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South East Asia
Activists protest at KFC outlet in Semarang
Top news in <The Jakarta Post> : Activists protest at KFC outlet in Semarang Two activists wearing Sumatran tiger costumes along with several members of Greenpeace visited a KFC fast food restaurant on Jl. Pandanaran, Semarang, Central Java on Saturday, calling on KFC to stop using food-wrapping paper produced by…
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West Asia
Major news in Turkey on June 18: Court rules ‘7+5′ for President Gül
Top news in <Sabah>: Court rules ‘7+5′ for President Gül Turkey’s Constitutional Court has determined that President Abdullah Gül’s current term will complete in seven-years’ from his appointment. Court members also voted unanimously on cancelling out an article in the Presidential Election Code restricting a president from serving two terms.…
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West Asia
Major news in Iran on June 18: Nuclear Rights Should Be Respected
Top news in <Iran Daily>: Nuclear Rights Should Be Respected Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili said Tehran expects that its right to nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment, be recognized in the upcoming talks with the G5+1 in Moscow. In an exclusive interview with the English-language Russia…
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South East Asia
Rohingya Muslims in Maylaysia Protest Against Myanmar Violence
A Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya Muslim in Malaysia holds a placard during a rally against the current violence in Myanmar, at National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, June 17, 2012. Myanmar’s state media reported Saturday that the death toll from recent communal violence in the west has increased to 50,…
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West Asia
UN Observers Suspend Patrols in Syria
U.N. observers are seen at the Dama Rose hotel in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, June 17, 2012. U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months of diplomatic efforts to prevent the…
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“Vietnam actively contributes to UNESCO’s operation”
Vietnam actively contributes to UNESCO’s operation, Vietnamese official HANOI, June 16 (Xinhua) — Vietnam has made active contributions to the operations of UNESCO in the country and the world, said Nguyen Thanh Son, Deputy Foreign Minister, Chairman of the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO during the opening of the consultation…
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IT-Science
China Focus: UN official, experts call for int’l cooperation in space program
JIUQUAN, June 16 (Xinhua) — China’s space station will be an ideal international cooperation platform and the world is expecting China to escalate its space program, said a senior official of the United Nations after watching the launch of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft in the Gobi desert on Saturday. Dr. Mazlan…
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Singapore researchers discover potential new drug to treat deadly cancer
SINGAPORE, June 17 (Xinhua) — Researchers in Singapore have discovered a potential new treatment that may bring some hope for cancer patients with a highly aggressive form of lymphoma, local media reported on Sunday. Even better news: The compound involved is already being tested on a different illness – to…
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Lifestyle
Excerpts from Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize speech
Excerpts from Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize speech OSLO, Norway (AP) – in Oslo City Hall, Norway, on Saturday: “Often during my days of house arrest it felt as though I were no longer a part of the real world. There was the house which was my world,…
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World
[News in Pictures] Egypt Presidential Runoff
Egyptians gather to protest ongoing military rule in Cairo, Egypt on Friday, June 15, 2012. On the right, a man holds a defaced campaign poster of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik, a man widely believed to be an extension of Hosni Mubarak’s regime. On Thursday, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved the…
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