New free trade zone to benefit China China Daily | Global opportunities to emerge from tariff-free market in Asia | China's top brands could be on the road to becoming global household names after the launch of the $4.5 trillion China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) market, the world's largest free t...
Family Vaults Women to Leadership in Asia The New York Times | BANGKOK - "I am not a woman prime minister," Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India's leader. "I am a prime minister." | But the question, here in Asia, is whether there really is such a thing as a woman prime minister. | More wo...
Australia for joint task force with India to counter maritime terror DNA India | Port Blair: Australia's diplomatic relations with India may have come under strain over recent racial attack on Indians there, but the military relations is soaring to new heights, with their navy looking at a joint task force in Asia-Pacific r...
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Nine billion people by 2050? The Guardian | The world's population is growing at a startling rate. These figures show the number of people in each country on the globe | • | How many people live in each country in the wo...
Pinoys brush teeth less or use less toothpaste Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines--'Brush your teeth every day. Preferably, after every meal.' | This was the message of Cecilio Pedro, founder of the proudly Filipino brand, Hapee Toothpaste,...
10 hotels in Malaysia now hold Green Award status The Star | anntan@thestar.com.my | BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Five hotels in Malaysia have been chosen as the new recipients of the Asean Green Hotel Award 2010, bringing the total number of such...
Navies of 13 countries in joint exercise off Andaman islands m&c | New Delhi - The navies of 13 Asia-Pacific countries gathered off India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands Friday for a regional exercise in coordinated disaster response, news reports said. | Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, My...
Navy Chief says Milan not a security bloc Newstrack India | Port Blair, Feb 5 (ANI): Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma on Friday said that Exercise Milan, the largest naval conglomeration hosted by India, is not a security bloc aimed at any particular country, specially China and its increasing influence in t...
DUE TO DUBAI WORRIES--> S&T seen critical to Asean integration Malaya BY PAUL ICAMINA | The Philippines needs to get its act together in science and technology in order to keep abreast with neighbors in a very competitive Asean Community in the next five years, a senior official of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) said yesterday. | "The Asean Community will be created by 2015 as a single produc...
Second Global Model UN of young people to be held in Malaysia in July United Nations | Global Model UN conference opening ceremony in Geneva in 20094 February 2010 – Some 1,000 of the best university-level students worldwide are expected to take part in a Global Model United Nations Conference in Malaysia in July as the world body seeks to harness the energy and intellect of Earth's younger citizens in achieving peace and developme...
