Floods caused by heavy storms have killed 46 people this week in southern China, with 50 people missing as heavy rains had yet to subside. The Ministry of Civil Affairs said Friday emergency rescuers had been dispatched across southern China to help the 2.6 million people …
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Flood toll in China rises to 46; more rain falling
Football and the movement of talented professionals around the world, writes Asia Sentinel’s Branko Milanovic For many of the billion spectators who watched the football World Cup opening in Rustenburg, South Africa, the word “globalization” may have come to mind. From advertisers to spectators, football embodies globalization like no other sport. And for players, football embodies globalization like no other profession
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The World Cup and globalization
Asian stock markets held firm in early trading Friday on receding worries over Europe’s debt crisis after Spain — one of the region’s heavily indebted nations — successfully sold bonds.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index gained 6.02 points, or 0.1 percent, to 10,005.42.South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.34 points to 1,707.58, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.4 percent at 4,565.10.Investors took heart from…
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An American who was detained in Pakistan while on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden has been moved to the capital city of Islamabad and will soon get dialysis for his failing kidneys, a family spokesman said Thursday.Gary Brooks Faulkner, a 50-year-old construction worker from Colorado, was detained Sunday in northern Pakistan. Police say he had a pistol, a sword, night-vision equipment and other gear and claimed he was out to kill the al-Qaida leader.Stuart Cresp…
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Osama bin Laden hunter ‘needs dialysis’
An estimated 400,000 people — nearly one-twelfth the population — have fled their homes to escape Kyrgyzstan’s ethnic violence, the U.N. said Thursday as throngs of refugees huddled in grim camps along the Uzbekistan border without adequate food or water.That figure represents half the roughly 800,000 ethnic Uzbeks who lived in Kyrgyzstan’s south before Central Asia’s worst ethnic violence in decades erupted there last week.
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Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur
This summer, France and Germany will recognize career-spanning accomplishments of two members of our faculty, Rosalie Vermette and Giles Hoyt, with prestigious awards. Such awards, from governments abroad, illustrate that universities—through the work of their faculty—bring cities and nations together through knowledge building
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IUPUI Faculty Recognized for International Accomplishments
Well after all those years of harpooning whales to research more than the effects of blubber on the Japanese palate, it’s been Flinders University in Adelaide which has come up with something useful. Whale ‘poo’, as the …
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Wrath of Mother Nature and climate change? asks Asia Sentinel’s Poh OnnThe June 16 flash flood in Singapore’s posh shopping belt area, Orchard Road, has drawn the public’s ire and disdain. Suddenly, the popular road was christened “Orchard River” by the local Singapore press.The question, spurred by concerns over global warming, is whether Singapore is going to have to get used to this.Flood waters rose by 300 mm; basement car park…
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Hip deep on Singapore’s Orchard Road
An Israeli couple will take charge of Mumbai’s Chabad House, a Jewish community center that has been without a permanent rabbi since the previous leader was killed in the November 2008 terror attacks, a Chabad official said Thursday.Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, who heads the Chabad Mumbai Relief Fund, said the new couple will replace Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who were among the six murdered during a spasm of violence that left the center scarred with…
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Oil prices fell to near $77 a barrel Thursday in Asia as investor confidence wanes that a three-week rally will continue amid signs of weak U.S. crude demand.Benchmark crude for July delivery was down 67 cents to $77.00 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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A Malaysian air force sergeant charged with stealing two fighter jet engines from a military warehouse has accused senior officers of torturing him to confess in a complaint lodged with police Thursday.Prosecutors said the U.S.-made engines were stolen in 2007 while they were undergoing repairs and smuggled to South America. Malaysian authorities are seeking the return of the engines, which were traced in Montevideo, Uruguay. Officials have said the engines, purchased in 1972 for …
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Hundreds of Islamist militants attacked a checkpoint along the Afghan border, and nearly three dozen Pakistani paramilitary troops were missing, security officials said Thursday.The Afghan-Pakistan border is lengthy and porous, and skirmishes between security forces and militants are common.The Frontier Corps troops disappeared from the Mohmand tribal region, said the two Pakistani officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak…
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A landslide triggered by torrential rains has killed eight people in Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku — seven of them from the same family.Paramedic Ita Sabrina says the bodies were found Thursday beneath tons of mud and rocks in the village of Batugantung Dalam.The landslide occurred in the middle of the night, while most people were sleeping.
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An Afghan mining official says the untapped minerals in the war-torn country are worth at least $3 trillion — triple a U.S. estimate.Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani said Thursday he’s going to Britian next week to discuss how to attract foreign investors to mine one of the world’s largest iron ore deposits in Bamiyan province
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Afghan mineral wealth may be greater: $3 trillion
The United States returned seven sculptures from the great Angkorian era on Thursday that had been smuggled out of Cambodia.Cambodian Buddhist monks blessed the artifacts during a handover ceremony at the port of Sihanoukville, said John Johnson, a U.S. embassy spokesman.The sandstone sculptures were recovered by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials during an 2008 raid in Los Angeles. They arrived in Cambodia aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy on Tuesday,…
Near-legendary footballer Mal Brown has apologised to Aboriginal players for referring to them as “cannibals”. To be fair, Brown, noted for his big mouth, probably thought he was being funny but in today’s climate of hyper-sensitivity, his remarks have caused a huge uproar. The ABC’s Jonathan Green sees Brown…
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Former footballer and coach apologises for Aboriginal slur
A Briton and an Australian who joined Thailand’s anti-government protests were charged Thursday with inciting violence and committing other crimes that could lead to two years in prison.Both men denied the charges, which allege they violated an emergency decree imposed during the 2-month protests and still in effect. Street clashes between so-called Red-Shirt protesters and government forces killed almost 90 people and injured over 1,400 before they were ended last month….
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MP PET CUT OFF 2009-COLLEGE-Shri Venkateshwar,Shri Yogindra Sagar,Sri Aurobindo,Sri Dadaji,Sri Satya Sai
Southbank Institute of Technology has developed a large number of MOU’s (Memorandum of Understanding) with a range of Universities across the broad spectrum of courses. The agreements allow a student to complete a Vocational qualification which then becomes a stepping stone into a University degree
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Partnership between Vocational Institutes and Universities
China has condemned Israel’s deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip in which at least nine people were killed and dozens wounded.”China is appalled and condemns the Israeli navy’s attack on the Turkish fleet shipping humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement late Monday.Beijing’s condemnation of the Israeli raid contrasts with the cautiou…
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