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Dhaka - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed Thursday warned rebelling border troops of tougher action if they refused to lay down their weapons and end a confrontation between the paramilitary soldiers and their commanders that left at least 50 people dead.
"Please go back to your respective barracks,...
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Wellington - Indian students studying in New Zealand's southernmost city Invercargill have been targets of racial abuse and called terrorists by local people, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Four of those targeted are Sikh who wear turbans, which they said made some ignorant people confuse them with Arabs or Muslims, the...
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Bangkok - Thousands of protestors surrounded Government House in Bangkok for the second day Wednesday as others demonstrated outside the foreign ministry calling for the resignation of Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya.
The protests organized by the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) were designed to embarrass the...
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Ho Chi Minh City - The early arrival of spring weather this year in Vietnam is due to global climate change, the head of Vietnam's southern meteorology laboratory said Wednesday.
"Normally, hot weather starts appearing in the southern provinces in March, but this year, it has arrived about one month early," said Nguyen...
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Kuala Lumpur - Fifty-seven per cent of men and 64 per cent of women in the Asia-Pacific region responding to a survey reported dissatisfaction with their sex lives, news reports said Wednesday.
People in only three of the 13 countries where the pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc conducted its survey reported satisfaction rates of...
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Tokyo - Tokyo stocks rose more than 2 per cent at Wednesday's closing after investors bought back mainly export-oriented issues on weaker yen and the Wall Street's overnight rallies.
The market sentiment was also cheered by media reports saying that the Japanese government plans to use public funds to buy stocks to avoid further...
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Taipei - A Taiwanese man was arrested in the robbery of 5,000 Taiwan dollars (143 US dollars) from a computer engineer after leaving his phone number with his victim to demand more money later, local television reports said Wednesday.
The engineer was collecting money at a cash machine in the central county of Taichung Tuesday...
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Singapore - Singapore is likely to experience its worst ever recession and may lose 99,000 jobs by mid-2010, a DBS Bank report said Wednesday.
"Policy measures that have been put forth so far will help to cushion the blows but the worst of the labour market cycle is yet to come," the DBS researchers warned.
On...
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Bangkok - Germany on Wednesday launched a "climate initiative" with Thailand, providing 9 million euros (410 million baht) to projects designed to assist the South-East Asian country to combat global warming.
The budget, to be spaced out over the next three years, was being provided by the German Ministry of...
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Bangkok - Thai police on Wednesday identified a foreigner whose head was found at the weekend hanging by a rope off a Bangkok bridge as an Italian tourist who committed suicide after being evicted from his guesthouse for not paying the rent.
General Jongrak Chuthanont, deputy police commissioner, identified the decapitated man...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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