Talks start in Australia on Pacific trade deal

thestar Monday, March 15, 2010 5:17:00 AM CET | info

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Officials from eight nations including the United States began talks on a trans-Pacific trade deal on Monday in a move Australia said could add momentum to stalled World Trade Organisation talks....

Was Mr Manning too close to Sunway?

Triniad-guardian Monday, March 15, 2010 5:05:00 AM CET | info

For those who have been misinformed. Read on SUBSIDIARIES OF THE SUNWAY GROUP 1) Civil Engineering & Construction 2) Building Materials 3) Quarrying 4) Property Development & Investments 5) Leisure Entertainment & Hospitality ( Hotels & Resorts) 6) Toll Concessions / Highway / Roads / Interchanges. 7) Tertiary Education....

Edited by Alex Brewer :The War in Hollywood

watchingamerica Monday, March 15, 2010 4:43:00 AM CET | info

Welcome “Apocalypse Now;” the Apocalypse is beautiful. The movie that nobody saw but received the greatest honor a movie can receive is the end of an America that feels ashamed of its dirty wars. It’s something that only a female director, someone who’s never lived a war, could accomplish, because.......

Eritrea: Mining companies: Throwing a lifeline to a brutal regime (3/14/2010)

africafiles Monday, March 15, 2010 3:13:00 AM CET | info

This opinion piece calls for halt the large scale mining that is set to start later this year. DN...

Good wine travels well

JakartaPost Monday, March 15, 2010 3:04:00 AM CET | info

The Jakarta Post login | Mon, 03/15/2010 8:56 AM | Business JP/Nurhayati A sales girl arranges bottles of wine during the French Exhibition-ASEAN Tour at Le Meridien Jakarta Hotel, on Sunday. The exhibition, which is part of French wineries’ ASEAN tours, will also be held in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia....

Experts discuss Afghan conflict

bbc Monday, March 15, 2010 2:37:00 AM CET | info

Leading experts on Afghanistan are gathering in Scotland for a conference on the country's future....

Malaysia should sell global bonds: Zeti

btimescom Monday, March 15, 2010 2:31:00 AM CET | info

Malaysia should return to the global bond market for the first time in almost eight years to set new benchmark borrowing costs for the nation's companies, according to the central bank. "Malaysia has not tapped the international capital market for a long time, whether in conventional or sukuk.......

'Malaysia may raise interest rates if needed'

btimescom Monday, March 15, 2010 2:31:00 AM CET | info

Malaysia's central bank said it may increase interest rates further to avert asset bubbles and discourage risky investments by people seeking better returns, even as inflation will likely remain "modest" this year. "We will review the conditions at our next monetary policy meeting and work towards.......

Worldwide arms trade flourishing despite recession, report warns

guardian Monday, March 15, 2010 1:34:00 AM CET | info

Average volume of sales increased by 22%, with South America and south-east Asia seeing the biggest rises The worldwide arms race has accelerated, most dramatically in South America and south-east Asia, despite the economic and financial slump, according to a report published today....

S Korea trade talks encouraging: Crean

smh Monday, March 15, 2010 1:15:00 AM CET | info

A fourth round of free trade negotiations between Australia and South Korea will start on Monday in Seoul....

US slams rights abuses in China, NKorea and Iran

javno-en Monday, March 15, 2010 1:06:00 AM CET | info

Beijing on Friday rejected the US criticism and in retaliation issued its own report on alleged US human rights violations....

Big rise in arms imports threatens SE Asia: report

reuters Monday, March 15, 2010 1:05:00 AM CET | info

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A huge increase in arms imports by Southeast Asian countries in the past five years could threaten the region's stability, a Swedish-based research institute said on Monday....

Surging global weapons transfers raise concerns

dailytimesPK Monday, March 15, 2010 1:02:00 AM CET | info

Research group says transfers of major conventional weapons rose by 22 percent in 2005-2009 compared to previous five-year period Surging global weapons transfers are raising concerns about arms races in tension-fraught areas of the globe, a leading peace research group warned on Monday....

Pepper prices to remain firm on global shortage

thestar Monday, March 15, 2010 12:46:00 AM CET | info

KUCHING: Pepper prices, which had enjoyed a good run in the past 12 months, will remain firm in view of an anticipated shortfall in global supplies....

GROs lose cat-and-mouse game

thestar Monday, March 15, 2010 12:46:00 AM CET | info

JOHOR BARU: For an hour, several foreign guest relations officers (GROs) played cat-and-mouse with the authorities, resorting to climbing down a balcony from the fourth floor and later hiding underneath cars in a desperate attempt to evade arrest....

Building on a Japanese crisis

sundaytimes Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:49:00 PM CET | info

Japan’s vast confidence that its companies had perfected the route to the future lingered for years after 1992, when the Great Bubble burst. While an investment analyst for Kleinwort Benson as-was, on a mission to Tokyo to recommend British printing and media stocks, I remember standing at the hotel.......

On this day in 1973...

focusnews-en Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:03:00 PM CET | info

On this day in 1973 president Nixon hints that the United States might intervene again in Vietnam to prevent communist violations of the truce. A cease-fire under the provisions of the Paris Peace Accords had gone into effect on January 27, 1973, but was quickly and repeatedly violated by both sides.......

Bourne in Baghdad

guardian Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:02:00 PM CET | info

Can Matt Damon's half-fiction set the benchmark for a popular history of the Iraq war? Now is the moment for the Iraqi war film. Less than a week after the low-budget The Hurt Locker won Oscars for best picture and best director , Paul Greengrass's big-budget Green Zone has hit the screens....

Global arms sales soar 22%: report

smh Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:45:00 PM CET | info

Developing countries have embarked on a dangerous "arms race" with huge sums ploughed into combat aircraft in unstable parts of the world, a think-tank says....

Asia Pacific trade officials to flesh out new pact

btimescom Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:59:00 PM CET | info

MELBOURNE: Officials from eight Pacific Rim countries will meet in Australia this week for tough negotiations which could potentially reshape regional trade relationships. The five-day talks, which kick off in Melbourne today, bring together senior diplomatic officials from Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the US....

Leader Universal helps power Cambodia growth

btimescom Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:59:00 PM CET | info

The smiles of wonder and gratitude on the faces of the youngsters matched the mood of the older folk in the port town of Sinhanoukville, for whom power supply is considered a luxury. While hotels and other places of business and the homes of the rich are wired with electricity - via generators -.......

Is China's Politburo spoiling for a showdown with America?

telegraph Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:54:00 PM CET | info

The long-simmering clash between the world's two great powers is coming to a head, with dangerous implications for the international system....

Work starts on eight-nation 'new generation' free trade deal

nzherald Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:52:00 PM CET | info

Talks begin in Melbourne today to lift what began as a 2001 pact between New Zealand and Singapore to a powerful "new generation" regional free trade deal that the United States has made a top trade priority.The US is already......

Developing world has launched 'arms race': think-tank

abs-cbnnews Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:50:00 PM CET | info

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Developing countries have embarked on a dangerous "arms race" with huge sums ploughed into combat aircraft in unstable parts of the world in the past five years, a top defence think-tank has said....

Think-tank warns of world 'arms race'

HindustanTimes Sunday, March 14, 2010 6:39:00 PM CET | info

Developing countries have entered a dangerous "arms race" in the last five years with huge sums ploughed into combat aircraft, a leading defence think-tank said on Monday....

RP riders seize fifth leg of Tour of Vietnam

manilatimes Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:15:00 PM CET | info

The Roadbike Phils.-711 cyclists are back on track after grabbing team honors in the fifth stop of the Binh Duong TV Cup Tour of Vietnam....

(AHN) Former Secretary Of State Kissinger Released From Hospital

AHN Sunday, March 14, 2010 4:50:00 PM CET | info

Henry Kissinger, former secretary of State under presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford, was released from a hospital in Seoul, South Korea Sunday after being treated for a stomach virus earlier this week. - (AHN)...

Trans-Pacific trade talks 'a milestone'

smh Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:44:00 PM CET | info

The first step to an Asia-Pacific-wide trade pact will be taken on Monday, with officials from eight nations meeting in Melbourne....