Former Pakistan pace bowler Wasim Akram has tipped England bowler James Anderson to reach 450 Test wickets, who currently needs only six more wickets to pass Bob Willis to become England's second-highest Test wicket-taker. According to The Daily Star, Anderson is near Ian Botham's record tally of 383 and with his control of swing, both ways at pace, Akram expects the Lancashire bowler to reach ...
Canada changes course and closes Dhaka embassy
Canada Sunday closed its embassy in Bangladesh, joining the United States and other Western nations bracing for a possible terrorist attack. Canadian Foreign Affairs alerted its citizens in Bangladesh that the Dhaka facility would be shut down and provided a telephone number for assistance. Canada earlier had not opted to follow the lead of the Unites States, Britain and Germany in closing ...
Why is Obama meeting the president of Vietnam
Joint Statement of Human Rights Organizations Regarding the Upcoming Meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Vietnamese President Truong Tan ...
Sudan President Blocked from Saudi Air Space
Sudan says Saudi Arabia blocked the plane of President Omar al-Bashir from entering its airspace Sunday as he tried to fly to Iran. Sudan's state news agency reports that Bashir's plane was forced to turn around in mid-air and go back to Khartoum after Saudi aviation officials denied it permission to cross over Saudi territory. The report says Bashir, flying in a Saudi-chartered ...
Thai Government Opposition at Odds Over Amnesty Bill
BANGKOK -- Thailand is facing new political tensions as the government is preparing to submit an amnesty bill to parliament, along with key finance and infrastructure spending measures. Both anti-government and pro-government groups are preparing for political battle, but some analysts say there could be compromise on the amnesty measure. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra faces a new ...
Ship carrying motorcycle travelers arrives in Semarang
The KM Dobonsolo which had departed from Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta, with 2,600 passengers and 1,515 motorcycles aboard, on Saturday, arrived in Tanjung Emas Port in Semarang, Central Java, at 1:30 a.m. local time, on Sunday. The travelers later continued their homebound journeys on their motorcycles.Tanjung Emas Port's authority office head, Karolus Sengadji, said the Semarang Police ...
Vietnam?s FDI hits nearly $12b
The total foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam reached more than $11.9 billion in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year rise of 19.6 percent, according to data posted by the Communist Party of Vietnam on its website on ...
Bank Danamon deal failure may deter Indonesia investors analysts
The collapse of Singapore lender DBS's $6.5 billion bid for Bank Danamon is further evidence of a "rising tide of economic nationalism" in Indonesia that may deter foreign investors, analysts warn.DBS unveiled its bid to buy 99 percent of the Indonesian lender with great fanfare in April last year, in what would have been Southeast Asia's biggest ever bank takeover.It seemed ...
Bangkok braces for possible unrest as street protests expected against moves to help ousted PM
Anti-government protesters chant slogans during a rally outside a park in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. About 1,500 people took part in the rally calling Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to withdraw the amnesty bill from parliament. The Thai capital is bracing for possible unrest this week, with street protests expected over moves in parliament that could eventually lead to a pardon ...
South Africa choose to bat against Sri Lanka
South African batsman JP Duminy plays a shot during the Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka in the district of Hambantota on August 4,2013. South Africa's captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and chose to bat in windy conditions in the second Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka in ...
Pakistan warns of more rain after flood deaths hit 45
Pakistani rescuers form a chain as they prepare to evacuate residents from a flooded area in Karachi, on August 4, 2013. Pakistani disaster relief officials have issued fresh flood warnings after the death toll from heavy monsoon rains rose to 45 and waters paralysed parts of the largest city ...
Thai Premier League wrap Muang Thong cut gap Chonburi win thriller
Muang Thong United moved three points behind Thai Premier League leaders Buriram United with a 2-0 win at Songkhla United on Saturday. Rene Desaeyere's men kept the pressure on Buriram - who had the weekend off due to Sisaket's expulsion from the division - as goals from Edivaldo and Teerasil Dangda saw them over the line. Just behind the leading duo, third-placed Chonburi came ...
Stop Treating Burma with Kid Gloves
This is not to deny that important changes have occurred in Burma under the government of Thein Sein. More than a thousand political prisoners have now been released. Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party were elected to Burma's Parliament in by-elections in 2012, conducted without intimidation and violence. In major urban areas like ...
Australian Firm Fined in Aboriginal Site Desecration
SYDNEY -- An Australian mining company has been found guilty of desecrating a sacred Aboriginal site. OM Manganese was fined $130,000 for damaging an area in a remote corner of the outback. It is the first successful desecration case brought against a mining company under Australian law. OM Manganese was been found guilty of two charges of damaging a sacred site known as Two Women Sitting ...
Heavy rains bring flash floods to eastern Afghanistan levelling homes and killing 58
Heavy rains swept across eastern Afghanistan, levelling homes and killing at least 58 people in five provinces, while an estimate 30 others remain missing, officials said Sunday.Provincial spokesmen in Nangarhar, Kabul, Khost, Laghman and Nuristan said that all the floods struck early Saturday. Flash floods are common in those provinces and all are fed by rivers that eventually intersect in ...
Iran makes Asian champ look ordinary
WITH its athletic forwards, gutsy guards and NBA center turning the Mall of Asia Arena into a playground of sorts, Iran roared to a third straight win, leaving traditional powerhouse China looking like a basketball program in disarray. The record of the continent's most successful basketball team says it all: 1-2. The defending champions got pipped by South Korea and then bamboozled ...
Canada closes embassy in Bangladesh Sunday
Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont. Wednesday July 24, 2013. Tony Caldwell/QMI Agency The Canadian embassy in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, will be closed Sunday for security reasons, the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development said on its site. The decision comes after the U.S. issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday warning Americans that al-Qaeda may be planning attacks in ...
Pakistan flood toll rises to 45
PAKISTANI disaster relief officials have issued fresh flood warnings after the death toll from heavy monsoon rains rose to 45 and waters paralysed parts of the largest city ...
Irans Rouhani Takes Presidential Oath
Iran's new president, moderate Muslim cleric Hassan Rouhani, took the oath of office before parliament Sunday, a day after he was formally endorsed and confirmed in his new role by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Rouhani pledged to uphold the constitution and protect the official religion of the Islamic Republic in a ceremony attended for the first time by foreign ...
Africa West At Odds Over Disputed Zimbabwe Election
HARARE, ZIMBABWE -- South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Sunday congratulated Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe on his re-election, in sharp contrast to Western governments which questioned the credibility of a rushed, disputed vote. African monitors broadly approved the conduct of the election but Mugabe's main rival, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, ...
Malaysia recovers three bodies 37 missing at sea
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian rescuers on Sunday found three bodies at sea as hopes faded for 37 other Indonesians who went missing days earlier when their boat sank on their way home to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.The wooden boat was believed to be carrying 44 people including women and children from Malaysia's southern state of Johor to Indonesia's Batam island. It sank in heavy seas late ...
Ex-Finance Minister Suthee passes away
Suthee was finance minister on three occasions - during governments headed by Prem Tinsulanonda, Anand Panyarachun and Gen Suchinda ...
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