“Can’t believe I’m here!” I wrote in my notebook after the Air Koryo jet touched down in Pyongyang.
I looked through the airplane window, trying to take in everything: The drab, low-rise buildings. The streets nearly empty of vehicles. Low mountains off to one side, and dry corn stalks beside the taxiway.
CELEBRATED as a new “Asian Tiger” two decades ago, Vietnam has lagged behind its neighbours and needs further reforms in order to catch up, foreign investors say.
MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday launched a blistering attack on Anwar Ibrahim and his opposition alliance as he rallied his ruling coalition to prepare for early elections.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 (NNN-Bernama): Japan and Malaysia are looking at collaborating in the area of green technology through joint business ventures as well as research and development projects.
NEW DELHI, Dec 6 (NNN-PTI): India and France have signed a framework agreement for construction of two 1650 MW nuclear power reactors in Maharashtra and price and technical issues were being negotiated. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and French company Areva for building two European Pressure Reactors at Jaitapur in Maharashtra after .
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Asian countries should look more seriously at the Asian Currency Unit, a single regional currency, to enhance regional co-operation and development, according to the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). The creation of a single Asian currency is needed as East Asia is set to become the biggest economic zone .
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 .
