said Tuesday.
January 28, 2012
Tibetans live in fear as China cracks down on protests
(Channel News Asia) CHENGDU, China: Sitting in a teahouse in Chengdu's Tibetan quarter, a nervous young monk spoke of how police arrests of innocent people were adding to the climate of fear in China's Tibetan-inhabited regions.
January 24, 2012
Obama hails "new hope" in Myanmar
(Channel News Asia) WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday hailed democratic reforms in Myanmar as offering "new hope" as he recommitted the United States to a lasting presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
January 16, 2012
S.Korea says economic gap with N.Korea widens
SEOUL: South Korea's economy has widened its gap with North Korea, with gross national income (GNI) about 40 times bigger than its communist neighbour, according to official figures.
China vows to back Mideast peace
(AFP) ABU DHABI: China's prime minister vowed on Monday to keep promoting peace in energy-rich Middle East and North Africa through the United Nations, at a time of high tension between the West and major oil producer Iran.
January 14, 2012
China sets pace for smoggy Hong Kong: think-tank
(Channel News Asia) HONG KONG: Beijing's decision to come clean on its dirty air has embarrassed Hong Kong, where smog kills hundreds of people a year, hurts business and drives away talent, a think-tank has said.
Taiwan's Ma wins vote but faces tough second term
(Channel News Asia) TAIPEI: Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's re-election is a relief for China and the US, but observers say he could face a tough second term, forced to balance demands from Beijing with fears he is selling out.
January 13, 2012
Myanmar frees hundreds of political prisoners
(Channel News Asia) NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar has released more than 300 people deemed by the opposition to be political prisoners, a minister said Saturday, after the West hailed the move as a substantial sign of reform.
January 10, 2012
Milk in India often contaminated with salt, detergent
(Channel News Asia) NEW DELHI: More than two-thirds of Indian milk is contaminated with substances ranging from salt to detergent and may not be safe to drink, according to a survey by an Indian government watchdog.
Gender not an issue in upcoming Taiwan polls
(Channel News Asia) TAIPEI: Taiwan's 13 million voters will decide on a new leader this weekend. And, for the first time, a woman is vying for the presidential seat.
January 7, 2012
China's massive holiday migration begins
(Channel News Asia) BEIJING: The world's largest annual migration of people begins in China on Sunday with millions of travellers boarding public transport to journey across the vast country for the Lunar New Year celebrations.
January 5, 2012
Karzai orders Afghan takeover of Bagram prison
(Channel News Asia) KABUL: The Afghan government, angry at being sidelined over peace talks, flexed its muscles on Thursday by ordering the takeover of a US military prison and parading British detainees at a news conference.
January 3, 2012
Philippines flood victims, children want schools
(Channel News Asia) CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines: Flood evacuees and pupils competed for space in southern Philippine schools Wednesday, with both wanting to use the buildings following the Christmas break, officials said.
January 1, 2012
Fiji military government to end martial law
(Channel News Asia) Nearly three years of living under martial law in Fiji will end this weekend when the emergency regulations will be lifted, military strongman Voreqe Bainimarama announced Monday.
5.3-magnitude quake rattles Indonesia's Sumatra island
JAKARTA (AFP): A 5.3-magnitude earthquake rattled the northern tip of Indonesia on Monday, geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
December 29, 2011
India's new anti-graft law fails to pass in parliament
(AFP) - NEW DELHI: India's government and ruling Congress party failed to pass its proposed flagship anti-corruption law on Thursday as the legislation stalled in the upper house of parliament amid fierce opposition.
Myanmar may free more prisoners next week
(AFP) - NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar may free more political prisoners on the upcoming national holidays of January 4 and February 12, an official from the lower house of parliament said Thursday.
December 25, 2011
Tent cities loom for Philippine flood victims
(Channel News Asia) CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines: Tens of thousands of flash flood survivors in the Philippines face life in tent cities for months while safe areas to resettle them are sought, top relief officials said Monday.
Focus on N. Korea as Japan PM meets China's leaders
BEIJING (Channel News Asia): Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Monday held talks with China's leaders during a visit to Beijing dominated by concerns over nuclear-armed North Korea after the death of Kim Jong-Il.
China tightens control of microblogs
SHANGHAI (Channel News Asia): Shanghai will require microblog users to register under their real names from Monday, state media said, the latest local government in China to implement the rule after a spate of violent protests.
December 24, 2011
Bali tattoo likely gave patient HIV
SYDNEY (Channel News Asia): Australian health authorities have said a patient diagnosed with HIV likely caught the virus while having a tattoo done on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
December 23, 2011
Quakes overshadow Christmas in New Zealand
WELLINGTON (AFP): Aftershocks continued to rattle the earthquake-shattered New Zealand city of Christchurch Saturday overshadowing Christmas preparations for weary residents in a "hellish year".
December 15, 2011
Blaze sweeps through Hanoi office tower
HANOI: A fire ripped through a high-rise office building in Hanoi on Thursday, sending a huge cloud of black smoke billowing out over the Vietnamese capital.
December 12, 2011
Suu Kyi's Myanmar opposition wins legal status
(Channel News Asia) Myanmar authorities on Tuesday gave the green light to Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition to rejoin mainstream politics, setting the scene for the Nobel laureate to run for a seat in the new parliament.
December 10, 2011
Indian hunger striker demands action on graft
(Channel News Asia) NEW DELHI: Indian anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, whose campaign in August attracted massive public support, held a one-day fast on Sunday demanding the government do more to crack down on crooked officials.
December 4, 2011
Karzai accuses Pakistan of stalling talks with Taliban
(AFP) - BONN: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan, which is boycotting Monday's international conference on Afghanistan, of undermining all negotiations with the Taliban.
China lays out conditions for legally binding climate deal
(AFP) - DURBAN, South Africa: China's top climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua on Sunday laid out conditions under which Beijing would accept a legally-binding climate deal that would go into force after 2020, when current voluntary pledges run out.
November 24, 2011
Thailand counts cost of monster floods
(Channel News Asia) AYUTTHAYA, Thailand: A young couple scour a jobs board in the Thai city of Ayutthaya in a desperate hunt for work, more than a month after the factories where they worked were flooded.
November 23, 2011
Myanmar parliament passes protest bill
(Channel News Asia) YANGON : Myanmar's military-dominated parliament has passed a bill allowing citizens to protest peacefully, a lawmaker said Thursday -- the latest in a rapid series of reformist moves in the isolated country.
Wrong foetus accidentally terminated in Australia
(Asia Pacific News) MELBOURNE: An Australian hospital was investigating Thursday after a woman carrying 32-week-old twins had the wrong foetus terminated in a botched procedure it called "a terrible tragedy".
November 20, 2011
India eunuchs killed in fire
(Asian Pacific News) NEW DELHI: At least 14 eunuchs were killed Sunday when a fire swept through a venue in New Delhi where nearly 1,000 members of the marginalised community had gathered for a national convention, police said.
November 5, 2011
Sex zone plan leaves Taiwanese cold
(Channel News Asia) TAIPEI: Taiwan has legalised the creation of red light districts in a bid to regulate the sex industry, but prostitutes themselves say the new law could actually worsen their plight.
Myanmar sees tentative changes one year after vote
(Channel News Asia) BANGKOK: One year on from an election condemned by the West as a farce, military-dominated Myanmar has surprised critics with a series of reformist moves allowing hope for change in the repressive state.
November 3, 2011
China busts baby trafficking ring
(Channel News Asia) SHANGHAI: Police in eastern China have broken up a human trafficking gang that bought babies from poor families and sold them for as much as $8,000, state media said on Friday.
October 10, 2011
WHO chief accuses "big tobacco" of dirty tricks
(Channel News Asia) MANILA: The World Health Organization's chief on Monday urged governments to unite against "big tobacco", as she accused the industry of dirty tricks, bullying and immorality in its quest to keep people smoking.
September 30, 2011
Myanmar regime ready to work with Suu Kyi: minister
YANGON - Myanmar's government is ready to work with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party if it re-enters the official political arena, a minister said Friday after talks with the dissident.
Vietnam, China lashed by tropical storm
HANOI (Channel News Asia) - Thousands of people in Vietnam sheltered from a powerful tropical storm that lashed its northern coast on Friday after slamming into southeast China and killing 43 people in the Philippines.
September 23, 2011
Karzai vows to continue Afghan peace effort
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed to continue efforts to make peace with Taliban-led insurgents in a speech on Friday at the funeral of the government's assassinated peace broker Burhanuddin Rabbani.
September 21, 2011
Fukushima plant braces for typhoon
(Channel News Asia) TOKYO: Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Japan's Pacific coast were racing against time to ready the crippled plant against a powerful typhoon heading straight for it, a spokesman said Wednesday.
September 18, 2011
36 killed as quake hits vast Himalayan region
GANGTOK, India (Channel News Asia): An earthquake rocked a vast swathe of northeastern India and Himalayan states, triggering power cuts and panic as at least 36 people died including in Tibet and at Britain's embassy in Nepal.
September 16, 2011
Kashmir rights group urges action on unidentified bodies
(Channel News Asia) SRINAGAR, India - A government commission in Indian-administered Kashmir on Friday called for thousands of bodies lying in unmarked graves in the revolt-hit region to be identified.
September 10, 2011
Malaysian boys encouraged to go university
KUALA LUMPUR (Channel News Asia): Malaysia is mulling ways to encourage boys to take up higher education in a bid to improve gender imbalance at universities, a minister said on Sunday.
September 7, 2011
China seeks to dispel fears over military aims
(Channel News Asia) BEIJING: China said Wednesday it would avoid "invasion, expansion or war" but not at the expense of its claims on Taiwan as it seeks to dispel fears over its military build-up and territorial assertiveness.
August 29, 2011
Indian Kashmir offers amnesty to "stone throwers"
(Channel News Asia) SRINAGAR, India: Indian Kashmir has declared an amnesty for more than 1,000 youths alleged to have attacked security forces during pro-independence protests last year in which more than 100 civilians died.
Taiwan deploys 50,000 soldiers as typhoon hits
(Channel News Asia) KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan : Taiwan deployed more than 50,000 troops on Monday and evacuated thousands of people as Typhoon Nanmadol pummelled some of the island's most densely populated areas.
August 25, 2011
Seoul cool to N.Korea's nuclear pledge
SEOUL: South Korea on Thursday gave a cool response to a North Korean pledge that it would suspend nuclear testing and processing if multilateral disarmament talks reopened "without preconditions."
August 23, 2011
Malaysia condemned for deporting Uighurs to China
KUALA LUMPUR: A human rights group criticised Malaysia on Tuesday for sending a group of ethnic Uighurs back to China and urged an end to such deportations over fears of mistreatment and even torture.
Philippines vows to defend South China Sea claims
(Channel News Asia) MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino vowed on Tuesday a stronger military defence of his country's South China Sea claims as the navy's newest warship sailed into Manila Bay from the United States.
August 19, 2011
Afghan forces need help post-pullout: commander
HERAT, Afghanistan : The commander of NATO's mission to train Afghanistan's security forces has warned it will need years of support from foreign powers and the Afghan government to be a long-term success.
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