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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic recovery. But gains were modest across the region as investors took a wait-and-see stance ahead of closely-watched U.S. employment figures due out Friday.
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| Posted at 02:17 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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China's culture minister is visiting Taiwan in the latest sign of warming ties between the rivals. After arriving Thursday, Cai Wu said he would attend a forum to discuss closer cultural cooperation during his one-week stay. He is the highest evel Chinese official to visit the island since the 1998 visit by a science and technology minister.
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| Posted at 04:44 PM, Sep 02, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Taiwan is warning ships and island residents about storm conditions as two tropical storms approach. The Central Weather Bureau said tropical storm Namtheun was at sea 55 miles (90 kilometers) northwest of Taipei early Tuesday. It had winds of 40 miles (65 kilometers) per hour and was moving slowly toward southern China.
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| Posted at 12:09 PM, Aug 31, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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A surfeit of cats is giving a second life to a decayed Taiwanese coal-mining town that last prospered in the 1970s. Visitors' raves on local blogs have helped draw dozens of cat lovers to fondle, frolic and photograph the 100 or so resident felines in Houtong, one of several industrial communities in decline since Taiwan's railroads electrified and oil grew as a power source.
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| Posted at 04:50 PM, Aug 30, 2010 |
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Jon Russell, Social Media and Technology in Asia
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A week is a long time in politics, as they say, but in this internet-centric age, a week in the the web can be even longer. To keep up with what's happening in Asia, every Monday I recap my pick of Asia's key tech/digital news and articles from the previous week, while also including a round-up of the week's posts from this blog too.
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| Posted at 11:30 AM, Aug 30, 2010 |
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Yeoh Siew Hoon, WIT at TheTransitCafe
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Well, the image of “travelling in tour groups” has taken a severe battering of late. First, there was the Hong Kong tour guide rant at a group of Chinese tourists for not shopping enough, which makes you wonder how long these zero-commission tours should be allowed to continue. Then, we watched in horror as a bungled attempt to rescue a group of tourists from the Hong Thai bus in Manila unfolded before our very eyes this week.
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| Posted at 12:51 AM, Aug 27, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Asian stock markets slid Wednesday as a shock drop in U.S. housing sales and slowing growth in Japanese exports added to evidence of a waning global recovery. Global markets have spent most of August in the red as economic indicators from the U.S., Japan, China and elsewhere suggested global growth will slow in the second half, dimming earnings prospects for manufacturers and other exporters.
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| Posted at 03:49 PM, Aug 25, 2010 |
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Zin Linn, The Democracy Question of Burma
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A new Border Guard Force (BGF) program deadline for the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) also known as Mongla group has been scheduled. At an August 20 meeting, the Burmese junta instructed the two ceasefire groups to submit their agreement on transforming into BGF by the first week of September, said Shan Herald News.
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| Posted at 04:43 PM, Aug 24, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Asian stocks markets retreated Tuesday led by Japan as the yen climbed and investors anticipated more bad news from U.S. economic reports this week. The region's markets have spent most of August in the red as economic indicators from the U.S., China, Japan and elsewhere suggested global growth will slow in the second half of the year, dimming profit growth prospects for Asia's exporters.
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| Posted at 03:29 PM, Aug 24, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Thousands of Taiwanese lit small paper homes and scattered them onto the placid waters of the South China Sea early Tuesday, part of an annual rite meant to placate the souls of the dead during the island's colorful Ghost Month observances. Every year Taiwanese honor wandering ghosts in the hope they will cease to haunt the living. Chinese tradition — embraced by most Taiwanese — holds that the gates of the nether world open once every 12 months and ghosts walk the earth freely for 30 days.
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| Posted at 02:10 PM, Aug 24, 2010 |
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Danny Arao, Philippine Fantasy
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A student from De La Salle University (DLSU)-Manila interviewed me via email about the concept of news blackout. This is a very timely topic considering the ongoing hostage-taking not yet been resolved as I write this today (August 23, 6:45 p.m.)
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| Posted at 06:50 PM, Aug 23, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau says a moderate earthquake has struck off the eastern coast of the island. There have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The bureau says the quake registered magnitude 5.4, while the U.S. Geological Survey puts it at 5.0.
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| Posted at 04:56 PM, Aug 22, 2010 |
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