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Breaking News Tue, 29 Dec 2009
Isolated Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan to get its first railway link
Bhutan   Buddhist   Photos   Railway   Tibet		  The Times 
Isolated Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan to get its first railway link
Tue 29 Dec 2009
The reclusive Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is to have its first railway after its newly crowned monarch finalised a plan with India to build an 11-mile (18km) link between the two countries. The... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
The Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Murli Deora inspecting the pipeline laying activity of Dahej - Panvel - Dabhol pipeline of GAIL at Kankarkari near Surat, Gujarat on May 07, 2007- india - hires - am1
Company   Economy   Energy   Industry   Photos		  The Siasat Daily 
ONGC, GAIL to acquire stake in Chinese gas pipeline
Tue 29 Dec 2009
New Delhi, December 29: State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and GAIL India plan to take 12.5 percent stake in the $2.01 billion (around Rs 9,300 crore) gas pipeline that China is building in... (photo: PIB)
A Tibetan family on hunger-strike at the first day of the Tibetan New Year in Dharamshala, India  Hartford Courant  Tue 29 Dec 2009
Myanmar-born US citizen held in solitary confinement in Yangon after 12-day hunger strike
YANGON, (AP) — An American jailed in Myanmar was placed in solitary confinement after ending a 12-day hunger strike, prompting to request his return to a standard prison cell, an embassy... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
Hunger   Myanmar   Photos   Standard   Strike
President Barack Obama is applauded by Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, left, and master of ceremonies Jim Benson, right, as he arrives to speak at the National Veterans Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.  Wall Street Journal  Tue 29 Dec 2009
Obama Puts the Dis in Dissident

Here's a timely New Year's resolution the president might do well to deliver to his National Security Council: "When it comes to nasty regimes that brutalize their people, we will never again forget... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
HumanRights   People   Photos   Politics   Security
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Young Hmong hilltribe with their belongings make their way through Ban Huay Nam Khao village for a new shelter after being forced to abandone their bamboo houses in Petchabun province, northeastern Thailand Wednesday, July 6, 2005. About 6,500 ethnic Hmong hilltribe people who fled Laos for fear of being killed over their Vietnam War-era links to the United States have been forced to move from their bamboo houses they had built in a remote village ahead of a deadline Monday for landowners to expel them or face charges of sheltering illegal immigrants. Wall Street Journal Tue 29 Dec 2009
Nations Urge Thailand to Stop Repatriating Hmong to Laos

By JAMES HOOKWAY BANGKOK -- Thailand is coming under increasing pressure to stop the forced repatriation of 4,000 ethnic Hmong to Laos, amid rising fears that many of the... (photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong)
Deportation   Human Rights   Laos   Photos   Thailand
Hmong ADC company during the mission on Spring 1961 The Statesman Mon 28 Dec 2009
Thailand begins deporting Hmong refugees

;Indo-Asian News Service BANGKOK, 28 DEC: Thailand today began deporting 4,000 ethnic Hmong refugees to Laos despite international appeals to the government to reconsider... (photo: Public Domain / Belissarius)
Asian   Indo   Photos   Refugees   Thailand
A boy suffering from severe malaria is treated Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005, at a Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic in Lankien in southern Sudan. WPXI Mon 28 Dec 2009
New Form Of Malaria Threatens Thai-Cambodia Border

PAILIN, Cambodia -- O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo... (photo: AP / Karel Prinsloo)
Disease   Health   Photos   Science   Society
A foreign journalist taking photo of the newly arrived from Tibet-Dharamshala-India The Gleaner Mon 28 Dec 2009
The woes of journalism

The Philippines accounted for almost half the journalists killed with 32 confirmed dead. Leading up to the New Year, The Gleaner will highlight journalists imprisoned and... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
China   Journalism   Philippines   Photos   Tibet
A cargo ship waits to be unloaded at Singapore's main container port Monday Aug. 15, 2005. The New York Times Mon 28 Dec 2009
In Southeast Asia, Unease Ahead of Free Trade Zone

KUALA LUMPUR - When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, China and 10 Southeast Asian nations will usher in the world's third-largest free trade area. While many... (photo: AP / Ed Wray)
ASEAN   Business   China   Photos   Trade


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Distorted diatribe against Pakistan Distorted diatribe against Pakistan The Boston Globe
IMF Managning Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks during the Boards of Governors 2008 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington on Monday Oct. 13, IMF urges enhanced support for Pakistan The Examiner
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Chanel Cosmetics in Dubai UAE Cosmetics companies form queue to cash in as India's men lighten up The Times
NASA astronaut image of Kilinailau (also known as Tulun or Carteret Islands), Papua New Guinea Weather eye: King tides take their toll in the Pacific The Times
Activists of Communist Party of India listen to their leader during a sit-in demonstration against the Indo-US nuclear deal in New Delhi, India Fire at India's nuclear research facility kills 2 The Boston Globe
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Local residents seen by a market area burned by angry protesters after a suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim mourning procession, Monday, Dec. 28, 2009 in Karachi, Pakistan. A suicide bombing targeting a Shiite Muslim procession killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens more, as Shiites across the country marked the key holy day of Ashura. Bombing kills 30 on Shiite holy day Pakistan attack prompts riot The Oklahoman
Kashmiri Shiite Muslims throw stone towards indian police during a Muharram procession in Srinagar December 26, 2009. At least 60 mourners were injured on Saturday when police fired in the air and used teargas shells to break up a procession by hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims in Indian Kashmir's main city, officials said. Public gatherings, including religious processions as well as marches by separatists, have not been allowed in Kashmir since a bloody rebellion against Indian rule broke out in 1989. Indian police stop Kashmir procession, 60 hurt Khaleej Times
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South Asian agenda for Jammu & Kashmir South Asian agenda for Jammu & Kashmir The Hindu
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the opening ceremony of Climate Week NYC. The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair is seated in the background. UN assembly condemns Myanmar’s rights record The Siasat Daily
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