South Korea amends employment law, overseas Filipino workers to benefit Sun Star | MANILA -- South Korea has amended its foreign workers employment law, which will enable some 24,000 Filipino workers to return to the country three months after finishing their contracts. | Dubbed the Employment Permit System (EPS), foreign workers who wish to return to Korea after finishing their...
Premature to throw out bank records, prosecutors say Sun Star | MANILA -- Documents of Chief Justice Renato Corona's bank accounts should still be admitted as evidence by the Senate impeachment court despite doubts on the provenance and authenticity of photocopies that House prosecutors attached to their request to subpoena the records, the panel said. Related...
Chinese Commerce Ministry reviewing Google/Motorola deal The Guardian * Anti-monopoly review part of acquisition process * U.S., European regulators already approved deal * Regulators want fair prices for patent licences (Adds name of spokesman, Google comment, background) BEIJING, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Chinese Commer...
Corona closed 3 accounts on day he was impeached Sun Star | MANILA (Updated 3:51 p.m.) -- Three peso time deposit accounts under the name of Chief Justice Renato Corona were closed on the same day he was impeached by 188 members of the House of Representatives. | At the resumption of the impeachment trial T...
Thailand: Iranians planned to attack Israelis Denver Post | BANGKOK—The Iranians arrested after accidentally setting off an explosives cache in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats, Thailand's police chief said Thursday, the first confirmation by local officials that the group was plottin...
Corona did not 'own' Columns unit until 2009, his lawyers say Sun Star | MANILA -- Ownership of a unit at The Columns, a posh condominium in Makati City, was transferred to Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2009 "when he took actual possession," his lawyers said Thursday in a legal memorandum it submitted to the Senate. Re...
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Israel blames Iran for car bomb attacks in India, Georgia The Washington Times | NEW DELHI — Israeli officials on Monday accused Iran of targeting diplomatic staffers in car bomb attacks in New Delhi and Tblisi, Georgia. | Four people were injured when ...
It's not a coup, says new Maldives president Mohammed Waheed The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetIn his first interwiew to the Indian media, the new president of the Maldives, Mohamed Waheed Hassan, tells TOI that he hasn’t come to power in a co...
Russia, China complicit in carnage inflicted on Syrians Gulf News | The adjectives (or perhaps they were epithets) used to describe it were vociferous and blunt, rarely used in diplomatic parlance: the Syrian regime was identified as barbaric, cr...
Area's Chinese American community readies banquet for Xi Jinping The Los Angeles Times As Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping makes his way across the U.S. in a five-day tour, Chinese American community leaders in Southern California are putting the finishing touches on their high-profile welcome banquet. | Many Chinese American business...
Houston legacy to continue in final film, song Sun Star | LOS ANGELES -- For Bishop T.D. Jakes, watching Whitney Houston sing a classic gospel hymn two months ago made him sure the long-struggling singer was poised for a comeback. | Instead, her soulful rendition of "His Eye is on the Sparrow" will be the...
New law enforcer to get tough on Tibetans The Independent | Liu Zuoming, 54, is a law-and-order apparatchik who has worked his way up through the bureaucracy. His appointment comes as Beijing tries to bring the Tibetan areas to heel following violence and unrest in the region. He has called for a hard line ...
China to keep investing in eurozone debt Zeenews Beijing: China will continue to invest in eurozone government debt, the country's central bank governor said on Wednesday, while calling on Europeans to produce more attractive investment products for China. | Zhou Xiaochuan admitted that China and other emerging nations like Brazil, Russia or India were waiting for the right time to help the bloc,...
Samsung: LCD Business May Be Spun Off Huffington Post | By Miyoung Kim | SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said on Wednesday it was considering spinning off its loss-making LCD flat-screen business in a surprise move as it seeks to orient its components business towards OLED displays, touted as the next-generation technology that will replace LCD TVs. | The LCD industry has been mired in a slum...
