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Cuba says its 'obsolete' weapons aboard N. Korea ship AFP Updated July 17, 2013, 7:08 pm PANAMA CITY (AFP) - Cuba has announced that weapons found on a North Korean ship close to the Panama Canal were "obsolete" Soviet-era arms, which the communist island had sent to Pyongyang for repair...

Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to hang for war crimes AFP Updated July 17, 2013, 6:59 pm DHAKA (AFP) - A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced a senior leader of the country's largest Islamic party to death for crimes committed during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan. Ali...

MPs to sleep under wind turbines AAP July 17, 2013, 4:16 pm Three South Australian MPs plan to spend a night in an abandoned house north of Adelaide to gauge the impact of wind farms. The home at Waterloo has been vacated by the owners, who Liberal MP David Ridgway says were driven out by the...

Panama detains North Korean-flagged ship, seizes weapons A North Korean flag flutters in the propaganda village of Gijeongdong as seen from South Korea's Taesungdong freedom village, near the border village of Panmunjom, during a graduation ceremony for Taesungdong Elementary School, in Paju...

South Korea accuses North of cyber attacks North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits a Mushroom Farm in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang July 16, 2013. REUTERS/KCNA SEOUL | Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:32am EDT (Reuters) - South Korea accused...

China protests over U.S. support for Taiwan's U.N. aviation bid U.S. President Barack Obama gestures as he addresses a news conference after a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Peter BEIJING | Tue Jul 16, 2013...

Britain giving Syrian rebels protection against chemical weapons Free Syrian Army fighters move along a street at night in Aleppo's Karm al-Jabal district July 15, 2013. Picture taken July 15, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman LONDON | Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:00am EDT (Reuters) - Britain is to give...

Top Islamist Ghulam Azam found guilty of Bangladesh war crimes AFP | Jul 15, 2013, 05.25 PM IST The 91-year-old Ghulam Azam was sentenced to 90 years in jail on July 15, 2013 for crimes against humanity during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war. (AP photo) DHAKA: A special Bangladeshi court...

Chinese mother wins appeal over labor for rape protest BEIJING | Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:35am EDT (Reuters) - A Chinese court awarded compensation on Monday to a mother sent to a labor camp after demanding justice for her daughter who had been raped, in a high-profile case that sparked debate about...

Russia urges discussion on providing wheat aid to Egypt An employee holds wheat at a grain warehouse near the village of Moskovskoye, outside Stavropol in southern Russia, June 26, 2013. REUTERS-Eduard Korniyenko By Polina Devitt and Maha El Dahan MOSCOW/ABU DHABI | Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:40am...

Published on Jul 15, 2013 At least 18 people are killed in a stampede at a boxing match in Indonesia's most eastern province <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/064t6zhz1SI?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe>

Re: The Sun Ho thread.. Yeah right self praise. :rolleyes: 22K views were from the links i've circulated over the net. Similarly if no one here including me does copy n paste stuff, search engine results would not have let spammers, visitors to this site and increased your traffic.

China growth slows to 7.5% in April-June AFP Updated July 15, 2013, 1:21 pm BEIJING (AFP) - China's gross domestic product expanded 7.5 percent in the April-June quarter, official data showed on Monday, a second consecutive slowdown in growth as worries mount over the health of the world's...

17 die in Indonesian boxing match stampede AFP Updated July 15, 2013, 1:52 pm TIMIKA, Indonesia (AFP) - Seventeen spectators were crushed to death at a boxing match in remote eastern Indonesia after supporters of the loser started a riot, according to police. "Seventeen people died in the...

Two Koreas start fresh talks on joint industrial park AFP Updated July 15, 2013, 12:57 pm SEOUL (AFP) - North and South Korea on Monday started fresh talks on reopening a joint industrial complex whose fate is seen as a touchstone for the future reduction of tension on the Korean peninsula...

Generic tablets beat Apple and Samsung in China market Staff Reporter 2013-07-14 08:58 Newsmy tablets. (Internet photo) White-box tablets are the best-selling popular tablet sold on China's online shopping websites and far more popular than well-known brands such as Lenovo and Samsung...

Online book piracy still an issue in China despite regulatory efforts Staff Reporter 2013-07-14 10:44 (GMT+8) Amazon China is one of the country's leading shopping websites. (Photo/CFP) After recent reports of book piracy, Amazon China has adopted a series of measures to tackle the issue...

Economic growth in central and western parts of China slumps Staff Reporter 2013-07-14 08:55 A coal company in Shaanxi province. (Photo/Xinhua) The Chinese government has decided to boost the economy in spite of a downturn. Several provinces in the central and western parts of the country...

Chinese Embassy in US Vandalized with ‘Demolish’ Graffiti by Bing on Saturday, July 13, 2013 From QQ: (no longer accessible) [Chinese Character] “Demolish” Appears on Gate Pillars of Chinese Embassy in the US; Suspected Graffiti from Protesters [Note: The character “拆” (chai, to demolish...