Новости по теме Asia Pacific

Tennis: Zarina Dias wins ITF tournament in China A professional tennis player from Kazakhstan Zarina Dias has won the ITF tournament in China with a prize pool of $50 thousand.

12 March 2014

Bollywood to dance into final frontier: America Bollywood is promising a song-and-dance extravaganza as Indian cinema throws its awards ceremony in the United States for the first time, looking to tap into a mature but lucrative market.

12 March 2014

WeChat revolution: China's 'killer app' speaks to the masses When condom maker Durex wants to send an intimate message to customers in China, it uses a homegrown instant messaging platform called WeChat which has taken the country by storm in just three years.

12 March 2014

Australia's first banknote going under hammer The only known specimen of the first official banknote issued in Australia, uncovered in Scotland, is expected to fetch at least Aus$250,000 (US$224,000) at an auction in Sydney this month.

12 March 2014

Indian national suffers eye burn at Temirtau plant An Indian national has been delivered to a hospitalized in Temirtau city of Karaganda Oblast.

12 March 2014

Malaysia searching Andaman Sea for missing plane: official ` The international search for a missing Malaysian airliner has been expanded into the Andaman Sea, hundreds of kilometres (miles) to the northwest of the original search radius.

12 March 2014

Volcanoes helped species survive ice ages: study The steam and heat from volcanoes allowed species of plants and animals to survive past ice ages, a study showed Tuesday, offering help for scientists dealing with climate change.

12 March 2014

Japan's Sprint owner eyes US telecom price war The Japanese owner of US mobile carrier Sprint said he wanted to launch a "price war" with the two major carriers as he seeks to acquire T-Mobile's US unit.

12 March 2014

Chinese woman cuts off ex-boyfriend's penis, kills him: report A Chinese woman chopped off her former boyfriend's penis with scissors and then killed him with a hammer after he raped her.

11 March 2014

Typhoon-hit Philippine farmers to reap harvest: UN Farmers in the Philippines will soon reap a harvest after using emergency seed supplies to grow crops following a devastating typhoon that struck during planting season.

11 March 2014

Libya intercepts tanker loaded with rebel oil Libyan authorities said they intercepted a North Korean-flagged tanker which had loaded crude from a rebel-held eastern port, as the conflict over the country's key petroleum revenues escalated.

11 March 2014

Mild weather may have propelled rise of Genghis Khan A pleasantly warm and wet spell in central Mongolia eight centuries ago may have propelled the rise of Genghis Khan.

11 March 2014

Japan marks 3rd anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster Japan on Tuesday marks the third anniversary of the quake-tsunami disaster which swept away 18,000 victims, destroyed coastal communities, and sparked a nuclear emergency that forced a re-think on atomic power.

11 March 2014

Boeing joining Malaysia crash investigation Boeing said Monday it has joined an official US team investigating the still-mysterious disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines 777 aircraft, feared to have plunged into the Gulf of Thailand.

11 March 2014

Japanese astronaut becomes ISS commander Astronaut Koichi Wakata has become the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station, according to the country's space agency.

10 March 2014

Malaysia expects 'jet oil slick' analysis Monday Malaysian authorities expect to complete by Monday afternoon a lab analysis that could indicate whether an oil slick at sea came from a missing passenger jet, an official said.

10 March 2014

China bird flu deaths reach 72 this year: government A total of 72 people died from the H7N9 bird flu strain in China in the first two months of this year, government figures showed, far more than in the whole of 2013.

10 March 2014

N. Korean leader enjoys 100% 'poll' win North Korea's state media confirmed Monday what was never in doubt -- a 100 percent, no-abstention poll victory for leader Kim Jong-Un in the country's stage-managed parliamentary election.

10 March 2014

Tennis: Zarina Dias of Kazakhstan reaches ITF finals in China Zarian Dias, a tennis professional from Kazakhstan, has made it into the finals of the ITF tournament in Guangzhou, China.

08 March 2014

Nazarbayev to visit China President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev is going to pay an official visit to China.

08 March 2014

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