Thailand to deploy 100,000 police for general election
June 11, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Thailand will mobilize 100,000 police officers to guard polling stations for its July 3 general election, the national police chief said Tuesday, amid fears the vote could bring violence. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News
Japan admits to being unready for disaster
June 9, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Japan admitted Tuesday it was unprepared for a severe nuclear accident like the tsunami-caused Fukushima disaster and said damage to the reactors and radiation leakage were worse than it previously thought. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News
India approves US$4 billion deal to buy US-made military planes
June 7, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – An Indian defense ministry official says the country’s cabinet has approved a proposal to buy 10 American C-17 military aircraft for more than US billion, the largest defense deal between the two nations. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News
VP refuses hero’s burial for ex-Philippine dictator
June 6, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – The Philippine vice president has recommended that former dictator Ferdinand Marcos should not be buried at Manila’s heroes’ cemetery but that full military honors could be accorded if he is laid to rest in his northern political stronghold instead, officials said Sunday. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News
Japan PM offers to resign after crisis
June 3, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday survived a no-confidence vote by offering to resign once the worst of the country’s nuclear crisis is over in a successful last-ditch effort to quell a brewing revolt in his ruling party. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News
S. Korea’s Ticket Monster acquires Malaysian site in 1st overseas move
June 1, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Fast-growing South Korean daily deal site Ticket Monster says it has acquired a Malaysian company in its first move overseas. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News
15 killed in attack on NATO oil tanker: official
May 22, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – A tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan exploded Saturday in northwestern Pakistan as people tried to siphon off some of its fuel, and 15 were killed, an official said. Separately, 14 NATO tankers were damaged in a bombing at a nearby border town, but no one was hurt. China Post Online [...]
Australian police look for owner of buried gold coins
May 20, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Police are trying to determine who owns a treasure-trove of gold coins unearthed from a building site on Australia’s southwest coast. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News
Land mine kills 7 Indian troops; Maoists blamed
May 19, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – A senior police official says seven paramilitary soldiers have been killed in eastern India in a land mine explosion they believe was triggered by Maoist rebels. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News
Singapore founding father quits Cabinet
May 15, 2011 by editor · Leave a Comment
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew resigned from the Cabinet on Saturday, ceding leadership to a younger generation after his party’s worst election result since independence in 1965. China Post Online – Asia Pacific News