Asia Cast For Wednesday 8th August
The leaders of the divided Koreas will hold a summit on Aug. 28-30 in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, South Korean media reported on Wednesday.It will be only the second summit between the two countries that are still technically at war. The first, in 2000 between then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and current North [...]
Asia Cast for Tuesday 7th August
China’s most eligible bachelor, basketball sensation Yao Ming, will wed his long-term girlfriend Ye Li at a jealously guarded private ceremony at a luxury hotel in Shanghai on Monday.Dozens of security guards were patrolling the Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai’s financial district where the towering seven foot six inch Houston Rockets centre and his six foot [...]
Asia Cast Monday 6th August
Aid workers are battling to supply food and water to millions of increasingly desperate flood victims in South Asia. Clashes were reported over food drops in the worst hit area in an Indian state where eleven million are affected. In Bangladesh, many people were in need of urgent assistance, the United Nations World Food Programme [...]
Asia Cast for Sunday 5th August
Britain has responded quickly as it tried to contain an outbreak of highly infectious foot and mouth disease on Saturday, culling cattle at a farm outside London to prevent a repeat of the ruinous damage caused by the disease six years ago.The European Commission said it had banned all live animal exports from the United [...]
Asia Cast For Saturday 04th August
The Minneapolis Fire Chief said on Friday it was a miracle that only five people had so far been confirmed dead in the collapse of one of the city’s main road bridges over the Mississippi River . Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said outside experts would review the decisions of state engineers to delay certain repair [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 3rd August
Monsoon rains have inundated wide swaths of northern India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing at least 166 people and washing away villages and farmlands that 19 million people depend on, officials said on Thursday.With rain-swollen rivers bursting their banks along the fertile plains south of the Himalayas, India sent soldiers to help evacuate people from some [...]
Asia Cast Thursday 2nd August
A highway bridge collapsed and hurled vehicles into the Mississippi River in central Minneapolis during evening rush hour on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring more than 20, officials said. Cars were crushed under huge slabs of concrete, flipped onto their roofs or thrown in the river as the 40-year-old bridge, packed with vehicles in [...]
Asia Cast Wednesday 1st August
Japans Farm minister steps down and Thousands of Tourist guides arrested in China and Families losing hope for hostages Rupert Murdoch is set to achieve his decades-long dream of running the venerable Wall Street Journal after Dow Jones & Co Inc.’s board agreed to News Corp’s $5 billion buyout bid on Tuesday.The board decided to [...]
