 Banks in Australia profiteering says regulatorAustralia's biggest banks are gouging its customers, the Reserve Bank of Australia... | |
| Follow laws or face consequences, China tells Google China warned Friday that internet search software giant Google will have to face consequence if it violates laws in the communist... |
| Australia on watchlist with Iran for imposing censorship on the Internet A top media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet... |
| China warns Google of 'consequences' Google will have to 'bear the consequence' if it insists on violating China's laws and regulations, a senior official warned... |
| Kiwi batsmen to blame for Chappell-Hadlee Trophy loss: Vettori New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori has slammed his batsmen for their soft dismissals which handed Australia the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy on a... |
| Google denies 'exit China' rumor Search engine Google on Thursday denied it was planning to shut down its business in China by the end of the... |
| China praises India, but tells Dalai Lama to stop separatist activities While praising the Indian Government for cracking down on anti-Chinese activities on its soil, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has called on Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to stop indulging in separatist activities and create conducive conditions for talks with... |
| US, China military visits in limbo The Chinese Army brass has urged the Pentagon to take the initiative to fix stagnant Sino-US military... |
| Tibetan leader says their government in-exile will wind up after settlement with China Member and former Speaker of Tibetan parliament in-exile, Karma Choephel confirmed that their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that after reaching a peaceful settlement with China, the government in-exile will be... |
| Rise in number of Indians holidaying in Australia 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 comes in the backdrop of a string of attacks on Indian students in this... |
| Obama Delays Asia Trip To Continue Health Care Push Indonesians Looking Forward to Obama's Visit The White House says President Barack Obama is delaying an upcoming trip to Asia by three days, as he makes a final push for health care reform... |
| Suicide Bombers Kill 45 In Pakistan's Lahore Suicide Bomber Kills 8 in Pakistan's Swat Valley Pakistani police say two suicide bomb blasts in the eastern city of Lahore have killed at least 45 people and wounded nearly 100 others.The attacks... |
| Obama Delays Pacific Trip For Healthcare (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is delaying his trip to Indonesia and Australia next week to stay home and focus on his final push for a healthcare overhaul, White House officials said on Friday. ... |
| Spielberg, Hanks, And ‘the Pacific’ A Welcome Remembrance Of My Dad’s War John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog The USS Pearl Harbor is a landing ship, not the most charismatic vessel in a Navy of cruisers and subs and aircraft carriers. And so I generally... |
| Lakers Visit Phoenix For Key Pacific Showdown (Sports Network) - The two top teams in the Pacific Division meet for the last time in the regular season tonight, when the second-place Phoenix Suns welcome the front-running Los Angeles Lakers to... |
| Taiwan: Taipei, Justice Minister Resigns Because Opposed To The Death Penalty She has declared that she would rather die than to order the execution of one of the 44 inmates on death row. China has the primacy of death sentences in the world. But so far at least 139 countries... |
| China: Beijing, The List Of Arrests And Convictions For The Npc Beijing - While the government is concentrated in Beijing, where the two most important meetings in domestic politics is taking place, public security is as usual rounding up dissidents and activists... |
| China: Priest Arrested In Fujian For Organizing Winter Camp For 300 University Students Fr. John Baptist Luo was arrested on 3 March. Three other priests have been issued arrest warrants, but not yet detained. Another three have to pay a fine. Fr. Luo told AsiaNews: "I'm ready to go to... |
| China: Lawmaker Proposes 15 Years In Prison For Petitioning Beijing – Chinese citizens who petition the government to complain about abuses by local officials, a right recognised under China’s constitution, could get up to 15 years in jail if Liu... |
| Woman Gets 16 Years For Raping Daughter From China TACOMA, Wash. A 47-year-old woman in Washington state has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping her 8-year-old daughter adopted from China. Donna Marie Whisenhunt, of Lacey,... |
| China Fires Back At Google Over Censorship Issue Posted on: Friday, 12 March 2010, 10:58 CST Chinese officials are firing back in its ongoing battle with Google, claiming that the search engine will have to "face the consequences" if... |
| China Voip & Digital Telecom Inc. Subsidiary Signs Two System Integrators To Market Its Virtualization Products And Solutions & Digital Telecom Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: CVDT) today announced that it has signed cooperation agreements with two(2) system integrators (SIs) to market its virtualization products and... |
| Jerri Hatch Joins Pacific Biomarkers As Associate Director, Business Development SEATTLE, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pacific Biomarkers, Inc. (PBI) (OTC Bulletin Board: PBMC), a provider of specialized central laboratory and contract research services, today announced... |
| Tropical Storm Tomas Calls For Alerts In South Pacific Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 19:20 CST System 97P was looking pretty impressive on NASA satellite imagery early today, March 11, and by 10 a.m. ET, it strengthened into Tropical Storm... |
| Lee Flies Back To Australia Kings XI Punjab were on Friday dealt a severe blow ahead of their opening IPL match against Delhi Daredevils as the Australian paceman Brett Lee has been ruled out of the event for the first 10 days... |
| Follow Laws Or Face Consequences, China Tells Google Beijing, March 12: China warned Friday that internet search software giant Google will have to face consequence if it violates laws in the communist... |
| Yen Falls In Asia On Japan Pm's Forex Remarks The yen fell in Asian trade yesterday following rare remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama who called for "firm steps" against the yen's recent rise, which is hurting exporters.The dollar... |
| Japan Arrests Whaling Activist For Boarding Ship Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand yesterday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese... |
| Japan Mayor Hopes To Make History With Milk Bottle, Nappies Two weeks' paternity leave may not seem like much, but for Hironobu Narisawa, the 44-year-old mayor of a Tokyo district, it is a leap into the future for Japanese society.Next month he will become... |
| China Seafood Play: Fish On The 14th Floor , or warehouse, in a shabby industrial neighborhood of Hong Kong, dozens of fish swim slowly around a 7,000-liter tank under ultraviolet lights. Periodically, a feeder arm drops a few pellets into... |
| Taiwan Official Assures Nevis Of Continued Assistance CHARLESTOWN, Nevis -- A top official of the government of Taiwan in St Kitts and Nevis has reiterated his government’s continued support for the people of Nevis in areas of... |
| China Refutes Dalai Charge On Annihilating Buddhism -- Refuting Dalai Lama's charge that China is "deliberately annihilating Buddhism" in Tibet, Chinese official media today hit back, saying the religion is being practised without any... |
| Britain Says China Won't Risk Isolation Over Iran LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to China said on Friday that Beijing risks isolation if it fails to join international efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear... |
| Australia Probes Navy Sex Games Claims Australian officials launched an investigation into allegations that sailors on board a navy ship were running a sex competition during an overseas deployment last year. The Defence... |
| Bhp, Anglo, Xstrata Ship Coal 10,000 Miles To China March 12 (Bloomberg) -- BHP Billiton Plc, Anglo American Plc and Xstrata Plc are shipping coal 10,000 miles to China from their Cerrejon mine in Colombia for the first time this year because of... |
| Obama Delays Visit To Indonesia US President Barack Obama has delayed a planned visit to South East Asia by several days to focus on healthcare reform, the White House has said.Mr Obama had been due to visit Guam, Australia and... |
| China's Stern Warning To Google China's top internet official has warned that Google will "pay the consequences" if it continues to go against Chinese law.Google announced in January that it would no longer comply with... |
| Television Review | 'the Pacific': First Marine Division In Gruesome World War Ii Battles At war’s end, the cabbie won’t take money from the Marine returning home from the Pacific. “I might have jumped into Normandy but at least I got some liberties in London and... |
| Clearer Limits Sought In Malaysia For Shariah Courts' Role KUALA LUMPUR — Lawyers and religious minorities in Malaysia, encouraged by a civil court’s overruling a Shariah court’s decision in a child custody case, have called for a clearer... |
| China Warns Google: Obey Beijing Search Rules WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A high-ranking Chinese minister on Friday warned Google that the company would be viewed as "unfriendly and irresponsible" if it stopped abiding by the government's... |
| Retail Sales Lift Sector; Pacific Sunwear Tumbles NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Retail stocks rose Friday after the Commerce Department reported better-than-expected retail sales in February, giving another piece of evidence that consumer spending is... |
