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Manila to give US access up to 5 bases
Reuters, Published on 02/05/2014
» MANILA - Up to five Philippine military bases will be made available for US forces to rotate aircraft, ships, equipment and troops, Manila's chief negotiator of a new security pact said on Friday, as the Philippines looks to counter China's rising power in the region.
Asian economic growth to languish
Reuters, Published on 25/04/2014
» BANGALORE — Growth in emerging Asian countries will be lacklustre this year and contribute less to the global economy, despite signs of recovery in the region's major trading partners in the West, Reuters polls showed on Friday.
World Bank trims China, East Asia 2014 growth forecasts
Reuters, Published on 07/04/2014
» SINGAPORE - The World Bank trimmed its 2014 growth forecast for developing East Asia but said the region's economies were likely to see steady growth in the next couple of years, helped by a pick-up in global growth and trade.
World food prices jump: FAO
Reuters, Published on 03/04/2014
» ROME - Global food prices rose to their highest in almost a year in March, led by unfavourable weather for crops and political tensions over Ukraine, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.
'Uighur' trafficking victims still unverified
Reuters, Published on 17/03/2014
» BEIJING - China's foreign ministry said on Monday that it was too soon to say if a group of about 200 people rescued by police from a human smuggling camp in southern Thailand were Uighurs from China's restive far western region of Xinjiang.
Suspected Uighurs rescued from Thai trafficking camp
Reuters, Published on 14/03/2014
» About 200 people rescued by police from a human trafficking camp in southern Thailand are suspected Uighur Muslims from China's troubled far-western region of Xinjiang, Thai police sources said on Friday.
New Indian Ocean search for lost jet
Reuters, Published on 14/03/2014
» A new search area may be opened in the Indian Ocean as authorities try to determine what happened to a missing Malaysian airliner, the White House said on Thursday.
Malaysia shortlists new jet fighters
Reuters, Published on 28/03/2013
» LANGKAWI - Malaysia has shortlisted five manufacturers as it seeks to buy 18 combat aircraft by 2015 to replace its ageing fleet of Russian-made MIG-29s, the defence minister said on Thursday.
Myanmar mine 'must pay' for land grab
Reuters, Published on 12/03/2013
» YANGON - People whose land was seized to allow the expansion of a copper mine in northwestern Myanmar, prompting protests that were crushed by police, should be compensated before the project goes ahead, according to an official report published on Tuesday.
Thailand struggles with teen pregnancy
Reuters, Published on 08/03/2013
» When Mallika told her parents she was pregnant at 17, they pulled her out of school and ordered her to marry the baby's father. But the marriage didn't happen and the one-time aspiring singer now cares for her baby girl alone.