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Asylum-seekers 'force' Singapore ship to Australia A boatload of asylum-seekers picked up by a Singaporean merchant vessel after a distress call were Thursday accused of acting like pirates after forcing the captain to take them to Australia.

16 August 2012

US migrants sign up to Obama deportation deferral Long lines of undocumented immigrants sprang up across the US on Wednesday as thousands took advantage of President Barack Obama's decision to grant many of them temporary residency.

16 August 2012

No decision yet on Assange asylum, Ecuador says Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on Tuesday denied a British media report that his country had granted asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

16 August 2012

Bill Gates kicks off search for toilet of the future Microsoft co-founder turned global philanthropist Bill Gates on Tuesday launched a search for a new toilet better suited to developing countries.

15 August 2012

Quadruple amputee prepares for Bering Strait swim Two silhouettes cut through the water a few hundred yards (metres) from a rainy, windswept beach bordering the flat grasslands near the small Inuit community of Wales, in the far west of Alaska.

15 August 2012

Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown dies at 90 Helen Gurley Brown, the saucy Cosmopolitan editor who delivered thousands of sex tips to single women and more than a few curious men, died Monday. She was 90.

14 August 2012

Australia boatpeople plan wins crucial support Plans to transfer asylum-seekers who arrive in Australia by boat to Pacific states won crucial support Tuesday, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard saying they could be processed offshore within a month.

14 August 2012

Ecuador to respond to Assange asylum plea this week Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said he expects to respond to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum some time this week.

14 August 2012

Panel urges Australia to send boatpeople offshore Australia should transfer asylum-seekers offshore to places such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea to deter boatpeople from risking their lives at sea.

13 August 2012

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Doctors warn about the danger of popular Dubai chocolate

24 October 2024, 17:06

Sandy clean-up 'enormous' one year on

27 October 2013, 12:00

Cameco to transfer uranium processing technology to Kazakhstan’s KazAtomProm in 2018

23 May 2013, 15:25

VIDEO: Dilnaz Akhmadiyeva sings with Some Toir band

07 March 2012, 15:02

Samruk-Kazyna may purchase Halyk Bank Pension Fund through selling its stake in BTA Bank

27 March 2013, 15:30

"The Dash" movie won Jury Award in Ukrainian Film Festival

16 March 2012, 17:55

First open heart surgery performed in Almaty Central Clinical Hospital

15 September 2011, 15:10

Russia and Kazakhstan to complete talks on single air defense system by the end of 2012

11 July 2012, 12:24

Kazakhstanis share video of moose attacking hunter

25 November 2024, 08:12

Nazarbayev signed the law on countering terrorism

30 November 2011, 12:36

Kazakh journalist wins Peter Mackler prize An investigative journalist in Kazakhstan who survived an attempt on his life is this year's winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism.

10 August 2012

Ust-Kamenogorsk Sport Center to be named after Olympic champion Olga Rypakova A new Track-and-Field Athletics Center in Ust-Kamenogorsk will be named after Kazakhstan Olympic champion Olga Rypakova.

09 August 2012

Hollywood, Broadway composer Hamlisch dead at 68 Marvin Hamlisch, the composer behind a string of Broadway and Hollywood hits including "A Chorus Line," "The Way We Were" and "The Sting," has died.

09 August 2012

Nazarbayev's official biography published A group of researchers and historians spent two years studying archived documents and video materials to discover new facts in Nazarbayev’s biography.

08 August 2012

One third of Kazakhstan residents embellish their skills at job interviews HeadHunter has found out that the job applicants frequently overrate their professional knowledge, personal qualities and work experience.

08 August 2012

Majority of Kazakhstan residents are sure that diploma guarantees a job A majority of the polled Kazakhstan residents believe that a university diploma is an essential document that guarantees a job.

07 August 2012

Gay taboo turns to pride in Vietnam Communist Vietnam is considering legalising same-sex marriage, which would catapult it to the fore of gay rights in Asia, where traditional values dominate many societies and sodomy is illegal in some.

07 August 2012

Hiroshima marks anniversary of atomic bombing Tens of thousands of people marked the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Monday, as a rising tide of anti-nuclear sentiment swells in post-Fukushima Japan.

06 August 2012

South Africa marks 50 years of Mandela's arrest South Africa will unveil its latest monument to Nelson Mandela on Saturday, a new statue along a rural highway to mark the spot where he was arrested 50 years ago for his struggle against white rule.

05 August 2012

Gays target US fast-food chain with 'kiss-in' Gays and lesbians puckered up at "kiss-ins" outside Chick-fil-A outlets across the United States in protest over the fast-food chain's opposition to same-sex marriage.

04 August 2012