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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 1 -- With tensions rising between India and Pakistan following the deadly attacks in Mumbai last week, the United States on Monday increased pressure on Pakistan to cooperate in the investigation, while Indian officials lodged a formal diplomatic protest with their South...
SEOUL, Dec. 1 -- North Korea, one of the world's most shuttered states, pulled the curtains tighter Monday, drastically cutting South Korean access to a joint industrial complex in the border city of Kaesong.
Reuters - An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale shook southern Taiwan on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, officials said.
AFP - China has dramatically raised the tally of children sickened by dairy products laced with the industrial chemical melamine to 294,000, more than five times the original figure.
Shares across Asia fell sharply tracking Wall Street's drop overnight by nearly nine per cent as an influential group of economists declared that the US was in recession.
AP - India demanded Monday that Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the deadly Mumbai attacks, and Washington pressured Islamabad to cooperate with the investigation.
AFP - A grenade attack killed an anti-government protester at a besieged Bangkok airport Tuesday, as further unrest forced a key hearing on the possible dissolution of the ruling party to move.
AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il went to the Pyongyang zoo and visited the tigers, bears and aquarium, state-run media said Tuesday, in the latest in a spate of reports depicting Kim as fit three months after his reported stroke.
The software division will be the hardest hit and the largest casualty list will hail from Japan. IBM told employees that 1000 workers in Japan and 1600 elsewhere across the region would be let go. The software group would have the most redundancies ...