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| China Wants to End the Milk Scare |
| China started to check on all the milk products inside the country. The toxic milk scandal could affect the milk industry so the health officials announced that almost 50 Chinese brands were tested for any toxic substances and they contained no melamine. 47 brands of milk and yoghurt were checked up by specialists and no trace of melamine could be found.
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Japan might be heading for a general election in November if the successor to recently resigned Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda dissolves the lower house of parliament early October, local media reported Monday.
Reports suggested November 9 or 16 as the likely date for new elections, which would not normally be due until September...
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China's two stock markets fell sharply Monday despite new rules designed to boost the markets and a global rebound sparked by the US government's bailout of two troubled mortgage giants.
The key Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks shares traded in foreign and local currencies, lost 59.03 points, or 2.68 per cent, to end the day at...
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Two suicide bombers tried to demolish the police headquarters building in the major southern city on Sunday. The attack killed two police men and wounded 29 officers and 8 civilians. One of the two bombers damaged the second floor of the building and could have killed the provincial police chief and the regional chief of the Border...
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A 50-kilogram tuna lies on the white floor tiles of Intimas, a fish-processing factory on the Indonesian island of Bali.
The tuna's eyes stare into nothingness. It's dead, but its lifeless body is surrounded by hectic activity. This is the factory's quality-control room.
"The freshest produce with the best, reddest meat is...
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Talks between Zimbabwe's parties on a power-sharing government were due to resume Monday as South African President Thabo Mbeki flew to Harare to broker fresh negotiations between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Mbeki's office confirmed to South African media that he was...
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Thirteen people, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed Monday in fresh clashes between government troops and Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines, military and local officials said.
Six civilians were killed when the motorboat they were riding in was hit by a rocket fired by a government helicopter gunship in a river in Datu...
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 Sichuan, a town in the south of China, was shook by an earthquake of 6.1 magnitudes on Saturday. Rescue crews headed to the scene on Sunday to find 22 people dead and hundreds of injured people. The earthquake killed 17 people in Sichuan and 5 others in Yunnan, a near province.The China Earthquake Administration put the death toll at 25...
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Israeli Fraud Squad detectives Friday questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the seventh time in recent weeks over corruption affairs the premier is suspected of being involved in.
Olmert's artist wife Aliza was also quizzed during the lengthy session which, as with previous interrogations of the prime minister, went on for longer...
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A group of radical Islamic rebels is suspected of having killed six Algerian soldiers and a lorry driver, Algerian security sources said Friday.
The attack by some 40 militants occurred early Friday on a motorway near the city of Batna, some 430 kilometres east of the capital Algiers.
Another 14 soldiers were injured in the attack,...
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Iran plans to install 54,000 centrifuges at the uranium enrichment plant in Natanz in central Iran, the news network Khabar reported Friday on its news ticker.
Iran moves towards large-scale uranium enrichment in Natanz involving 54,000 centrifuges, Khabar reported without giving further details.
Deputy foreign minister Alireza...
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 Study: HPV Levels Similar in Women and Men
The human papilloma is a papilloma virus which infects the skin and mucous membranes of humans. 130 HPV types have been discovered until now and some of them can cause...
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 Kyrgyzstan Earthquake Killed Sixty People
A powerful earthquake shook Kyrgyzstan, close to China’s border. Sixty people were killed during the calamity, as the top emergency official of Kyrgyzstan announced on...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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