Новости по теме Asia Pacific

Singapore gardens aim for UNESCO heritage status Singapore, one of the world's most densely populated countries, is campaigning to get its 154-year-old Botanic Gardens declared a UNESCO world heritage site.

03 April 2013

Japan woman put skeleton brother in trash: police A Japanese woman who lived with her brother's mummified body for years tried to dispose of his corpse with household rubbish when she finally realised he was dead.

03 April 2013

US military chief to pay rare China visit Top US military officer General Martin Dempsey will pay a rare visit to China this month as the Pacific powers discuss concern over tensions with North Korea.

03 April 2013

Delhi gang-rape accused demands 'proper food': PTI A defendant in the New Delhi gang-rape and murder trial has demanded "proper food and newspapers" from jail officials as he prepares for a job recruitment test.

03 April 2013

Study maps accidental killings of sea turtles Sea turtles can get accidentally caught and killed in fishing operations, and new research out Monday seeks to map this phenomenon for the first time in a bid to save the endangered creatures.

03 April 2013

S.Korea leader vows to strike back at North South Korea's new president on Monday promised a strong military response to any North Korean provocation after Pyongyang announced that the two countries were now in a state of war.

02 April 2013

US destroyer sent to S. Korea coast: official The United States has positioned a destroyer off the coast of South Korea to defend against a possible missile strike.

02 April 2013

UN General Assembly set to adopt arms treaty The UN General Assembly is expected to adopt the first global treaty on the conventional arms trade Tuesday after the 193 member states failed to reach consensus on it last week.

02 April 2013

Apple apologises after China outrage Apple chief executive Tim Cook has apologised to Chinese consumers after the US technology giant was subjected to a barrage of criticism in state-run media over alleged "arrogance" and double standards.

02 April 2013

Women tourists desert India after sex attacks: survey The number of foreign women tourists visiting India has dropped by 35 percent in the past three months following a spate of sex attacks that have made global headlines.

02 April 2013

Pope prays for peace in Syria, Korea on first Easter Pope Francis prayed for a "political solution" in Syria and for "reconciliation" on the Korean peninsula in his first Easter Sunday message in front of a crowd in St Peter's Square.

01 April 2013

Time is ripe for smartwatches, analysts say Amid much speculation on the future of the "smartwatch," the consensus is growing: the time is right.

01 April 2013

Hopes fade in search for survivors of Tibet landslide Hopes were fading Sunday that Chinese search and rescue teams would find survivors, two days after a huge landslide crashed down a Tibetan mountain and buried more than 80 mine workers.

01 April 2013

China 'two-child policy' town shows scope for reform A few places in China give parents a rare right to have two offspring rather than one, but many stop at a single child anyway -- fuelling demands to end what critics call an unnecessary, harmful rule.

01 April 2013

S. Korea president vows 'strong' retaliation on North South Korean President Park Geun-Hye vowed "strong retaliation" Monday to any provocation by North Korea after Pyongyang declared it was formally at war with Seoul.

01 April 2013

Forex markets calm as Easter weekend starts Foreign exchange rates were calm Friday as financial markets in Europe, the United States and elsewhere were closed for Easter weekend.

01 April 2013

Ambassadors present credentials to Kazakhstan Secretary of State Ambassadors of 8 countries presented their credentials to Marat Tazhin of Kazakhstan.

01 April 2013

China's Xi signs multi-million-dollar deals in Congo China's new President Xi Jinping on Friday signed deals worth several million dollars with his Congolese counterpart in sectors as varied as banking and infrastructure, on the final leg of his three-nation Africa tour.

01 April 2013

Titanic II titan unveils Australian dinosaur park plan An eccentric Australian mining magnate who is building a replica of the ill-fated Titanic on Saturday unveiled his latest scheme -- a park of giant robotic dinosaurs.

01 April 2013

Mobile shines in exploding world of games The booming popularity of play on smartphones or tablet computers in a realm once dominated by videogame consoles was a hot theme at the major Game Developers Conference that ended here Friday.

30 March 2013

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