Friday 27th January, 2012
Caffeine consumption ups estrogen levels in Asian women
Moderate caffeine intake increases estrogen levels in Asian women, but lowers in whites, according to a new study. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and colleagues found that Asian ...
75% Pak children unable to read single sentence in English: Report
Seventy-five percent of children in Pakistan are unable to read a sentence in English, a survey report launched by South Asia Forum for Education Development has found. The report of the Forum, ...
Central Asian States, Iraq Last In Environmental Index
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iraq -- countries that have long occupied the lower rungs on corruption and freedoms rankings -- now have another disappointing evaluation to add to this ...
Central Asia’s Environment Ranked Among Worst Globally
EurasiaNetCentral Asia is chock full of beautiful places, pristine prairies and mountain valleys that look as if they've never been touched by mankind. But many spots are well-documented environmental ...
Apple Needs to Conquer Asia to Keep the Momentum
CNBCThe iconic maker of the iPhone, iPad and iPod has barely scratched the surface of the region, home to around 60 percent of the world's population - a fact that Apple itself alluded to in ...
Japan did not keep nuclear notes
BBCThe Japanese government has admitted it failed to keep records of key meetings during the nuclear crisis last year. Deputy PM Katsuya Okada has instructed ministers to produce summaries of the ...
Suicide bomber kills 29 in Baghdad
Times of IndiaBaghdad marketplace on Friday, the latest attack on a mainly Shi'ite neighbourhood since a political crisis erupted in December, police and hospital sources said. The bomber exploded his ...
'Third Jihad': Muslims demand NY police chief's head
Times of IndiaAmerican-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne should immediately resign from their positions for taking part in the production of the 'Third ...
French judge charges boss of breast implant firm
Times of Indiawomen around the world are believed to have received implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), which shut down in 2010 after it was revealed to have been using substandard, industrial-grade ...
Send money to India
Times of IndiaFor NRIs, one of the key concerns while living abroad is sending money back to their loved ones in India. Plagued by inordinate delays, huge fees to wire the money or to be paid to the agent etc, ...
Chinese charged with arson attack on Japan embassy
Channel News AsiaSEOUL: South Korean prosecutors Friday brought charges against a Chinese man accused of hurling petrol bombs at the Japanese embassy in Seoul because his grandmother was forced into wartime sex ...
Indonesian Trade Ministry urges staff to improve English
Channel News AsiaINDONESIA: Indonesia's Trade Ministry wants its employees to improve their English, so they can better communicate with Indonesia's trading partners.Its target is for a third of the ...
Asia Fuel Oil-Prompt spreads ease on profit-taking
Yahoo, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The Asia fuel oil market showed signs of weakening for the first time in more than a week on Friday, with prompt timespreads closing at steady levels but easing after that, on ...
Research and Markets: Asia Pacific Purified Terephthalic Acid Industry Outlook to 2015 - H2 Update
YahooAsia Pacific Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) Industry Outlook to 2015 - Market Size, Company Share, Price Trends, Capacity Forecasts of All Active and Planned Plants - H2 Update " to their ...
The Asia/Pacific stock indexes closed mostly higher
FXstreetThe appetite for risk is rising going into the US open. The yen is surging for a second day, recouping all of the losses made earlier this week. The European and the commodity currencies are ...
Pakistani PM 'wants BBC TV back'
BBCThe Pakistani Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, has said he wants to see BBC World News back on cable television in his country after the recent ban. He told the BBC at the World Economic Forum ...
India boy invents warning device
BBCA school boy in the Indian capital, Delhi, claims to have invented a device that can help women stave off would-be attackers. The device, which can be worn like a wrist watch, delivers an electric ...
India is the outlier as a long term fund in Asia
Times of IndiaWhat is your outlook on Asian equities and how does India stack up among your preferred markets? I have been concerned about India for quite a long time because the deficit has been getting worse. ...
Asian death wave tops a year of big disasters
Space DailyThe earthquake and tidal waves that took the lives of more than 23,000 in countries around the Indian Ocean was the latest and biggest of a series of natural disasters in 2004, one of the worst ...
Hillary Clinton wants to step off 'high wire of American politics'
Times of IndiaHillary Rodham Clinton says she wants to step off the "high wire of American politics" after two decades and is again tamping down speculation that she might stay in government if US ...
London Olympics not to drop Dow Chemical sponsorship
Times of IndiaLondon 2012 watchdog, resigned from her post, citing concerns about Dow's relationship with the company responsible for the 1984 gas disaster. After Alexander's resignation, ...
2nd earthquake in 2 days rattles Greek islands
Times of IndiaATHENS, GREECE: An earthquake with preliminary 5.2-magnitude shook Greece's southern Aegean Sea islands on Friday, the second in two days, Greek authorities said. Civil protection officials ...
Spain jobless rate hits 22.85%, nearly 5.3 million out of work
Times of Indiaunemployment rate shot to 22.85 percent in the final quarter of 2011, the highest in the industrialised world, as jobless numbers hit 5.27 million, official figures showed Friday. The unemployment ...
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