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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Asia Pacific News.Net http://www.asiapacificnews.net/ en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:07:29 -0500 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:07:29 -0500 30 Australia's biggest banks are gouging its customers, the Reserve Bank of Australia says. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611135 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:30:50 -0500 Asia Pacific News.Net http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611135 Hundreds of starving sea lions are washing ashore along the California coast as El Nino weather conditions warm the Pacific Ocean and drive away their usual prey, according to media reports Friday. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611518 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:50:01 -0500 IANS http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611518 China warned Friday that internet search software giant Google will have to face consequence if it violates laws in the communist country. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611473 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:20:01 -0500 IANS http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611473 A top media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611342 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:20:07 -0500 ANI http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611342 Search engine Google on Thursday denied it was planning to shut down its business in China by the end of the month. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611238 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:20:01 -0500 ANI http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611238 While praising the Indian Government for cracking down on anti-Chinese activities on its soil, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has called on Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to stop indulging in separatist activities and create conducive conditions for talks with Beijing. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611223 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:50:13 -0500 ANI http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611223 The Chinese Army brass has urged the Pentagon to take the initiative to fix stagnant Sino-US military relations. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611215 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:50:07 -0500 ANI http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611215 Member and former Speaker of Tibetan parliament in-exile, Karma Choephel confirmed that their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that after reaching a peaceful settlement with China, the government in-exile will be dissolved. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611165 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:50:05 -0500 ANI http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611165 There has been a 26 percent increase in Indians holidaying in Australia's Victoria state in the year ending December 2009 as compared to the same period in 2008, reveals a survey that comes in the backdrop of a string of attacks on Indian students in this country. http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611147 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:02 -0500 IANS http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/611147 del.icio.us Average citizens are using the Internet and mobile phones to fight violence, and the movement is set to grow. That was the message of a two-day London summit in which social media activist... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070264&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:27:26 -0500 VOA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070264&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Suicide Bomber Kills 8 in Pakistan's Swat Valley Authorities in Pakistan say that two back-to-back suicide bomb blasts in the country's second largest city, Lahore, have killed at least 45 people and ... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070265&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:27:26 -0500 VOA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070265&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Chinese netizens have found a creatively flamboyant, sometimes off-color, new way to voice their discontent about the social dilemmas in China—with less chance of raising a red flag. They have i... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070260&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:20:49 -0500 The Epoch Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070260&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Register for this Complimentary Webinar to Learn What Every Hotelier Needs to Know about using Online Video to Appeal to Different Generations of Travel Shoppers. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33069712&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:16:42 -0500 PR Web http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33069712&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Editors Note: There are two photos associated with this press release. Markham's Pacific Mall, a tourist, entertainment and shopping destination for all southern Ontario today announced an ambitio... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070268&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:12:06 -0500 Market Wire http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070268&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 TACOMA, Wash. — A 47-year-old woman in Washington state has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping her 8-year-old daughter adopted from China. Donna Marie Whisenhunt, of Lacey, pleaded... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070262&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:58:52 -0500 The Seattle Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070262&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 All Black utility Tamati Ellison will head to Japan later this year. The Dominion Post reported that Ellison, 26, had put his family's future ahead of his chances of playing for the All Blacks in nex... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070275&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:56:31 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070275&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Samoa will host the four-nation Pacific Nations Cup in June. The June 12-26 rugby tournament features teams from Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Japan http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070276&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:56:30 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070276&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 A day after the State Department pointed the finger at China in its annual report on human rights abuses in 194 countries, Beijing responded in kind, accusing Washington of "posing as the world judge ... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070266&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:51:53 -0500 Canada.com http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070266&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Japan's coast guard arrests anti-whaling protester Pete Bethune, who boarded a whaling vessel in the Antarctic after clashes between hunters and environmentalists. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070278&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:50:25 -0500 Vancouver Sun http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070278&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Following the success of a half-price subsidy for CO2-busting fuel-cell heat and energy generators for homes, Japan is now poised to ship its attention to supplying the UK and Germany with this hi-tec... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070162&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:49:03 -0500 BBC http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070162&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be “irresponsible” and would draw a response from the Beijing government. The statement by Li Yizhong, China’s minister of i... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070273&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:46:51 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070273&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be “irresponsible” and would draw a response from the Beijing government. The statement by Li Yizhong, China’s minister of i... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070270&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:46:40 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070270&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be “irresponsible” and would draw a response from the Beijing government. The statement by Li Yizhong, China’s minister of i... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070271&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:44:25 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070271&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 The agreements pave the way to build at least a dozen more Russian nuclear power plants for an energy-starved India, and to funnel more Russian weapons to India’s military. The countries also r... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070272&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:44:23 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070272&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 TOKYO - Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese wh... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33069963&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:42:11 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33069963&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but few buyers overall are choosing smartphones despite promotion by China's mobile carriers. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33069555&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:38:59 -0500 CIO http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33069555&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 BEIJING: The United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, a Chinese central banker said on Friday, as the two countries lurched toward a potential bust-up over Beijing's currency... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070274&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:34:45 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070274&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 With his thick central Chinese accent, Chen Tangsan could easily be mistaken for any other resident of Henan province, but he is in fact a descendant of Taiwanese headhunters -- and proud of it. Mo... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070281&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:20:31 -0500 Breitbart http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070281&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 WASHINGTON, March 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A group of U.S. senators have tabled a resolution urging Japan to lift its restrictions on beef imports from the United States over fear of mad cow disease, ... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070280&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:20:29 -0500 Breitbart http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070280&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Two weeks' paternity leave may not seem like much, but for Hironobu Narisawa, the 44-year-old mayor of a Tokyo district, it is a leap into the future for Japanese society. Next month he will become... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070282&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:20:27 -0500 Breitbart http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070282&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 LAHORE: Pakistan's main opposition PML-N asked the government to review its policy on the war against terrorism, saying it is resulting in the killing of innocent people. "It would be better for... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070263&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:17:26 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070263&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 's interior, Chen returned to the island, seeking his roots in the verdant hills which aboriginal tribes still consider their own. "I've finally found my ancestral home," the 43-y... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070259&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:15:02 -0500 Yahoo! News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070259&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 BEIJING (AP) - China has surprised thousands of aid groups by stepping in to regulate overseas donations for the first time, complicating efforts to get money from supporters in the United States and ... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070261&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:13:41 -0500 Find Law http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070261&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 (RTTNews) - According to a Twitter post from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, President Barack Obama is delaying his upcoming trip to Indonesia and Australia from March 18 to March 21."The P... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070137&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:12:45 -0500 Quote.com http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070137&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, an endangered Siberian tiger runs away with a chicken tossed by tourists as others run after it at the Harbin Tiger Park in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070283&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:12:28 -0500 SINA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33070283&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Indonesians Looking Forward to Obama's Visit The White House says President Barack Obama is delaying an upcoming trip to Asia by three days, as he makes a final push for health care reform legislation... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066640&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:29:48 -0500 VOA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066640&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog The USS Pearl Harbor is a landing ship, not the most charismatic vessel in a Navy of cruisers and subs and aircraft carriers. And so I generally ge... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066595&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:28:15 -0500 U.S. News & World Report http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066595&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 (Sports Network) - The two top teams in the Pacific Division meet for the last time in the regular season tonight, when the second-place Phoenix Suns welcome the front-running Los Angeles Lakers to th... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066821&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:11 -0500 Sports Network http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066821&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 She has declared that she would rather die than to order the execution of one of the 44 inmates on death row. China has the primacy of death sentences in the world. But so far at least 139 countries h... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066838&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:04 -0500 Spero News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066838&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Beijing - While the government is concentrated in Beijing, where the two most important meetings in domestic politics is taking place, public security is as usual rounding up dissidents and activists ... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066839&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:01 -0500 Spero News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066839&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fr. John Baptist Luo was arrested on 3 March. Three other priests have been issued arrest warrants, but not yet detained. Another three have to pay a fine. Fr. Luo told AsiaNews: "I'm ready to go to j... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066840&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:21:00 -0500 Spero News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066840&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Beijing – Chinese citizens who petition the government to complain about abuses by local officials, a right recognised under China’s constitution, could get up to 15 years in jail if Liu Q... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066841&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:20:59 -0500 Spero News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066841&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Posted on: Friday, 12 March 2010, 10:58 CST Chinese officials are firing back in its ongoing battle with Google, claiming that the search engine will have to "face the consequences" if it... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066846&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:18:49 -0500 RedOrbit http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066846&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 & Digital Telecom Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: CVDT) today announced that it has signed cooperation agreements with two(2) system integrators (SIs) to market its virtualization products and soluti... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066847&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:18:46 -0500 RedOrbit http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066847&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 SEATTLE, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pacific Biomarkers, Inc. (PBI) (OTC Bulletin Board: PBMC), a provider of specialized central laboratory and contract research services, today announced that... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065958&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:18:32 -0500 RedOrbit http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065958&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 19:20 CST System 97P was looking pretty impressive on NASA satellite imagery early today, March 11, and by 10 a.m. ET, it strengthened into Tropical Storm Tomas.... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066845&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:18:26 -0500 RedOrbit http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066845&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Kings XI Punjab were on Friday dealt a severe blow ahead of their opening IPL match against Delhi Daredevils as the Australian paceman Brett Lee has been ruled out of the event for the first 10 days d... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066844&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:16:16 -0500 NDTV http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066844&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 The yen fell in Asian trade yesterday following rare remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama who called for "firm steps" against the yen's recent rise, which is hurting exporters.The dollar ... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066829&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:08:23 -0500 eTaiwan News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066829&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Two weeks' paternity leave may not seem like much, but for Hironobu Narisawa, the 44-year-old mayor of a Tokyo district, it is a leap into the future for Japanese society.Next month he will become Jap... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066830&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:07:19 -0500 eTaiwan News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066830&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 , or warehouse, in a shabby industrial neighborhood of Hong Kong, dozens of fish swim slowly around a 7,000-liter tank under ultraviolet lights. Periodically, a feeder arm drops a few pellets into the... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065999&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:04:00 -0500 CNBC http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065999&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 CHARLESTOWN, Nevis -- A top official of the government of Taiwan in St Kitts and Nevis has reiterated his government’s continued support for the people of Nevis in areas of need. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066848&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:18 -0500 Caribbean Net News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066848&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 -- Refuting Dalai Lama's charge that China is "deliberately annihilating Buddhism" in Tibet, Chinese official media today hit back, saying the religion is being practised without any hindran... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066828&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:02:42 -0500 Buddhist Channel http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066828&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to China said on Friday that Beijing risks isolation if it fails to join international efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066823&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:58:57 -0500 The Star http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066823&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Australian officials launched an investigation into allegations that sailors on board a navy ship were running a sex competition during an overseas deployment last year. The Defence Departmen... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065763&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:26 -0500 The Independent http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065763&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 March 12 (Bloomberg) -- BHP Billiton Plc, Anglo American Plc and Xstrata Plc are shipping coal 10,000 miles to China from their Cerrejon mine in Colombia for the first time this year because of surgin... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066007&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:51:18 -0500 Business Week http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066007&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 China's top internet official has warned that Google will "pay the consequences" if it continues to go against Chinese law.Google announced in January that it would no longer comply with Chi... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065841&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:50:48 -0500 BBC http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065841&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 At war’s end, the cabbie won’t take money from the Marine returning home from the Pacific. “I might have jumped into Normandy but at least I got some liberties in London and Paris,&#... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065937&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:48:24 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33065937&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 KUALA LUMPUR — Lawyers and religious minorities in Malaysia, encouraged by a civil court’s overruling a Shariah court’s decision in a child custody case, have called for a clearer di... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066831&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:45:47 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066831&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Retail stocks rose Friday after the Commerce Department reported better-than-expected retail sales in February, giving another piece of evidence that consumer spending is wel... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066422&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:43:43 -0500 Market Watch http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066422&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 ISLAMABAD: Lahore, Pakistan’s cultural and political hub, was rocked by twin-suicide explosions, aimed at targeting the army personnel patrolling the area, leaving at least 39 people dead and mor... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066825&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:18:31 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066825&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Los Angeles Dodgers player James Loney swings during the MLB Taiwan Games in Taipei. Taiwan's professional all-star baseball team defeated the visiting Los Angeles 5-2 in the first of the three sc... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066813&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:15:45 -0500 Yahoo! News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066813&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Japan has taken a New Zealand anti-whaling activist into custody for illegally boarding a whaling vessel. Meanwhile, brokers have been protesting a tuna trade ban to be considered at a conference on&h... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066819&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:15:34 -0500 Yahoo! News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066819&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 and the rest of the Group of 20 aren't doing enough to fix global imbalances, the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Friday. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066572&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:15:15 -0500 Morning Star http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066572&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 and the rest of the Group of 20 aren't doing enough to fix global imbalances, the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Friday. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066571&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:15:07 -0500 Morning Star http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066571&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China Shenhua Energy Company Limited, the largest coal producer in the country, Friday said its net profit rose 16.6 percent to 30.28 billion yuan (4.43 billion U.S. doll... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066850&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:13:38 -0500 SINA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066850&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Two boys play with snow in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 12, 2010. Snow hit Harbin on Friday. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei) http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066851&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:13:28 -0500 SINA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066851&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 TOKYO, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan said Friday that he believed Japan paid more than 320 million U.S. dollars to the United States as part of a deal when the transfer of p... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066854&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:13:26 -0500 SINA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33066854&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Russia's Putin to India for First Time as PM Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in New Delhi Friday to oversee the signing of more than a dozen deal... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064028&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:09 -0500 VOA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064028&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Indonesians Looking Forward to Obama's Visit A new report documents a surge in separatist violence over the past year in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua. The report links the violence to mil... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064247&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:08 -0500 VOA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064247&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 del.icio.us Cambodia's parliament has passed the country's first law to combat corruption, but critics say it is flawed, and could entrench rather than end corruption. After 15 years of trying, Cambod... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064248&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:08 -0500 VOA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064248&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 With his hair cut in an abbreviation in Thai of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, a supporter of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra watches during a rally at the northern outs... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064250&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:06 -0500 VOA http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064250&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 SHANGHAI: Chinese authorities have sentenced an outspoken Shanghai activist to 18 months of re-education through labour for her protest at the trial of leading dissident Liu Xiaobo, her husband said F... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064256&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:09:47 -0500 New Straits Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064256&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 TAIPEI: Taiwan’s cabinet has approved a proposal to let Chinese financial institutions invest in their Taiwanese peers and set up branches on the island, an official said Friday. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063767&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:09:42 -0500 New Straits Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063767&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 SHANGHAI: Shares in Air China tumbled Friday after the nation’s flag carrier said it plans to raise more than 950 million dollars through a private share placement to boost capital and lower fin... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063750&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:09:35 -0500 New Straits Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063750&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 MIRI: The World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked Malaysia above New Zealand, China and Italy in terms of business sophistication and innovation, Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Dat... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063662&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:09:04 -0500 New Straits Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063662&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 CCTR ) recently announced goal to generate $200 million in revenue through partnership programs in 2010 has been reviewed in an on-demand Webcast. Dr. James Jiang, CEO of China Crescent, made the anno... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064081&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:04:47 -0500 Market Wire http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064081&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 ) ("Gulf & Pacific") announces today its intention, and its receipt of all required regulatory approvals, including approval by the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange"), to commence its normal co... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064252&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:04:45 -0500 Market Wire http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064252&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 of a diary allegedly written by a local tobacco official detailing bribes he received, boozy meals with other officials and numerous extra-marital sexual liaisons is just the latest example of apparen... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064253&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:16:44 -0500 MSNBC http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064253&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 TOKYO, March 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Former Cameroon international striker Patrick Mboma said Friday Japan should have a realistic goal of reaching the quarterfinals at this summer's World Cup, inste... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063669&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:09:39 -0500 Breitbart http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063669&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 TOKYO, March 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The following is the gist of a Finance Ministry report released Friday on its investigation into a Japan-U.S. secret pact involving the 1972 reversion of Okinawa.... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063670&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:09:36 -0500 Breitbart http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33063670&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 China and the US traded barbs on Friday over the economy and human rights, raising the temperature ahead of what could be a crucial showdown over currency policy next month. Su Ning, a deputy governor... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064242&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:03:37 -0500 Financial Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064242&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 More than 2,000 vessels were stopped Friday by thick fog at the mouth of the Pearl River in south China's Guangdong Province, said local maritime authorities.The vessels were stopped for safety concer... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064006&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:02:23 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064006&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan said Friday that he believed Japan paid more than 320 million U.S. dollars to the United States as part of a deal when the transfer of power in Okinawa between Toky... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064254&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:02:21 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064254&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Chinese Foreign Ministry voiced firm opposition here Friday to U.S. house speaker's recent statement on Tibet, saying it was "extremely irresponsible."U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reporte... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064241&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:02:20 -0500 People's Daily http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33064241&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Netball Australia has signed a major sponsorship deal with Australia's leading online department store, DealDirect.com.au. The new, two-year sponsorship positions DealsDirect.com.au as one of t... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061893&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:39:40 -0500 PR Web http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061893&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 announced today that it intends to provide Land Breeze II, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Investment Corporation ("CIC"), a notice of intention to convert US$250 million of the US$500m convertible... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061276&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:34:54 -0500 Market Wire http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061276&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 The Taiwan fund arm of UBS will launch a T$10 billion ($312 million) emerging markets equities fund this year targeting China and Russia, on expectations of stronger growth and cheaper valuations, an ... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061895&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:04:12 -0500 Business Standard http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061895&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 HONG KONG, CHINA -- 03/12/10 -- SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd. (TSX: SGQ)(SEHK: 1878) announced today that it intends to provide Land Breeze II, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Investment Corpora... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061305&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:27 -0500 Earth Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061305&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China TransInfo Technology Corp., (Nasdaq: CTFO), ("China TransInfo" or "the Company"), a leading provider of public transportation information sys... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061908&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:12 -0500 Earth Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061908&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Recycling Energy Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: CREG; "CREG" or "the Company"), a leading industrial waste-to-energy solution provider in http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061622&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:10 -0500 Earth Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061622&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Gerui Advanced Materials Group Limited (Nasdaq: CHOP) ("China Gerui," or the "Company"), a leading niche and high value-added steel processin... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061909&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:08 -0500 Earth Times http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061909&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 BEIJING: Google will have to "bear the consequence" if it insists on violating China's laws and regulations, a senior official warned Friday. http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061901&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:59:14 -0500 Times of India http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061901&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Friday made a rare call for "firm steps" to stem the strength of the yen as the currency's recent advances have hit exporters' earnings... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061899&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:58:04 -0500 Yahoo!7 News http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061899&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Newcastle striker Mark Viduka vies with Tottenham Hotspur defender Jonathan Woodgate (right) during their Premier League match at White Hart Lane, London in 2009. Woodgate has had surgery in Australia... http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061898&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:56:11 -0500 soccerway http://feeds.asiapacificnews.net/?rid=33061898&cat=4a8b544d0e80ba53