Friday, February 22, 2013

Co-founder of Facebook hails Asia?s tech potential

  • Star Tribune - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    SAN FRANCISCO - New figures show U.S. wine exports grew for the third consecutive year in 2012, setting a record of $1.43 billion in revenue. The San Francisco-based Wine Institute released the ...

  • Co-founder of Facebook hails Asia?s tech potential

    Global Times - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin said Thursday the success of the social networking site would be hard to match but he hoped to make an impact as an Asia-based technology investor."It's ...

  • International standard schools face shutdown after Indonesia court ruling

    Channel News Asia - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    JAKARTA: Ten years ago, Indonesia set up international standard schools with the aim of producing globally-competitive students.But some say the project was a failureand the Constitutional Court ...

  • 15 dead 52 hurt in bomb blasts in Indian city

    Channel News Asia - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    HYDERABAD, India: At least 15 people were killed and 52 injured when three bombs in crowded areas shook the southern Indian city of Hyderabad late on Thursday, police said."Fifteen people are ...

  • Japan detects xenon in air after North Koreas nuclear test

    Channel News Asia - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    TOKYO: Japanese planes detected a trace amount of xenon-133 during monitoring flights over Japan the day after North Korea carried out its third nuclear test last week, the science ministry said on ...

  • 11 killed in explosions in southern Indian city

    Yahoo News - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    View Photo Associated Press - The scene of a blast at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Feb.21, 2013. At least five people were killed Thursday in a pair of explosions in crowded areas of ...

  • Twin blasts rock Indias Hyderabad

    BBC - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    At least 11 people have been killed in a pair of explosions in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state. The blasts rocked a bus station and a cinema less than 10 minutes ...

  • Freed Afghan Taliban fighters return to insurgency

    Sign on San Diego - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    FILE - In this Nov 22, 2009, file photo, Afghan men waiting to get a ride out of the city queue next to a giant poster of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan. At least ...

  • Senatorial candidates woo young voters in Philippine mid-term elections

    Channel News Asia - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    MANILA: The Philippines is holding its mid-term elections in May. Dubbed the "alternative" candidates, a group of Senatorial candidates is hoping to change the country's entrenched ...

  • Three British Muslims guilty of rucksack bomb plot

    Times of India - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    LONDON: Three British Muslim men were found guilty on Thursday of planning a string of bombings that prosecutors said could have been deadlier than the July 7, 2005, attacks on London's ...

  • Bangladesh cracks down on anti-Islam blogs

    Times Of India - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    Bangladesh has launched a crackdown on Internet sites for "hurting religious feelings" in the majority Muslim nation amid protests by Islamic groups against bloggers seen as anti-Islamic, ...

  • At least 31 killed in Damascus car bomb blast Watchdog

    Times of India - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    A car bomb shook central Damascus on Thursday, exploding near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (AP/PTI ...

  • Damascus car bomb kills 35 18 die in airstrike

    Tampa Bay Online - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A car bomb near the Damascus headquarters of Syria's ruling party killed 35 people on Thursday, while a government airstrike on a rebel field hospital in southern Daraa ...

  • Indian province refuses to host Asian Athletics Championships due to Sri Lankan participation

    Canada.com - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    NEW DELHI - The chief minister of an Indian state scheduled to host the Asian Athletics Championships is refusing to organize the July meet because of the participation of Sri Lankan athletes. ...

  • VIDEO Filipinos say Philip joke unfair

    BBC - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    The Duke of Edinburgh told a nurse from the Philippines that her country must be "half empty" because so many of her compatriots have come to the UK to work for the NHS. "The ...

  • Philippine leader Aquino criticises gunmen in Malaysia

    The Straits Times - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday, Feb 21, 2013, criticised Filipino gunmen who entered a Malaysian state in a bizarre effort to stake a territorial claim, warning their actions could ...

  • India police 3 sisters aged 5-11 raped killed

    San Diego Union-Tribune - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    NEW DELHI -; Police say they have launched a manhunt for men suspected in the rape and killing of three sisters, aged 5 to 11, in the latest case of sexual violence to grip ...

  • Chinas BBQ ban plans stoke up anger

    Channel News Asia - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    BEIJING: China web-users were furious on Thursday over plans to tackle pollution with a ban on barbecues, wryly asking if Beijing would stamp out fried food and normal bodily functions in its war on ...

  • India plans mission to Mars in 2013

    Channel News Asia - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    NEW DELHI: India said on Thursday it will send a $70 million space mission to Mars this year to study the red planet's atmosphere.The unmanned Mars orbiter mission, to be launched in October by ...

  • European and Asian stocks in steep sell-off

    CNN Money - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    European markets are sharply lower today with shares in Germany off the most. The DAX is down 1.73% while France's CAC 40 is off 1.70% and London's FTSE 100 is lower by ...

  • Asia Fuel Oil-March crack at nearly one-week high

    Yahoo - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    SINGAPORE, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Asian fuel oil margins strengthened on the back of lower arbitrage volumes and improved bunker demand, trade sources said on Thursday. By the Asian close, the ...

  • Asia GasolineNaphtha-Gasoline returns to four-year high

    Yahoo - Thursday 21st February, 2013

    SINGAPORE, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The Asian gasoline margin returned to a four-year high on Thursday after three straight sessions of losses. Firm demand from Indonesia drove the crack value back up ...

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