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It’s a sweltering Bangkok afternoon and I’m surrounded on all sides by red shirts: supporters of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
They’re carrying enormous bottles of their own blood on their heads and hoping to pressure the government into resigning.
They love loudspeakers and are yelling and chanting their rhetoric so loudly it’s hard to hear anything [...]

Supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra say they will continue their protest today by pouring 1,000 litres of their own blood on the steps of parliament.
Thailand’s prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva refused to meet a demand from red shirt protesters to resign and hold fresh elections.
Now the political drama in Bangkok will begin its [...]

Thousands of supporters of Thailand’s ousted prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, have begun three days of protests in Bangkok, shutting down a major road outside Siam Square.
So far the demonstrations have been peaceful and there is something of a party atmosphere.
Bands are playing on pick-up trucks and red shirt supporters are crammed into tuk tuks and [...]

The Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says she would be very uncomfortable about allowing parents to choose their children’s sex.
The Health and Medical Research Council is reviewing whether to allow any parents who use IVF to select their baby’s gender.
The practice is currently only allowed when there is a risk that parents will pass on [...]

For weeks now Bangkok has been bracing for massive political protests that have just got underway.
Thousands of the red shirt supporters of Thaksin Shinawatra protested at six points across the city in the curtain raiser to what they claim will be a million-strong march on Sunday.
So far the protests have remained largely peaceful, but all [...]

Thailand’s prime minister has cancelled a planned visit to Australia next week because of ongoing security concerns in his country.
Abhisit Vejjajiva was due to fly out of Bangkok on Sunday for three days of bilateral talks.
The visit was to take place on the same day as a massive political rally in Bangkok.
The march is being [...]

Islamabad, Sep 16 (ANI): US State Department has said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is planning to visit Pakistan in near future, but nothing has been finalised yet.

“She looks forward to going to Pakistan and that region as well, but there’s nothing that’s been planned yet,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters [...]

New Delhi, Sep 10(ANI): A Union Cabinet meeting on Thursday discussed topics, including the revamping of the National Rural Health Mission and approval for the signing and ratification of the BIMST (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand) Convention.

Union Information and [...]

London, Sep 5 (ANI): Jessica Simpson ditched her singing career for a while and showed off her curvaceous figure in an unusual brown floor-length gown and giant platforms at a fashion show in Paris.

The singer-cum-actress was a special guest at the Ozlem Suer show, reports [...]

Washington, August 26 (ANI): The world’s largest species of fruit bat, Pteropus vampyrus, could be driven to extinction in Peninsular Malaysia at the current hunting rate, scientists have warned.

They say that around 22,000 of these bats, also known as “large flying fox”, are legally [...]

Washington, Aug 25 (ANI): Singer Jessica Simpson has called her pet dog Daisy a lesbian.

According to Us magazine, she posted on Twitter about her maltipoo: “Daisy and her best friend Bella back together again.”

And captioned a photo “Lesbian lovas forever!”

Meanwhile, the beauty is trying to get over her split with Tony Romo.

Simpson is presently [...]

Petaling Jaya, Aug. 25 (ANI): The story of former Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who is to be whipped in public for drinking beer, has caught international attention.

The news of Shukarno’s impending sentence has thrust her into the blog chats across Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Germany, Britain and the US, The Star reports.

CNN, BBC [...]

London, August 18 (ANI): Prostitutes from around the globe have flown in to Scotland in hope of seeking clients to cash in at the month-long Edinburgh Festival.

Women, apparently from as far as Brazil, the Philippines and Thailand, have jetted in the Scottish capital to provide services to festivalgoers.

They were said to have rented places [...]

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The U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday( Time was around 0130 hours of 11th August) that huge earthquake to the magnitude 7.7,was about [...]

New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in India on Friday on a five-day visit with the objective of deepening US-India ties.

Clinton will arrive in Mumbai on July 17 and proceed to New Delhi on July 19 where she will meet Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and External Affairs [...]

Beijing, July 10 (ANI): A moderate earthquake rocked southwest China Thursday evening, killing one person, injuring at least 336 and collapsing more than 18,000 homes, state media said.

The magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province’s Yao’an county, damaged another 30,000 homes, the Xinhua news agency said.

Thirty people suffered severe injuries, while the other 305 were [...]

Tehran, July 5 (ANI): Iran is set to use a travel advisory posted on the British Foreign Office’s website as evidence against a British Embassy employee in the political plot trial.

British embassy’s chief political analyst Hossein Rassam, 44, was accused of being a British agent provocateur behind last month’s post-election street protests, the Telegraph [...]

Washington, July 1 (ANI): A new fossil primate from Myanmar suggests that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, not Africa, as was earlier believed by researchers.

A major focus of recent paleoanthropological research has been to establish the origin of anthropoid primates (monkeys, apes and humans) from earlier and [...]

Dehradun, June 19 (ANI): Five more people on Friday were quarantined in Dehradun for showing swine flu like symptoms.

A couple and their three children, had just returned from a South Asian tour.

“We first went to Singapore, then to Malaysia and then via Thailand came to New Delhi on 17. My children complained of sore throat. [...]

C B Bhave, chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been elected chairman of the Asia- Pacific Regional Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) at the 34th Annual Conference of IOSCO being held at Tel Aviv, Israel.
IOSCO is recognized as the international standard setter for securities markets.
The members of the [...]