Thursday, December 8, 2011

Afghan pass shows struggle of handover (AP)

Afghan pass shows struggle of handover (AP)

Afghan pass shows struggle of handover (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:28 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 photo, a U.S. soldier with Apache Company of Task Force 3-66 Armor, out of Grafenwoehr, Germany, watches passing trucks on security duty in the Sar Hawza district of Paktika province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. forces achieved a rare concrete victory in the often undefined Afghan war when they seized this key mountain pass from the Taliban four months ago. But as American troops draw down in the war, it will fall on Afghan soldiers and police to hold this dirt road in eastern Afghanistan's Taba Kakar mountains. So far, the signs are not encouraging. (AP Photo/Heidi Vogt)AP - U.S. forces scored a strategic victory against the Taliban four months ago when they seized a mountain pass that had enabled suicide bombers to make their way from Pakistan to the Afghan capital, Kabul.

American sentenced to prison for Thai royal insult (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 10:03 AM PST

Thai-born American Joe Gordon looks out from a cell after his arrival at a criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. The court sentenced Gordon to two and a half years in prison Thursday for defaming the country's royal family by translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of the king and posting them online. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - An American who translated a banned biography of Thailand's king and posted the content online while living in Colorado was sentenced to two and a half years in a Thai prison Thursday for defaming the country's royal family.

NATO fuel tankers set ablaze in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 09:04 AM PST

Pakistanis take part in an anti NATO rally in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Hundreds Pakistanis from different groups rallied in the capital Islamabad to condemn NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops. The placard and banner in center reading as 'there is only one treatment for American aggression holy war holy war' and completely stop the NATO supplies route . (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Assailants torched more than 20 tankers in Pakistan carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan on Thursday, in the first reported attack since Islamabad closed the border to protest coalition airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month.

Pakistan's Zardari stable, to undergo more tests (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:49 AM PST

Reuters - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is stable and resting in a Dubai hospital and will undergo further tests, according to his doctor, the presidential spokesman said on Thursday, hoping to quell speculation the unpopular leader might resign.

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Posted: 08 Dec 2011 08:05 AM PST

AP - Pakistani police: assailants torch 10 tankers carrying oil for US-led troops in Afghanistan.

India police charge Tibet holy man in money probe (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:28 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 photo, Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader Ugyen Thinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, speaks with Buddhist leaders at an all faith prayer meeting at the Gandhi Memorial in New Delhi, India in New Delhi, India. Indian police have charged Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader and three of his followers in a probe into $1.35 million in cash discovered early this year at his headquarters in northern India, a police officer said Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - Indian authorities have filed charges against Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader following an investigation into $1.35 million in cash discovered at his headquarters in northern India, police said Thursday.

China court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 04:22 AM PST

AP - A court in southern China has rejected a claim by Apple Inc. that a Hong Kong-headquartered tech company has violated its iPad trademark, in the latest development in a case that could affect the U.S. company's financial prospects in the country.

Asia commission again puts off Mekong dam decision (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST

A Cambodian fisherman takes off his fishing net at Mekong river bank of Koh Norea village in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Four Southeast Asian nations on Thursday again postponed a decision on Laos' plan to build the first dam across the Mekong River's mainstream amid a barrage of opposition from neighboring countries and environmental groups.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - Four Southeast Asian nations on Thursday again postponed a decision on Laos' plan to build the first dam across the Mekong River's mainstream amid a barrage of opposition from neighboring countries and environmental groups.

Qatar fund targets natural resources in Indonesia (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:53 AM PST

AP - Qatar's main government investment fund says that it is setting up a subsidiary in Indonesia targeting raw materials in the world's largest Muslim nation.

Google invests $300M in new Hong Kong data center (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:15 AM PST

Hong Kong government representatives and Google officials pose during the groundbreaking ceremony of Google's Data Center in Hong Kong Thursday Dec.8, 2011. Google Inc. says it will spend $300 million on the new data center in Hong Kong that will be up and running by 2013 as it beefs up infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly rising Asian Internet use. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - Google Inc. says it will spend $300 million on a new data center in Hong Kong that will be up and running by 2013 as it beefs up infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly rising Asian Internet use.

Japan funding whaling hunt with disaster budget (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:00 AM PST

Inhabitants of Faroe Islands catch and slaughter pilot whales (Globicephala melaena) during the traditional 'Grindadrap' (whale hunting in Faroese) near the capital Torshavn, November 22, 2011. Residents of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, slaughter and eat pilot whales every year. The Faroese are descendents of Vikings, and pilot whales have been a central part of their diet for more than 1,000 years. They crowd the animals into a bay and kill them. 'Grindadrap' whaling is not done for commercial purposes, the meat can not be sold and is divided evenly between members of the local community. REUTERS/Andrija Ilic (FAROE ISLANDS - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)AP - Japan is spending 2.3 billion yen ($29 million) from its supplementary budget for tsunami reconstruction to fund the country's annual whaling hunt in the Antarctic Ocean, a fisheries official confirmed Thursday.

China's pollution data shrouded in official fog (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:21 AM PST

In this photo taken on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, Tan Liang, a resident of Beijing, prepares to take readings on a PM2.5 detector outside his residential compound in Beijing, China. People in Beijing and elsewhere in China are demanding the right to know what the government does not tell them: just how polluted their city is. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Armed with a device that looks like an old transistor radio, some Beijing residents are recording pollution levels and posting them online. It's an act that borders on subversion.

Australia wants transparent appeal from China (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:14 AM PST

AP - Australia's justice minister has told China that his government expects a jailed businessman's appeal to be transparent.

China executes Filipino man despite Aquino appeal (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:09 AM PST

Employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs join hands as they pray during a mass for a Filipino man executed in China for drug trafficking Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 in Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines. China, the world's most prolific executioner, put the 35-years old man to death by lethal injection despite a clemency appeal from President Benigno Aquino III on humanitarian grounds. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - China, the world's most prolific executioner, put a Filipino drug trafficker to death Thursday despite a clemency appeal from the Philippine president.

Harry Potter star tells teens to be who they are (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:55 AM PST

British actress Emma Watson attends an promotional event for a cosmetic brand in Hong Kong Wednesday Dec.7, 2011. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - Harry Potter star Emma Watson's advice to teenagers is: "feel comfortable in your own skin."

Borneo pygmy elephant fatally gores Aussie tourist (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:30 AM PST

FILE - In this June 21, 2005 file photo, pygmy elephants cross a road in Taliwas forest in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo Island. A pygmy elephant fatally gored an Australian tourist in Malaysia's Tabin Wildlife Reserve on Borneo island, an official said Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)AP - A pygmy elephant fatally gored an Australian tourist in a remote Malaysian wildlife reserve on Borneo island, an official said Thursday.

Ex-Beijing airport boss gets 12 years for graft (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:07 PM PST

AP - The former boss of Beijing's sprawling airport has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking bribes to arrange jobs and set up corrupt business deals.

US envoy hopes for more talks with North Korea (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:26 PM PST

U.S. special envoy to North Korea Glyn Davies answers a reporter's question as South Korea's nuclear envoy Lim Sung-nam, behind, listens after their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - The new U.S. envoy on North Korean affairs says he hopes for another round of talks between Washington and Pyongyang.

World's oldest dog dies in Japan at age 26 (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:22 PM PST

In this Dec. 24, 2010 photo, Pusuke, the world's oldest living dog according to Guinness World Records, is shown in Sakura in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo. The fluffy tan Shiba-mix dog, recognized as the world's oldest living dog last December, died on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 after suddenly falling ill and refusing to eat or go on his morning walk, owner Yumiko Shinohara told reporters at her home in Sakura. Pusuke died at the age of 26 years and eight moths. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - The world's oldest dog according to Guinness World Records has died in Japan at the age of 26 years and eight months.

US official says military pacts not aimed at China (AP)

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:27 PM PST

AP - The strengthening of U.S. military alliances in Asia is not aimed at containing China, a top Pentagon official said Thursday after annual defense talks that reflected Chinese misgivings about America's regional agenda but also offered the possibility of more robust ties between the two militaries.
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