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New revelations of gruesome India girl killings
NEW DELHI, July 19, 2007 (AFP) – India’s unwanted baby girls have been drowned in milk, burned alive in sealed mud pots or fed milk laced with poisonous seeds, but these days it is much easier to kill them in the womb.These are some of the chilling anecdotes in a new book on how a […]
China private airline gets first nod for international routes
SHANGHAI, July 18, 2007 (AFP) – China’s East Star Airline said Wednesday it had won approval to fly overseas, the first private carrier to do so, as part of efforts to loosen the nation’s strictly controlled civil aviation sector.The airline based in central China said in a statement that it gained approval from aviation regulators […]
Maldives wants new airports for resort islands
July 18, 2007 (AFP) – Maldives is seeking international investors to help build ten regional airports as part of a plan to develop nearly three dozen resort islands, a minister said on Wednesday. “We plan to build 10 domestic airports packaged with tourist resorts, to make it economically feasible to investors.The tenders will go out […]
Money printing Zimbabwe tightens price controls worsening food shortages
HARARE, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – Zimbabwe’s government was set to intensify its pricing crackdown, despite being condemned by the White House on Tuesday as a reckless move that would further fuel inflation and exacerbate food shortages.Nathan Shamuyarira, ZANU-PF’s secretary for information and publicity, said a meeting of the party’s politburo on Monday, chaired by […]
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July 18, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed the head of its legal division as its new deputy director general, the regulator said Wednesday. Marina Fernando, who joined the SEC in 2003 was its Director, Legal and Enforcement. “As Deputy Director General, she will oversee matter pertaining to the […]
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 2007 (AFP) – Google announced Monday that it is shortening the lives of software “cookies” used to track users’ online preferences. In coming months Google will begin issuing cookies that automatically expire two years after a person visits the website provided they don’t return, according to the US firm’s global privacy […]
Indian launches betel condoms
NEW DELHI, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – A condom flavoured with the popular mixture of betel nut and tobacco known as paan is to go on sale in India, newspapers said Tuesday.State-owned company Hindustan Latex has already tested the pungent and bitter mixture on their main market, sex workers, who preferred it to other flavours […]
Bangladesh ex-PMs ordered to explain wealth
DHAKA, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – Bangladesh’s army-backed emergency government on Tuesday ordered two former prime ministers to submit details of their financial affairs as part of its corruption crackdown, an official said.Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who was arrested and detained over extortion allegations Monday, have each been asked to provide the information […]
Market Offence
July 16, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan court has convicted four executive directors of a listed company that went bust some years ago for not revealing information that affected the firm’s share price. The present SEC administration has made it clear that it would not allow compounding of offences with the provision that it […]
Another Deadline
RIYADH, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – An appeal for a teenage Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murdering a four-month-old baby has been launched, her lawyer said on Tuesday. Rizana Nafeek, 19, was convicted of strangling her employer’s baby in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom in February 2005 in a case that […]
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister arrested: aide
DHAKA, July 16, 2007 (AFP) – Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed who led the country from 1996 to 2001 and faces charges of corruption and murder was arrested Monday, an aide said.“She has been arrested and taken away and is now being taken to the court,” Hasan Mahmud, personal secretary to Sheikh Hasina, […]
France, Germany pledge to defend independent ECB
TOULOUSE, France, July 16, 2007 (AFP) – France and Germany agree on the need to keep the European Central Bank free of political meddling, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday. “We are both in agreement on the fact that the European Central Bank is independent.It is very important,” Merkel told a joint news conference with […]