YANGON, (PNA/Xinhua) — The Myanmar Police Force have seized illegal drugs worth 2 billion kyats (2.06 million U.S. dollars in central Mandalay region in the first eight months of 2013, local media…
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China urges Japan to learn from history
BEIJING, (PNA/Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Tuesday urged Japan to learn from history and adhere to peaceful development path. Wednesday is the 82nd anniversary of the “Sept 18…
Roundup: Australia watches as historic hearing into child sexual abuse begins
By Christian Edwards SYDNEY, (PNA/Xinhua) — Among the opening revelations in the historic Sydney hearing of a Royal Commission into child sexual abuse on Monday, is the systematic failure of child protection…
(Nightlead) Myanmar calls on stake holders to cooperate in census
By Feng Yingqiu YANGON, (PNA/Xinhua) — Myanmar has called for all stake holders to cooperate in taking first nationwide census in three decades in 2014 for working out national development plan. Minister…
News Analysis: Economist wants politicians to keep off Thai rail project
By Surasak Tumcharoen BANGKOK, (PNA/Xinhua) — Thai politicians should keep off Thailand’s ambitious rail project so that it will be built in a transparent and graft-free manner and devoid of any shenanigans…
Syrians welcome Russian initiative to eliminate Syria’s chemical arsenal
DAMASCUS, (PNA/Xinhua) — Tens of Syrians staged a sit-in Tuesday before the Syrian Cabinet building in the capital Damascus to express their support to the recent Russian initiative regarding stripping Syria of…
Roundup: Singapore stocks end almost flat
SINGAPORE, (PNA/Xinhua) — Singapore shares closed up 0.05 percent on Tuesday, as investors braced for the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting at which it is widely expected to…
Preserving S China’s endangered dugongs
NANNING, (PNA/Xinhua) — Every morning, Huang Yilong looks out at the sea, hoping to catch a glimpse of the dugongs once abundant in his hometown of Beihai, a coastal city in south…
Mexico marks independence day, with Chinese Honor Guard participating in parade
By Liang Xizhi MEXICO CITY, (PNA/Xinhua) — Mexico held a military parade Monday to mark the 203rd anniversary of independence and the 100th birthday of the Army, with the participation of Honor…
(Nightlead) Singapore stocks end up 1.9 %
SINGAPORE, (PNA/Xinhua) — Singapore shares closed 1.9 percent higher on Monday, after Lawrence Summers dropped from the race to be head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, while progress on Syria also shored…
Singapore’s foreign minister to visit Canada
SINGAPORE, (PNA/Xinhua) — Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Law K Shanmugam is scheduled to make an official visit to Canada’s Ottawa from Monday to Thursday, the city-state’s Ministry of…
Students in Jordan Valley in fear on way to school
NABLUS, West Bank, (PNA/Xinhua) — Every morning, eight-year-old Palestinian girl Beesan Awad, who sits on a wheel chair, is anxious on the way to school for fear that Israeli soldiers might stop…
9 killed, 54 wounded in Iraq’s violence
BAGHDAD, (PNA/Xinhua) — At least nine people were killed and 54 wounded in a series of shootings and bombings across Iraq on Sunday, police said. In northern Iraq, gunmen shot dead three…
19 militants killed in Afghan security force operations
KABUL, (PNA/Xinhua) — Nineteen militants have been killed and 14 wounded in two separate operations in northern and western Afghanistan, said the authorities on Sunday. At early Sunday morning, seven Taliban militants…
Turkey cautious about U.S.-Russian deal on Syria
ANKARA, (PNA/Xinhua) — Turkey’s foreign ministry warned that the U.S.-Russia agreement designed to eliminate the chemical weapons in Syria, though a positive step, could be exploited by the Syrian government, local media…