The New York Times Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks | PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered... (photo: GFDL)
The Daily Tribune RP 4th most corrupt on Asia-Pacific list | By Michaela P. del Callar | 03/10/2010 | It is no surprise that the Philippines under President Arroyo is again still in the bottom list of corrupt economies. | The Philippines slid two notches from... (photo: WN / Trigedia)
The New York Times Uproar in India Over Quota for Female Lawmakers | NEW DELHI — The upper house of India’s Parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would amend the Constitution to reserve one-third of the seats in India’s national and state legislatur... (photo: AP / Ajit Kumar) IndiaLawPhotosPoliticsWoman
Asia Times 'Bless you Mr Obama' on Myanmar | By Stanley A Weiss | MANDALAY - In September 1952, Russian dictator Joseph Stalin and Chinese foreign minister Chou Enlai convened an extraordinary meeting to discuss the future of Southeast Asia. A... (photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit) ChinaForeign PolicyMyanmarPhotosUS
Asia Times Marjah, the city that never was | By Gareth Porter | WASHINGTON - For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a "city of 80,000... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) AfghanistanDefenceNATOPhotosUS
Independent online Pietersen flops again in Bangladesh | Chittagong, Bangladesh - England batsman Kevin Pietersen failed to find form ahead of a two-Test series against Bangladesh, scoring only 20 in a drawn warm-up match on ... (photo: AP / Andres Leighton) BangladeshCricketEnglandPhotosSport
The New York Times US-Born Panda Freed From Quarantine in China | Filed at 7:47 a.m. ET | CHENGDU, China (AP) -- After a month in quarantine, American-born panda Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on p... (photo: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 / Fernando Revilla) AnimalsChinaPhotosUSWildlife
IRINnews GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon" web | JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - Rice producing Asian countries had to contend with poor rains in 2009, and now another season of low rainfall has been forecast ... (photo: IRIN News / Anna Jefferys) ForecastPhotosPriceProducingRice
