CICA adopts Shanghai declarationParticipants of the 4th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) have adopted a Shanghai declaration.
23 May 2014
Khmer Rouge 'First Lady' hospitalised in Thailand: sonThe former "First Lady" of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime has been hospitalised in neighbouring Thailand and is relying on a feeding tube and oxygen to survive, her son said.
Kazakhstan banks exposed to high forex risk: S&PAssociate Director for Financial Institutions at Standard & Poor's Natalia Yalovskaya said that Kazakhstani banks were exposed to increased forex risk.
23 May 2014
Two Koreas accuse each other of lying about shellingSeoul Friday accused North Korea of a "blatant lie" in claiming it had not fired shells near a South Korean warship and said Pyongyang had threatened to bombard its military vessels.
23 May 2014
Toyota recalls 520,000 vehicles globallyToyota on Friday said it is recalling about 520,000 vehicles, mostly in North America, over several issues including cable corrosion that could see unused spare tyres fall off.
23 May 2014
Obama to nominate San Antonio mayor as US housing secretaryPresident Barack Obama will announce Friday his plan to nominate Julian Castro, the charismatic Hispanic mayor of San Antonio, Texas, as US secretary of housing and urban development.
23 May 2014
Disgraced Galliano reappears at Russian cosmetics chainDisgraced British fashion designer John Galliano, little-seen since being sacked by Dior in 2011 for making drunken racist tirades, reappeared in Moscow Thursday as creative director of a Russian cosmetics chain.
23 May 2014
Mexico arrests suspected mastermind of mass kidnappingMexican authorities have arrested the man suspected of ordering the murder of 13 young people who were kidnapped in a brazen daytime abduction in the capital last year.
23 May 2014
Guatemala ex-leader gets six years in New YorkFormer Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo was sentenced in New York to five years and 10 months in prison Thursday for a $2.5 million bribery scandal.
23 May 2014
$138 billion offshored from KazakhstanAt a meeting of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan it was announced that according to international estimates the money offshored from Kazakhstan amounts to $138 billion.
23 May 2014
US Senate panel budgets $100 mn for non-Russian rocketA Senate panel set aside $100 million Thursday to develop a US rocket engine as an alternative to Russian equipment currently used to launch military satellites into orbit.
23 May 2014
China sentences mining tycoon to deathA Chinese court on Friday convicted a mining billionaire said to have links with former security tsar Zhou Yongkang of murder and sentenced him to death.
23 May 2014
Boston marathon bombs made with Christmas-light fusesThe twin bombs that went off at the Boston Marathon last year were made using improvised fuses from Christmas lights and detonators constructed from model car parts, US prosecutors said.
23 May 2014
One dead in Istanbul as anti-government protests flareOne man died and about 10 others were injured in Istanbul during violent clashes between police and protesters Thursday, officials said, in the latest eruption of anger against the Turkish government.
China museum closed over fake exhibitsA Chinese museum has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake, state-run media said on Thursday.
23 May 2014
Vice Minister of Oil and Gas on KashaganAccording to the country’s Minister of Economic Affairs Yerbolat Dossayev, the suspension of the project resulted in losing 0.5% of the GDP in 2014.