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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/ en-us Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:36:14 -0400 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:36:14 -0400 30 Lhasa, Oct 7 (Xinhua) At least 30 people were killed Monday when a powerful quake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted this Tibetan provincial capital in china, officials said. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415446 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:00:54 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415446 Guiyang (China), Oct 7 (Xinhua) Eight people were drowned late Monday when their boat capsized on a lake in China's southwestern province of Guizhou, officials said. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415444 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:00:48 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415444 Kabul, Oct 6 (Xinhua) The Afghan National Army (ANA) and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed 11 Taliban militants and wounded five in a joint operation Monday in Daychopan district in southern Afghanistan, an official said. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415339 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:00:40 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415339 Bishkek, Oct 6 (RIA Novosti) The toll in the 6.6-magnitude earthquake that hit southern Kyrgyzstan Sunday night has risen to 72, with authorities saying Monday the number of casualties could grow as many were feared trapped under the rubble. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415254 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:01:16 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415254 Beijing, Oct 6 (Xinhua) A powerful earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck Tibetan capital Lhasa Monday afternoon, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, officials said. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415243 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:00:40 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415243 Beijing, Oct 6 (Xinhua) Chinese shares fell by over three percent in the morning session Monday on worries about the financial crisis and after big losses on Wall Street. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415054 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:00:02 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415054 Fiona Zuzartee, who thinks beauty contests are for empowering women, is the new Miss MalaysiaIndian Global. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415050 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:01:09 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415050 The Canada-India Business Council (C-IBC) has urged Canada to resume sale of nuclear reactors to India after the recent lifting of nuclear embargo on it. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415048 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:01:05 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415048 The wife of a wealthy American investment banker Monday lost her appeal against her life sentence in Hong Kong for killing her husband in the so-called 'milkshake murder' case. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415016 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:00:08 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415016 Beijing, Oct 6 (Xinhua) Eric Wang walks into a restaurant near his office in Beijing's central business district. Wearing an immaculately pressed dark blue suit with a gold-coloured tie, he picks up a cup of cappuccino and sips. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415007 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:23 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415007 New Delhi, Oct 6 : The second day of the Bridal Asia event in New Delhi saw Pakistani models setting the ramp afire with their moves and attires on Sunday. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415154 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:00:59 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415154 Japan's key Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell to a four-year low Monday on worries about the financial crisis, despite US Congressional approval of a Wall Street bail-out. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415070 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:00:22 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415070 Asian stocks nosedived throughout the region Monday as investors feared the US bail-out would fall far short of resolving the financial crisis that has also spread to Europe. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415172 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:00:12 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415172 Wellington, Oct 6 : An extraordinary collection of ancient rock art have suggested that the people of northern Australia have been interacting with seafaring visitors from Asia and Europe for hundreds, possibly thousands, of years. http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415112 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:45 -0400 Kyrgyzstan News.Net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/415112 HONG KONG (Reuters) - Panic about how the U.S. and European governments have not yet found a solution to the plague sweeping through the global financial system hit Asian stocks again on Tuesday and l... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411278&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:47:50 -0400 Reuters http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411278&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BANGKOK: Thai police fired tear gas to try and disperse thousands of anti-government protesters massing outside parliament on Tuesday, injuring at least ten people, police and medical officials said. ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18413924&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:00:58 -0400 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18413924&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON: Asian countries are looking nervously at Europe to see if frantic efforts by governments there succeed in calming investors' fears over the worst financial crisis in 80 years. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411679&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:12:22 -0400 New Straits Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411679&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ASHEVILLE, N.C: The two men who supposedly exemplified a different kind of politics are engaged in an increasingly bitter campaign as character attacks are emerging to compete with issues like the ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411805&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:13:04 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411805&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON: China has abruptly cancelled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned multi-billion dollar US arms sale to Taiwan, American officials tol... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411807&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:13:01 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411807&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON: The Republican National Committee filed a complaint on Monday alleging that Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign has received illegal contributions from foreigners and donation... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411808&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:13:00 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411808&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 KABUL: Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war cannot be won, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, as Washington seeks more troops fo... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411804&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:12:57 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411804&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 , moving as low as 9,916.21 during the session before recovering. The Average was down 3.3% at 10,125.67 in midmorning trade, while the broader Topix index lost 3.5% to 963.87. Both benchmarks too... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411194&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:10:44 -0400 Morning Star http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411194&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asian stock markets have opened down sharply amid investor panic that global government action might not be enough to stem the financial crisis. Japan's Nikkei index plunged more than 5% - shatteri... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18410992&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:51:38 -0400 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18410992&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON - Individual European governments issued a flurry of deposit guarantees to shore up their banks but fell short of any coordinated action Monday to deal with the crisis sweeping financial mar... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411809&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:12:59 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411809&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Severstal , Russia’s biggest steelmaker, is planning to invest more than $6bn on bolstering its steel production in Asia, in an upbeat stance that goes against indications of slowing demand in the g... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18413925&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:09:56 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18413925&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Pakistan’s economic crisis deepened on Monday after the rupee sank to an all-time low and Standard & Poor’s, the global rating agency, downgraded the rating on the country’s sovereign debt t... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411889&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:09:41 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18411889&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 CINCINNATI: As Wall Street reeled and global markets plunged, President George W Bush on Monday said the US economy is going to be "just fine" in the long run. But he cautioned that the massive res... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18407904&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:25:22 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18407904&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 (AXcess News) Washington - More than a third of likely Asian American voters remain undecided on a presidential candidate, and 35 percent identify themselves as nonpartisan - factors John McCain and B... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18408002&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:27:18 -0400 Axcess News http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18408002&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 COLOMBO: A former leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels is due to enter parliament on the government benches, an official announcement showed on Monday. Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, also kno... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18407905&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:25:19 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18407905&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia’s president, on Monday met cabinet ministers, business leaders, economists and media chiefs in an unprecedented effort to ­bolster confidence in the economy as t... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18410836&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:21:52 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18410836&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Taro Aso, Japan’s newly elected prime minister, hinted on Monday that Japan could expand a planned Y1,800bn ($17.8bn, €13.2bn, £10.3bn) economic stimulus package, as concerns grew that the global... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18406662&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:21:51 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18406662&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Tolkun Namatbayeva I AFP BISHKEK: Rescuers toiled yesterday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan’s border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at l... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18407923&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:18:32 -0400 Arab News http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18407923&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON: Taliban leaders are holding talks with the Afghan government to end the country's bloody conflict — and are severing their ties with al-Qaida, sources said. King Abdullah of Saudi Arab... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402636&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:30:40 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402636&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 KYRGYZSTAN: October 7, 2008 BISHKEK - A powerful earthquake killed at least 72 people in Kyrgyzstan and levelled a village in the remote mountains of the Central Asian state, the health ministry sai... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402674&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:50:55 -0400 Planet Ark http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402674&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON: The Republican national committee plans to file a fundraising complaint against Barack Obama's presidential campaign on Monday, alleging it has accepted donations that exceed federal li... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402639&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:30:37 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402639&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 At least 30 people are also believed to have died in the Tibet quake. The first quake killed 74 people, more than 40 of them children, and injured 50 others. Hundreds of buildings in a town in the C... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18400953&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:13:52 -0400 Sky News http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18400953&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Real estate and technology companies in Asia suffered more negative ratings actions in the third quarter than any other sector, Moody's says http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18401239&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:15:10 -0400 Business Week http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18401239&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON: London Mayor Boris Johnson said he would launch an inquiry into racism within the capital's police force as its Black Police Association urged minority recruits to boycott the service. T... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402642&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:30:29 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402642&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The outgoing governor of the Thai capital, Bangkok, has been re-elected to the post. Apirak Kosayodhin won by a large margin, over both the pro-government candidate and a maverick former sex parlour ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402621&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:14:23 -0400 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402621&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asian stock markets plunged Monday as investors took scant comfort from Washington's passage of a US$700 billion bank bailout and focused instead on deepening financial turmoil in Europe that threaten... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18401192&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:30:02 -0400 eTaiwan News http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18401192&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (IPS) - By a margin of nearly two to one, Asian-American voters favour Democratic Sen. Barack Obama over his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, in the Nov. 4 elections, according to... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402817&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:33:24 -0400 IPS http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402817&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 KABUL: A former Taliban ambassador said on Monday that the hard-line militants sat with Afghan officials and Saudi King Abdullah over an important religious meal in Saudi Arabia late last month as ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402643&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:30:28 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402643&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ASHEVILLE: The gloves are off, the heels are on, and the presidential race is dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago. Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended h... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402635&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:30:39 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402635&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Three people in the eastern Indian state of Orissa have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Hindu leader in August, police say. They said the suspects were Christians with strong links w... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402828&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:14:23 -0400 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402828&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ROME: Pope Benedict XVI's "In the beginning" has started off a weeklong Bible-reading marathon on Italian television. RAI state TV began its programme called "The Bible Day and Night" on Sunday,... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402644&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:30:26 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402644&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING: At least nine people were killed in a strong earthquake which struck the Himalayan region of Tibet, Chinese state media said on Tuesday, quoting the rescue headquarters at the epicentre. The ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18406056&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:26:37 -0400 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18406056&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 KATHMANDU: As Nepal began praying and feasting from Monday to celebrate its biggest festival Dashain — the worship of Durga and other deities of power — the ruling Maoist party however ignored ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402646&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:30:20 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402646&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 COLOMBO: At least 27 people, including a former army general Janaka Perera, his wife and a number of provincial politicians, were killed and 80 others injured when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide b... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402647&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:30:19 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402647&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 India praises Zardari over Kashmir policy shift By James Lamontin New Delhi and Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad Published: October 6 2008 20:00 | Last updated: October 6 2008 20:00 http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18403246&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:26:41 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18403246&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 sia has an opportunity to save itself, and the world economy, from the crushing excesses of Wall Street. China and Japan, with other Asian countries holding substantial surplus reserves, should act no... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402837&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:26:39 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18402837&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, German Harald zur Hausen. (AFP) STOCKHOLM: French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won on Monday the N... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399341&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:19 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399341&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hopes that France will provide it technical assistance for the peaceful use of nuclear power to meet its energy requirements, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Monday. ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399337&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:12 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399337&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 MOSCOW: Russia accused Georgia on Monday of trying to sabotage a French-brokered ceasefire by mounting a series of violent attacks on Russian targets across the region, but Tbilisi said the allegat... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399336&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:11 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399336&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has backtracked on his remarks describing militants in Jammu and Kashmir as "terrorists" saying there is no change in Pakistan's Kashmir policy, a day after hi... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399338&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:13 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399338&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 KHAR: Pakistan began deporting Afghan migrants from its restive border region on Monday after alleging they have militant links. Officials have said they plan to deport all of the estimated 50,0... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399339&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:14 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399339&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Article Reprints Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna and five interpreters are planning to help educate Seattle's Asian communities about fraud prevention. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18398973&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:40:39 -0400 Insurance Journal http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18398973&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asia-focused private equity funds surpassed the total capital raised in Europe in the third quarter – the first time in the history of the industry – as turmoil in the credit markets forced invest... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399445&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:25:05 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399445&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Dealers on Asian markets said widespread declines yesterday reflected the fact that investors did not see the US$700 billion bailout as an effective cure-all http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399435&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:52:40 -0400 Taipei Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399435&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By Herbert LashNEW YORK (Reuters) - Fear gripped investors around the world on Monday, causing them to dump stocks and snap up safe-havens after European leaders were seen doing too little too late to... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399376&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:51:42 -0400 Swiss Info http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399376&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ANKARA: Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey on Monday in retaliation for the killing of 17 soldiers three days ago, the military said. The mil... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399340&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:18 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399340&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BISHKEK: Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them c... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399342&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:06 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399342&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 An Indonesian plantation company has filed the first patent applications for a hybrid variety of palm oil seeds and their production that it expects will increase palm oil yield by several hundred per... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399447&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:24:50 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399447&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 BEIJING: Two strong earthquakes jolted the capital of Tibet and surrounding areas on Monday killing more than 30 people and causing hundreds of houses to collapse, the official Xinhua News Agency s... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399335&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:28:08 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399335&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asian shipyards face prospect of bankruptcy By Raphael Minder in Hong Kong and Du Juan in BeijingPublished: October 6 2008 17:41 | Last updated: October 6 2008 17:41 http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399446&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:24:56 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399446&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Sime Darby, the world’s largest listed oil palm landowner, is set to diversify “in a big way” into rice production, according to its chairman.Musa Hitam said on Monday that the Malaysian company... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399626&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:24:45 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399626&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Russia and North Korea have launched a joint project to restore a railroad within North Korea, which will eventually be joined with the Trans-Siberian railroad. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399273&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:22:35 -0400 Russian Information Agency http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18399273&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, has privately condemned Gordon Brown's decision to sack the government's only elected minister from the Indian community in the reshuffle over the weekend.Harma... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395328&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:29:26 -0400 The Guardian http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395328&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A volcano in central Indonesia erupted Monday, shooting clouds of smoke and flames into the night sky. Indonesia's volcanology center said Mount Soputan,... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395682&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:18:12 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395682&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Two quakes which struck the Himalayan region of Tibet have killed at least 30 people, Chinese state media report. The earthquakes struck about 16km (10 miles) and 15 minutes apart in a sparsely pop... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395116&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:11:43 -0400 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395116&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING -- Beijing began issuing vanity plates on Monday after a six-year hiatus sparked by rude, crude and politically incorrect messages. Top picks this time emphasized numb... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395595&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:18:13 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395595&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By Olga DzyubenkoBISHKEK (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake killed at least 70 people in Kyrgyzstan and levelled a village in the remote mountains of the Central Asian state, the emergencies ministry s... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395183&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:51:22 -0400 Swiss Info http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395183&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By V. Phani Kumar Asian markets dived Monday, with most indexes falling 4% or more, amid concerns about a raging global financial crisis and the effectiveness of the U.S. financial bailout. Japa... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395344&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:50:18 -0400 Smart Money http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395344&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 STC Associates , an independent global brand management consultancy, announced today that Claudia P. Foo has joined the company as Senior Director of Brand and Market Strategy. Ms. Foo, a former br... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395107&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:37:10 -0400 Market Wire http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395107&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ISLAMABAD: In a sudden upsurge in militant attacks, at least 17 people were killed on Monday and 60 injured as a suspected suicide bomber struck at the home of a prominent PML-N parliamentarian in ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395133&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:25:50 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395133&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ISLAMABAD: In a sudden upsurge in militant attacks, at least 17 people were killed on Monday and 60 injured as a suspected suicide bomber struck at the home of a prominent PML-N parliamentarian in ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395131&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:25:54 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395131&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have detained more than 250 people in connection with drug-related offences after a raid on a party, officials say. Police say they seized banned drugs such as can... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395334&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:11:42 -0400 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395334&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 China has deployed more than 5,000 food safety inspectors to check dairy factories in a bid to contain a continuing tainted milk scandal. The government said it was part of immediate efforts to clean... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395117&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:11:41 -0400 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395117&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 (22 mins ago) A powerful earthquake killed at least 72 people in Kyrgyzstan and leveled a village in the remote mountains of the Central Asian state, the health ministry said on Monday. The earthq... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395180&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:06:33 -0400 The Standard http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395180&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has denied on Monday that it had struck a deal allowing US missile strikes against militants on its soil, after a report quoted the country's president as saying there was an "u... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395134&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:25:48 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395134&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 VATICAN CITY: An Israeli rabbi was set on Monday to become the first Jewish holy man to address a Roman Catholic synod after declaring that dialogue between the two faiths was based on "mutual resp... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395135&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:25:47 -0400 Times of India http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395135&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SEOUL — South Korea appealed on Monday for a summit with Japan and China on a global financial crisis that has starved its banks of dollars and accelerated the country's worst capital flight sinc... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18394243&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:39:19 -0400 Globe and Mail http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18394243&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asian stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears of a global financial crisis that would depress world economic growth. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395342&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:00:53 -0400 ABC News http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395342&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 (RTTNews) - Monday, the week started with inflation reports and central bank actions from Asian economies. Indonesia and Taiwan released inflation reports for September, while central banks of India ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18394195&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:21:39 -0400 Quote.com http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18394195&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 YANGON, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar cycling team will participate in the forthcoming Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Track Asia Cup 2008 cycling tournament in Bangkok, Thailand this week, local media... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395353&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:20:51 -0400 SINA http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18395353&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA and TAIPEI, TAIWAN--(Marketwire - Oct. 6, 2008) - Splunk, the IT Search company, and Systex (TSE:6214), a Taiwan-based leading regional IT service provider, today announced a... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18389339&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:24:04 -0400 Market Wire http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18389339&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 By WASBIR HUSSAINASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER GAUHATI, India -- Clashes between ethnic groups in India's remote northeast killed 10 more people Monday, bringing the death toll from four days of violence... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18391013&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:09:09 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18391013&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asia's contemporary art market suffered a blow at the weekend as bidders failed to buy several paintings at a major Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong. Nineteen of the 47 prominent works under the hammer... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390533&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:03:57 -0400 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390533&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Observers agree generally that a financial crisis like the one in the late 1990s is not on Asia's horizon, though the region will undoubtedly be hurt by the global credit crisis. But analysts are keep... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390528&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:20:31 -0400 Forbes http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390528&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asian and European markets plunged today starting off an expected rocky week for the stock markets around the world. Markets in Asia tumbled with the knock-on from last week in the US, the worst week ... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390402&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:52:04 -0400 MSN Money http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390402&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Tokyo - News about the latest emergency package to save Germany's real estate financier Hypo Real Estate Holding AG could not clear the gloomy atmosphere in far-away Asia. It was the same with the bai... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18389159&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:37:29 -0400 Business Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18389159&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Seoul, Oct 6 : Gaganjeet Bhullar, the lone Indian golfer to make the cut at the Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open has shot a final round of one-over 72 to finish tied 43rd. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390748&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:26:39 -0400 New Kerala http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390748&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 At least 10 people were killed and many more injured when a bus taking people to a casino overturned in the US state of California. Police say the vehicle veered off the road and rolled over near the... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390534&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:03:59 -0400 BBC http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18390534&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Dubai: Asian stocks, US and European index futures fell on Monday as deteriorating credit markets forced new bailouts of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG and Fortis. The euro slumped to a 13-month low, whi... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18391732&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:51:59 -0400 Gulf News http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18391732&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 LONDON (AP) _ Asian and European stock markets plunged Monday as government bank bailouts in the U.S. and Europe failed to alleviate fears that the global financial crisis would depress world economic... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18388686&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:56:06 -0400 Newsday http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18388686&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia will test fruit and vegetables imported from China following reports that they may contain the industrial chemical melamine, a senior minister said Monday. "It is a precautiona... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18393362&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:17:19 -0400 Channel News Asia http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18393362&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Asian markets dived Monday, with most indexes falling 4% or more, amid concerns about a raging global financial crisis and the effectiveness of the U.S. financial bailout. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18392746&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:22:06 -0400 Morning Star http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18392746&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 (AIG)'s non-life insurance operations in Southeast Asia have suffered "minimal impact" from the financial problems faced by parent AIG, a senior company official said Monday. http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18385807&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:36:31 -0400 Morning Star http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18385807&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 The turnaround in the fortunes of the recession-hit New Zealand economy were underscored on Monday when the country’s treasury cut its economic growth forecasts and warned of increased public borrow... http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18386905&cat=bf053b50c46383e0 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:35:46 -0400 Financial Times http://feeds.kyrgyzstannews.net/?rid=18386905&cat=bf053b50c46383e0