Thursday, November 24, 2011

India opens more to foreign multibrand retailers (AP)

India opens more to foreign multibrand retailers (AP)

India opens more to foreign multibrand retailers (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 10:29 AM PST

AP - India's Cabinet decided Thursday to allow more direct foreign investment in the nation's huge retail industry, a move that could strengthen the country's food supply chain and open India to giant global retailers such as Wal-Mart.

Parliament guarantees right to protest in Myanmar (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 09:09 AM PST

AP - Myanmar's Parliament approved a law guaranteeing the right to protest, one of a series of reforms under the new elected government.

Six Afghan children killed in NATO air attack: officials (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 09:08 AM PST

Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into an air attack by NATO forces in southern Afghanistan that killed six children and one adult, his office said on Thursday.

Correction: Kazakhstan-Peace Corps story (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:48 AM PST

AP - In a Nov. 18 story on the departure of the Peace Corps from Kazakhstan, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the program's workers had been subject to terrorist attacks there. Peace Corps workers have been sexually attacked in the Central Asian nation, but the terror attacks were against others.

India opens door to foreign supermarket chains (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:48 AM PST

Reuters - India threw open its $450 billion retail market to global supermarket giants on Thursday, approving its biggest reform in years that may boost sorely needed investment in Asia's third-largest economy.

UN rights official urges Maldives to stop flogging (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:10 AM PST

AP - The U.N. human rights chief urged the Maldives on Thursday to end the "degrading" practice of flogging women found to have had sex outside marriage.

Instant view: India opens supermarket sector to foreign players (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 07:55 AM PST

Reuters - India will open the country's retail industry to foreign supermarkets, a much delayed reform expected to help unclog supply bottlenecks and ease inflation over time.

Sri Lanka takes first count of civilian war deaths (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 07:45 AM PST

Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is seen during a conference aimed at reconciliation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Rajapaksa in his keynote address said Sri Lanka is counting the number of civilians killed in the final stages of the country's bloody civil war for the first time. The census aims to counter growing allegations of war crimes against the military. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - Sri Lanka said Thursday that it was counting on its own how many civilians were slain at the end of its bloody civil war to counter claims that tens of thousands were killed and fend off international calls for a war crimes probe.

Ex-CEO wants Olympus to come clean on scandal (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 07:25 AM PST

Former Olympus Corp. Chief Executive Michael Woodford is surrounded by the media after he visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on Thursday Nov. 24, 2011. The visit came a day after Woodford returned to Japan for the first time since his firing last month triggered one of the biggest scandals to ever hit corporate Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - Olympus Corp.'s former CEO expressed confidence Thursday that justice would be served as Japanese investigators probe the cover-up of massive investment losses at the company that has become one of Japan's biggest financial scandals.

Man angry about food prices slaps Indian minister (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 06:15 AM PST

Indian Harvinder Singh looks out from inside a vehicle after being detained by policemen in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Singh has slapped India's agriculture minister Sharad Pawar in the face, apparently to draw attention to rising food prices. Pawar was talking to reporters at a political function Thursday when Singh attacked him. (AP Photo)AP - A man slapped India's agriculture minister in the face on Thursday, apparently to draw attention to rising food prices and corruption.

NKorea threatens SKorea's presidency over drills (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:48 AM PST

South Korean marines stand during a rally denouncing North Korea on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. South Korea marked the first anniversary of the North's deadly artillery attack on the front-line island on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - North Korea threatened Thursday to turn Seoul's presidential palace into a "sea of fire," stepping up its rhetoric one day after South Korea conducted large-scale military drills near a front-line island attacked by the North last year.

2nd earthquake of day shakes northern Japan (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:45 AM PST

AP - Two strong earthquakes rattled northern Japan on Thursday, but neither caused any apparent damage or a tsunami.

Official: 7 Afghan security guards killed (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:38 AM PST

Mourners walk past the Union Jack flag as it flies at half mast at the memorial garden in Carterton, near Brize Norton, southern England November 24, 2011. The bodies of four British servicemen who were killed whilst serving in Afghanistan were repatriated today. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty (BRITAIN - Tags: CONFLICT MILITARY POLITICS)AP - An Afghan provincial official says seven Afghan guards working for a private security company were killed in the west of the country when Taliban militants attacked a convoy carrying goods for NATO.

China to bring charges for pipeline explosion (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 04:10 AM PST

AP - Chinese state media say 14 senior oil managers will be charged and 29 others disciplined for an oil pipeline explosion in northeast China.

Japan emperor leaves hospital after pneumonia bout (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:51 AM PST

Emperor Akihito of Japan waves through the window of his limousine as he arrives at the Imperial Palace, his residence, after leaving the University of Tokyo hospital on Thursday Nov. 24, 2011. The 77-year-old emperor has been released from the hospital after being treated for a high fever and mild bronchial pneumonia. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - Japan's Emperor Akihito has left the hospital after being treated for a high fever and mild bronchial pneumonia.

Philippine court orders Aquino kin to give up land (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:49 AM PST

AP - The Philippine Supreme Court has ordered vast sugarcane plantation lands owned by relatives of the president to be distributed to thousands of farmers under a government land reform program.

Majority of ex-rebels in Nepal seek to join army (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:00 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, former women Maoist rebels attend an integration program at Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal. Under an agreement reached earlier this month between Nepal's major political parties, the ex-fighters would be part of a new division under the command of the Nepal Army commander and used mainly for noncombat duties like construction and emergency response. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)AP - For a decade, Maoist rebel fighters waged brutal warfare against Nepal's army. Five years after the end of the war, thousands of former insurgents are now joining that very army.

Architect: Beijing airport damage not design flaw (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:49 PM PST

AP - One of the architects behind the busiest airport in Asia said Thursday that substandard materials or installation — not design flaws — are likely to blame for wind blowing parts of the roof off Beijing's three-year-old Terminal 3.

SKorean pastor's prison term upheld in top court (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:18 PM PST

AP - South Korea's highest court has upheld a three-year prison term imposed on a pastor for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea.

New House speaker strengthens Australian gov't (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 10:43 PM PST

In this photo taken on March 23, 2011, Peter Slipper, right, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, meets with Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, in Parliament House, Canberra. Australia's Parliament elected opposition lawmaker Slipper as its new House of Representatives speaker on Thursday, Nov. 24, an unprecedented move that strengthens Prime Minister Julia Gillard's tenuous grip on power because the speaker does not vote in most cases. (AP Photo/Mark Graham)AP - Australia's Parliament elected an opposition lawmaker as its new House of Representatives speaker Thursday, an unprecedented move that actually strengthens Prime Minister Julia Gillard's tenuous grip on power.
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