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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and China Wednesday vowed to further consolidate their time-tested ties and signed a number of accords and MoUs, including the one for establishing an economic corridor that would provide air, rail and road connectivity to bolster bilateral trade between the neighbouring countries. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, on his first overseas trip since taking...

A new study shows there is a gender gap when it comes to behavior and self-control in American young children -- one that does not appear to exist in children in Asia.

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets fell Thursday, weighed down by a contraction in China's manufacturing that adds to signs a shaky recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is slowing....

Headline Title:  Protecting the rights of people on the move 23 May 2013 By Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary GeneralLast year, 100 displaced people, including many children, died from cold or illness in camps in Kabul – right...

A high-powered commission said Wednesday that intellectual property theft was costing the United States the equivalent of all its exports to Asia and urged a tougher approach to China.

For decades, Landsat satellites have documented the desiccation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once one of the largest seas in the world, it shrunk to a tenth of its original volume after Russia diverted its feeder rivers in the 1960s. Scientists studying the Aral Sea's changing ecology and retreating shoreline have looked to Landsat—and a new feature of the Landsat...

A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it's bound to look like curtains to outside observers. That appears to be the case at HTC, which is losing a lot of senior execs according to multiple reports today from The Verge, CNET and Engadget, and a source...

For years, the iPhone has carried a small etching on the back that says ‘Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.’ It’s fueled the stereotype that China is the world’s factory, but hasn’t had a flexible enough education system to produce R&D talent that can also design world-class products for a global audience. But that’s a stereotype that...

The mine is believed to have gold reserves of at least 53 tons, worth about $3.2 billion, according to the state news agency.    

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that Thai Global Network (TGN), Thailand's first and only satellite TV broadcasting center, has chosen H...

Rafsanjani, Mashaei banned from presidential bid in Iran Top news: A governing body of the Iranian government issued its list of approved presidential candidates and excluded two leading contenders -- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei -- a decision that all but guarantees that the next Iranian president will be drawn from a conservatives...

The former Bayern boss has called up a number of fresh faces as he shuffles his pack with several regulars at this summer's Under-21 European Championships.

SparkLabs, the startup accelerator that wants to inject South Korea's startup ecosystem with Silicon Valley expertise, announced its second intake today. Its latest class is an international lineup of companies that represent a variety of sectors and are at widely different stages of funding, from bootstrapped financing to those that have closed a Series A round.

Truecaller, the Sweden-based creater of a crowdsourced phone directory app and online white pages service, has opened its API to a select group of "handpicked" developers. Truecaller said its directory now contains some 600 million phone numbers, either contributed by individuals or harvested through partnerships with other directory services.

The luxury fashion brand, famous for its camel, red and black checked raincoats, said a 13 per cent increase in sales from its main Asian Pacific markets contributed to total group sales of £2billion.

Australian startup, Airtasker, is keen to expand out of its home country into Southeast Asia, which it says hasn’t been touched by large competitors yet. The year-old startup provides job matching for freelancers and employers, similar to what oDesk and Elance do. For its first steps outside of Australia, its first port of call will be Singapore, where it wants to hire...

Zalora, a Zappos-style fashion e-commerce site in South East Asia backed by the Samwer brothers' Rocket Internet incubator in Germany, is today announcing its latest investment -- $100 million, led by Rocket Internet itself, along with regular Samwer investing partners Summit Partners, Investment AB Kinnevik, Verlinvest and Tengelmann Group. The is the largest investment...

Now in its fourth year, tech conference Echelon will gather 52 of the Asia Pacific's most promising startups from June 4 to 5 in Singapore. The event will also feature more than 50 speakers and judges, including 500 Startups' Dave McClure and Sahil Lavingia, who raised $8.1 million for his startup Gumroad when he was just 20 years old, and was an early employee at Pinterest....

WASHINGTON : The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, Tuesday welcomed a new State Department report on international religious freedom, which recognizes that “anti-Muslim rhetoric and actions were clearly on the rise - particularly in Europe and Asia.” According to the report, “Government restrictions,...

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets were mostly higher Wednesday after investor confidence was boosted by a Federal Reserve official's comments that the U.S. central bank should stick with its super-easy monetary policy....

The British company, who employ Cara Delevinge as a model, saw sales revenue rise 13 per cent in Asia on the back of strong demand in China and Hong Kong.

Today, the most diverse species of crocodile are found in northern South America and Southeast Asia: As many as six species of alligator and four true crocodiles exist, although no more than two or three ever live alongside one another at the same time. It was a different story nine to about five million years ago, however, when a total of 14 different crocodile species...

Britain has launched a campaign to attract more investment fund money to the country, with plans for tax breaks, cutting red tape and marketing campaigns in Asia and the Americas.    

Tim Cook warns Congress that he would refuse to repatriate $100bn stashed offshore unless US severely reduced its 35% tax rate Apple has called for US corporate tax rates to be slashed after it admitted sheltering at least $30bn (£20bn) of international profits in Irish subsidiaries that pay no tax at all.In a dramatic display of how threats from multinational...

"We have the chance to show that America values the dignity of the street vendor in Tunisia more than the raw power of the dictator ... America must use all our influence to encourage reform in the region ... we need to speak honestly about the principles that we believe in, with friend and foe alike." Which prominent American spoke these words? It was neither Senator...

An anonymous reader writes "The Australian government came a step closer to formalising its plans to make Asian language study compulsory for schools this week. It has released a draft curriculum for public consultation which reveals plans to include Indonesian, Korean and french language in the curriculum. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard publicly stated in September...

Josette Sheeran, a top official of the World Economic Forum, will be the new president and chief executive of Asia Society.    

UK luxury group is doing well in Asia, but it should be providing more information about its performance after its recent profit warning

Last week we reported that MessageMe, one of the latest messaging apps to hit the smartphone market, had picked up a $10 million Series A round of funding, and today, the company is officially confirming the news, along with some more details on how it's been doing in the 2.5 months since it launched. It now has 5 million users across both iOS and Android -- a five-fold...

British luxury brand Burberry has unveiled record annual sales of £2bn, driven by double digit growth in Asia.    

Agreement with Singapore-based private equity firm MGPA will almost double the size of BlackRock’s property arm to $25bn in assets under management

MavenSay, a social recommendation app, just got a surge of unplanned downloads coming from Indonesia, and its founders are moving quickly to include Southeast Asia in its expansion plans, as a result. The company’s Toronto-based co-founder, Jesse Dallal, said the two-month old app got 100,000 downloads over the past fortnight. It has a total of 130,000 downloads so far,...

More women imprisoned for 'moral crimes' as fears grow that hard-won rights are at risk as western troops head homeThe number of Afghan women jailed for fleeing forced and abusive marriages, and other "moral crimes", has soared since 2011, according to Human Rights Watch.About 600 women and girls are in prison for offences including running away from their husband or family,...

Irish games technology group targets major gaming market    

Premium sector remains attractive, despite slowdown, especially for SUVs    

Insurers counting on the region’s rapid economic development to offset the slow growth of their North American businesses

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets struggled to post gains Tuesday as investors waited for the U.S. Federal Reserve to telegraph what it plans to do next with its economic stimulus program....

Core Media Group has begun approaching potential bidders from Asia, Europe and the US for Elvis Presley Enterprises and Muhammad Ali Enterprises

Deberíamos llorar menos por lo perdido y promover más la reforma del mundo

El bloque comercial ha comprendido que las bases que lo sustentan pueden mejorar la vida del ciudadano

Exposed Chinese hacking unit resumes attacks Top news: The Chinese army unit identified as the central player in China's cyberattacks on foreign governments and businesses has resumed operations after being exposed earlier this year. According to a report by the cybersecurity firm Mandiant commissioned by the New York Times, PLA unit 61398 is operating...

Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from Asia-Pacific nations warned on Monday.

As Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived to a red carpet welcome in New Delhi, a new poll released found Indians were "deeply apprehensive" of China's ambitions in Asia and its policy towards the country.

New wave of hotel chains and property owners are expanding in Asia and moving into western markets, to take advantage of a boom in Chinese travellers

Qatar Holding is "carefully looking" at investing in Versace, alongside FSI, an Italian state-controlled investment fund targeting the food, fashion and luxury sectors.    

BANGKOK (AP) -- Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday....

There is a misperception about the new Google Cloud Platform that the company put into general availability last week at Google I/O. It's not a brand new platform. It's what Google has used for years. It is Google's foundation. It is what makes Google, Google. And now it's open for the first time to developers and businesses. Google Platform is new in the sense that anyone...

El presidente del Gobierno, Mariano Rajoy, participará el próximo jueves en Cali (Colombia) en la VII cumbre de la Alianza del Pacífico, la primera con presencia de los países que, como España, tienen en este foro la condición de observadores y en la que buscará vías de acceso a los mercados asiáticos. El Ejecutivo ha estado muy interesado en participar en esta...

Investigadores de la Universidad de Alicante han patentado un novedoso dispositivo que permite cultivar de forma más eficiente microalgas que pueden emplearse como materia prima para generar biocombustible u obtener otras sustancias de gran valor industrial en los sectores agroalimentario o farmacéutico. El grupo de investigación de procesado y pirólisis de polímeros...

El énfasis en el éxito económico de Asia opaca el hecho de que esa región alberga las principales amenazas a la estabilidad mundial

Carey L Biron Over the next decade and a half, a major global shift will result in the developing world controlling roughly half of the world’s capital, up from less than a third today. According to new scenarios released Thursday by the World Bank, developing countries could control some $158tn (at 2010 rates) by 2030, particularly in East Asia and Latin America. By...

Editor's note: Richard Bennett is a Senior Fellow with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and co-author of ITIF’s 2013 report, "The Whole Picture: Where America’s Broadband Networks Really Stand." We’ve all heard the story: America’s broadband networks are second-rate. We pay exorbitant prices for shoddy service because broadband...

Organizations like the U.F.C. and One Fighting Championship are hoping to mine an untapped population with a long history in martial arts.    

Todo es cultural, asegura la FAO. Y la dieta puede variar en poco tiempo, sobre todo si el hambre aprieta

Priorities include jobs plan, trade mission to Asia, talks with labour leaders; MLAs willing to step aside so she can run, Premier says

Oh HTC. You've produced one of the finest Android smartphones ever (seriously, just look at all these reviews), but you've faced more than your share of challenges when it came to actually pumping your top-tier One smartphone. As it happens, that may all soon change. FocusTaiwan reported earlier today that HTC is preparing to pump out more of its wonderful Ones in short...

President Thein Sein pardoned at least 20 political prisoners on Friday, just ahead of a state visit to the United States, and more releases are expected.    

Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside a gated community on Friday evening, killing at least 9 people and wounding more than 70.    

WORLD TRADE WEEK, 2013 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION As a Nation, we need to do everything we can to create good, middle-class jobs right here in America. And one of the best ways we can do that is by boosting manufacturing and expanding trade that allows us to sell more of our goods and services all around the world. We...

PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey's achievement of investment-grade status crowns a decade of rapid growth, financial stability and political reform by a "tiger" economy on the seam of Europe and Asia, but the rising power still faces pitfalls in a dangerous neighborhood.

Obama rules out unilateral action in Syria as Russia ships advanced missiles to Assad Top news: U.S. President Barack Obama again ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria at a press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday. "It's not going to be something that the United States does by itself. And I don't think anybody in...

Short, sharp fluctuations in the Earth's climate throughout the last ice age may have stopped trees from getting a foothold in Europe and northern Asia, scientists say.

Figures highlight collapse in domestic demand and Madrid redirecting trade towards faster growing economies such as in Asia and the Middle East

Rio Tinto said on Friday it was putting up for sale the biggest "red" diamond ever produced by its Australian mine amid an "explosion" in demand from Asia for the rare pink-hued stones.    

WASHINGTON A noted American expert on Pakistan has said that President Asif Ali Zardari has failed both as president and leader of Pakistan People’s Party, which he said had been reduced to a Sindhi regional party. Daniel Markey, a former State Department official and currently Senior Fellow for South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, a prestigious think-tank,...

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets were mixed in holiday-thinned trading Friday as investors digested a slew of disappointing economic data and corporate results from the U.S....

La cuota de inversión mundial en los países en desarrollo se triplicará de ahora a 2030, debido al crecimiento de Asia Oriental y América Latina, explicó hoy el informe "Horizontes de Desarrollo Global" del Banco Mundial (BM). En la actualidad, el porcentaje de inversión en los países en desarrollo es de menos de un tercio del global. A la cabeza, según el organismo...

More than 2,000 people in the southwestern city of Kunming unfurled banners and shouted, “Protest! Protest!” in a demonstration on Thursday against plans for a petroleum refinery.    

Indonesia has approved a two-year extension to a landmark ban on clearing primary rain forests and peatlands, an official said Thursday.    

Japan's economy has roared back to life but fears grow that tumbling yen could spark Asian crisis.