China and India Join Climate Accord The New York Times | WASHINGTON — China and India formally agreed to join the international climate change agreement reached last December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. | The two countries, among the largest and fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted...
Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks The New York Times | PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered species conference that begins this week. | “We’ve decided to go ahead with a shark fis...
Flu Shots in Children Help People of All Ages The New York Times | An unusual study done in 49 remote Hutterite farming colonies in western Canada has provided the surest proof yet that giving flu shots to schoolchildren protects a whole community from the disease. | Although previous studies have demonstrated wha...
Demand for Lithium Is Poised to Take Off The New York Times | For many years, few metals drew bigger yawns from mining executives than lithium, a lightweight element long associated mostly with mood-stabilizing drugs. Noah Friedman-Rudovsky/Bloomberg | An engineer for the Bolivian government’s pilot plant f...
Fun-filled activities await avid bird watchers and families in Tanjong Tuan The Star | metro@thestar.com.my | AVID bird watchers will have the opportunity to take part in Raptor Watch — two days of fun-filled activities for the whole family — this weekend at the PNB Ilham Resort in Tanjung Tuan, Malacca. | The event, organised by the...
Vibrant show marks the MCA 61st anniversary The Star | metro@thestar.com.my | Politics took a backseat when MCA leaders and their supporters celebrated the party's 61st anniversary at Wisma MCA in Kuala Lumpur last weekend. | Campaigning for the upcoming party elections gave way to the vibrant and live...
Hoppity-hop The Star | It's amazing how a three-letter word like 'hop' yields heaps of interesting meanings. | WITH all presenters fashionably hopping on the ICT bandwagon in this era, at one language conference I decided to go retro with a game of hopscotch (jengkek in ...
Sparks ready to fly The Star | Ntv7's new drama series Glowing Embers revolves around Taiping's charcoal industry. | skyseto@thestar.com.my | SHE may have been born poor but she is not going to mope about it and lament her fate. Instead, Yao Feng is a woman who takes charge of h...
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US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise Asia Times | By Peter J Brown | The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and the implic...
South Korea back on track Asia Times | By Robert M Cutler | MONTREAL - The South Korean economy, which last year scraped through the global slowdown without sinking into recession, returned to the recovery path last m...
China, India give qualified nod to climate deal The Boston Globe | AMSTERDAM-China and India have given their qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions. | More than 100 countries...
India okays Copenhagen Accord, with riders The Times Of India NEW DELHI: After three months of confabulation within the government, India on Tuesday allowed a conditional association of its name with the Copenhagen Accord. | The accord, which had been negotiated by 29 countries including India at the Danish cap...
Bangkok NRI set to offload 14.55% in Catholic Syrian The Times Of India MUMBAI: Corporates nursing hopes of floating a bank may make a mental note that almost 15% shares of Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) are about to change hands. | Bangkok-based NRI businessman Sura Chansrichawla, who controls around 24% of CSB shares, has ...
India, China endorse Copenhagen climate deal The Times Of India NEW DELHI: India and China joined almost all other major greenhouse gas emitters on Tuesday in signing up to the climate accord struck in Copenhagen, boosting a deal strongly favoured by the United States. | More than 100 nations have now endorsed th...
MFs line up best global assets for investors The Times Of India MUMBAI: The desire among India’s well-heeled investors to look beyond local equity markets has domestic mutual funds rushing to offer products that reflect returns of overseas assets. In this financial year so far, asset management companies have l...
Beijing says working with Google to resolve dispute The Times Of India BEIJING: China is in consultations with technology giant Google to resolve its dispute with the company, which has threatened to abandon the Chinese market over hacking and censorship concerns, said a Chinese official on Friday. The comment came from Li Yizhong, minister of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), speaking on...
Shanghai declares indoor smoking ban ahead of Expo Houston Chronicle | SHANGHAI - Restaurants and office buildings in China's commercial capital Shanghai are scrambling to set up nonsmoking areas as the city bans lighting up in indoor public spaces ahead of the World Expo. | There is rising awareness of the health risks of smoking in China, by far the world's biggest tobacco-consuming country, and this modern city o...
