TOKYO. Japan announced Tuesday it will buy stealth fighters, drones and submarines as part of a splurge on military hardware that will beef up defence of far-flung islands amid a simmering territorial row with China... . The shopping list is part of efforts by Abe to normalise the military in Japan, which has been officially pacifist since defeat in World War II ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
Israeli troops have shot two Lebanese soldiers, hours after a Lebanese army sniper killed an Israeli soldier. The shooting took place just after midnight last night after Israeli forces identified "suspicious movement" along the border and shot two members of Lebanon's armed forces. The shooting occurred near where a Lebanese army sniper killed an Israeli soldier late yesterday ... AP Download the Belfast Telegraph iPad App ... Reader images ... ....(size: 5.9Kb)
By Jakarta Globe on 12.03 pm December 18, 2013 ... Tags ... “The floods caused two people to die in Desa Merbong and Desa Pilang Gede, in Bojonegoro district, while two other people died in Gresik district,” Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the NationalDisaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), said via text message on Tuesday night ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
KUALA LUMPUR ... “We have received very minimum complains by the public as most disruptions only lasted for one day,” she said ... In this file pic, Tan Nam Kun pours water into a container after water pressure began to slow down in DesaAmanPuri, Kepong. pix by Saddam Yusoff ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)
KUALA LUMPUR ... “We received little complaints from the public as most disruptions only lasted for one day,” she said ... In this file pic, Tan Nam Kun pours water into a container after water pressure began to slow down in DesaAmanPuri, Kepong. pix by Saddam Yusoff ... ....(size: 1.3Kb)
KEMAMAN. The faces of children in flood-hit Kampung Pasir Gajah, here, lit up with joy when they received new school bags and stationery from Tabung Bencana NSTP-Media Prima ... "My house was almost submerged in the flood, destroying everything inside, including school items for the children," she said after her children received the items outside Perpustakaan Desa Pasir Gajah, here on Tuesday ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)
Print... They produced the report in cooperation with the Organization’s five regional commissions ... Meanwhile, Western Europe remains weak despite emerging from recession ... “A premature exit of the QE could trigger financial turbulence and derail economic recovery,” Pingfan Hong, Chief of Global Economic Monitoring Unit at DESA told journalists in New York ... Hong, who is the UN team leader for the report ... NewsTracker....(size: 4.4Kb)
UNITED NATIONS, Dec ... The global economy is expected to grow at a pace of 3.0 percent in 2014 and 3.3 percent in 2015, compared with an estimated growth of 2.1 percent for 2013 ... DEVELOPED ECONOMIES ... The U.S ...WESP is produced at the beginning of each year by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the United NationsConference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the five United Nations regional commissions ... 20, 2014 ... 分享. ....(size: 7.3Kb)
"The ministry has also approved a RM2.2 million allocation to repair three clinics - Klinik Kesihatan Batu2 1/2, Klinik Desa Pasir Gajah and Klinik Desa Seberang Tayor, which were damaged by the floods ... low-lying areas and inundated by flood every year - including Klinik Desa Pasir Gajah, to higher grounds....(size: 2.5Kb)
KEEPING STOCK... KUALA LUMPUR ... A check by Streets in Segambut, Petaling, DesaPandan and Sentul showed that many families had stored water in large containers, pails and buckets ... With seven people living in the house, we need to store sufficient water ... Desa Pandan resident Mohd Azrai Abdul Aziz, 31, said he had to rush to the nearby shops to buy pails as he was not aware of the water cut. "I did not expect Desa Pandan to be affected ... ....(size: 3.6Kb)
CHUKAI. The Health Ministry will set up special disaster response teams at Health Offices in disaster prone areas nationwide, soon ... He said they have also decided to move the KlinikDesa Pasir Gajah, which was inundated by flood water almost every year, to a higher ground. ....(size: 1.3Kb)