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Burmese optimistic after historic White House visit
Burmese are celebrating an end to their long international isolation with the first state visit to the US by a Myanmar president in almost 50 ...
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UPDATE 1-Chevron nears sale of Egypt Pakistan downstream assets -sources
Tue May 21, 2013 2:59pm EDT By Dinesh Nair DUBAI May 21 (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is in advanced talks to sell most of its downstream assets in Egypt and Pakistan, three sources said, with the planned disposals seen raising around $300 million for the U.S. oil major. Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil company, is conducting a separate sale process for its assets in both countries, the banking ...
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Iran Bars Election Candidacies of Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Aide
Iran says a conservative body has barred two prominent figures from competing in next month's presidential election - moderate former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading conservative allied to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian interior ministry said Tuesday the Guardian Council of clerics and jurists excluded the two politicians from a final list of eight ...
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Iconic Clubs Team Up to Grow US Soccer League
Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and English Premier League football club Manchester City are joining together to enter an expansion team in U.S. Major League Soccer (MLS). The new team will be named New York City Football Club and expects to begin play in 2015 as MLS's 20th franchise. MLS Commissioner Don Garber said "this is a transformational development that will ...
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Kerry Visits Oman Seeking Syria Peace Consensus
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has held talks in Oman on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange an internationally-sponsored Syrian peace ...
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UN Works to Contain Disease Epidemics in Two African Countries
A child from the Central African Republic receives a measles vaccine in a refugee camp set up by the UNHCR in Nangungue, eastern Cameroon, April 12, ...
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Liberace Film Spotlights Gay Rights at Cannes
CANNES -- The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover dazzled at the Cannes film festival on Tuesday and threw the spotlight on gay rights at the movie industry's largest annual gathering. Director Steven Soderbergh said he struggled five years ago to secure funding for "Behind the Candelabra" because some financiers thought the film would only ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Victims Share Stories of Survival
The deadly tornado that ripped through the midwestern state of Oklahoma on Monday left entire neighborhoods flattened, homes, businesses and schools destroyed. As emergency workers sift through the wreckage Tuesday, survivors are sharing their experiences. Among the countless buildings struck by the three-kilometer-wide tornado were two elementary schools - hit just as students were about to ...
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Asian Champions League Al Shababs priorities are all in order
Adel Abdulla, front, and his Al Shabab teammates dropped their Asian Champions League first leg match at home to Esteghlal 4-2, making the second leg at Tehran, Iran all the more difficult for the UAE ...
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Microsoft unveils next Xbox games console
Microsoft Corp has given a first look at its new game console, hoping the newly named Xbox One will build on a solid core of gamer fans and become a hub for living room entertainment. The third-generation console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled by games unit chief Don Mattrick at an event at the software company's campus near ...
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Pakistans new leader offers talks to Taliban
By Wajahat S. Khan, Producer, NBC News ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's prime minister designate Nawaz Sharif told a packed hall of his party stalwarts that talks with the Taliban -- who have been fighting the state for almost a decade -- are not off the table."All options should be tried, and guns and bullets are not a solution to all problems … Why shouldn't we sit and talk and ...
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Indonesia- 2013 inflation may rise to 7 if fuel prices go up
(MENAFN) Indonesian finance minister, Muhamad Chatib Basri, announced that if local fuel prices rise, then the country's 2013 inflation level might grow to 7 percent, reported Reuters.Earlier this month, the Indonesian president stated that the government may raise fuel prices if only the parliament endorsed a financing program to protect the poor from the inflationary impact of high fuel ...
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Report Asian Workers Around the World Remit $ 260 Billion to Their Home-Countries
(MENAFN - Saudi Press Agency) The United Nations Organization and the World Bank said in a report issued today that the remittances of 60 Asian countries' laborers working abroad amounted to about 260 billion last year, equivalent to 63% of total remittances in the world amounting to 410 billion. The report noted that about 70 million Asian families benefited from these money ...
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Philippines approves three new wind farms
(MENAFN - Arab News) The Philippines has approved three wind farm projects that will generate 208 megawatts, enough to power more than 40,000 middle-class homes, an energy official said. The wind projects will be the first to benefit from an incentive scheme which aims to ensure half the country's energy comes from renewable sources by 2030, compared with about 39 percent currently, the ...
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China-trained medical doctors doing fine in Nepal
Bhavuk Sharma Bajagain, 30, a medical doctor by profession, is often busy with his patients in the emergency ward of Kathmandu Model Hospital, one of the more reputable hospitals .In the morning, Bajagain also teaches and shares his medical experience with students in two different local medical institutions."I am very happy and satisfied when I see my patients relieved of pain after ...
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Karachis king over the water Altaf Hussain of the MQM
From an unassuming office in Edgware, the Pakistani metropolis is ruled by a party Imran Khan accuses of murdering his Movement for Justice colleague Zhara Shahid ...
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Myanmar jails 7 Muslims for attacks on Buddhist monk
Burmese protest against intercommunal violence in their country outside the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington on May 20, 2013 before Myanmar President Thein Sein addresses the chamber. Earlier, Thein Sein urged an end to intercommunal violence and discrimination after hearing a call from US President Barack Obama to put a stop to anti-Muslim attacks. AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit ...
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US lawmakers meet Myanmar leader urge release of 250 political prisoners
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers are asking Myanmar President Thein Sein to free nearly 250 political prisoners. Thein Sein met Tuesday with members of the Senate and House, a day after he became the first Myanmar leader to visit the White House in five decades. As Myanmar has shifted from military rule in the past two years, it has freed hundreds of political detainees but others are still held. House ...
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Li Keqiang hails Pakistan as Chinas iron brother
Candid’ is not a good word in the understated lexicon of diplomatese. Manmohan Singh and Li Keqiang seem to have had a lot of candid ...
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BRIEF-Gap CEO says has not given up that a global bangladesh safety accord of some kind can be worked out
CHICAGO | Tue May 21, 2013 2:01pm EDT CHICAGO May 21 (Reuters) - Gap Inc : * CEO says has "not given up" that a global bangladesh safety accord of some kind can be worked out * CEO says ready to sign existing accord led by industriall with some "very minor ...
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China to face Indonesia again in badminton quarters
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Luck was not on Indonesia's side on Tuesday as hours after suffering a crushing 5-0 defeat to China, they were drawn to meet the eight-time Sudirman Cup champions again, this time in the quarter-finals.Germany, who stunned hosts Malaysia 3-2, were matched against South Korea, while Taiwan will meet Denmark, and Thailand will face Japan in the other quarter-finals on ...
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Buriram FC Seoul into Asian quarter-finals
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Thai qualifiers Buriram United held off Uzbek giants Bunyodkor to reach the AFC Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday as FC Seoul beat nine-man Beijing Guoan 3-1.Buriram weathered waves of attack in Tashkent for a 0-0 draw and 2-1 aggregate win over two legs, extending the unfancied club's fairytale run which started with their qualifying victory over Brisbane Roar in ...
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After relegation from Asian Five Nations what lies ahead for UAE rugby
The UAE drives up the pitch during the first half of their 24-8 loss to the Philippines last weekend. The UAE finished without a win in the Asian Five Nations. Mike Young for The ...
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Freeport tunnel victims all evacuated
Thirty-eight workers buried in a collapsed tunnel at the Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine have been all evacuated.A statement released by Freeport said that eight bodies were removed from the collapsed tunnel on the last day of rescue efforts on Tuesday.They were identified as Daniel Tedy Eramuri, David Gobay, Febry Tandungan, Ferry Edison Pangaribuan, ...
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Lawmakers hand Myanmar leader prisoner list
Thein Sein met Tuesday with members of the Senate and House on Capitol Hill, a day after he became the first Myanmar leader to visit the White House in five ...
Sri Lankan Focus
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Sri Lanka sees major tourism industry investment
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, especially the cruising scene, is getting back on its feet following the war, with significant interest being shown by major cruise lines wanting to schedule Sri Lankan ports on Indian Ocean Cruises, while the local yachting scene is seeing exciting growth and a local cruise industry may be emerging from infancy.
Sri Lanka, following the long and devastating civil war, which lasted around two and a half decades, is now making renewed attempts to redevelop its tourist industry. The industry is extremely import to the economy of Sri Lanka and is a vital part of the country’s access to foreign currency reserves, but saw marked declines in tourist arrivals during periods in which the ongoing civil war was perceived to be increasing in intensity and violence. Read more
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