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Aug 20, 2013
As the election date nears, the fight between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott gets uglier. Kevin Rudd has defended the Australian Labour Party’s new ad campaign that showed Tony Abbott and a message that said, “If he wins, you lose.”Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott called Labour's negative ads as "outlandish" and "low politics".
Reissa Su
Aug 20, 2013
Human rights groups in Australia have demanded that the U.N. expand its investigation scope to include Australia’s role in the deadly U.S. drone strikes. At a time when the country is gearing up for elections, this news could come as a major embarrassment for the government and stir up discussion on Australia’s role in the killing innocent civilians.
Sunny Peter
Aug 20, 2013
The Indian media seems to be gleefully lapping up every mention about controversial Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. This time a comment by former Australian High Commissioner to India John McCarthy has drawn all the attention.
Sunny Peter
Aug 20, 2013
The trial of two former Australian Defence Force Academy cadets for filming having sex with women cadets, and broadcasting it over chat service Skype started on Monday with the two pleading not guilty to charges of using a carriage service in an offensive manner.
Vittorio Hernandez
Aug 20, 2013
A two-nation solution is the best way to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to Dr. Ruth Calderon, Israeli academic and politician, member of Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, for the new Yesh Atid party.
Sunny Peter
Aug 20, 2013
Tropical storm Maring (international name: Trami) may already be pressing the panic buttons of most residents in the Philippine capital of Metro Manila, but state weather forecasters continued to pacify the Filipino populace that the rains it dumped was still far off compared from those dumped by the fatal 2009 typhoon Ondoy (international name: Ketsana).
Aug 20, 2013
Syrian refugees stream into Iraq.
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Aug 20, 2013
As thousands of Syrians fled their conflict-ridden homeland into northern Iraq, a long-awaited team of chemical weapon investigators from the United Nations led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom reached Damascus on Sunday.
Sunny Peter
Aug 20, 2013
Imam Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti who was arrested for falsely implicating Rimsha Masih, a 14-year old mentally-challenged Christian girl of burning pages of the Quran in Aug 2012 has been acquitted by a trial court on Saturday for lack of evidence.
Sunny Peter
Aug 20, 2013
If all goes well for him, ousted Egyptian autocrat, Hosni Mubarak could walk free from prison by the end of the week. This after an Egyptian court trying the former president cleared him of corruption charges on Monday.
Sunny Peter
Aug 20, 2013
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key downplayed growing concerns on the latest milk scare causing China to issue another import ban but this time on Westland Milk Products. The Prime Minister said the latest milk scare news has come to New Zealand at the worst possible moment with the government's inquiry on Fonterra, the country's dairy giant that caused an international uproar over botulism fears.
Reissa Su
Aug 20, 2013
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar fell back to the low .9100's after trading above 0.9200 yesterday as concerns about the timing of the US Federal Reserve's tapering program weighed on our local currency.
Christine Gaylican
Aug 20, 2013
Voting for the Australian Election 2013 starts today for early voters
Athena Yenko
Aug 20, 2013
About 30 inmates escaped from the riot-hit Labuhan Ruku prison in the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Sunday. The incident which occurred in Batubara, Northern Sumatra is the latest in the several cases of prison riots and jail breaks that have happened in the country.
Sunny Peter
Aug 19, 2013
Australia on Friday extended an invitation to Narendra Modi the controversial Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.
Sunny Peter
Aug 19, 2013
Netizens in China may expect to have faster and a wide-ranging coverage of the country's broadband services by 2020.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Aug 19, 2013
The global populace, most specially those living along the world's coastal cities, either pack up and relocate to high grounds as early as now or accept their fate as the intensity of floods currently lapping the Earth will get more severe and damaging in the coming years.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Aug 19, 2013
The Prime Minister Slams Opposition
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Aug 19, 2013
Police authorities in China have detained a fellow police officer following allegations he had hurled a baby girl to the ground to prove to his friends the infant was just a doll.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Aug 19, 2013
Two Canadians, a filmmaker and an ER doctor, have been arrested in Egypt after failing to comply with the imposed curfew amidst the violence and protests in the country of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Aug 19, 2013
Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened stronger this week after a weak batch of US economic data has cast some doubt about the economic recovery in the US.
Christine Gaylican
Aug 19, 2013
After filing for bankruptcy early in August, U.S.-based Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. (MMA), the rail company implicated in the Lac-Megantic fuel train disaster, has been found capable to settle insurance responsibilities but only in the short term. Thus, the suspension of its license announced on Thursday has been reversed, but only good until Oct 1.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Aug 19, 2013
The big day has finally come for New Zealand's gay couples as they race to become one of the first ones to marry their partners since the marriage equality law took effect on Augt 19. Many gay couples in New Zealand are waiting for their turn to marry since the legalisation of same sex marriage in the country.
Reissa Su
Aug 19, 2013
Newspoll shows PM Kevin Rudd’s support stinks as he launches hate ad “If he wins, you lose”; Abbott-Rudd gears up for second debate
Athena Yenko
Aug 19, 2013
The Philippine government was forced to suspend offices and classes in 14 provinces, including in the capital Metro Manila, as tropical storm Maring (international name: Trami) maintained its strength and continued to enhance the southwest monsoon early Monday. The state forecasting weather agency has advised the 14 provinces to brace for severe flooding.
Aug 19, 2013
In recent reports related to news in Egypt, Canada's embassy in Egypt has shuttered down due to growing violence in the country. Crime in Egypt has killed more than 500 people in the wake of a protest over the ousting of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi, He is also the first democratically elected president after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarack, an ally of former Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat.
Jacob Cherian
Aug 16, 2013
Instead of a magnificent roar akin to Lion King's Mufasa or Simba, tourists got the surprise of their lives when a lion in a zoo in eastern China gave off a bark. And in yet another China epic fraud, where phones, toys and car parts can be faked, people still could believe even zoo animals can be faked.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Aug 16, 2013
Egypt bloodbath: an Aussie student was stranded in an apartment in Egypt, Aussie-Egyptian protests in streets, death tolls 600
Athena Yenko
Aug 16, 2013
Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Co), operator of the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear plant that was destroyed in March 2011 by a tsunami that followed a magnitude 9 earthquake, has officially received a full-backing government plan on how to clean-up the crippled plant.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Aug 16, 2013
