DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “10 families of east China train crash victims accept compensation” plus 9 more |
- 10 families of east China train crash victims accept compensation
- Urgent: 11 killed in firing incident in Quetta, SW Pakistan
- Nearly 400,000 people in northeast Japan advised to evacuate over rain
- 2nd LD Writethru: 13 killed in firing incident in Quetta, SW Pakistan
- Nearly 190,000 evacuated as tropical storm Nock-Ten hits south China
- Border disputes threaten to ASEAN community formation by 2015: Cambodian DPM
- At least 13 Abu Sayyaf militants killed in clash with gov't forces: military
- Cambodia to host GMS economic ministers' meeting next week
- Sri Lankan musician releases song against UN
- Urgent: 18 civilians killed in roadside bomb blast in Helmand, Afghanistan
| 10 families of east China train crash victims accept compensation Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:27 PM PDT WENZHOU, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Ten families of the victims of a deadly high-speed train crash in east China's Zhejiang Province have agreed to take an increased compensatory payment of 915,000 yuan (about 143,000 U.S.dollars) by Saturday, according to local authorities. |
| Urgent: 11 killed in firing incident in Quetta, SW Pakistan Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:26 PM PDT Quetta, Pakistan, July 30 (Xinhua) -- At least eleven people including a woman were killed and several others were injured Saturday morning when unknown gunmen riding motorcycles fired at a passenger pick-up carrying Shite muslims near a bus stop on the Spini road in Quetta, a capital city of Balochistan province in southwest Pakistan, reported local Urdu TV channel Samaa. Enditem Chanroth: ok sendavidkh: China backs extension of UN peacekeeping operation in Darfur2011-07-30 11:13:11 UNITED NATIONS, July 29 (Xinhua) -- China supports the extension of the African Union/UN Hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID) for another year, a Chinese diplomat said Friday. "We support the renewal of UNAMID to continue to implement the Security Council mandate," China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Wang Min told the Security Council. The 15-member UN body unanimously adopted a resolution to renew the peacekeeping force till July 31, 2012. China has consistently been supportive of the peace process in Darfur, Wang said after the vote. "We hope for an early attainment of peace, prosperity and development in Darfur," he said. Wang said China maintains that the Darfur issue should be addressed through the dual-track strategy with equal emphasis on peacekeeping deployment and political process. Calling the African Union (AU) "an important partner" of the United Nations on the Sudan issue, Wang said the AU's position on the Darfur political process "deserves great attention." China supports UNAMID in its efforts to play an important role in backing the political process in Darfur, he added. |
| Nearly 400,000 people in northeast Japan advised to evacuate over rain Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:26 PM PDT TOKYO, July 30 (Xinhua) -- About 400,000 residents have been advised to evacuate in Japan's northeast Niigata and Fukushima prefectures due to torrential rain, local media reported Saturday. One man has been killed and five others are missing in the region, Kyodo News reported. The Igarashi River in Niigata's Sanjo flooded, leading local authorities to evacuate 10,000 residents nearby. On top of that, 11 cities and two towns in the prefecture told a total of 380,000 people to evacuate, Kyodo said. Several spots of the two prefectures have seen rainfall exceeding 500 millimeters since Wednesday, causing floods and landslides. Japan Meteorological Agency warned of more heavy rainfall later Saturday. |
| 2nd LD Writethru: 13 killed in firing incident in Quetta, SW Pakistan Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:25 PM PDT Quetta, Pakistan, July 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 13 people were killed and five others were injured in a sectarian-motivated attack in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Saturday morning, said hospital sources. |
| Nearly 190,000 evacuated as tropical storm Nock-Ten hits south China Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:24 PM PDT BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- A total of 189,033 people had been evacuated to safe areas in the southern island province of Hainan as of early Saturday morning after tropical storm Nock-Ten landed on the island late Friday afternoon, China's flood control authorities said Saturday. The storm brought strong winds and heavy rains, leaving one person injured and 148 units of housing damaged along coastal villages in Hainan's Guangcun Town, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said. But the headquarters received no damage reports from nearby Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which also experienced heavy rainfall. On early Saturday morning, the storm entered the sea in the east of Beibu Bay after passing Hainan's Changjiang County and is expected to head for coastal areas north of Vietnam, it said. Nock-Ten, the eighth storm and the most powerful one to hit China so far this year, was recorded as packing winds of up to 28 meters per second when it landed at Longlou Town in the city of Wenchang at 5:40 p.m. Friday. At least 31 people in the Philippines died as a result of the storm. |
| Border disputes threaten to ASEAN community formation by 2015: Cambodian DPM Posted: 29 Jul 2011 11:24 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Bilateral disputes, especially border rows, have been posing a severe threat to the establishment of the ASEAN community in the next four years, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon, who is also the minister of economy and finance, said on Saturday. "Bilateral disputes among a number of ASEAN member countries, such as border disputes, have become the foremost critical challenges for ASEAN in their pursuit towards the establishment of the ASEAN community in 2015,"he told the 7th Asian Economic Forum under the theme: "The Asian Century in the Making: The Role of the ASEAN". "Therefore, there is a need for ASEAN to put in place a practical mechanism for an effective dispute settlement in the region, thus ensuring regional peace, security and sustainability, especially among member countries," said the Minister. The remark referred to the simmering border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand over the area next to the 11th century Preah Vihear temple since 2008, which has claimed dozens of lives of the two countries' soldiers and civilians. "To address this issue, ASEAN still needs to complete the full legal framework in line with its charter including the institutionalization of a dispute settlement mechanism, improved operational efficiency of ASEAN bodies and modalities in order to transform ASEAN into a new stage of community building process and a rule-based institutional organization," he said. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. |
| At least 13 Abu Sayyaf militants killed in clash with gov't forces: military Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:35 AM PDT MANILA, July 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 13 Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in Thursday's firefight with government soldiers on the outskirts of Patikul town, Sulu province that also left seven marine soldiers dead and 21 others wounded, a military commander said Friday. Brig. Gen. Romeo Tanalgo, commander of the marine forces in Sulu, said he also had information that seven other Abu Sayyaf militants were wounded in the fierce fighting with troops of the Marine Battalion Landing Team 10. "According to our information, 13 were killed (on the Abu Sayyaf side) and seven were injured," said Tanalgo. However, no enemy bodies were recovered, according to the military. Marine commandant Maj. Gen. Rustico Guerrero, who visited the military casualties in Zamboanga City, confirmed the report. "Based on reliable information, 13 ASG (Abu Sayyaf group members) were killed and undetermined wounded, seven of them identified through their aliases," said Guerrero. Guerrero said they were still arranging the airlifting of the bodies of the slain soldiers, including a second lieutenant, to Manila on Saturday. The slain troops are expected be provided honors on Sunday, he said. Meanwhile, Tanalgo said efforts were underway to pursue the remnants of the encountered Abu Sayyaf terrorists, under Abu Sayyaf leaders Isnilon Hapinon and Radullan Sahiron. "The hot pursuit is still ongoing..Nothing significant has occurred yesterday (Thursday) up to now," said Tanalgo. The Abu Sayyaf, active in southern Philippines, was founded in the 1990s and has perpetrated a number of high-profile attacks, including kidnapping, bombing and beheading. The Philippine military estimates the Abu Sayyaf, which has links with external terrorist organizations such as al-Qaida, currently has less than 400 members. |
| Cambodia to host GMS economic ministers' meeting next week Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:34 AM PDT PHNOM PENH, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The six participating countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program will gather here on August 2-4 in the 17th GMS Ministerial Conference to review and agree on the new GMS Strategic Framework for 2012-2022, said a press release from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday. The new Strategic Framework is a road map for moving the GMS Program forward in the light of changing global and regional context, as well as emerging issues such as climate change, changing social and demographic trends, and changing balance of economic activity in Asia, said the statement. The framework will help the subregion through "second generation" cooperation, including infrastructure investment establishing the GMS economic corridors. "This Ministerial Conference is particularly significant since the new Strategic Framework marks a generational gear shift for the GMS Program and will imply significant changes to the type of projects and initiatives pursued in the next phase," said Kunio Senga, Director General of ADB's Southeast Asia Department. "These changes have important implications for not just the GMS Program but all its stakeholders, including development partners and GMS countries," he added. Since its establishment in 1992, the highly successful GMS Program has been contributing to economic growth in the subregion, averaging more than 6 percent in the last 15 years. By the end of June 2011, the ADB had extended loans and grants totaling almost 5 billion U.S. dollars for 55 projects in the subregion, mainly infrastructure. The GMS countries consist of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. |
| Sri Lankan musician releases song against UN Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:33 AM PDT COLOMBO, July 29 (Xinhua) -- A Sri Lankan musician has released a song and video against the United Nations, accusing the world body of being biased when dealing with the island nation. Musician and song writer Rukshan Perera released the song ' shame on you'two weeks ago in the Sri Lankan market and it features two other popular local musicians collaborating on the track. "As Sri Lanka is an underdeveloped country and a small country we get bullied by the big nations all the time. But the United Nations in general is supposed to treat all countries equally but we clearly see that's not happening," Perera said Friday. A United Nations panel report released earlier this year alleged that over 40,000 civilians were killed during the final stages of the Sri Lankan war against Tamil Tiger rebels which ended in May 2009. The United Nations has been putting pressure on Sri Lanka, since the end of the war, to agree for an international independent investigation into alleged war crimes committed in Sri Lanka. "The United States and some Western countries had bombed others but there is no action against them. Sri Lanka on the other hand finished a terrorist war and we are being penalized. Obviously there are double standards," Perera said. Since its release, the track by the Sri Lankan musician has been receiving a lot of airplay on local television and radio and is also available on the internet. The Sri Lankan government had appointed a local commission to investigate allegations raised against the island over the war and has asked the international community to support the local probe. |
| Urgent: 18 civilians killed in roadside bomb blast in Helmand, Afghanistan Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:33 AM PDT LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Eighteen civilians were killed on Friday morning when their mini-bus ran over a roadside bomb in Nahri Sarraj district of Helmand province, 555 km south of Afghan capital Kabul, police said. |
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