Asia Pacific News – VP De Castro Still Leads Tight Race For Philippine President Poll (Nasdaq)
VP De Castro Still Leads Tight Race For Philippine President Poll (Nasdaq) MANILA -(Dow Jones)- Vice President Noli de Castro remains the top choice among Filipinos as president for the 2010 Philippine elections although his lead declined slightly, the latest survey of pollster Pulse Asia showed Monday.
Australian dollar trades near 2-week high against euro [...]
Middle East News – Saudi family group feels the pain
Saudi family group feels the pain Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers Company is one of the oldest and most respected family-owned conglomerates in Saudi Arabia. But one of its subsidiaries has defaulted on financial obligations to other banks
Saudi rules out GCC bank u-turn (Gulf Times) Saudi Arabia and three other Gulf states will proceed [...]
Somalia – Cartoonish U.N.: Pitiful caricature (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Cartoonish U.N.: Pitiful caricature (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) Wanted: A cartoonist for the United Nations Development Programme to produce a comic that addresses the agency’s Millennium Development Goals for Somalia. A sense of humor is a plus. Seriously.
Somalia: Government Opposes Creation of International Tribunal to Trial Somali Pirates (AllAfrica.com) The Somali transitional government has opposed the [...]
Lebanon Crisis Monitor – Electricity Relay to Lebanon Starts (Zawya)
Electricity Relay to Lebanon Starts (Zawya) 30 May 2009 Beirut – Electricity relay to Lebanon started on Friday in Ksarah electricity grid in Bekaa via the eight-way electric grid line.
Lebanon arrests two more in Israeli spy inquiry (AlertNet) Source: Reuters BEIRUT, May 31 (Reuters) – A Lebanese army colonel and a senior retired customs [...]
Southeast Asia – Survivor Bulgaria contestant dies in Philippines (TVNZ)
Survivor Bulgaria contestant dies in Philippines (TVNZ) A Bulgarian competing in the reality TV show Survivor Bulgaria died of a heart attack during filming at a beach resort in the central Philippines, local television reports
Court clears Thai troops over Malay-Muslim deaths (Asia News Network) In one of the most controversial verdicts passed in decades, [...]
Southeast Asia – Malaysia’s Firefly to launch flights to Singapore (USA Today)
Malaysia’s Firefly to launch flights to Singapore (USA Today) Firefly, the budget wing of Malaysia Airlines, said Thursday it will launch flights from several Malaysian cities to Singapore starting in July as part of its regional expansion.
THAILAND, VIETNAM CROWNED MEN’S AND WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONS (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News) KUALA TERENGGANU, May 31 (Bernama)– [...]
South Asia – Pakistan’s Supreme Court lifts ban on opposition leader Sharif (Kitchener – Waterloo Record)
Pakistan’s Supreme Court lifts ban on opposition leader Sharif (Kitchener – Waterloo Record) ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s top court Tuesday lifted a ban on opposition leader Nawaz Sharif contesting elections, paving the way for his return to parliament and removing the first major barrier to him becoming prime minister for a third time.
Taliban fighters flee [...]
South Africa Politics and News Monitor – A. P. Arrow to stand in South Africa (Thoroughbred Times)
A. P. Arrow to stand in South Africa (Thoroughbred Times) Multiple graded stakes winner A. P. Arrow has been purchased to stand in South Africa at Summerhill Stud in KwaZulu-Natal. The seven-year-old by A. P. Indy out of Garimpeiro, by Mr. Prospector, was bought by a partnership of Summerhill, Johan and Gaynor Rupert’s Drakenstein Stud [...]
Philippines – Filipino rebels kill 2 soldiers on aid mission (AP via Yahoo! News)
Filipino rebels kill 2 soldiers on aid mission (AP via Yahoo! News) Communist rebels threw two grenades at army troops helping treat villagers in the central Philippines, killing two soldiers and a civilian who covered a child with his body during the attack, the military said Sunday.
Kidnappers free Filipino-Chinese businesswoman Manila – Kidnappers in [...]
World News – General – North Korea ‘planning to launch long range rocket’
North Korea ‘planning to launch long range rocket’The United States insisted that it would not tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea, as reports suggested that the isolated regime was planning to launch another long-range rocket capable of striking the US.
Germany gets tough on executive pay The toughest crackdown in Europe [...]
