Provides the latest RSS feeds for Asia News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Brunei News.net http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/cat/bf053b50c46383e0/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 17:50:38 -0400 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:50:38 -0400 30 The death toll in an avalanche in the Siachen glacier region last year has risen to 128, following the recovery of three more bodies, the Pakistani military said. The bodies of three soldiers were recovered from Gayari sector of Siachen Saturday, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported. On April 7, 2012, at least 140 soldiers of the 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion and a few civilians came ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612474/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:40:01 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612474/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 A one-man inquiry tribunal comprising Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of Lahore High Court may visit India to complete the judicial inquiry into the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, a media report said. Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan, died May 2 after a group of Pakistani prisoners attacked him April 26 Kot Lakhpat Jail. Sarabjit was on death row since 1990 ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612473/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:30:01 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612473/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 NEW DELHI Chinese Premier Li Keqiang begins a three-day visit to India Sunday. His visit comes in the wake of a tense border standoff in the Himalayan mountains, but the Asian giants are trying to downplay the disagreement. Syed Akbaruddin, India's Foreign Ministry spokesman, said it was appreciated that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is making India the first stop of his first overseas ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606430/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:15:18 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606430/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 A top Pakistani politician has been shot and killed in Karachi. Police say Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot twice in the head Saturday during an attempted street robbery outside her home. She died on the way to the hospital. A spokesman for Hussain's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, calls her killing an act of terrorism. Hussain was a senior vice president of PTI, which ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606425/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:15:03 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606425/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the Associated Press (AP) has said that US justice department's seizure of phone records is hurting the agency's ability to gather ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618607/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:20:53 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618607/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 White House in recent days. After wavering initially, the US president has launched an all-out offensive to contain fallout from the trio of controversies. Senior Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer, doing the rounds of weekly television talk shows, went into damage control mode on the scandals, including one related to alleged abuses by the ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618195/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:51:18 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618195/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 extremists and three soldiers. Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, said in a statement that one soldier also was missing as "forces have been engaging a large number of heavily armed terrorists" for the last two days. He did not say exactly where the fighting occurred but that about 20 people were arrested. There was no independent confirmation of the military's ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618170/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:51:12 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618170/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Asean integration is upon us. Whether Filipino organizations recognize it or not, the prospect of economic integration is changing business dynamics across the region, creating new opportunities and with it, new risks. Embracing a new reality is not always an easy task, even for experienced businessmen. There are a lot of adjustments that they will need to make, as the Asean Economic Community ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618471/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:36:39 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618471/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Enlarge A woman from the Thandawli village uses an broken umbrella to shelter herself from the rain in a Rohingya internally displaced persons (IDP) camp outside of Sittwe, Burma on May 14, ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618472/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:32:14 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214618472/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday began talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on all crucial bilateral issues within hours of his arrival when he affirmed that his visit will "inject new vigour" into bilateral ties and strengthen mutual trust.57-year-old Li, accompanied by a senior-level delegation comprising government officials and businessmen, arrived around 3 pm on a ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214617055/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:00:27 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214617055/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Asia's flood-prone megacities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for their booming populations, experts said Sunday.Rapid urbanization has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that paralysed Jakarta and Manila last year ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616420/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:29:44 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616420/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Mexico is in a great moment. Macroeconomic stability and a low debt rate are part of our strengths as one of the top 15 economies in the world. We are an economy with a broad social perspective fully inserted into international trade, with an exchange of goods and services that amounts more than $700 billion each year. We offer a secure and trustworthy environment for foreign investment. Our ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616051/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:29:38 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616051/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bangladesh's top court on Sunday ordered police to prevent the owner of a garmentfactory that catered to top Western retailers from leaving the country, six months after 111 of his employees died in a ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616421/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:27:26 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616421/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 JUBA: At least 29 people were killed when cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state, a local official said Sunday. The gunmen crept into Tolleri village in Ulang county in the early hours of Saturday morning and sprayed it with bullets, killing 23 people instantly, said Dak Tap Chuol, commissioner for the nearby ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616055/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:04:52 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616055/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Barack Obama learned that the federal tax collection agency had targeted conservative groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on Sunday. The Obama administration has also been forced on the defensive over its handling of last September's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the US ambassador and ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616056/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:04:51 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214616056/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Editor's Note: This is the second part of a four-part series based on the new book, "Aliens in the Promised Land: Why Minority Leadership Is Overlooked in White Christian Churches and Institutions." The Christian Post series looks at racism and multi-ethnicity in the church from the perspective of African-American, Hispanic and Asian-American Christian leaders. Part One, an ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615510/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:36:16 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615510/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bangladesh on Sunday slapped abanon rallies for a month in the wake of deadly protests by Islamists that left dozens of people killed earlier this ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615856/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:36:01 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615856/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 This picture courtesy of the Gupta family shows Vela Gupta and her husband Indian-born Aaskash Jahajgarhia posing with relatives and guests during ceremonies for their wedding in Sun City, South Africa, on May 1, 2013. (AFP ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615464/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:33:33 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615464/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TEEN karter Gabe Tayao-Cabrera triumphed by just a fraction of a second to capture the Formula 125 Open Junior crown and emerge as the top Filipino finisher in the Philippine leg of the 2013 Asian Karting Open Championships held over the weekend at Carmona Racetrack in Cavite. Cabrera completed the 22-lap final race in 16 minutes and 12.090 seconds, just 0.424 ticks ahead of Singaporean Jon Lee ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615511/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:33:13 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615511/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Several independent candidates belonging to influential political families of Punjab and Sindh provinces are among those who have joined the PML-N, which emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615485/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:13:18 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615485/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TAIPEI (AFP) - Thousands of Taiwanese marched through the capital Taipei on Sunday urging the government to halt construction of a nearly completed nuclear power plant, citing the Japanese atomic crisis.The demonstrators chanted slogans like "No Nuke for Our Children" during the march which extended for miles as they evoked memories of the March 2011 Fukushima crisis sparked by an ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614954/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:53 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614954/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 KARACHI (AFP) - Under tight security, Pakistani officials Sunday held a repeat election in a district of violence-plagued Karachi, despite the killing of a senior politician in the city the day before.Troops, police and paramilitary rangers backed up by armoured personnel carriers guarded the 43 polling stations in the NA-250 constituency, following claims of ballot-stuffing there during the May ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615050/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:50 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214615050/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's state-run news agency says a jet has crashed during an airshow in southern Turkey, killing its pilot. The Anadolu Agency says there were no other casualties in Sunday's crash in the southern city of Adana. There was no immediate information on the plane's type. The agency says the airshow was part of public holiday festivities marking the 94th anniversary ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614639/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:53:39 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614639/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Assad regime's "barbaric and destructive" assault on Qusayr could render "meaningless" US-Russian attempts to organize a conference on ending two years of bloodshed in the country. The Arab League called an emergency meeting for Thursday, ahead of the conference, following demands from the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) for it to meet and "stop the massacre ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614643/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:53:38 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614643/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 In his remarks during the agriculture and food security conference for the ASEAN diplomatic community in Washington DC, Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia Jr. said the Philippines is willing to share the knowledge and experience it has obtained in the 10 years it has implemented its science-based regulatory system for products of modern biotechnology and also learn from the experiences of the US and ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614857/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:30:50 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614857/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Around 20,000 Red Shirt protesters rallied in Bangkok Sunday to mark the third anniversary of a bloodycrackdownon anti-government protests which exposed Thailand's deep divisions, police ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614483/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:04:38 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614483/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 By HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing recent tension, including near-daily ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614482/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:58:15 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614482/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 TAIPEI - Taiwan Sunday repeated calls for a joint investigation into the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coastguards, an incident which has ignited a major diplomatic dispute. A team of Taiwanese investigators returned to the island Saturday, accusing the Philippine government of failing to honor its agreement to conduct a joint ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614356/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:57:49 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614356/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 J K Rowling had with her boyfriend, in a Manchester hotel room, resulted in the idea that led to creation of the most gripping sport in 'wizarding world'. Quidditch - the sport which is one of the most famous elements of ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614260/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:41:11 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214614260/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channels must be translated into Vietnamese. Foreign governments and a leading pay TV trade group have urged the Vietnamese government to modify the decree, saying it is tantamount to ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613994/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:08:04 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613994/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING -; Unidentified North Koreans have seized a Chinese fishing boat and its 16 crew members and have demanded a ransom, Chinese state media and the boat owner ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613608/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 07:31:45 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613608/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON: One ticket-holder won a record Powerball lottery jackpot of more than $590 million, organizers said today, ending a days-long American quest for a life-changing payout. The winning numbers -- 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and a Powerball of 11 -- were drawn just before 11:00 pm eastern time (0300 GMT Sunday) and the winning ticket was sold in Florida, according to the competition's website. ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613588/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:59:45 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613588/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that injured dozens of people commuting home from New York City, three of them critically. More than 60 people were hospitalized on Friday night after an eastbound commuter train derailed and collided with a westbound passenger train on an adjacent track near the Connecticut suburb of Fairfield. ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613587/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:59:45 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613587/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AFP) - Asia's flood-prone megacities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for their booming populations, experts said on Sunday. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613283/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:42:06 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613283/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Justice Naqvi of the Lahore high court is investigating the death of Sarabjit who died on May 2 following a brutal assault by prisoners on April 26 within Kot Lakhpat Jail ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613197/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:30:28 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613197/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Shinzo Abe made the comment after a surprise visit to North Korea by one of his advisers last week has irritated the United States and South Korea as a possible damper to their efforts to forge a united front against Pyongyang. "I want to pursue negotiations or dialogue" with North Korea, he told reporters in Fukuoka, southern Japan, according to Japanese media. "I will definitely ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613264/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:30:25 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613264/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613253/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:24:55 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613253/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613241/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 06:20:38 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214613241/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SEOU: North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, a Seoul official said. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP without elaborating. On Saturday the communist state fired three short-range missiles off the east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612881/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:39:13 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612881/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 KARACHI (AFP) - Pakistani politician Imran Khan Sunday blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi.The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612590/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 05:00:39 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612590/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers. Ban, who spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti during a visit to Moscow, called North Korea's launch of three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday a "provocative action". "We are very worried over North Korea's provocative action," he told RIA in ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612581/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:37:01 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612581/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said.Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters around 70 kilometres (40 miles) from North Korea's western ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612129/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:10:08 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612129/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TIMIKA, Indonesia -; Rescuers have pulled another body from a collapsed facility at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the death toll to ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612153/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:08:10 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612153/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 South Korea on Sunday condemned North Korea'slatest short-range missile launches as "provocative" and again urged it to holdtalks about a suspended jointly-run industrial ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612443/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:59:48 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612443/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SAITAMA, Japan: When amateur actress Etsuko Shigemoto walks out in front of a Paris audience in an all-Japanese production this month she will forget about being 87 years old."I have weak hearing and poor sight. I have problems all over my body," she said. "But I am still young in spirit."Shigemoto is one of a troupe of elderly actors -- average age 74 -- under the tutelage of ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612444/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:59:47 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612444/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Amadeo Perez, chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Center) AFP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is waiting for tempers in Taiwan to cool before settling the dispute over a shot Taiwanese fisherman, the head of an office in charge of relations said Sunday. Issues like Manila’s ';one-China'; policy and comments by Taiwanese investigators ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612136/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:51:37 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612136/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The report said Kayani called on Sharif to congratulate him on the PML-N's success in the general election and informally talked "about all national security ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612138/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:36:27 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612138/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Harry Potter book , complete with handwritten notes which reveal the author invented the fictional sport of Quidditch after a row with her then-boyfriend, is going up for sale. Rowling will auction a hand signed, annotated ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612140/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:36:25 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214612140/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese minister on Sunday defended a surprise visit to North Korea by one of the prime minister's aides which Washington and Seoul said could not help efforts to forge a united front against Pyongyang.Akira Amari, state minister of economic revitalisation, said the four-day trip by Isao Iijima reflected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resolve to have North Korea come clean ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214611674/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:19:50 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214611674/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The body of Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior female politician from cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, is carried at a hospital in Karachi, in this still image taken from video footage, May 18, 2013. Hussain was shot and killed by unidentified assailants on Saturday, according to ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214611628/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:56:29 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214611628/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted, tourism officials said on ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214611130/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:18:47 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214611130/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 TEHRAN, Iran: Iran hanged two convicted spies on Sunday, one found guilty of working for Israel, the other for the United States, the Tehran prosecutor's office announced. Mohammad Heydari was convicted of "receiving payment to provide intelligence on various security issues and national secrets in repeated meetings with the ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214611219/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:55:39 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214611219/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The UAE's Gareth Armstrong tries to advance the ball against the Philippines Volcanoes in their Asian Five Nations closer at Manila on Saturday ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214610775/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:38:50 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214610775/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars anddrones line a police equipment and "anti-terrorism technology" trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China's huge internal security ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214610762/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 01:28:27 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214610762/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Art lovers, collectors and gallerists will gather on Thursday for Hong Kong's inaugural edition of Art Basel, sealing the city's status as an international art hub and Asia's leading art destination. The four-day annual show is the world's premier art fair and has until now only been held in Switzerland and the United States each year. More than 2,000 international artists ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214610309/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:31:02 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214610309/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 In China, the police often act as if by engaging in sex work, women had forfeited their rights. The government must abandon its repressive laws against sex workers, discipline abusive police, and end the suppression of sex workers rights ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214610640/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:16:48 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214610640/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 In mid-April, the Chinese government said the increased U.S. military presence in the Asia-Pacific region causes a lot of tension, and they plan to send more military forces and strengthen their partnerships with neighboring countries. A recent study found that China increasingly threatens to end the military supremacy of the ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214609317/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:27:44 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214609317/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will attend the 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Summit scheduled for May 19 to 20 in Thailand, semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday.Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi and Vice President Mohammad-Javad Mohammadizadeh will accompany Ahmadinejad during his visit to Thailand, according to the report.The primary themes of the water summit, to be held in ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214608758/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:03:30 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214608758/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Maulana Wali Rahmani, a senior Muslim cleric and secretary at AIMPLB, said: "This court will function to settle mainly family disputes among Muslim families pertaining to marriage, divorce and inheritance on the basis of Shariah ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214608662/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:07:11 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214608662/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607765/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:48:03 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607765/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Emmelie de Forest of Denmark performs her song "Only Teardrops" during a rehearsal for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden, Friday, May 17, 2013. The contest is run by European television broadcasters with the event being held in Sweden as they won the competition in 2012, the final will be held in Malmo on May 18. (AP Photo/Alastair ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607020/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:25:46 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607020/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bandar Seri Begawan - The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS) will hold the Asean Youth Entreprenuers Exhibition' on May 20 to 22, 9am to 5pm at the 4th floor of the Rizqun International Hotel in ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607159/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:17:07 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607159/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 curfew on Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents. A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607071/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:49 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607071/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people. "To resign would be to flee," Assad said in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John Kerry. "I don't know if ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607093/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:48 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607093/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Nawaz Sharif and briefed him on the security situation of the country. Kayani, who sought the meeting, called on Sharif at his brother Shahbaz Sharif's residence in Lahore on Saturday. This was the first meeting between Kayani and Sharif since the PML-N emerged victorious in the elections. The meeting lasted over three hours and the leaders had lunch together. The army chief briefed the ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607017/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:46 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607017/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING: China is developing robots with a lot more capabilities for battle, "information acquisition, command and control, and collaborative support," official sources said. But the official Chinese media is saying its effort is different from the manner in which military robots have been developed in the US. "The Chinese military has its own orientation and direction, and is very ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607075/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:42 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607075/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Tamil diaspora for the lack of support in his reconciliation and rebuilding efforts in the former conflict zones. "Diaspora and the Tamil parties who foster separation still try to take the Tamil society towards destruction", he said while speaking at the Victory Day celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the military victory over ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607079/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:46 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607079/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607080/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:45 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607080/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The failure highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict interpretation of Islam kept Afghan women virtual prisoners in ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607082/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:42 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607082/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Pandit Ravi Shankar . Curators in the UK sifting through thousands of objects belonging Britten and Pears have stumbled upon an ink written page in their private diaries which recalled their experience of having heard Shankar perform live. Britten and Pears had visited India in the early 1950s. Their diary called Shankar "the real thing". The letter will be part of a museum in the Red ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607083/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:41 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607083/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING: A Chinese man kidnapped 23 years ago at the age of five and sold to a family 1,500km from his home, has been reunited with his family again, ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607084/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:39 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607084/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published in an Argentine newspaper on Saturday. Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. "There is confusion in the world between a political solution and terrorism. They think a political ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607085/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:53:37 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214607085/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Saturday began the first visit to Washington by a leader of his country in nearly 50 years as the United States throws its support behind his ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606899/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:23:29 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606899/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks my heart" that the death of a homeless person is not news. Francis, who has made straight talk and simplicity a hallmark of his papacy, made his unscripted comments in answers to questions by four people at a huge ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606543/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:20:45 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606543/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 An invasive insect from Asia first spotted in Michigan two years ago could pose a major threat this year to fruit growers, officials say. The brown marmorated stink bug was reported in 12 counties last year, The Detroit News reported Saturday. While it has not yet been seen in Macomb County, just north of Detroit, growers there are apprehensive. Paul Blake grows strawberries, peaches, cherries ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606465/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:03:43 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606465/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SPOKANE, WASHINGTON: Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment on Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606539/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:59:51 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606539/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Al Ahli's Abdulaziz Sanqour, right, tackles Founeke Sy of Ajman in Dubai on Saturday night. Al Ahli's 3-0 win sealed second place in the league table. Al ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606035/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:38:56 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214606035/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. Shahid was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605984/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:36:57 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605984/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Zahra Shahid Hussain , the vice-president of the party's chapter in Sindh, was shot by two unidentified men outside her home in Defence Phase IV on Saturday. She died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Hussain was a member of the party's central executive committee. The motive for the murder could not immediately be ascertained. The killers escaped on a motorcycle. The shooting ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605551/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:29:52 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605551/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 march in Rome on Saturday, protesting against the new coalition government's austerity measures. The metal workers union FIOM said the rally was to demand "the right to jobs, training and health care". "We cannot wait any longer," said FIOM ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605426/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:07:55 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605426/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 al-Qaida militants in the country's south. The officials say the attack took place around dawn on Saturday in an area called Deyfa in Abyan province. Officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to brief the media. Yemeni forces battled al-Qaida in Abyan province last year, routing out militants from major cities that al-Qaida had overrun during the country's 2011 ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605427/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:07:52 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605427/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 JAKARTA: A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police said on Saturday.Cheznye Emmons, 23, was travelling with fellowBritonJoseph Cook, 21, through lush rainforest on Sumatra island, where many tourists go to see endangered orangutans, according to a police report into the incident.The pair, accompanied by a third ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605276/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:34:53 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605276/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 After a relatively calm few weeks, North Korea fired three short-range missiles Saturday, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman said. NPR's Louisa Lim reports that North Korea fired the missiles in defiance of international sanctions. She filed this report for our Newscast ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605275/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:27:44 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214605275/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 (Fotolia) NEWARK, N.J. - A US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday after the plane’s landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. Piedmont Airlines flight 4560, operating for US Airways from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members, landed safely at 1 ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214604207/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:31:21 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214604207/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Brazilian army soldiers take part in a military exercise in preparation for the upcoming FIFA Confederations Cup, in a field near the National Stadium in Brasilia. (AP ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214603721/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:11:57 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214603721/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house. Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his car when the two raced up and opened fire in Farah province. Provincial ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214603056/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:10:39 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214603056/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 The Supreme Court of Canada today upheld the acquittal of a Saskatchewan woman who was charged with abandoning a child after giving birth in a Wal-Mart ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214602586/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:28:39 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214602586/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 SINGAPORE ... http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214602848/scat/bf053b50c46383e0 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:09:12 -0400 http://www.bruneinews.net/index.php/sid/214602848/scat/bf053b50c46383e0