Sunday 23 November 2008
Opposition gathers for ultimate anti-govt rally
Critics of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's government assembled in Bangkok on Sunday to stage a mass demonstration and disrupt Monday's scheduled parliamentary session. Police forces have deployed around the parliament.
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- TIBET
- Tibetan exiles back Dalai Lama's policy of dialogue with China
- Saturday 22 November 2008
- The Tibetan government-in-exile has announced it will continue with the Dalai Lama's "Middle Way" approach, which aims to achieve greater autonomy within China through dialogue.
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- TIBET
- Born in exile: the young Tibetans of Dharamsala
- Friday 21 November 2008
- More than 500 Tibetan dignitaries in exile met for a week in Dharamsala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives in exile. It was the largest assembly of Tibetans in 60 years.
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- PAKISTAN
- Blast kills at least five at Shiite funeral
- Friday 21 November 2008
- An explosion ripped through a Shiite funeral procession on Friday in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan, killing at least five people and wounding some 40 others, in what appeared to be a sectarian attack from Sunni Muslims.
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- APEC
- Summit aims to expand Asia-Latin America trade
- Friday 21 November 2008
- The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum opens Saturday in Lima, the Peruvian capital. With the US represented by lame-duck president Bush, Asian nations see the time as ripe to negotiate more access to Latin America's natural resources.
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- THAILAND
- One killed, several protesters injured in Bangkok blast
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- At least one anti-government protester was killed and more than twenty were wounded after a bomb exploded at a protest camp inside Bangkok's Government house compound, where demonstrators have been staging protests since August.
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- SOMALIA
- Indian warship sinks Somali pirate vessel
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- An Indian warship destroyed a Somali pirate vessel in a brief battle late on Tuesday. Other Asian nations also plan to send military ships to secure the Gulf of Aden, in an attempt to secure the area after a recent spike of pirate attacks.
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- TORTURE
- Nepali police 'torture' children in custody
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- A prominent international human rights group has accused the Nepali police of torturing children, some as young as 13 years, in custody and has called on the Maoist-led government to stop the practice. The police however deny the practice continues.
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- TIBET - CHINA
- Tibetans discuss stepping up fight against Chinese rule
- Tuesday 18 November 2008
- Tibetans-in-exile are at a crossroads in the wake of the failure of autonomy talks with ruling Chinese authorities. At an unprecedented gathering in northern India, they consider a more radical approach.
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- JAPAN - WINE
- France's famous Beaujolais goes global
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- As the French wine-producing town of Beaujeu celebrated the arrival of 2008's vintage of the now famous "Beaujolais nouveau", Japanese fans welcomed the wine in their own way: by bathing in it.
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- INTERNET
- Over five million Web sites blocked in Iran
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- Seeking to control "social, political, economic and moral damage," Iran has blocked access to over five million Web sites, including social networking sites such as Facebook and the popular video-sharing portal, YouTube.
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- AFGHANISTAN - REFUGEES
- Afghanistan to host summit on returning refugees
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- Afghanistan will host on Wednesday a summit on Afghan refugees. With five of the eight million refugee Afghans returning after the fall of the Taliban regime, this will be the largest repatriation program ever organised.
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- CHINA - USA
- Physicist sent secret US space data to Beijing
- Monday 17 November 2008
- Shu Quan-Sheng, a Chinese-born naturalized US citizen and physicist who headed a high-tech company, is facing a 10-year prison sentence for having sent secret information about the US space program to China from 2003 to 2007.
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