By Jamaluddin Muhammad BANGKOK, Aug 6 (NNN-Bernama) — 3D movies, 3D television and, now, a 3D newspaper. The Bangkok Post, the 64-year-old English daily in Thailand, today published a 3D newspaper, the first of its kind in this country. The three-dimensional effect was applied to most of the daily’s coloured news photographs and advertisements which .
HIROSHIMA, Japan Aug 6 (NNN-Bernama) — Representatives from a record 74 states, including the United States, a first-time participant, and the UN chief attended a ceremony Friday in Hiroshima to mark the 65th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city in World War II, symbolising a growing international move toward a nuclear weapons-free .
JAKARTA, Aug 5 (NNN-Bernama) — More than 2,000 people have lived in makeshift tents and other facilities as floods hit Gorontalo in eastern parts of Indonesia, National Disaster Management Agency reported here Thursday. Consecutive days of heavy rains have been blamed for the disaster which has submerged over 3,000 houses, China’s Xinhua news agency quoted .
LONDON, Aug 5 (NNN-APP) — The UK-Pakistan cooperation on security matters were discussed in a meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and British Home Secretary Theresa May here on Wednesday. The President was assisted during the talks by Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, Pakistan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Wajid .
MANILA, Aug 5 (NNN-Bernama) — A two-seater trainer plane crashed on the runway of the Lawakan airport in Baguio City on Thursday morning, and the two commercial pilots onboard were unhurt, China’s Xinhua news agency quoted local media as reporting. The incident, which involved a Cessna aircraft, happened when the two pilots were reportedly undergoing .
CAIRO, Aug 5 (NNN-KUNA) — Meetings of the Arab Legal Panel have kicked off here at the Arab League headquarters chaired by Palestinian Justice Minister Dr Ali Khashaan to discuss the legal pursuit of the Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians. Khashaan stressed in a statement to the press on the sidelines of the panel’s .
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 5 (NNN-UNNS) — The number of people uprooted by the worst floods Pakistan has witnessed in decades continues to rise as the scale of the disaster becomes better understood, the United Nations humanitarian arm reported Wednesday, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon dispatched an envoy to the region to help spur momentum for relief .
LUSAKA , Aug 5 (NNN-ZANIS) — Zambia has taken over chairmanship of the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) Forum for the next one year following an AGOA Forum African Ministerial Consultative Group meeting in Washington DC this week. Passing over the chairmanship to Zambia’s Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Felix Mutati , the .
By Neville D’Cruz MELBOURNE, Aug 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Mining giant Rio Tinto is planning to invest a further 790 million USD to expand its iron ore operations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The aim is to expand the annual capacity of iron operations in Pilbara to 330 million tonnes, London-based Rio Tinto said in a .
RAMALLAH, Aug 4 (NNN-WAFA) — Head of the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department Dr Saeb Erekat has appealed to the international community to stop Israel’s brutal policies against Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem. Tuesday marks the first anniversary of the eviction of the Al Ghawi and Hanoun families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood .
LONDON, Aug 4 (NNN-IRNA) — The Israel Government Tourist Office (IGTO) has lost an appeal against a British ban on a misleading holiday advert which described the Western Wall as part of Israel. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint in April that the photographs of East Jerusalem destinations are actually in the occupied .
By Abdul Muin Majid DUBAI, Aug 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is hopeful that the outcome of a United Nations probe into the Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla will contribute to compelling Israel to respect the rules of international and humanitarian law. He also underlined the .
By Jamaluddin Muhammad BANGKOK, Aug 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is confident that the Thai economy will chart better than 10 per cent growth for the first half of this year despite the recent political turmoil which paralysed the centre of the capital. He said the country’s high growth in exports in the .
DUBAI, May 10 (NNN-MAP) — Morocco’s tourism receipts increased by 12 per cent in the first quarter of this year, accordign to Tourism Minister Yassir Zenagui. He said here over the weekend that the tourism industry in Morocco was not affected by the world economic crisis. The minister told the Dubai-based TV channel Al Arabiya .
By Kamau Mbote NAIROBI, May 10 (NNN-KBC) — Rift Valley Railways (RVR), the consortium formed to manage the parastatal railways of Kenya and Uganda, is working towards improving the railway tracks and locomotives at a cost of more than 2.25 billion shillings (about 28.8 million USD), says its Chief Engineer, Zakayo Chirchir. The company has .
ACCRA, May 10 (NNN-GNA) — Ghana is to receive one million barrels of crude oil every six months from Equatorial Guinea with the first consignment expected in July, following a three-day official visit by President John Evans Atta Mills to Equatorial Guinea. Chris Kpodo, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, who accompanied .
By Mac Kemoli NAIROBI, May 0 (NNN-KBC) — The manual voter registration exercise in Kenya has closed with more than 12 million people having registered by the weekend to vote in a forthcoming referendum on the country’s draft Constitution, surpassing the 10 million target set by the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) last week. The .
By Nthambeleni Gabara JOHANNESBURG, May 10 (NNN-BUANEWS) — FIFA has warned against ambush marketing within the precinctS of all 2010 host stadia and fan parks during the upcoming 2010 World Cup in South Africa to ensure the FIFA brand is protected. FIFA’s Rights Protection Manager, Mpumi Mazibuko, said here last week that world soccer’s governing .
TORONTO, May 10 (NN-ENA) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been invited to attend a summit meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) developed and emerging economies, according to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Harper’s office said Saturday that it had also invited the Malawian president to attend the summit. In addition to Ethiopia .
TUNIS, May 10 (NNN-TAP) — Voting for Tunisia’s municipal elections took place on Sunday in a positive atmosphere which, according to all participants and foreign observers, has come to materialise the high degree of maturity of Tunisian society in practising healthy democracy and its attachment to the rules of fair competition and civil behaviour, within .
ABUJA, May 10 (NNN-NAN) — Nigeria and France are poised to strengthen bilateral relations in the defence sector, says Minister of Defence Chief Adetokunbo Kayode. A statement issued by an official of the defence ministry, Modupe Adegboro, here last Friday said Kayode made the remark when the French Ambassador to Nigeria, Jean Dumond, called on .
REFORM OF NIGERIAN POLICE TO COST 400 BILLION NAIRA, SAYS POLICE CHIEF MINNA, NIGERIA, May 10 (NNN-NAN) — The ongoing reform of the Nigeria Police Force is expcted to cost 400 billion Naira (about 2.656 billion USD), says the nation’s top police officer, Inspector-General of Police Ogbonna Onovo. Speaking Saturday at the opening of the .
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, May 10 (NNN-MAP) — Moroccan Foreign minister Taib Fassi Fihri represented King Mohammed VI at the investiture ceremony of Costa Rica’s President Laura Chinchilla Miranda here Saturday. Fassi Fihri, who was accompanied by Morocco’s ambassador to Mexico and Central America, Mahmoud Rmiki, conveyed to President Chinchilla the king’s sincere congratulations on .
RAMALLAH, May 10 (NNN-WAFA) — Until Palestinians are afforded economic and environmental control, specifically control over macro-economic policy, trade, livelihoods, water resources and borders, sustained development will remain elusive, according to the latest Palestinian Human Development Report released by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Special Representative of the Administrator, .
CAIRO, May 10 (NNN-KUNA) — Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa has said that the pan-Arab body is ready to play any role in Iraq for the best interest of Iraqis. “We are supporting all Iraqis when we are needed … towards a national unity government within the framework of the Iraqi conciliation and one Iraq .
KUWAIT, May 10 (NNN-KUNA) — The Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has presided over an extraordinary cabinet meeting at the Bayan Palace here. Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, National Assembly (parliament) Speaker Jassem Al-Kharafi and Deputy Minister of Emiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah .
WASHINGTON, May 10 (NNN-KUNA) — The US State Department said the first round of indirect Israel-Palestinian peace talks has been completed. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in a statement Sunday that US special envoy George Mitchell left the Middle East after concluding “serious and wide-ranging” talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. “Both parties are .
BOGOTA, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – At least six rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were killed and 18 others captured by the Colombian Army in central west of the country last week, authorities said. Six members of the FARC’s “Angelino Godoy” Front were killed in the rural area of the city of .
MONTEVIDEO, May 10 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) -Communist Ana Olivera is predicted to be the first elected woman mayor of Uruguay’s capital Montevideo following municipal elections for executive posts and councillors in the 19 regions in which the country is divided. According to exit poll surveys yesterday Ms Olivera, a French teacher with a long experience in municipal .
GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, May 10 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) – The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) agreed over the week end to boost defence expending transparency to ensure regional stability which according to Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador is threatened by a controversial military agreement between the United States and Colombia. Following two days of deliberations, defence ministers meeting .
