Biggest recall of milk products | BEIJING: China has ordered that all milk products more than a month old be pulled from store shelves for emergency testing as another child in Hong Kong developed kidney stones after eating melamine-contamina... Ian Thorpe's mastermind joins exodus to cashed-up Britain | SWIMMING: The mastermind behind Ian Thorpe's career, his long-term coach Doug Frost, has joined the brain drain from Australia to Britain ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games. | Frost will become head coach... Booming nation, and yet millions still go hungry | INDIA has a booming economy and growing political clout but 200 million of its people still go to bed hungry each night. | More than a third of India's states have alarming levels of hunger according to the G... Greed is bad, says Rudd | KEVIN RUDD declared that "extreme capitalism" had failed comprehensively as he gave notice yesterday that his Government would seek to curb excessive executive salaries in the finance sector. | As a senior me... Missing: Beijing's 300 swabs | UP TO 300 test results taken from athletes at the Beijing Olympics have gone missing, says a report by official drug testing observers who attended the Games. | The team of 10 independent observers, who were ... China needs sharper eyes in space | By Peter J Brown | If China wants to become a dominant space power, it must step up and take a leading role in providing new Earth observation satellite (EOSAT) technology. However, the field is crowded and b... Farm reform will force China to grow | By Kent Ewing | HONG KONG - While the rest of the world is fixated on the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression of last century, it may seem odd that the highest decision-making body of the Ch... Zardari takes begging bowl to Beijing | By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | QUETTA - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for his first official four-day visit to China, hoping for words or actions that will help his country's eco... Japan's cash wanted - at home and abroad | By Kosuke Takahashi | TOKYO - Twenty years ago, Japanese money was viewed as a vulture; now it is seen as a savior. Out of favor in the 1980s, it's now hoped to revitalize the strained United States financial... Forget the silver bullet | By Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene | The initial reaction of US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to the financial crisis was to argue that their proposed US$70... SC slaps GMA | MR. EXPOSE | 10/16/2008 | The Supreme Court (SC) delivered the ultimate slap on the GMA administration by declaring the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) “contrary to law and unconstitution... Chinese biscuit positive for melamine — BFAD | 10/16/2008 | The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) found traces of the toxic industrial chemical melamine in a biscuit made in China yesterday, as it cleared 34 other Chinese milk products. | Tested with melami... China-made Ma Ling cleared of melamine | 10/16/2008 | One of Singapore’s leading testing centers has found that the popular China-made luncheon meat Ma Ling B2 is free of melamine. | This developed even as the exclusive distributor of Ma Ling B2 has... Anchor Land gets slot in Forbes’ under $1B ranking | 10/16/2008 | Listed property developer Anchor Land Holdings Inc. made it to this year’s 200 Best Under a Billion list of the prestigious Forbes Asia magazine, an annual compilation of the best companies in th... Thailand routs RP in Asian volley | 10/16/2008 | Southeast Asian powerhouse Thailand squad routed host Philippines, 25-11, 25-9, 25-14, yesterday in the classification round of seventh Asian Youth Girls’ Volleyball Championship at the PhilSport... RP seeks Pinoy murder convict’s body from Saudi gov’t | 10/16/2008 | The Philippine government asked Saudi Arabian authorities to turn over the remains of the Filipino, who was executed Tuesday after being convicted of murder. | Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)... Northrail cost grows to $1.6B with Gloria okay in Meralco-GSIS mess | 10/16/2008 | President Arroyo has approved the escalation in the cost of the already expensive Northrail project by as much as $600 million to accommodate a supposed change in the design to electrically-run l... Pinoys conquer the conquer the | By Stephanie Maureen F. Asi, Staff Writer | 10/16/2008 | Isn’t it funny that with all our amazing beaches, not many Filipinos are natural surfers or even know how to surf? The Philippines being an archipelago... ‘JV’ warns Palace stooges: Follow people’s will, or else... | 10/16/2008 | The United Opposition (UNO) yesterday said the latest impeachment complaint against the President could result in another windfall for administration allies at the House of Representatives but wa... Telstra rabbit film hops into taxpayers | TELSTRA, one of the nation's biggest advertisers, plans to seek millions from taxpayers to make a film featuring the father-and-son characters from its BigPond "Rabbits" commercials. | Independent producers s... Global crisis has profound Asia effect | THE global financial crisis will have profound effects in Asia, of that we can be sure. But just what those effects will be is as unclear as the future course of this crisis. Professional anti-Americans such ... US to have permanent aviation official in India | HYDERABAD: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the US, will have a permanent representative... China will be a democracy by 2020, says party official | SHANGHAI -- China will transform itself into a working democracy in little more than a decade, one of its most influential reformers said yesterday. | Zhou Tianyong, an adviser to the Communist Party's centra... Stocks fall as retail sales show steep drop | NEW YORK - Wall Street pulled back again Wednesday after economic data raised the possibility that the country is either in a recession or moving toward one. | The government's report that retail sales plunge... Wall St. Stocks Take A Turn For The Worse Dismal Retail Sales Report, Fear Of Recession Spooks Investors | NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2008 E-Mail Story | Print Story | Sphere | Share | Text Size: A A A VideosPhotos | Specialist Glenn Carell watches the numbers...
China needs sharper eyes in space Asia Times| By Peter J Brown | If China wants to become a dominant space power, it must step up and take a leading role ...
Farm reform will force China to grow Asia Times| By Kent Ewing | HONG KONG - While the rest of the world is fixated on the biggest financial meltdown since t...
Zardari takes begging bowl to Beijing Asia Times| By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | QUETTA - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for his ...
China-made Ma Ling cleared of melamine The Daily Tribune| 10/16/2008 | One of Singapore’s leading testing centers has found that the popular China-made luncheon meat ...
Global crisis has profound Asia effect The Australian| THE global financial crisis will have profound effects in Asia, of that we can be sure. But just what those ...
Coca-Cola's 3Q profit up 14 percent Seattle TimesNEW YORK - | The Coca-Cola Co. reported its profit rose by double digits, weathering a volatile third quarter ...
Coca-Cola's 3Q profit up 14 percent Syracuse| NEW YORK (AP) - The Coca-Cola Co. reported its profit rose by double digits, weathering a volatile third qua...
China recalls all dairy products News24| Beijing - China was on Wednesday pulling all dairy products more than a month old from shops across the coun...
