Archive for May 17th, 2008
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Australia has agreed to provide 462 million U.S. dollars to help Indonesia develop its infrastructure, education, health and good governance, local daily Bisnis Indonesia reported Saturday.
The assistance is in the forms of 336-mill ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
About 30 Myanmar private companies have been taking part in restoration work in cyclone-hit regions under the government' post-disaster plan, according to Saturday's leading weekly Voice.
With assignments by the government, these co ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
A roadside bombing against foreign troops' convoy in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province wounded two children Saturday morning, a local police spokesman Wazir Badshah said.
"It was around 8 a.m. local time when a bomb planted by mi ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin has been released, Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said Saturday.
"The ambassador was recovered late Friday," confirmed Sadiq. "He is safe and sound."
Azizuddin was ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
A 30-member Thai medic team arrived in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon Saturday afternoon to extend direct aid to victims who survived a severe cyclone storm Nargis that hit some parts of the country early this month, according to diplomat ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
The foreign ministers of China, Russia, India and Brazil on Friday stressed multilateral cooperation and diplomacy in dealing with global affairs.
The four top diplomats, who met in the central Russian city of Yekaterinburg, said i ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is ready to provide all technical conditions necessary for the delivery of U.S. food aid, the official news agency KCNA said Saturday.
The United States announced Friday that it will ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Nigeria's state-run oand French group Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited (EPNL) have signed a 1 billion-U.S. dollar financial deal, the NNPC said Friday.
Under the deal, the EPNL will finance NNPC's upstream operations in the NNPC/EPNL j ...
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