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 | Bank of Thailand worst forecast 1.4 mln unemployed this year
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Bank of Thailand (BOT) on Thursday said in the worst case scenario, if the gross domestic product stop to grow, the unemployment rate would rise to 3.7 percent or around 1.4 million people, including newly graduates and farmers after cultivating, would be jobless. |
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| News |  | FM: Thai new government ready to rebuild its world image
BANGKOK, Thailand -- As part of PR efforts for Thailand' s new government led by Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thailand's Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said on Thursday that he is confident the government is ready to rebuild the country's image in the world stage. |  | Cambodia's 2 main opposition parties ally for upcoming elections
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and Human Rights Party (HRP), which are two main opposition parties in the Cambodian National Assembly, agreed Thursday in principle to establish a political alliance called the Democratic Movement of Change (DMC) for the upcoming elections. |  | Vietnam seeks $12 billion for infrastructure projects
HANOI, Vietnam -- The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment has announced a list of more than 60 urban infrastructure projects, calling on an estimated 12 billion U.S. dollars of investment in the period of 2009 and 2016, the local newspaper The Youth reported Thursday. |  | Fire in Karaoke bar kills 8 in Busan , South Korea
SEOUL, Korea -- A fire at a karaoke bar in South Korea's southeastern port city of Busan killed at least eight people and injured another on Wednesday night, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday. |  | Thailand counts on Chinese New Year travelers to revive tourism
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The forthcoming Chinese New Year Festival is projected to generate around 550 million baht (14.3 million U.S. dollars) for Thailand, and bring approximately 500,000 tourists per day, 20 percent of them foreigners, to all kinds of festives, Thai tourism authorities said Wednesday. |  | Indonesia's consumer confidence down in Dec.
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's consumer confidence index fell by 5.7 points to 90.06 in December, a survey of the central bank said at its website Wednesday. |
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I think it is not wise for Indonesia to send military troops over to Gaza to help them. We are too emotional to accept this crisis. My suggestion is that, as God's people we can pray that God will come and convince leaders, both of Hamas and Israel, to stop this violence. We have to ask God to remind all leaders to love others and show peace to their neighbor.
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| | | Writer Xu Xingtang
After 10 years of discussion and planning, China will launch fuel tax reforms in the New Year, part of an effort to streamline its price systems.
It will be just the latest market-oriented major policy move that China has undertaken in its three decades of reform and opening up.
Thursday was the 30th anniversary...
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| | | Is Budget Big Enough to Revive Economy?
With the United States and major countries joining the fiscal stimulus club to boost the economy, South Korea's National Assembly Saturday passed a budget featuring a record fiscal deficit and tax cuts for next year to kickstart the economy. But the question is whether this budget is big enough, with no answer in sight.
The governing Grand National... |
| | | paul577:
This is really SICK.....Indonesia send the wrong message by reducing sentences fro those who aided and abetted MASS MURDER...and at the same time dares to try to intimidate Australia for accepting refugees fleeing from Irian jaya from the murderous Indonesian military. Indonesia needs to get serious about combatting terrorism or be ostracised by the world community. I don't support death... |
| | | Hoang Huu Hao, Hanoi:
This morning I was stunned by the article on typhoon Chanchu. I was stunned not because of the number of over 200 people missing, but because it was not forecast; a harsh truth that I had a hard time believing.
Thousands of fishermen work at sea and they only rely on weather forecasts from Vietnam. Then incorrect and late information about the storm led many... |
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Life in Asia
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 | Why learning Chinese is easier in Year of the Ox
Britney Spears wants to stop biting her nails, Cameron Diaz wants to stop smoking and start wearing a bra, and I want to speak Chinese. We all have different New Year's resolutions and maybe in 2009 there's a few expats who will share my wish.
|  | Stepping out of the shadows: one woman's victory over violence
A campaign last week sought to transform public attitudes to domestic violence, inspiring Maly, a Battambang resident who escaped an abusive marriage, to tell her tragic story
|  | The Vietnamese Wedding
It was wedding season. In a traditional Vietnamese wedding the groom, with his family and friends, go over the bride’s home and askes her parents for her hand in marriage. More often than not, the parents agree.
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 | Pakistan dancers keep traditional form alive
KARACHI, Pakistan -- In a posh Karachi home, a dozen girls struggle to maintain their balance as they are put through their paces by Sadia Khan, a skilled performer of Pakistan's traditional Kathak dance. |
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