Thursday, December 1, 2011

Clinton meets Suu Kyi, lays down reform markers (AP)

Clinton meets Suu Kyi, lays down reform markers (AP)

Clinton meets Suu Kyi, lays down reform markers (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 11:37 AM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talk talk prior to dinner at the US Chief of Mission Residence in Rangoon, Myanmar, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton dined Thursday with former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi, forcefully underscoring a U.S. challenge to Myanmar's leaders on her historic visit: The new civilian government must expand recent reforms, including the release of political prisoners, to improve relations as it emerges from more than a half-century of repressive military rule.

Afghan president pardons imprisoned rape victim (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 11:34 AM PST

AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday pardoned an Afghan woman serving a 12-year prison sentence for having sex out of wedlock after she was raped by a relative.

Summary Box: Asia pilot gap grows with jet orders (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:59 AM PST

AP - MORE PLANES, MORE PILOTS: Fast-growing Asian and Middle Eastern airlines that have signed orders for hundreds of new airplanes now must find enough pilots to fly them.

Second Afghan security handover starts (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:47 AM PST

Reuters - Foreign troops began the second stage of a security handover that aims to put Afghans in charge of the whole country by the end of 2014 with a ceremony on Thursday in a small town on the plains north of Kabul.

Clinton offers Myanmar first rewards for reform (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 09:12 AM PST

Reuters - The United States will support more aid for Myanmar and consider installing an ambassador after an absence of some two decades, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday, offering the first rewards for reform.

Clinton meets Aung San Suu Kyi on Myanmar visit (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:26 AM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have dinner at the US Chief of Mission Residence in Rangoon, Myanmar, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee) on a historic visit to Myanmar.

Asia pilot gap grows as airlines order new jets (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:26 AM PST

FILE - In this May 22, 2010 file photo, civilians look on as Indian firefighters and rescue personnel try to extinguish the fire around the site of an Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. From 2011-2030, Boeing and Airbus both predict Asia will account for about a third of global aircraft deliveries worth a total of more than $1 trillion. To keep up with growth and replace retiring pilots, Boeing forecasts Asia-Pacific will need 182,300 new pilots over the next 20 years, with about two-fifths of that demand coming from China. (AP Photo/File)AP - Fast-growing Asian and Middle Eastern airlines that have signed orders for hundreds of new airplanes now must find enough pilots to fly them. For safety-conscious travelers, that means sticking with the big, well-known airlines who can afford to lure the best staff as the scramble to fill the cockpit intensifies.

As US-Myanmar ties warm, China stands conflicted (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:17 AM PST

Myanmar President Thein Sein, right, checks his watch alongside his wife, Khin Khin Win, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, between meetings at the President's Office in Naypyidaw, Myanmar's administrative capital, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)AP - China is a conflicted observer to Hillary Rodham Clinton's trip to Myanmar, caught between worries about U.S. encirclement in Asia and a desire to see its isolated, at times teetering neighbor become more stable.

India's retailers, farmers face uncertain future (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 07:06 AM PST

In this Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011 photo, a porter holds up his basket and makes his way through a crowded market in Mumbai, India. The arrival of modern retailing would hasten a cultural transformation in the way Indians shop and work. The debate now raging, which has shut down Parliament and may rip apart the ruling coalition, hinges on competing visions of what foreign retailers will bring for India's two largest sources of jobs: agriculture and retail. The existing retail landscape is an intricately evolved tangle of shops and bazaars, which has been forged by ideas that date back to India's earliest religious texts. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Ashok Kokane sits amid his strawberries at Mumbai's Crawford Market, a handwritten ledger across his knees and a fan of dirty 10 rupee notes at his hand. The lazy, dust-encrusted ceiling fans above are far past cleaning.

Japanese PM wants status of royal brides studied (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 06:49 AM PST

In this Nov. 23, 2011 photo released by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Princess Aiko poses at her Togu Palace residence in Tokyo. Aiko, daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, turned 10 on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Imperial Household Agency of Japan) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Japan's prime minister said Thursday the government should study the possibility of allowing women in the royal family to keep their imperial status after marriage.

Myanmar gov't officials meet with Kachin rebels (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:40 AM PST

AP - A Myanmar government delegation has held talks with representatives of a major ethnic rebel group with which it has had armed clashes since June, state-controlled media reported Thursday.

Slain Pakistani soldiers' relatives want justice (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 05:14 AM PST

In this Nov. 26, 2011 photo released by Inter Services Public Relations department, a Pakistan army post reportedly targeted by NATO helicopters and resulting in the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers is seen in the Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand, along the Afghanistan border. Pakistan has withdrawn Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, from an international conference on stabilizing Afghanistan to protest the deadly attack by American forces on its troops, widening a fresh rupture in ties with a nominal ally that is endangering the U.S. plan for gradually ending the war. (AP Photo/Inter Services Public Relations Department)AP - Azra Bashir spoke by phone to her son Usman, holed up in a freezing border outpost on the dangerous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, only hours before NATO airstrikes killed him and 23 other Pakistani soldiers. The 23 year-old captain told his mother not to worry about him, and reminded her to watch her health.

1 killed in explosion outside central China bank (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:14 AM PST

AP - One person has died and several others have been injured in an explosion at a bank in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

Indian shops protest entry of foreign retail (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:51 AM PST

Traders sit outside closed shops at a main market during a strike against the Indian Cabinets decision to allow more direct foreign investment in the nation's huge retail industry, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. The arrival of modern retailing would hasten a cultural transformation in the way Indians shop and work. The debate now raging, which has shut down Parliament, hinges on competing visions of what foreign retailers will mean to agriculture and retail, India's two largest sources of jobs. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)AP - Shops around India closed their doors Thursday in a strike called to protest a new policy to allow big-box retailers into the country.

Pakistan lawmaker: Court bars ex-envoy from travel (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:15 AM PST

Pakistani former prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif leaves the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec 1, 2011. Sharif filed a petition for a thorough investigation in the memo-gate scandal. A Pakistani parliamentarian says the Supreme Court has barred the country's former envoy to the U.S. from leaving, while a commission investigates his role in a memo scandal that led to his resignation. The court on Thursday ordered former Ambassador Husain Haqqani to remain in the country, and appointed a special commissioner to probe the incident. Haqqani has been accused of crafting a memo asking the U.S. for help in reining in Pakistan's military, following the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - The Supreme Court on Thursday barred Pakistan's former envoy to the U.S. from leaving the country while a commission investigates his role in a memo scandal that led to his resignation, a Pakistani lawmaker said.

Taiwanese youth losing appetite for fighting China (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 02:14 AM PST

FILE - In this file image taken on April 8, 2000, Taiwanese high school boys learning proper ways of handling a machine gun in preparation for the required two years of military service after their graduation, in Taipei, Taiwan. Signs that Taiwan was preparing for possible war with China were once everywhere: huge posters calling for liberating the Chinese mainland and lengthy school yard drills training students to fight the communist enemy. That culture has changed so much since a detente process began in the 1990s that many young Taiwanese are now unwilling to take up arms to protect the island's self-rule. (AP Photo/Wally Santana/File)AP - Signs that Taiwan was preparing for possible war with China were once everywhere: huge posters calling for liberating the Chinese mainland and lengthy school yard drills training students to fight the communist enemy. That culture has changed so much since a detente process began in the 1990s that many young Taiwanese are now unwilling to take up arms to protect the island's self-rule.

6 SKoreans suspected of selling gold teeth of dead (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:59 AM PST

AP - South Korean police say they have arrested six crematory workers on suspicion of stealing and selling melted gold teeth from cremated bodies.

Kyrgyzstan swears in its new president (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:26 PM PST

AP - Kyrgyzstan inaugurated a new president Thursday in the first peaceful transition of power in the former Soviet Central Asian nation.

3 Afghan policemen die in roadside bombing (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:32 PM PST

U.S. Army soldiers of the 125 BSB Medical Company surgical team of Task Force Mustang and Afghan National Army soldiers carry a U.S. Army soldier, injured by gun shots, on a stretcher in Forward Operating Base (FOB) Shank in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan December 1, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY HEALTH CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - Afghan officials say three policemen died and four others were wounded in an explosion in northeast Afghanistan.

NZ engineers found building safe before collapse (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:22 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2011 file photo, recovery workers inspect the earthquake-damaged Pyne Gould Corporation building in Christchurch, New Zealand. Two engineers this week testified about their inspections of the Pyne Gould building at an ongoing government probe into building failure during the Feb. 22 Christchurch earthquake, which killed 182 people. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)AP - Engineers inspected and declared a New Zealand office building safe five times in the months before it collapsed and killed 18 people in an earthquake earlier this year, according to testimony at a government probe.
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