Latest Asia Pacific News
RSS-
Chinas property market continues to heat up
Property prices continued to rise last month in China, defying policymakers who have sought to cool the housing market while preserving robust economic ...
-
New South Wales becomes Australia steroids capital
(35 mins ago) Australia's east coast haven New South Wales, which is seeking to recruit a `chief funster' to promote tourism to Sydney and elsewhere, took the dubious honor for the biggest hauls of steroids and hallucinogens in 2011-2012 in the country, authorities said today. Most commonly used steroids in Australia include erythropoietin (EPO) and Human chorionic gonadotrophin ...
-
Beijing means business Chinas premier comes to India bearing an economic olive branch
When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in New Delhi on May 19, it will be as the leader of an invigorated state pursuing the so-called Chinese dream of prosperity and national pride.With its top leadership for the next decade now firmly in place, the world's second-largest economy is anxious to position itself as a world leader and distance itself from the United States. China is focusing ...
More Asia Pacific News
RSS-
China sentences underground bank operator to death
BEIJING (AP) -- A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by ...
-
IHT Rendezvous ‘Cadmium Rice’ Is China’s Latest Food Scandal
BEIJING — "Cadmium rice," as it's dubbed, or rice laced with levels of the metal cadmium that exceed national safety standards, has become the latest food scare in China, sparking a health and P.R. scandal in a nation long used to — and deeply worried about — unsafe food. Last week, the authorities in the southern province of Guangdong found that more than 44 ...
-
Elisa Lams autopsy report to be anno...
The autopsy and toxicology test reports of Canadian student Elisa Lam, whose suspicious death in a LA hotel caused a stir earlier this year, will be announced this week, Los Angeles police said on Monday. Police also claimed that the investigation is still ongoing. Ed Winter, the coroner of Los Angeles police, said no suspicious clues were found to date. A final conclusion would be made upon ...
-
Five killed in furnace gas leak at steel plant in South Korea
Five workers suffocated to death on Friday at a steel plant in a port city in South Korea after gas leaked from a furnace, South Korea authorities said. The workers, employed by a subcontractor of Hyundai Steel Co., were found dead at around 2:25 a.m. local time inside the 8-meter-deep furnace in Dangjin, some 123 kilometers south of Seoul, after argon gas leaked from the furnace, according to ...
-
DPRK could deploy nuke-armed missiles in 5 years ROK official
The pursuit for nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will move it closer to the deployment of a nuclear-armed missile within five years, a senior Seoul official warned Friday, in what would be the first such assessment on DPRK's nuclear weapons capability. Yun Duk-min, the president of the Korea National Diplomatic ...
-
Big business demands lower wages in South Korea
During South Korean President Park Geun-hye's recent trip to the United States, business executives took the opportunity to demand the right-wing president attack the conditions of the South Korean working class. Accompanying Park to the US were 52 business leaders, the largest corporate contingent ever. They included major conglomerate heads, such as Lee Kun-hee of Samsung and Chung ...
-
Exhausted 58-yr-old Aussie sailor rescued by cargo ship in middle of Pacific Ocean
A CONTAINER ship has rescued an exhausted 58-year-old Australian sailor off Christmas Island who called for help after the autopilot system on his vessel failed. The US Coast Guard says the Kota Wangi's crew rescued the man on Monday night. He was about 425 nautical miles off Christmas Island in Kiribati. Christmas Island is more than 1,300 nautical miles south of Honolulu. It is not to ...
-
North Korea launches projectile after launching short-range missiles
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has deployed dozens of Israeli-made precision guided missiles on islands near a western sea boundary disputed by North Korea.A North Korean artillery strike on one of the islands in 2010 killed four South Koreans.South Korea's Defense Ministry announced the move as North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, and a day ...
-
Drug traffickers targeting Australia
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia seized a record 23 tonnes of illicit drugs in 2011-2012 with arrests at a 10-year high, data showed on Monday, as officials warned the country had become a key target for traffickers.The annual Australian Crime Commission report showed the amount caught was up 154 percent on the previous year, boosted by a single 11 tonne bust of hypophosphorous acid in New South Wales ...
-
Australia a target for illicit drugs
A record 23.8 tonnes of illicit drugs worth $5 billion were intercepted by Australian customs staff last year, including the highest number of performance and image enhancing substances for a decade.The strong dollar and demand for the drugs means criminal gangs around the world will continue to target the Australian market, authorities say.International narcotics syndicates are using ...
-
Chinas red-hot property market shows no signs of slowing
Property prices continued to rise last month in China, defying policymakers who have sought to cool the housing market while preserving robust economic ...
-
UPDATE 2-French food group Danone takes second chance with China Mengniu
Mon May 20, 2013 1:15am EDT * JV and Mengniu investment worth $417 million * Deal is latest move to restore confidence * Mengniu shares hit 17-month high (Adds analyst comment, details on China dairy market) By Donny Kwok HONG KONG, May 20 (Reuters) - Danone Group has agreed to invest 325 million euros ($417 million) in two deals with China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, marking a comeback for the ...
-
Majority reject Japan mayors comments on comfort women poll
A large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said women forced to provide sex during World War II were a military necessity, polls issued Monday ...
-
Israel is worlds largest exporter of drones Report
Israel is the world's largest exporter of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in terms of number of systems sold, earning a whopping USD 4.6 billion in sales during the last eight years, excluding a major deal with India for the upgrade of unmanned aircrafts, according to a study by a business consulting firm. Frost & Sullivan business consulting firm in a study have noted that UAVs, or ...
-
NEC Asia Pacific’s Regional Retail Business Support Center
(From left to right) Mr. Toshiya Matsuki, CEO NEC Asia Pacific; Mr. Manabu Kinoshita, Senior Vice-President, NEC Corporation; Mr. Shigeru Nakamura, Ambassador of Japan, His Excellency; Datuk Dr. Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria, Secretary General of the Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI); Mr. Andrew Lee, Managing Director, NEC Corporation of Malaysia Sdn Bhd; and Mr. Chikara ...
-
Another Taiwan Mirage crashes
(17 mins ago) A Taiwan fighter jet ploughed into the sea off the island's north coast today, the air force's second crash in less than a week, military officials said. The crash happened when the French-made Mirage 2000-5 fighter was on a training mission, the air force said, adding that both crew managed to parachute to safety. A single-seater F-16 went down off central Taiwan on ...
-
Record drug hauls including cannabis cocaine and steroids show Australia becoming narco hub
(28 mins ago) Australia seized a record 23 tonnes of illicit drugs in 2011-2012 with arrests at a 10-year high, data show, as officials warned the country had become a key target for traffickers. The annual Australian Crime Commission report showed the amount detected was up 154 percent on the previous year, boosted by a single 11 tonne bust of hypophosphorous acid in New South Wales state, ...
-
Crucial talks between India and China today border issue to be discussed
Ahead of the formal talks with his Indian counterpart, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang on Monday hoped that his visit will lead to increase in mutual strategic trust between the two sides.The border issue is likely to be discussed between the two nations in the crucial talks on Monday and the Chinese PM said he is looking forward to have a productive discussion with PM Manmohan Singh.Keqiang ...
-
New suicides reported at Foxconn China factory
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Three workers at a Foxconn Technology Group factory in Zhengzhou, China, have killed themselves over the past three weeks, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday, citing state media and a labor-rights group. The reported deaths -- involving a 30-year-old married man, a 23-year-old woman and 24-year-old man -- revive the specter of a wave of suicides that have struck ...
-
South Korea analyzing if North Korea launched missiles or artillery
South Korea officials are trying to determine out what exactly North Korea fired into its eastern waters over the weekend. A Defense Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity citing department rules says experts are analyzing whether the projectiles are short-range missiles or a new type of artillery the country may be developing. North Korea fired what Seoul officials called a ...
-
Imran Khans party wins revote in Karachi protests expected
1 of 2. Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), addresses his supporters after his visit to the mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first governor-general of Pakistan, during an election campaign in Karachi May 7, ...
-
Yahoo Japan Says 22 Million User IDs May have Been Stolen
IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau) - Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week. The company emphasized that the IDs are already public information, and no passwords or other private data were affected. Yahoo Japan IDs are used along with password to log in to the site, and are often displayed ...
Macau Featured
-
Macau economy punches way above its weight
Macau’s economy is set for a continued period of rapid growth over the next decade as Asia tops the charts in terms of revenue gained through gaming industries, but there is more to our little city-state than just casinos and hotels.
Macau is the Monaco of Asia. Although legally part of the Peoples Republic of China, this small little territory, just 29 kilometers squared and one of the most densely populated in the world, exists under the ‘one country, two systems’ policy of the Chinese government and therefore has its own internal legal system and political makeup. It is this which has enabled Macau, a tiny city-state with no natural resources, to develop one of the highest GDPs per capita in Asia, after Singapore. Read more
News from around our Network
