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China races to recover chemical barrels from river (AFP)
Barrels from a chemical plant float in the Songhua river in Jilin, northeast China's Jilin province. Workers are struggling to recover the hazardous chemicals that were swept into the river in northeast China.(AFP/File)AFP - Workers on Friday struggled to recover 3,000 barrels filled with hazardous chemicals that were swept into a river in northeast China by floods, amid fears some had sunk, state media said.

UK author vows to fight Singapore contempt charge
By ALEX KENNEDY Associated Press Writer SINGAPORE (AP) - A British author vowed Friday to fight charges in Singapore related to his book on the city-state's death penalty policy, even if it lands him in jail. Alan Shadrake, 75, said he rejected a plea bargain from the attorney general's office to...
Chinese Chamber of Commerce Celebrates 110 Years
Jul. 30 – The Hong Kong-based Chinese General Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 110th birthday this week, hosting a lunch at which Dai Xianglong, China’s National Social Security Fund Chairman, was the honored guest. Stating in his address to the Chamber that he expected “decades” of growth in C...
CIRC Allows Interest Rate Exchanging Among Insurance Agencies
Jul. 30 – The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) recently issued a notice regarding insurance agencies engaging in interest rate exchanging. According to the notice, the number of agencies that can develop the interest rate exchanging business as derivatives has been extended to the ent...
Rupee logo a symbol of India's economic rise
The Indian rupee has joined the ranks of the world's major currencies with this month's release of its own currency symbol.
Friday, July 30, 17:07 (SGT) 
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America, Afghanistan and Pakistan: Kayani's gambit
America is furious about WikiLeaks’ revelations on the war in Afghanistan. But Pakistan also has much to worry aboutGENERAL ASHFAQ KAYANI’S moment of pleasure was fleeting. Last week the Pakistani government granted him a second three-year term as army chief—something that no elected government in Pakistan had done before. But within days, thanks to a tre...

  E A S T   A S I A
  • Jul 30 China overtakes Japan to be world's No. 2 economy: US
  • Jul 30 China floods continue as 13 are killed in northeast
  • Jul 30 IMF split in debate on yuan exchange rate
  • Jul 30 CIC posts 11.7% global returns in '09
  • Jul 30 China pipeline blast toll rises to 13: state media
  • Jul 30 COMPANY VIEW-Executive comments on Europe's economic outlook
  • Jul 29 10 Reasons Why Companies Fail. Localized
  • Jul 29 Restructuring China’s finances
  • Jul 29 Facing the Challenge of the Rising Chinese Economy: ASEAN's Responses - Economist
  • Jul 29 Water pollution in China - 1/4 gone, 3/4 left (for now) - Economist
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  • (AFP/File) - The Google logo is reflected in the windows of the firm's China offices in Beijing. Google said Friday its services appeared to be back up and running normally in China, after the US web giant reported that access to its search engine and other products were being blocked.(AFP/File/Li Xin)
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      S O U T H   E A S T   A S I A
  • Jul 30 IMF backs more stimulus to help subdued US recovery
  • Jul 29 Indonesia Pledges Safety of Over 3,000 Schools and 100-plus hospitals
  • Jul 27 Indonesia: Overflowing river submerges 3,000 houses, kills two
    Peso appreciates as appetite for US dollar dips
    FDC wants sale of all Napocor assets suspended
    Fuel supply back to normal
    Vietnam trade deficit widens in July as exports slip
    Biogasoline sales to resume next month
    BP said to hire HSBC to sell stake in Vietnam offshore field
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  •   S O U T H   A S I A
  • Jul 30 UltraTech plans Rs.12,000 cr capex
  • Jul 30 Noel Tata appointed as managing director of Tata International - Neeraj Nair
  • Jul 30 Food inflation eases to 9.67%; fuel inflation up 14.29%
  • Jul 30 SKS Microfinance launches IPO to raise US$354m
  • Jul 30 UK, India set up CEO forum to boost trade
  • Jul 29 Noel Tata moves to a new role
  • Jul 29 Top RBI official turns loose cannon
  • Jul 29 Pranab rejects 3G refund plea
  • Jul 29 India: Southwest monsoon-2010 - Daily flood situation report 29 Jul 2010
  • Jul 29 India slips Myanmar a nudge and a wink
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  • (You Witness User Photo) - Indian Hindu devotees splash water on a statue of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesh before immersing it in the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India. (Photo and caption submitted by Ashish Tibrewal)
      C E N T R A L   A S I A
  • Jul 30 Youzhny reaches Swiss Open quarterfinals
  • Jul 29 Georgia Trades a Stick for a Carrot in Overtures to Abkhazia, South Ossetia
  • Jul 29 Exxon profits soar in second quarter
  • Jul 29 Extracting Change in Afghanistan’s Development Quagmire
  • Jul 29 Living in Bishkek’s Brutal Underground
  • Jul 24 Roddick battles into semis
  • Jul 23 Melzer, Golubev advance
  • Jun 16 COMMISSION DECISION of on the financing of emergency humanitarian actions in Central Asia from the general budget of the European Union (ECHO/-CA/BUD/2010/01000)
  • Jun 15 Residents Flee Floods In Southern Kazakhstan
  • Jun 10 Uzbek Detainees in Kazakhstan Fear Forced Return
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  •   P A C I F I C
  • Jul 30 Plans for PNG-Australia water pipeline mooted
  • Jul 30 Prison human rights issue - Reijeli Kikau
  • Jul 30 Drug charge for boxing champion - Felix Chaudhary
  • Jul 20 Asia-Pacific Region 14 - 20 Jul 2010 - Natural Disasters and Other Events Being Monitored by the OCHA Regional Office for the Asia-Pacific
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  • (AFP/File) - Charles Sobhraj (C) is guided by Nepalese policemen towards a waiting vehicle after a court ruling in Kathmandu in August 2008. Nepal's Supreme Court was to rule Friday on a murder conviction appeal by Sobhraj, the alleged serial killer, con man and prison escape artist linked to a clutch of backpacker deaths in Asia.(AFP/File/Prakash Mathema)
      E D I T O R I A L
  • Jul 30 How ECFA threatens Taiwan news freedom - Taiwan News
  • Jul 30 Relationship between capital, labour has changed
  • Jul 30 China factor puts new spin on energy race
  • Jul 29 Bhupesh Bhandari: First in, first out?
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