Friday December 05, 2008

News Archive

Beijing cleans up 'Chinglish'

30/09/2007
WITH the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games just around the corner, the Chinese are waging a war on baffling English...


Maldives bomb blastwounds 12 foreign tourists

30/09/2007
A HOME-MADE bomb ripped through a crowded park in the Maldivian capital Male yesterday, wounding 12 foreign nationals,...


Indian troops corner rebels

30/09/2007
TROOPS in Indian-administered Kashmir have surrounded a village mosque where three Islamic militants took refuge to...


Syria says Israel wants to make excuses for war

30/09/2007
SYRIA accused Israel yesterday of making excuses for war by spreading what it described as false reports that an...


Double-digit lead for Brown

30/09/2007
BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown has a double-digit lead over the opposition Conservatives that could tempt him into...


Polls in Ecuador today

30/09/2007
ECUADORANS today elect an assembly tasked with rewriting the constitution in a move leftist President Rafael Correa...


'Suspected bogus 9/11 survivor from Barcelona'

30/09/2007
THE sacked head of a 9/11 survivors network alleged to have invented her experience of the attacks on New York's World...


WORLD ROUND-UP

30/09/2007
Hurricane kills three in Mexico NAUTLA, MEXICO: Hurricane Lorenzo crashed into Mexico's Gulf coast last Friday,...


N Korea nuke talks centre on fuel aid

30/09/2007
SIX-NATION talks on North Korea's nuclear programme entered a third day yesterday as a pro-Pyongyang paper said success...


ASIA FILES

30/09/2007
Mahathir in stable condition KUALA LUMPUR: Dr Mahathir Mohamad remains in stable condition and continues to...