Vietnamese Americans are as segregated as African Americans, and there has been little change in the trend in the last two decades, according to research by Brown University about the six main Asian groups in the United States. Census data from 1990, 2000 and 2010 were used to assess the social and economic integration of Chinese, Filipinos, Indians, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese ...
One dead 31 injured as Typhoon Soulik hits Taiwan
TAIPEI (AFP) - Typhoon Soulik battered Taiwan with torrential rain and powerful winds on Saturday that left one person dead and at least 30 people injured.As daylight dawned, some areas were submerged by flood waters, roofs were ripped from homes, and debris and fallen trees littered the streets.More heavy rain and strong winds are predicted throughout Saturday with the authorities warning of ...
NGOs in dilemma over rescuing N.Koreans in Myanmar
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean NGOs face a dilemma over how to rescue 64 North Koreans held by Myanmar rebels and forced to work on a drug farm, an activist said on Saturday.The North Koreans have been taken to a rebel camp northeast of Tachilek, a town along the border between Myanmar and Thailand, over the past nine years, Pastor Kim Hee-Tae told AFP.The refugees were caught while attempting to ...
Cambodian opposition chief to return home July 19
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodia's self-exiled opposition leader says he will return to his homeland on July 19, less than two weeks before his beleaguered party challenges entrenched Prime Minister Hun Sen in national ...
Workers Struggles Asia Australia and the Pacific
A garment worker was killed and another injured on July 9 when 20 unidentified assailants fired bullets at workers in Dhaka. They were marching to join several hundred fellow workers protesting in Merul Badda for improved wages. The Fashion Iceland Garment and Resources Garment employees were locked out after they asked factory managers for leave to join the combined demonstration in Merul ...
Asian shares mixed after profit-taking record Wall St close
HONG KONG--Asian markets were mixed on Friday, with a record-breaking close on Wall Street offset by profit-taking after the previous day's broad ...
US dollar inches higher in Asian trading
TOKYO--The dollar inched higher in Asia Friday after tumbling on comments from the head of the Federal Reserve who said the bank's massive stimulus drive would remain in place for some ...
Vietnam Drop Charges Against Le Quoc Quan
Le Quoc Quan is being put on trial because he is a prominent and effective critic. Instead of addressing popular dissatisfaction with Vietnam's political system, economic failures, and dire human rights record, the government is simply throwing critics in ...
One dead 88 rescued in Australia refugee boat sinking
Australian authorities were scouring remote seas for survivors Saturday after a people-smuggling boat carrying 97 went down, with 88 people rescued so far and the body of a baby ...
Fire on Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Londons HeathrowAn Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner caught fire at Londons Heathrow airport on Friday in the latest calamity for Boeings troubled jet forcing the airport to shut down for an hour-and-a-h
Heathrow airport on Friday in the latest calamity for Boeing's troubled jet, forcing the airport to shut down for an hour-and-a-half. Heathrow suspended both its runways after the fire on the parked plane was reported at around 1530 GMT. It announced 90 minutes later that services were resuming but warned passengers to expect delays. "Emergency services are currently dealing with the ...
Snowden says he wants asylum in Russia accepts Putins terms
Snowden said he was ready to meet President Vladimir Putin's condition that he stop leaking secrets if it means Russia would give him shelter that could eventually help him get to Latin ...
Powerful typhoon hits Taiwan headed for China
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- A powerful typhoon surged across northern Taiwan on Saturday, killing at least one person and disrupting transportation and commerce around the island of 23 million people, before heading westward toward the heavily populated Chinese coastal provinces of Fujian and ...
Two killed hundreds homeless in North Korean floods
SEOUL (AFP) - Two people were killed and hundreds left homeless after heavy rains pounded North Korea over the past three days, state media said on Saturday."Flood damage occurred in the central DPRK," (North Korea) the Korean Central News Agency said, citing preliminary tallies compiled as of late Friday.Large swathes of farmland were flooded in the provinces of South Hamkyong, North ...
India bids farewell to the telegram service
After 160 years, India's has decided to discontinue its telegram service as a result of losses incurred by the state-owned telecoms operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ...
Fire on Dreamliner in Britain as another forced to fly back
caught fire at London Heathrow on Friday while a "technical issue" forced a second to return to a different British airport, sending stocks in the company plummeting. The fire on the ...
Founder of US-based Bose audio firm dies at 83
In 2011, Bose gave MIT the majority of Bose Corp stock in the form of non-voting shares whose dividends are used to support education and research. (AP ...
Bhutan cements democracy with tight election race
The royalist DPT stormed the first election by a landslide in 2008 and won this year's primary round with 45 per cent of votes. But recent gains by the PDP have shaken up the ...
World Briefing | Asia Cambodia Hun Sen Rival Is Pardoned
Prime Minister Hun Sen engineered a pardon for his most prominent rival on Friday, clearing the way for the self-exiled politician, Sam Rainsy, to return home and campaign in this ...
Egypts Islamists take to streets of Cairo but protests peaceful
1 of 13. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi gather at the Rabaa Adawiya square, where they are camping, in Cairo July 12, 2013. The Arabic text on the banner reads ''Mursi is my ...
Burma Invest at Your Own Risk
excessive force to disperse Buddhist monks and others who had camped out to protest the expansion of a controversial copper mine in Sagaing Region. Poor laws and the risk of involvement in abuses affect many kinds of companies. The winners of the telecommunications tender, for example, ...
Asia braces as Fed tapering looms with Indonesia at risk
The panic that rippled through Asia?s markets in May and June might just be a prelude to a more serious capital flight when the US Federal Reserve starts winding down its stimulus measures for real. How quickly the US Federal Reserve reduces its $85 billion a month of bond purchases, which keep interest rates low, will determine how quickly money is pulled out of Asia. Countries with ...
HK airport?s on-time performance falls to 63pc
The number of flights departing on time from Hong Kong has fallen from more than three-quarters to just under two-thirds since the start of the year, according to new statistics. Global data tracker FlightStats said the Chek Lap Kok airport ? often rated the best in the world ? now ranks only 29th out of 35 major international airports in terms of on-time performance. Only 63.7 ...
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