Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says a high court decision blocking a refugee swap with Malaysia has re-written Australian law and raised doubts about the nation’s right to transfer asylum seekers to any other country. Ms. Gillard said Thursday that includes places where Australian asylum-seekers have been detained in the past, namely Manus Island in […]
Gillard: Refugee Ruling May Bar Other Offshore Detention Plans
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 3:15 am (UTC-5)
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Japan’s Nikkei Closes in Positive Territory
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 2:40 am (UTC-5)
Japanese markets closed higher Thursday, while the U.S. dollar is trading higher against the Japanese yen. Tokyo’s Nikkei index gained nearly one and one-quarter percent to finish at 9,061. The dollar was selling at 76.85 yen, a gain of nearly one-quarter of a yen from Wednesday. The Taipei market ended its session Thursday at 7,758, […]
Japanese Conduct Earthquake Drill Amid Memories of March Disasters
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 2:36 am (UTC-5)
Thousands of people across Japan took part Thursday in a massive earthquake drill, the first of its kind since the March 11 quake and tsunami that devastated the nation’s northeastern coast. Police redirected traffic and pointed pedestrians to earthquake shelters, while other authorities checked for gas leaks and simulated air-sea rescues over Tokyo Bay. Outgoing […]
Body of Legendary Australian Outlaw Positively Identified
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 2:35 am (UTC-5)
Australian scientists have identified the headless remains of the notorious 19th century criminal Ned Kelly, putting to rest a 130-year-old mystery surrounding his whereabouts. Analysts at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine used a DNA sample from one of Kelly’s descendants to identify his remains from among dozens of skeletons buried in a mass grave. […]
Ukraine Judge Denies Bail for Opposition Leader Tymoshenko
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 2:31 am (UTC-5)
A Ukrainian judge has denied bail for former Ukrainian prime minister and opposition Batkivschina party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who has been in custody since early August. Ms. Tymoshenko’s corruption trial is set to resume Thursday in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. She is charged with abusing her powers by signing a 2009 gas contract with Russia without […]
World Leaders Discuss Libya After Gadhafi
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 2:20 am (UTC-5)
World leaders are gathering in France Thursday to discuss Libya’s future after Moammar Gadhafi, as one of Mr. Gadhafi’s sons vows that his family members and loyalist forces will never surrender. The conference in Paris brings together officials from 60 countries, including both those that have backed Libya’s National Transitional Council as well as those […]
Indian Philanthropists, Philippine NGO Are Honored in Manila
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:51 am (UTC-5)
Two Indian philanthropists and a Philippine non-profit development organization were presented with the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Awards in Manila Wednesday. The annual awards, named after a popular Philippine president who was killed in a plane crash in 1957, are widely seen as Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prizes. Harish Hande, a U.S. trained engineer and […]
World Leaders Discuss Libya After Gadhafi
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:40 am (UTC-5)
World leaders are gathering in France Thursday to discuss Libya’s future after Moammar Gadhafi, as one of Mr. Gadhafi’s sons vows that his family members and loyalist forces will never surrender. The conference in Paris brings together officials from 60 countries, including both those that have backed Libya’s National Transitional Council as well as those […]
China Enters Ranks of Major Investors in Other Countries
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:25 am (UTC-5)
China says its days as a massive net importer of foreign capital may soon be coming to an end. People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, reports on its website Thursday that Chinese foreign direct investment in other countries rose by more than 40 percent last year. It said the country is […]
Clinton Praises US-Vietnamese Relations
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:12 am (UTC-5)
U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is hailing the U.S. relationship with Vietnam in a national day message to the people of the Southeast Asian country. Vietnam celebrates its national day on Friday, the anniversary of the day on which Ho Chi Minh officially declared Vietnam’s independence from French colonial rule in 1945. In a […]
