International

DPJ shows confidence with proportional-representation only candidates
17/08/2009 05:00
As official campaigning got under way for the Aug. 30 election, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) fielded a record-high 59 candidates for proportional-representation (PR) only seats. Japan’s main opposition Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama...
S Korea’s former President Kim Dae-jung dies
17/08/2009 05:00
Former President Kim Dae-jung died at the age of 85 at 1:42 p.m. (0442 GMT) Tuesday, Seoul’s Severance Hospital said. South Korean President Kim Dae-jung speaks at a news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul in this Jan. 11, 2001 file...
DPRK to resume tourism projects with South Korean Hyundai
16/08/2009 05:00
DPRK agreed to resume tourism projects on Mt. Kumgang and Kaesong with South Korean Hyundai Group and allow land passage through the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) from the south side. Photo released by Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)...
Iran puts 25 more protesters on trial
16/08/2009 05:00
Iran on Sunday put 25 more post-election protestors on trial, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iranian suspects sit in a courtroom in Tehran Aug. 16, 2009. Iran began its third mass trial on Sunday of people accused of fomenting the unrest...
Chinese schools ordered to ramp up flu prevention measures
16/08/2009 05:00
China’s education and health authorities have ordered schools to quarantine students and downsize classes, and even entitled them to reschedule the new semester date to curb the spread of A/H1N1 influenza. Students who have close contact with...
Billion-dollar IPOs set to return to US
16/08/2009 05:00
Investors lured by healthier stock markets and private equity firms eager to unload stakes in their portfolio companies are setting the stage for the return of billion-dollar-sized initial public offerings to the US. The size of several recent...
Backroom cyber warriors trawl web for extremist threats
16/08/2009 05:00
This photo taken on August 5 shows Singaporean research analyst Nur Azlin Mohamed Yasin (L-background) and Jolene Jerard (front R) surfing the Internet in Singapore. Nur Azlin Mohamed Yasin spends several hours...