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A Sumatran tiger at the Toronto Zoo in Canada.
Bangkok   Environment   Photos   Wikipedia: Tiger   Wildlife  
 The Daily Telegraph Australia 
Men caught butchering tiger
| POLICE have busted a wildlife slaughterhouse in Bangkok, catching four men in the act of chopping up a tiger. | Thai police busted the grisly, exotic wildlife slaughterhouse in Bangkok when officers... (photo: Creative Commons / Wuffyz)
Sony Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer to be Kazuo Hirai, left, and current Sony CEO Howard Stringer have a light moment at a photo session following their press conference Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012.
Bravia   Electronics   Photos   Profit   Wikipedia: Sony  
 Skynews 
Sony Replaces Boss Predicting Annual Loss
| Kazuo Hirai will take over the top job at Sony in April Global electronics brand Sony has announced it will replace its top boss as it prepares to post its fourth consecutive full-year loss. | The J... (photo: AP / Junji Kurokawa)
Honda - Car - Vehicle  The Times Of India 
Honda slashes profit outlook on disasters
TOKYO: Honda Motor Co slashed its annual profit guidance to the lowest level in three years as it counted the cost of natural disasters in Japan and Thailand and a strong yen. But it forecast a health... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Automaker   Business   Market   Photos   Wikipedia: Honda  
Thai Airways A340-600 (HS-TNA) takes off from London Heathrow Airport, England.  The Examiner 
Thai Airways canceling non-stop flights from Bangkok to Los Angeles (LAX)
| With no official announcement from Thai Airways yet, travelers in Bangkok have been passing a Thai Airways website link via e-mail today which notifies passengers that, as of May 1st, 2012, Thai Air... (photo: Creative Commons / Adrian Pingstone)
Airlines   Business   Market   Photos   Wikipedia: Thai Airways International  
Top Stories
Alternative fuel dispensers at a regular gasoline station in Arlington, Virginia. B20 biodiesel at the left and E85 ethanol at the right. Journal Online
Oil price control looms
| KILUSANG Mayo Uno yesterday said President Benigno C. Aquino III will not impose price controls on petroleum products thus calling on the workers and people to join pro... (photo: Creative Commons / Mariordo)
People   Petroleum   Photos   Price   Wikipedia/Oil  
Singapore Airlines - National carrier of Singapore Springfield News-Sun
World stock markets fall ahead of US jobs report
| BANGKOK — World stock markets were mostly lower Friday ahead of a U.S. jobs report that is a key gauge of how robust the world's No. 1 economy is. | Benchmark oil... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Economy   Markets   Photos   Stock   Wikipedia: DAX  
A foreign journalist takes a photo of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, on a screen at a court press center during the U.N.-backed tribunal Monday, April 6, 2009, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Zeenews
Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison
Phnom Penh: The Khmer Rouge tribunal's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the regime's chief jailer to serve out the rest of his life in prison because of his "shocking and ... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith)
Crimes   Khmer Rouge   Photos   Prison   Wikipedia: Khmer Rouge  
In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, center, arrives in the courtroom for a session of U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as the court gives verdict on appeal filed by Duch against his conviction Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Khaleej Times
Khmer Rouge jailer handed life on appeal
PHNOM PENH ' A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people was given life in prison on appeal Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first ca... (photo: AP / Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nhet Sok Heng)
Cambodia   Crime   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Khmer Rouge  
In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, the former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, right, sits in the courtroom of the U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. Both sides in the genocide trial wrap up their cases on Friday amid allegations by prosecutors that the former school teacher's admissions of guilt are insincere. The Guardian
Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison
| PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Khmer Rouge tribunal's Supreme Court has ordered the regime's chief jailer to serve life imprisonment, a surprise ruling that stiffens... (photo: AP / Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
Cambodia   Court   Crimes   Photos   Wikipedia: Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia  
Health workers carry on a stretcher one of the wounded civilians upon arrival in Zamboanga city from nearby Basilan island Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 after suspected al-Qaida-linked militants raided a village in the southern Philippines early Saturday, killing 11 people, including a one-year-old baby, in the country's worst militant attack on civilians in nine years. Gunmen from the extremist Abu Sayyaf group backed by renegade Muslim separatist rebels fired grenade launchers and automatic rifles on houses while residents were still asleep, killing one government-armed militiaman and 10 civilians in the village of Tubigan on the island province of Basilan, said deputy regional police commander. The Guardian
A look at major terror attacks in Southeast Asia
| The Associated Press= A look at major attacks in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia attributed to the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group and their allies from the re... (photo: AP)
Asia   Killing   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Abu Sayyaf  
 Sumatran Rhinoceros Jakarta Globe
Rare Sumatran rhino pregnancy offers hope to species
A Sumatran rhino which is 10-months pregnant is receiving special medical care after suffering two miscarriages, a conservationist said Thursday, fuelling hope for the cr... (photo: Public Domain)
Conservation   Environment   Photos   Wikipedia: Sumatran Rhinoceros   Wildlife  
Sony Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer to be Kazuo Hirai, left, and current Sony CEO Howard Stringer have a light moment at a photo session following their press conference Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Skynews
Sony Replaces Boss Predicting Annual Loss
| Kazuo Hirai will take over the top job at Sony in April Global electronics brand Sony has announced it will replace its top boss as it prepares to post its fourth conse... (photo: AP / Junji Kurokawa)
Bravia   Electronics   Photos   Profit   Wikipedia: Sony  
 A Thai vendor carries chickens in a market in Bangkok´s Chinatown on Friday, January 13, 2006. A 59-year-old Thai man who bred and raised fighting cocks in northeastern Thailand contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus and has died, health officials said PhysOrg
Vietnam reports 2nd bird flu death in a month
| Test results confirm that a 26-year-old woman died of the disease Jan. 28 after being hospitalized in southern Soc Trang province, said Truong Hoai Phong, director of t... (photo: AP/Sakchai Lalit)
Disease   Health   Photos   Vietnam   Wikipedia: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1  
Politics Terrorism
- Indonesia's Ruling Democratic Party Must Lose Corruption
- Time for Closer Ties With East Timor
- New breed of unionists rising to the top
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- AFP: Top terrorists were killed in air strike
- RI submarines on par with neighbors after overhaul
- Alleged Bali bomber to face six charges
- Patek Trial to Begin Next Week: Prosecutor
In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, Philippine Marines secure a rebel camp of the Abu Sayyaf group where they raised a Philippine flag after overrunning it in Indanan on the island province of Jolo in southern Philippines Monday.
Filipino villagers may have helped kill terrorist
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Business & Economy Energy & Industry
- Bribe money, in all its colorful forms
- Malaysian tourists up 8.13% in Bali
- Indonesian President’s New Plane to Cost $89 Million: Fitr
- Thai sugar company takes over Australian milling company
 Ceb - Old  mandaue bridge connecting mandaue city and lapu-lapu city , mactan channel (sl1)
Lapu-Lapu City surpasses tax collection target
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- New breed of unionists rising to the top
- Scoot speeds into Gold Coast
- Indonesian Power Prices to Rise 10% to Plug Budget Deficit
- Indonesian pilots flying a little too high for comfort
Singapore Airlines - National carrier of Singapore
World stock markets fall ahead of US jobs report
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Health Society & Culture
- Surviving cancer through early diagnosis
- Asia-Pacific nations seek faster response against HIV at UN
- Indonesia's new bizarre way to keep 'rail surfers
- Rescuers dig to reach trapped in Philippines quake
 Sumatran Rhinoceros
Rare Sumatran rhino pregnancy offers hope to species
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- My Jakarta: Aan Rukmana, Lecturer at Paramadina University
- Twitter offenders can end up in jail, says Tifatul
- Surviving cancer through early diagnosis
- State firms remit P19 billion as dividends
Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago berates Philippine officials and other "Resource Persons" in the Senate investigation of the controversial national broadband deal which was won by China's ZTE Corporation Wednesday Sept. 26, 2007 in Manila, Philippines.
Santiago says her critics are cretins, paid hacks
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- Phil Younghusband: I feel more Filipino than English
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