Asia Cast Tuesday 10th July
The International Chinese Classical Dance Competition at the New York University Skirball Arts Performing Centre, ended on July the eight as scheduled.Many viewers said that they enjoyed the performances and were happy the Chinese communist regime’s attempt to block the competition did not succeed. John, a university student studying commerce in New York, had heard [...]
Asia Cast Monday 9th July
Prosecutors in Indonesia have filed a civil lawsuit against former President Suharto, to recover state funds they say went missing under his rule. Prosecutors have been under pressure to file a civil case, since the courts blocked a criminal case last year on the grounds of Suharto’s ill health. Prosecutors say the money went missing [...]
Asia Cast for Sunday 8th July
The multi-continent, 24-hour Live Earth music festival was held at major cities around the globe this past weekend, with some of the world¡¯s most high profile musicians taking the stage to support the fight against climate change.Major shows were held in London, Sydney, Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, Hamburg, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, and even a performance [...]
Asia Cast for Saturday 7th July
The family of a 3-year-old British girl Margaret Hill abducted in Nigeria are negotiating her release as kidnappers threatened to kill her unless their ransom demands are met.The toddler, was snatched on Thursday morning from the car in which she was being driven to school in Port Harcourt in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Abductions for [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 6th July
Health officials in India’s flood-hit city of Kolkata said on Thursday they were worried about the outbreak of disease, as residents drank and swam in filthy, neck-deep water.The city of over eight million faced the prospect of more flooding as a new storm brought fresh downpours and uprooted trees. Weather officials forecast heavy rains over [...]
Asia Cast Thursday 5th July
In northeastern China an explosion at a karaoke bar has killed 25 people, state media report. A further 33 people were injured in the blast on Wednesday evening in Tianshifu town in Liaoning province, the Xinhua news agency reports, citing officials. Investigators are trying to establish whether the explosion was caused by accident or deliberately. [...]
Asia Cast for Wednesday 4th July
Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style movement, officials said.Sporadic firing between paramilitary forces and the student militants inside the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, rang out for hours in the heart of the leafy capital. Hardline [...]
Asia Cast for Tuesday 3rd July
-Doctors among eight held in British car bomb plot -Chinese Student Associations act as CCP agents and -Bush spares former Cheney Aide Libby from Prison. An eighth person was arrested on Monday and two doctors were among seven held in Britain in connection with a suspected al Qaeda plot to detonate car bombs in London [...]
Asia Cast for Monday 2nd July
British police are hunting for accomplices of suspected militants who rammed a burning jeep into Scotland¡¯s Glasgow airport and tried to detonate two car bombs in central London. A police source said a manhunt was under way for an unspecified number of suspects after five people were arrested at the weekend. All five detained were [...]
Asia Cast for Sunday 1st July
- Celebrations underway in Hong Kong – Falun Gong practitioners detained at airport – East Timor votes without major incident. Celebrations are underway in Hong Kong to mark the 10th anniversary of its return to China after more than one hundred and fifty years of British rule. Chinese President Hu Jintao was the guest of [...]
