Archive for March 28th, 2008

Couple on trial for murdering 7 women

Friday, March 28th, 2008

A self-confessed serial killer dubbed the "Ogre of the Ardennes" went on trial yesterday for raping and murdering seven young women with the help of his wife. Michel Fourniret, 65, has admitted killing seven women and girls over a 14-yea ...

US envoys’ visit protested

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Outrage intensified in Pakistan yesterday over the timing of a visit by two senior American envoys who landed even before the new Cabinet is formed. Newspaper editorials decried the visit as American "meddling" and said it was ill-timed. ...

German Transrapid train line abandoned over soaring costs

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Germany has decided to suspend the building of a Transrapid rail line linking the southern city of Munich and its airport because of soaring costs, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said Thursday. "We had to conclude that plans ...

French woman denied euthanasia died of overdose on barbiturates

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Chantal Sebire, a tumor-stricken French teacher whose request for euthanasia had been denied, died of an overdose of barbiturates, a French prosecutor said Thursday. Sebire, 52, was terminally-ill and severely disfigured with an inc ...

Highspeed rail line scrapped as cost spirals

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Germany has ditched plans to build a flagship high-speed rail link between the Bavarian capital Munich and its airport because of ballooning costs, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said yesterday. The Transrapid, one of the world's ...

Mekong countries facing opportunities and challenges in development

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Leaders of the six GMS countries will be meeting in Vientiane, Laos on March 30-31 to discuss ways to deepen economic cooperation for their countries' shared prosperity. They will talk about how connectivity improvements could help ...

Pyongyang expels 11 ROK officials

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) expelled some officials of the Republic of Korea (ROK) from a joint factory park north of the border yesterday. The predawn expulsion of the officials at the Kaesong industrial site, once ...

Backgrounder: Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Leaders of the six GMS countries will be meeting in Vientiane, Laos on March 30-31 to discuss ways to deepen economic cooperation for their countries' shared prosperity. The triennial meeting, the third among the Leaders of the Grea ...