A win for the opposition is nearly impossible, reports Asia Sentinel’s Philip Bowring As the smoke clears after the Malaysian election battle it has become clear that under the current electoral system defeat of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) was never quite on the cards, even without the electoral roll and election day cheating and
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities say rainstorms that battered southern China this week have killed 55 people and left 14 others missing. The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website says at least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday. It says Guangdong province has been hit the hardest, with 36
TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers have pulled another body from a collapsed facility at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the death toll to six. The Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine collapsed Tuesday when 38 workers were undergoing safety training. Ten miners were rescued. PT
NEW DELHI (AP) — Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China’s new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. China says Premier Li Keqiang’s choice of India for his first trip
Is the Japanese government turning more nationalistic and militaristic every day? The evidence tells us so. This week Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s comments about WWII sex slaves caused a lot of offense in nearby Asian countries who suffered brutal Japanese occupation during the 1900s. Here is a look at some of the nationalistic noise that
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TOKYO (AP) — An emerging Japanese nationalist political party whose co-leader outraged many with remarks about Japan’s wartime and modern sexual services became embroiled in more controversy Friday when a party lawmaker accused ethnic Koreans of involvement in prostitution. The Japan Restoration Party urged the lawmaker, Shingo Nishimura, to retract his comments suggesting many ethnic
YANGON, Burma (AP) — Burma’s president has pardoned at least 20 political prisoners just ahead of a historic visit to the United States that will highlight the two sides’ improved relations brought about by the former pariah nation’s democratic reforms. State media reported Saturday that 23 prisoners were freed, though it did not call them
The glaciers of Mount Everest have lost 13% of their mass during the past 50 years, according to a new study. Since the 1960s smaller glaciers (less than one square kilometer) have shrunken by a whopping 43%. Data beginning in the early 1990s also shows declines in snowfall and a significant rise in temperatures. At
McDreamy is a litte McHandsy with his hot wife while the Dempsey family vacations in the Caribbean. Patrick Dempsey is already ‘real man’ hot..but seeing him affectionate with his wife and playing with his kids makes even more dreamy, no?
While there have been a lot of rumours about the upcoming iPhone model, there have been very few evidences about the device`s existence. Now, technology website Stuff has revealed that it received an image which shows that the next Apple smartphone will be called iPhone 6, not iPhone 5S. The report says that the image [...]
Apple reported a drop in net profit in its fiscal second quarter to USD 9.5 billion or USD 10.09 per share, from USD 11.6 billion or USD 12.30 per share a year earlier. Revenues for the three months to March rose to USD 43.6 billion from USD 39.2 billion a year ago, better than the [...]
A German privacy regulator has fined Google for illegally recording signals from Wifi networks while it was taking photographs for its Street View service. Google’s roving Street View vans picked up large amounts of personal data such as e-mails, passwords, photos and online chat protocols, said the commissioner for data protection and freedom of information [...]
If you headed home from office, without logging out of Facebook or Gmail, you can do so from anywhere using the `remote log out` feature. In Facebook, click on the tiny gear sign on the top right of the page, go to `account settings` and then to `security` on the left pane. Under `security settings`, [...]
Samsung Mobile is going to launch Samsung Galaxy Grand, a grand smartphone that truly lives up to its name, in early March, 2013. Prebooking with WOW offers has already started. Once prebooking is confirmed, a superb Bluetooth Headset will be given free at the time of handset collection. This excellent device is loaded with wonderful [...]
Sony Corp is expected to showcase a new PlayStation console on Wednesday in a pre-emptive strike against Microsoft Corp’s bid to make its Xbox the world’s leading hub for household entertainment. The rare PlayStation event in New York comes amid industry speculation that Microsoft is set to unveil the successor to its Xbox 360, which [...]
Sony Corp plans to release its new PlayStation 4 home console this year for around US$430, giving the successor to the popular PS3 a touch panel control and easy access to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Japan’s Asahi newspaper reported, The Straits Times publishes the report on Thursday. Sony’s game chief, Andrew [...]
Google Inc Chairman Eric Schmidt is adopting a plan to sell as many as 3.2 million shares in the operator of the world’s most popular search engine. The planned share sales, worth about $2.5 billion, are for Schmidt’s individual asset diversification and liquidity, Mountain View, California-based Google said in a filing with the US Securities [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is planning to raise as much as 700 million euros ($930 million) from public markets in the spring to pay down debt and fund investment, the Financial Times said on its website on Sunday, citing people familiar with the plan. The high-yield bond will be the first time the Nokia and [...]
Without even setting foot in Brazil, Twitter attracted 40 million subscribers in this social network-obsessed nation. Now the United States (US) company is planning to open an office in Sao Paulo to cash in on that growth in a bustling market where rival Facebook has already set up shop. “We believe our new office in [...]
Samsung Electronics said on Monday it had successfully tested super-fast fifth-generation or 5G wireless technology that would eventually allow users to download an entire movie in one second. The South Korean giant said the test had witnessed data transmission of more than one gigabyte per second over a distance of two kilometres. The new technology, [...]
The United Nation`s labour agency urged Bangladesh to close unsafe factories as rescuers pulled more bodies from the wreckage of the nation`s worst industrial disaster in which at least 548 have died. The collapse of the eight-storey garment factory complex outside Dhaka last week was the latest in a string of catastrophes to befall the [...]
The death toll rose to 645 in Savar Rana Plaza collapse with the recovery of 6 more bodies the debris till 11:00am Monday on the 13th day of the incident. Of them, a total of 490 bodies were identified and handed over to their families. Confirming the death toll and body handover, Army control room [...]
Agitated workers torched Aarong milk factory after vandalizing it in Laxmipura area of Gazipur on Thursday morning in protest against keeping the factory open on the day of mourning. The incident took place at about 9:30am. Besides, the highway was blocked. Workers also torched the fire service vehicle and police van when they rushed to [...]
Building and five garments owners were sued over the incident of Rana Plaza collapse at Savar. Two cases were filed against them in Savar police station early Thursday, police sources said. Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) filed a case against the owner of the building under the building construction act while Savar thana police filed the [...]
Nobel Peace Prize winner economist Dr Muhammad Yunus received Congressional Gold Medal, top civilian award of United States of America, on Wednesday for his contribution to the fight against poverty across the globe. Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank which provides small loans to poor people usually excluded from the banking system, became the first [...]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD) have so far declined to join Li & Fung Ltd. and other companies in voluntarily compensating victims of a fire last year at a Bangladesh garment factory. Wal-Mart and Sears also didn’t respond to an invitation to attend a meeting today in Geneva, where companies whose [...]
Voting in Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) biennial polls for the 2013-2014 tenure is underway on Sunday. Two panels, combined Forum and combined council are participating in the election this time. The voting began at 8am and will continue till 5pm in Dhaka and Chittagong. Vote will be cast for a total of [...]
Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain on Monday categorically said Thailand is eager to recruit 50,000 Bangladeshi fishermen. The overseas employment minister came up with the disclosure in response to a query from lawmaker Nasimul Alam Chowdhury in the parliament.
Telenor announced a 20 percent increase in its dividend and plans to boost capex in 2013. The Norway-based operator will pay a dividend of NOK 6 per share for 2012, up 20 percent after a strong set of annual results. The company`s organic sales growth for the year came in at 5 percent, better than [...]
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Everyone's a liar. It's unavoidable. Right? Of course, there are lies and there are LIES. At least, that's what we are told. Putting it that way makes it seem like there is some kind of clear distinction to be made, doesn't it? There isn't. People tell you growing up that there are "white lies" — things you say to make people feel better — and that those are A-OK lies, lies of kindness. And then there are the other kinds of lies, the bad kind, which are not OK. But even that's a lie!
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The Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women, a 2009 mandate approved by President Hamid Karzai's decree that aims to protect women's rights — specifically, one that bans child marriage and the practice of "baad," selling and buying women to settle disputes — was shot down in Afghani Parliament today.
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As all different kinds of boundary-breaking female characters shoehorn their way onto TV these last few years, much has been written about Breaking Bad's "Skyler White Effect," the knee-jerk hatred of male anti-heroes' wives. Somehow, Skyler garners more fan hatred than the brilliant, evil meth cook and murderer she's married (who, it's strongly implied, rapes her, by the way) to because she's "such a bitch."
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CANNES, France -- Who needs movies? Within a 24-hour period, street gunfire and a hotel heist have kept the masses entertained here in Cannes. In the early hours of Friday morning, $1.4 million in Chopard jewelry was stolen from a Suite Novotel when company reps from the U.S. had their room safe ripped out of the wall and swiftly spirited away. And Friday afternoon, at a live beachside taping of French entertainment show Le Grand Journal guest-starring Tarantino muse (and double Oscar-winner) Christoph Waltz, a lunatic shot off two loud blanks and caused a panicked audience to stampede off the stage before the 42-year-old perp was wrestled to the ground by local police. (The French newspaper Nice-Matin later reported that the man was carrying a starter’s pistol, a switchblade and a plastic grenade.)
Bling Ring star Emma Watson denied involvement in the jewel heist. (Getty Images)
Luxury robberies are nothing new to the Côte d’Azur. Hitchcock immortalized the act in 1955’s To Catch a Thief; and as recently as 2009, crooks absconded with more than $21 million in jewels from the Cartier store here in town. Cannes has always been a magnet for petty crimes, too, with humble festivalgoers occasionally getting mugged or having their accommodations raided. A few years ago, a group of Danish reporters had their computers taken; and even the late great Roger Ebert got his laptop swiped one year. The timing for the Chopard incident couldn’t have been more uncanny, though, since the world premiere of Sofia Coppola’s luxe robber flick The Bling Ring happened just hours before the crime. “I’m innocent! I promise I had nothing to do with it!” laughed Emma Watson, the film’s star, when on Saturday the Hollywood Reporter cheekily asked if she was wearing some of the stolen rocks.
Violence is no stranger to Cannes, either. One angry attendee set off a bomb in the Palais in the 1970s; and ever since 9/11, the festival has enforced a strict code of examining bags and using metal-detector wands on every person entering the main venue, an enormous concrete convention center (affectionately known as “the Bunker”) which hosts scores of daily screenings scattered throughout dozens of theaters large and small. One vigilant bag-checker was so lugubriously thorough at the first 8:30 a.m. screening on the very first day that it caused a backlog of hundreds of audience members—and eventually forced the guards to throw up their arms and let in the uninspected crowd en masse.
Bulgari better watch their back: on Tuesday night, they are joining Twentieth Century Fox in presenting a 50th anniversary screening of the Elizabeth Taylor blockbuster Cleopatra, with Jessica Chastain reportedly hosting the evening and wearing four different choice pieces from the storied jeweler. The reception that follows at the Bulgari rooftop will feature some of Taylor’s original jewels, as well. Let’s hope the film’s 192-minute running time will keep any sticky-fingered party crashers at bay.
Nothing speaks for the zeitgeist more than pastries, and there’s always been a vaguely “This is what will make you a Lady at last!!!11” air about them: The Great Cupcake Craze of 2005, for instance, when you may as well have been an asexual cave-dweller until you paid $50 for a single treat at Magnolia. Then the Great Pinkberry Craze of 2007, which Girls’ Shoshanna would probably still be Tweeting about. The entire concept of "sad girl eating Ben & Jerry's."
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The probably-pregnant Beyoncé just put a bunch of gorgeous pictures from her Havana vacation on her Tumblr, in case you didn't feel like your life was horrid and un-cinematic before. This one is my very favorite.
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Disney's remained mum amidst the controversy surrounding the princess-ier "makeover" of Merida from Brave, followed by their subsequent backtrack and quiet return to the original character design on the official princess website.
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Disney's remained mum amidst the controversy surrounding the princess-ier "makeover" of Merida from Brave, followed by their subsequent backtrack and quiet return to the original character design on the official princess website.
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"I want a Stark in the streets and a wildling in the sheets" is the new "I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love."
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