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  • North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace North Korea envoy hands over China's Xi a note of peace

    BEIJING - A senior North Korean envoy delivered a letter from his leader Kim Jong-un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him that Pyongyang was ready to take "positive action" to re-join stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks. The letter was handed over by envoy, Vice Marshal Choe Ryong-hae. Choe told Xi that North Korea is willing to take positive actions to solve problems ...

  • World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty

    LONDON - Global rights body Amnesty International has said that the world is "increasingly" becoming "dangerous place" for refugees due to inaction on human rights. The London-based group in its annual report cited the increasing number of refugees around the world, and highlighted the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. It said that the number of ...

  • Asias Week China Still on Flu Watch

    Qingdao, for a while, grew to the sky. (Photo: Wikipedia) While Asia basked another week in generally favorable economic winds-minus that little 7% stock squall in Japan in Thursday, whatever that was about-there remained an undercurrent of worry about China. ...

  • UK clears first free school for Sikhs

    LONDON: Authorities have approved England's first free school for Sikhs in Leicester, which has a sizeable ethnic minority population. Nine gurdwara leaders had proposed the school, which will open in September next year. The school, where only vegetarian food will be served, will be open to students from other two faiths too, but half its seats will be reserved for Sikh students. The state ...

  • Policeman five gunmen killed in Kabul Taliban attack

    KABUL (AFP) - Explosions rocked central Kabul for several hours on Friday after Taliban gunmen launched a major suicide and gun attack centred on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).One police officer was killed and five militants were shot dead as security forces hunted down the attackers, with prolonged bursts of gunfire and grenade blasts heard across the Afghan ...


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Osmosis Jones

Considering the obsessive attention they have paid to all the gooiest and grossest aspects of the human body in their others movies, it isn't surprising that Peter and Bobby Farrelly have finally directed a movie in which more than half of the action takes place within Billy Murray's guts. ...

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  • Boris Becker backing new Asian tennis league

    The three-time Wimbledon champion is joining ex-players Justin Gimelstob and Mahesh Bhupathi in founding the International Premier Tennis ...

  • Asia Entertainment Resources Ltd. Announces Proposed Rights Offering

    HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Asia Entertainment & Resources Ltd. ("AERL") ( ), which operates through its subsidiaries and related promoter companies as a VIP room gaming promoter in Macau, today announced the record date for a proposed rights offering. As AERL previously announced, AERL is seeking to dual list its securities on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In order ...

  • Google eyes African Asian markets

    GOOGLE is reportedly deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast ...

  • Yen trade volatile in Asia along with Japan market

    TOKYO--Yen trading was volatile in Asia on Friday in tandem with wild swings on the Tokyo stock market, but some analysts said the Japanese currency's weakening trend was likely to ...

  • Pakistan releases 45 Indian fishermen from Karachi prison

    prison in Karachi on Friday.After the release, the prisoners boarded a bus that drove them to Lahore where they will be handed over to the Indian authorities at the Wagah-Attari land border checkpost.The fishermen were released on the orders of caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso."As many as 45 fishermen, who have completed their jail term, are now being repatriated to India. ...

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