Family Vaults Women to Leadership in Asia Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | BANGKOK -- "I am not a woman prime minister," Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India's leader. "I am a prime minister." | But the question, here in Asia, is whether there really is such a thing as a woman prime minister. | More women have reached the pinnacle of power in Asia in...
Insects devastate Thailand's rice crop, institute says m&c | Bangkok - Excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides and other poor farming practices have led to an insect plague in Thailand's rice fields that was predicted to reduce yields by 30 per cent in vast areas, the International Rice Research Institute warned Monday. | 'This is the worst outbreak of ...
Keep on giving The News & Observer | Your Jan. 23 article "Church condom ban is at issue" spoke of a boycott of the Raleigh diocese's Bishop's Annual Appeal (BAA) campaign as a strategy to spur change in the Catholic Church's public policy prohibiting condom use for HIV prevention. Ho...
Family Vaults Women to Leadership in Asia Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | BANGKOK -- "I am not a woman prime minister," Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India's leader. "I am a prime minister." | But the question, here in Asia, is whether there really is such a thing as a woman prime minister. | More w...
Insects devastate Thailand's rice crop, institute says m&c | Bangkok - Excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides and other poor farming practices have led to an insect plague in Thailand's rice fields that was predicted to reduce yields by 30 per cent in vast areas, the International Rice Research Institut...
Bangalore can be the next big thing in healthcare DNA India | Bangalore’s health sector is on a par with global standards with the best medical practitioners, state-of-the-art infrastructure and technologically advanced equipment. Yet, it is always second to cities like Chennai and Mumbai. Experts from ...
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Thailand braces for fresh political instability The Daily Tribune | focus | 02/04/2010 | BANGKOK — Thailand is entering a new phase of political turbulence, bracing for a key court ruling on the frozen fortune of ousted Premier Thaksin Shinawatra...
Report: 40 percent of cancers are preventable The News & Observer | LONDON -- About 40 percent of cancers could be prevented if people stopped smoking and overeating, limited their alcohol, exercised regularly and got vaccines targeting cancer-ca...
DUE TO DUBAI WORRIES--> S&T seen critical to Asean integration Malaya BY PAUL ICAMINA | The Philippines needs to get its act together in science and technology in order to keep abreast with neighbors in a very competitive Asean Community in the next ...
Cambodia denies rumors that deposed Thai leader Thaksin granted citizenship Star Tribune | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia on Friday denied a report that Thailand's disgraced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been granted citizenship, an allegation that had drawn threats in Bangkok that the billionaire ex-politician could lose...
Telestone Technologies reiterates 2009 outlook for $70M in revenue Star Tribune | SAN FRANCISCO - Telestone Technologies Corp., which sells wireless network services and communications gear in China, on Friday reiterated its 2009 outlook for $70 million in revenue. | The company said that network installations for 3G, or third-g...
DUE TO DUBAI WORRIES--> S&T seen critical to Asean integration Malaya BY PAUL ICAMINA | The Philippines needs to get its act together in science and technology in order to keep abreast with neighbors in a very competitive Asean Community in the next five years, a senior official of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) said yesterday. | "The Asean Community will be created by 2015 as a single produc...
