India launches ballistic missile (Wednesday, 07 May 2008) Posted by: Zia (Hits: 4) India has test-fired its longest-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile, Agni-III, officials said.
North Korean hands in nuclear record (Saturday, 10 May 2008) Posted by: Jacques (Hits: 1) North Korea has handed over than 18,OOO pages of records on its nuclear weapons programme to the US
Malaysia court allows apostasy (Friday, 09 May 2008) Posted by: Nicole (Hits: 3) A Malaysian court, for the first time, allows a Chinese ethnic convert to renonce Islam. A rare decision for the conservative Muslim-led nation
Bombing on eve of Sri Lanka polls (Saturday, 10 May 2008) Posted by: Zia (Hits: 1) At least 11 people have been killed in a bombing on the eve of elections in eastern Sri Lanka, the military says.
Benazir personnaly gave N-technology to North Korea (Saturday, 10 May 2008) Posted by: Jacques (Hits: 1) According to a book written by Shyam Bhatia, a closed friend of Benazir Buttho, she herself provided North Korea nuclear technology from Pakistan in late 1993 during a visit she made to Pyongyang in return for missiles
Myanmar accused of seizing UN aid delivery (Saturday, 10 May 2008) Posted by: Jacques (Hits: 1)
Myanmar's military leaders allegedly seized aid shipments headed for survivors and told the top US diplomat there Friday that they're not ready to let American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of medical catastrophe
Japan to scrap space weapon rules (Saturday, 10 May 2008) Posted by: Zia (Hits: 1) Japanese MPs have backed plans to scrap rules restricting the use of military technology in space.
Chinese orchestra plays for Pope (Thursday, 08 May 2008) Posted by: Jacques (Hits: 5)
Sign of thaw, between Beijing and the Holy Seat, the China Philharmonic Orchestra has given a performance of Mozart's Requiem Mass for the pope inside the Vatican
China's Hu in historic Japan trip (Wednesday, 07 May 2008) Posted by: Jacques (Hits: 14)
Chinese president Hu Jintao has begun a five-day state visit to Japan, the first such trip in a decade
More pressure on Pakistan truce (Saturday, 10 May 2008) Posted by: Zia (Hits: 1) Pro-Taleban militants have killed a paramilitary soldier in an attack on a police station in north-west Pakistan, the military says.
No relief for victims in cyclone-devastated delta watch video (Wednesday, 07 May 2008) Posted by: linsi (Hits: 13) MSNBC News Services
updated 10:35 a.m. ET May 6, 2008
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta remained largely cut off from the rest of the world Tuesday, four days after a cyclone unleashed winds, floods and high tidal waves on the densely populated region, killing nearly 22,000.
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Everest Olympic torch diary (Saturday, 10 May 2008) Posted by: Zia (Hits: 1) After the Olympic torch's tour around the world, and ahead of its arrival in Beijing for the Games in August, the BBC's Jonah Fisher joins it for the high point of its trip - up Mount Everest.
In the eighth of his diary instalments, he watches the final ascent at last.
Bangladesh aid arrives in Burma (Saturday, 10 May 2008) Posted by: Zia (Hits: 1) A plane carrying UN relief aid from Bangladesh to cyclone victims in Burma has landed in the capital, Rangoon.
Aid agencies say the cargo was impounded on arrival after the World Food Programme won permission from Burma to send the shipment.
