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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/ en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:42:58 -0500 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:42:58 -0500 30 Afghanistan has praised Pakistan's offer to help mediate with the Taliban. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/611132 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:55:04 -0500 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/611132 Australia's biggest banks are gouging its customers, the Reserve Bank of Australia says. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/611135 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:30:50 -0500 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/611135 Google will have to 'bear the consequence' if it insists on violating China's laws and regulations, a senior official warned Friday. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/611268 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:20:03 -0500 IANS http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/611268 Eleven Siberian tigers have died of malnutrition at a zoo in China in the past three months, a wild life official said. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/611093 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:50:02 -0500 IANS http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/611093 China Thursday accused the Dalai Lama of showing 'his nature of separating the nation' in a speech to mark the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/610978 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:15 -0500 IANS http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/610978 In this photo taken Thursday, March 11, 2010, a Chinese woman holds a paper cup with the words "Great Hall of the People" during a plenary session of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057871&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:33:57 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057871&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Heavy rain and melting snow have caused severe floods across a region of Kazakhstan neighboring China, flooding villages and claiming lives, emergency off... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057678&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:33:56 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057678&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 HONG KONG -- Asian stocks were mixed Friday as investors held out for additional clues to the strength of economic recovery. European shares rose in early trade.Markets in Asia opened higher but sold... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057192&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:28:33 -0500 Miami Herald http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057192&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Police say the death toll in a twin suicide bombing in Pakistan's Lahore city has risen to 39 and that nearly 100 others have been wounded. Senior police official Tariq Saleem Dogar said both ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33058875&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:24:46 -0500 The Independent http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33058875&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Capital spending in the semiconductor industry is expected to reach US$21-23 billion in 2010, up from around US$13 million in 2009, according to Mike Splinter, chairman and chief executive of Applied ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33058649&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:21:26 -0500 Digitimes http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33058649&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SYDNEY : More than 90 authors, including Nobel winner JM Coetzee, have condemned China for refusing an HIV-positive Australian writer entry to the country for a government-sponsored tour. Robert Dessa... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057635&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:19:00 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057635&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 NEW DELHI : Pakistan needs to "reinvent" itself as a genuine democracy and a responsible neighbour, India's Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Friday. Addressing a seminar on South Asian security, Chid... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33058873&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:18:57 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33058873&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Police in the Indonesian province of Aceh say they have shot and killed two suspected militants.The clash happened when a minibus was stopped at a checkpoint. A gunfight broke out in which two men whe... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057622&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:08:12 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057622&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Jay Sean swept the boards at the 2010 Asian Music Awards by winning every the prize for which he was nominated.The singer took best male, best album for All or Nothing, best video for Down and best ur... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057410&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:08:10 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057410&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - European shares were set to rise on Friday, reversing the previous session's dip and tracking gains on Wall Street and in Tokyo, with banking shares in focus after U.S. ta... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057194&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:47:30 -0500 London South East http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057194&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LAHORE: Two powerful blasts went off near a crowded mosque within the heavily-guarded cantonment in Lahore on Friday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 40 others in the latest in a slew of te... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057631&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:38:29 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057631&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister, on Friday told the country’s parliament that the yen was too strong given the state of the country’s economic recovery.“The recent strength of the ye... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33058872&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:35:23 -0500 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33058872&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The logo of Chinese car manufacturer BYD can be seen at the 80th Geneva International Motor Show at Palexpo in Geneva. "BYD is a feature of the Geneva show from now on," proclaimed a European executiv... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057517&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:34:21 -0500 SINA http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057517&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By BABAR DOGAR AND MUNIR AHMEDASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS LAHORE, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber targeting an army vehicle in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed 12 people Friday, police said. I... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33055630&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:08:43 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33055630&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PERTH, Australia -- A Western Australian taxi driver named the state's favorite cabbie in an online contest has won the right to take 22 passengers on a 4,000-mile (6,500-kilom... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33055687&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:08:42 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33055687&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SEOUL : A senior US official in charge of financial sanctions on North Korea has been visiting South Korea for talks on non-proliferation, a foreign ministry official said Friday. The official said Da... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057054&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:51:15 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057054&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BANGKOK - Tens of thousands of supporters of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra began to mass Friday in their trademark red shirts ahead of weekend protests in Bangkok aimed at toppling the gover... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057055&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:51:12 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057055&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 EDITOR'S NOTE: Alfred de Montesquiou, an Associated Press correspondent embedded with U.S. Marines in the battle for the Afghan town of Marjah, was able to observe some of the lessons of the fighting ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057056&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:37:12 -0500 Associated Press http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33057056&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The FBI, a U.S. attorney's office in New York, the SEC and even the L.A. city attorney have opened investigations of the Japanese automaker, adding to existing probes by Congress and regulators. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33055046&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:33:26 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33055046&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 They believe military pressures in the Pakistani border region are making the Afghan militants reluctant to cooperate with their longtime allies. Not all officials are convinced. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33055678&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:33:25 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33055678&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SINGAPORE: Asian stocks edged up on Friday, heading for a fifth straight week of gains, with energy stocks outperforming as oil held above $82 a barrel. The yen dipped, dented by speculation the... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33056709&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:27:06 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33056709&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 FILE - In this Monday March 1, 2010 file photo, the head of NATO in Afghanistan, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, center left, poses for a photograph with an unidentified British soldier during a visi... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33054846&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:42:41 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33054846&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY -- Australian officials have launched an investigation into allegations that sailors on board a navy ship were running a sex competition during an overseas deployment la... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053310&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:42:39 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053310&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By CARA ANNAASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BEIJING -- Aid groups working in China said Friday they feel threatened by new requirements that make it harder to accept overseas donations, and said the centra... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053465&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:42:38 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053465&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 HTC will start volume shipments of its feature phone, the HTC Smart, to major markets in Europe and Asia at the end of March 2010, according to industry sources. The company actually began to ship the... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053384&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:30:19 -0500 Digitimes http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053384&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Religare Enterprises Ltd., Indian billionaire Malvinder Singh’s financial-services company, hired Sutha Kandiah as head of global equity capital markets, the second forme... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053100&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:26:41 -0500 Business Week http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053100&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks rose, sending the MSCI Asia Pacific to its third weekly advance, on speculation the Bank of Japan will add funds to the financial system and as drugmakers gained o... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053098&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:16:26 -0500 Business Week http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053098&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The third season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the 20-20 cricket tournament, is due to begin amid heavy security in the city of Mumbai.Eight teams are participating in the tournament which has b... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053565&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:15:59 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053565&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By Sam Sheringham In a week of dramatic sporting departures, the actions of the Pakistan men's hockey team surely take the biscuit.Hours after a 3-2 loss to Canada put the seal on their worst ever... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053566&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:15:58 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053566&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 More than 2,000 atheists from around the world are gathering in Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate their lack of religious belief.It is thought to be the world's largest gathering of atheist thinkers.... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053435&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:15:56 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053435&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Manchester United have moved to strengthen their huge Asian support base and global brand by signing a five-year deal with Telekom Malaysia (TM). United completed a tie-up with Malaysia's leading tel... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33054677&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:13:42 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33054677&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Israel that is likely to be remembered more for his dust-up with Israeli leaders over construction in East Jerusalem than for the admiration for the country that he voiced repeatedly throughout his fo... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33054847&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:12:26 -0500 Washington Post http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33054847&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SINGAPORE - (Business Wire) Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for micro-engineering applications, today announced it has ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053579&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:05:41 -0500 Earth Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053579&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 MELBOURNE: There has been a 26 percent increase in Indians holidaying in Australia's Victoria state in the year ending December 2009 as compared to the same period in 2008, reveals a survey that co... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053449&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:46:30 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053449&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON: An 89-year-old British woman travels 14 miles to reach a post office located opposite her home as there is no pedestrian crossing on the main road, a media report on Friday said. There is... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053448&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:46:27 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053448&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 But while shares of developers are being sold down on concern that the property market will likely be targeted by policy makers to prevent overheating, some analysts say consumer stocks could prove ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053439&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:43:39 -0500 Morning Star http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33053439&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's justice minister has resigned after her public stance against the death penalty failed to win popular backing. The decision by Wang Ching-feng - ann... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33051384&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:04 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33051384&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 aims to win a larger share of Asia's equity capital markets and to expand in Indonesia by getting a stockbroking licence, its Asia Pacific head said on Friday. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33050997&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:04:28 -0500 CNBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33050997&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 PEMALANG, Indonesia: Slain Islamist militant leader Dulmatin was buried in his Indonesian home village on Friday, as a large crowd of mourners chanted "God is great" and hundreds of police stood guard... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33052987&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:04:10 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33052987&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Manchester United have moved to strengthen their huge Asian support base and global brand by signing a five-year deal with Telekom Malaysia (TM). United completed a tie-up with Malaysia's leading tel... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33052769&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:50:45 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33052769&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said she was surprised but undaunted at the military government’s new election laws that will bar her from running for office or voting in polls to be held this year. She sa... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33051008&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:48:25 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33051008&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asian markets continue to trade flat today. The Hang Seng is now down 17 points at 21,211. The Nikkei has, however, gained 77 points at 10,742. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33051027&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:44:34 -0500 Business Standard http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33051027&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 NEW YORK: More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33051377&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:24:03 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33051377&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SINGAPORE - Oil prices hovered above $82 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors mulled whether extending a monthlong rally is justified amid evidence of weak U.S. crude demand. Benchmark crude for Apr... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049041&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:52:54 -0500 Star Tribune http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049041&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 TERMS OF USE: The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to del... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33050894&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:40:18 -0500 Express India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33050894&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asian billionaires including India's Mukesh Ambani and Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing increased their wealth as the region's rich expanded their fortunes at the world's quickest pace in the past year, Forbes... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049067&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:38:06 -0500 The China Post http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049067&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 HONG KONG -- Investors Thursday picked up bargain stocks, lifting most markets into the black after they sank earlier in the day when China revealed consumer prices had jumped in February. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049131&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:37:59 -0500 The China Post http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049131&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 TOKYO: A New Zealand anti-whaling activist was arrested in Japan Friday after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo, greeted by police and nationalist protesters. Pe... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049417&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:36:30 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049417&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON: A Briton held hostage in Iraq for more than two-and-a-half years has revealed harrowing details of the torture meted out to him by his captors. In media interviews two months after his release... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33050893&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:36:28 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33050893&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks are more attractive than those in Brazil amid a “pause” in the emerging-markets rally, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets said. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049476&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:25:56 -0500 Business Week http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049476&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Shakib takes a rest after just two overs as he throws the ball to off-spinner Naeem Islam. Cook aims another big heave to leg but completely misses the ball. The skipper adds a couple of twos - he has... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049481&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:25:28 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049481&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 "Asia is growing up." Those are the words of Thailand's Chookiat Sakveerakul, and they are certainly true when it comes to the entertainment sector. The expansion of Asian entertainment is no... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049305&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:03:16 -0500 Hollywood Reporter http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049305&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON: The ISI continues to maintain links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist outfit responsible for 26/11, and Islamabad is reluctant to take action against its leaders and its network, seve... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049412&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:55:59 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049412&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 STOCKHOLM: The Swedish parliament on Thursday recognised the massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide, immediately sparking a diplomatic row with Turkey. Its resolution, which the g... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049413&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:55:58 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33049413&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 TAIPEI: Taiwan's justice minister has resigned after she attracted a storm of criticism over a vow not to order any executions during her term, an official said Friday. "Minister Wang Ching-feng tende... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33048948&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:57:46 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33048948&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON: Hambali, the alleged Bali bomb mastermind who is suspected of links to Al-Qaeda, filed a petition Thursday seeking his release from Guantanamo where he has been detained for more than thre... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33048946&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:57:40 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33048946&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SARGODHA, PAKISTAN -- Khalid Farooq Chaudhry has spent two decades straddling this city he left behind and the suburban Virginia life he says he forged for his "American kids." These days he... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33048949&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:42:19 -0500 Washington Post http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33048949&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the Asia Pacific will be fundamental to America's ability to create jobs and to thrive in the 21st century."We cannot be on the sidelines we have... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047607&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:11:58 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047607&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Journalists joined in East Asia Regional Media Program held here signed on Thursday a document to show support on legal action over the killing of more than 30 journalists in a single attack that took... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047322&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:11:49 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047322&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will pay an official visit to China regarding bilateral relations and cooperation, said Chinese Foreign Ministry... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047591&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:11:41 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047591&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The Pakistani government has reassured the father of a five-year-old British boy that his son will be returned "within 48 hours" as the police were said to be closing in on the kidnappers.... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047031&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:43:28 -0500 The Independent http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047031&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's trip next week to his childhood home of Indonesia will be no vacation and is unlikely to be delayed by his health reform drive, the White House said Thursday. Whit... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047027&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:37:09 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047027&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 NEW DELHI: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in India Friday where he is slated to sign a series of multibillion-dollar arms deals with Moscow's old Cold War ally. According to Russian off... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047028&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:37:03 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047028&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Lusaka - Zambia has turned to China for financial help because of its attractive interest rates, President Rupia Banda said on Thursday. "We need financing at concessionary rates where possible to ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33044549&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:16:31 -0500 IOL http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33044549&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SINGAPORE: Investors should buy Asian stocks outside Japan after valuations dropped and before sentiment strengthens further, Goldman Sachs Group said. "By the time all the lights turn green, the r... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33043762&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:09:57 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33043762&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 US training for Kopassus could someday improve its human rights performance, but only if those trained have a real incentive to stop committing abuses. Unfortunately, those Kopassus soldiers convicted... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047030&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:00:21 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047030&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Hillary Clinton Secretary of State US Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20220 Dr. Robert M. Gates Secretary of Defense US Department of Defense 1300 Defense Pentagon Washin... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047029&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:00:19 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33047029&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Voter registration forms are now available nationally in five Asian languages. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission released the forms on its Web site Thursday in Chinese, ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33041259&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:50:14 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33041259&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ST. PAUL, Minn. - (Business Wire) H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE: FUL) announced today that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement under which it will acquire all of the shares of Revertex Finewate... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33041262&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:10:36 -0500 Earth Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33041262&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON: American supermarket chain Walmart has received flak for selling black Barbie dolls at a lesser price than white Barbies. A new pic on website FunnyJunk.com shows Mattel's darker-skinned... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33041106&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:48:42 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33041106&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 YANGON: Not only is Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi barred from running in upcoming elections, but she will not be allowed to vote — and her opposition party's landslide win in the last polls has been... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33041105&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:48:40 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33041105&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's parliament approved a controversial anti-corruption law on Thursday, more than 15 years after the legislation was first proposed to tackle graft in the country. Cambodia is cons... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33040150&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:37 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33040150&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was in a tight contest to keep his job as he vied with ex-premier Iyad Allawi, initial election results from four of the country's 18 provinces showed T... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33037891&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:58:17 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33037891&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 JERUSALEM: Israeli army prosecutors today charged two soldiers for using a young Palestinian boy to check for booby-traps during last year's fighting in Gaza, a military spokeswoman told AFP. Sh... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33037890&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:58:15 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33037890&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING: Chinese security forces have stepped up a crackdown in Tibet's capital Lhasa, two years after protests marking a failed 1959 uprising erupted in deadly violence, police and reports said Thurs... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33034667&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:17:03 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33034667&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By Andrea Hopkins TORONTO, March 11 (Reuters) - Bank of Nova Scotia made further inroads into Asia on Thursday in a deal that merges its Thai subsidiary, Thanachart Bank, with domestic rival Siam City... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33034828&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:42:07 -0500 London South East http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33034828&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The number of billionaires in India doubled in 2009, Forbes magazine says.It lists 49 Indian billionaires, up from 24 the previous year. India, which has many of the world's poorest people, also has 1... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33031824&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:14:56 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33031824&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Article Reprints Zurich Financial Services Group has appointed Pascal Perritaz (37, Swiss citizen) to the position of Chief Financial Officer Asia-Pacific and Middle East (APME), effective April 1, 20... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33027897&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:10:08 -0500 Insurance Journal http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33027897&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service A U.S. MILITARY BASE IN SOUTHWEST ASIA, March 11, 2010 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has served eight presidents, and he shared some of his ins... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33030825&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:05:07 -0500 Defense Link http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33030825&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The Sri Lankan military has announced it is putting defeated presidential candidate and former army chief Gen Sarath Fonseka on trial next week.The general faces court martial proceedings on charges o... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33028612&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:50:49 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33028612&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BBC News, Adezai It is a short walk from Abdul Malik's bullet-scarred home to his grave.His relatives and neighbours make the journey often. They say they are determined to follow in his foots... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33028611&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:50:48 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33028611&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Opera Software, the chief complainant in the European Commission browser case against Microsoft, will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region. The Mozilla Foundation's Open to C... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33028013&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:49:10 -0500 CNet http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33028013&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 VALPARAISO: A powerful 7.2 magnitude aftershock and four smaller ones rocked central Chile on Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning minutes before Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as the new president... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33028447&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:19:03 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33028447&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 YANGON : Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday called on Myanmar's people to give a united response to an "unjust" election law, her lawyer Nyan Win told AFP. "The people and politic... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33027403&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:48 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33027403&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thomson Reuters in Tokyo, as managing director for North Asia. The company also said it would expand its offerings in the Asia-Pacific region. Smith, based in Tokyo, will promote Savvis’ cloud ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33027354&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:15:30 -0500 Business Journal http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33027354&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The chief minister of the Indian state of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, has been summoned to appear next week before an inquiry into devastating riots in 2002.Mr Modi faces questions over the murder of Cong... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33025567&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:04:59 -0500 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33025567&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Kabul - Five Afghan civilians, four of them children, were killed in an explosion on Thursday, and gunmen shot dead a South African construction contractor and his Afghan colleague in a separate attac... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33025630&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:56:55 -0500 IOL http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33025630&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thomson Reuters in Tokyo, as managing director for North Asia. The company also said it would expand its offerings in the Asia-Pacific region. Smith, based in Tokyo, will promote Savvis’ cloud ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33026582&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:51:35 -0500 St. Louis Business Journal http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33026582&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ROME: A Rome high school has incurred the ire of the Catholic Church after its decision to install condom-vending machines for students. Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the pope's vicar for Rome, has... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33025397&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:34:07 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33025397&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SINGAPORE: The Asia-Pacific region staged a strong showing in the latest list of the world's super-rich compiled by Forbes magazine, as the number of billionaires from the region jumped 80 per cent co... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33025407&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:29:06 -0500 Arab News http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33025407&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING : Google said on Thursday that it was in talks with China on the future of the US Internet giant in the Asian nation, after the firm threatened to leave over cyber-attacks and state Web censor... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33022829&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:26:20 -0500 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=33022829&cat=bf053b50c46383e0