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Monday, 24 October 2011

World Stocks Up, Asian Data Resilient

(BANGKOK) — World stock markets jumped...

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Flood complacency evaporates in Bangkok BBC News

Driving north out of Bangkok is getting more precarious by the day. Roads that were safe and dry last week are now...

Thai Floods Threaten Larger Area of Bangkok Wall Street Journal

By JAMES HOOKWAY BANGKOK—Bangkok's city leaders warned that a widening swath of the Thai capital is now under threat from fast-rising flood waters, while the economic impact of the crisis continued to ripple outward after Toyota Motor Co. said it would adjust production at some of its Japan...

Radiation Near Tokyo Tied to Rain After Disaster Wall Street Journal

By YUKA HAYASHI TOKYO—After the discovery of the most radioactive "hot spot" so far outside Fukushima prefecture, officials of Kashiwa, a bedroom community just north of Tokyo, began combing through roadside gutters and playgrounds Monday to find and clean up tainted spots. Enlarge ImageClose...

US envoy on second trip to Myanmar Yahoo Daily News

Washington's new envoy to Myanmar arrived in the Southeast Asian country on Monday for his second visit in two months, aiming to further the US strategy of engagement. Derek Mitchell, who was appointed as the first US coordinator for policy on Myanmar in August, met the foreign affairs minister in...

Karzai backtracks on controversial Pakistan remarks Yahoo Daily News

President Hamid Karzai sought to distance himself Monday from controversial remarks made in an interview in which he said Afghanistan would back Pakistan against the US if the two ever came to blows. The presidential palace said Karzai's comments, made in an interview with private Pakistani...

Chinese vice premier meets North Korean leader Yahoo Daily News

China's vice premier Li Keqiang met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il on Monday, state media said amid hopes of progress in restarting six-nation talks on the North's nuclear disarmament. The meeting in Pyongyang came as North Korean and US negotiators held a second round of direct talks in Geneva on...

Seven Killed in Southern Thailand Attacks Tempo Interactive

, Yala, Thailand:Muslim insurgents shot dead two soldiers before detonating a bomb at a supermarket that killed five civilians in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat, police...

Early Sign in Tunisia of Strong Islamist Vote Tempo Interactive

, Tunis, Tunisia:Tunisian authorities counted votes Monday in carefully watched elections, with early signs that a once-banned Islamist party is leading in many constituencies in the country that unleashed uprisings across the Arab world. Tunisia was known for decades for its repressive leadership...

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