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10 die as trains collide in fog-bound northern IndiaLucknow (AFP) Jan 2, 2010 At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured in three separate accidents involving trains in the fog-bound northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, police and railway officials said. In the first accident, an inter-city express rammed into the back of a stationary passenger train near the town of Sarai Bhupat, 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of the state capital Lucknow. ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 31, 2009China has sentenced a Tibetan Buddhist lama to more than eight years in jail for illegal possession of ammunition and embezzlement, charges that the monk has denied, his lawyer said Thursday. The monk was arrested after nuns at his temple protested against a crackdown on Tibetan Buddhism following anti-China riots that erupted in Lhasa in 2008 and spread through the Himalayan region, lawyer ... more  
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Dec 30, 2009 A Chinese admiral's proposal to build a naval base in the Gulf of Aden, ostensibly to supports Beijing's anti-piracy flotilla off Somalia, has alarm bells ringing in the region. China's growing naval encroachment in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean to protect its Middle Eastern oil supplies threatens eventual conflict with India, its longtime rival and Asia's other economic titan that i ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 1, 2010For GM India chief Karl Slym, the expansion of the US auto giant's 12-year alliance with its Chinese partner SAIC Motor to tap India's burgeoning vehicle market is win-win for both sides. The two companies announced in December a joint venture with an initial focus on selling mini-commercial vehicles and inexpensive, entry-level cars in India that will later embrace other Asian emerging mark ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Dec 28, 2009Weird, wild and wonderful stories from 2009: - Anti-corruption officials in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu found a way to literally stop airport workers from pocketing bribes. They issued them with pocketless trousers. - A Norwegian man landed himself in hot water when police caught him having sex with his girlfriend as he raced at over 130 kilometres (80 miles) an hour through a 100km/h ... more
Mogadishu (AFP) Dec 27, 2009Somali pirates holding a Chinese cargo ship and its crew of 25 said Sunday they would release the vessel after collecting a ransom of 3.5 million dollars (2.2 million euros) later in the day. The bulk carrier Dexinhai, owned by Qingdao Ocean Shipping, was seized on October 18 northeast of the Seychelles as it was sailing to India from South Africa with a cargo of coal. It was subsequentl ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2009China said Thursday it would slap anti-dumping penalties on a chemical imported from Saudi Arabia and Taiwan after an investigation found the product had been priced too low. The commerce ministry said it will impose tariffs of up to 13.6 percent on imports of 1,4-Butanediol, a chemical used to make some plastics, elastic fibre and polyurethanes, from Friday. "The imported products were ... more |
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