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Beijing/Tokyo, Aug 26 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that the Chinese and the Japanese are seeing each other a bit more positively than last year.

The survey, jointly sponsored by the China Daily and Genron NPO, a Japanese think tank, found that a majority of people in both countries believe Sino-Japanese relations are important.

The [...]

London, Aug 25(ANI): Former Australian cricketer Jeff Thomson has said that Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who is flying home for a rest, should not abandon his “sinking ship” but rather stay back and clear up the mess in England.

Thomson said that unless Ponting [...]

Sydney, Aug.24 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is unlikely to be evicted, nor is he likely to step aside after becoming only the second skipper from Down Under to lose back-to-back Ashes series in England, feels cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.

“This is not the end of Ponting’s captaincy. In another dispensation, his sacking would be [...]

Washington, July 16 (ANI): US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has once again highlighted that Pakistan is a terror safe haven and said that Al-Qaeda’s leadership is based in that country.

Clinton’s comments came a day before her significant visit to India, where she will be meeting the country’s leadership. The impending threat of terrorism and [...]

London, May 25 (ANI): Pakistan’s former president General (retired) Pervez Musharraf has bought a flat in the Edgeware Road neighbourhood where former British premier Tony Blair lives and Interior Minister Rehman Malik possesses a house, sources have said.

Malik’s flat was the venue [...]

Islamabad, May 9 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said he does not need the support of the United States to claim power in Pakistan.

“I have no intention to come into power with the support of the US or the Army,” The Nation quoted Sharif, as saying.

In an interview to a private [...]

Washington, May 2 (ANI): The Obama Administration is reaching out more directly than before to Pakistan Muslim League (N) chief Nawaz Sharif, main rival of President Asif Ali Zardari, as the US loses confidence in the Pakistani Government in wake of the relentless advance of the Taliban.

Some Obama Administration officials’ think that Sharif’s close ties [...]

Lahore, Apr.23 (ANI): The United States is finding convincing Pakistan that the internal threat posed by extremism is a bigger threat to it than India, a “tough sell”.

Delivering a lecture at the Harvard University, Central Command chief General David Petraeus said Islamabad must change its attitude towards New Delhi.

“The existential threat facing Pakistan is internal [...]

Tim Roemer, the former Democrat Congressman from Indiana and an ex-member of 9/11 Commission, will be the next US Ambassador to India, a prestigious US foreign policy magazine has said on its web post.
Roemer is currently the president of Centre for National Policy (CNP), a Washington-based think tank.
Besides heading the CNP, Roemer serves on the [...]

Washington, April 14 (IANS) Indian and Pakistani governments’ means of detecting, preventing and responding to Mumbai type incidents needs to be strengthened to reduce the vulnerability of their relations to them, two US analysts have suggested.
The Nov 26-29 terror attacks blamed on Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) ushered in a period of high tension [...]

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Sydney – Unemployment in Australia rose to 5.7 per cent in March from 5.2 per cent in January, official figures released Thursday showed.
It was the biggest monthly rise in joblessness in 18 years and took most analysts by surprise.
The Australia Institute, a private think tank, estimated the real rate of unemployment at 11.7 per cent [...]

WASHINGTON: Noting that Pakistan “is a thriving sanctuary” for both Afghan and al-Qaida militants operating in Afghanistan, a leading US think
tank says Washington needs to get Pakistan on board with its new Af-Pak strategy, though progress is nowhere near assured.
To give its strategy of negotiating with Afghan Taliban even a remote chance of success, “involvement [...]

Washington, April 7 (IANS) As the United States tries to sell Pakistan its plan of negotiating with Afghan Taliban, it will have to assure India that Washington can keep Pakistan and its militants in check, says a leading US think tank.
‘For the United States to make any headway getting Pakistan on board with its plan, [...]

Hyderabad, April 5 (IANS) Amid utter chaos in his Praja Rajyam Party (PRP), actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi Sunday defended his brother-in-law and PRP general secretary Allu Aravind, saying the allegations that he sold tickets for this month’s elections were ‘baseless’.
With dozens of leaders continuing to quit the party to protest lack of transparency in selection of candidates [...]

Which of the Mouse House’s family-friendly romps comes out on top?
We tend to think of Walt Disney Pictures as chiefly an animation studio — and with good reason — but the house Uncle Walt built has been churning out quality (and often highly profitable) live-action entertainment since the 1950s, something we were reminded of when [...]

London, Mar 7 (ANI): A Facebook group has seen more than 1,000 people joining it after it was set up to banish pop paedophile Gary Glitter from their town after he was spotted drinking in a seaside pub.

Glitter, 64, has according to residents in Herne Bay, Kent, been sighted several times around the town, and [...]

New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): Nearly half of the 938 people polled in four major Chinese cities have fallen victim to personal data abuse, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a government think tank, has said.

CASS after an 11-month study said about 42.5 percent of the residents of Beijing, Chengdu, Qingdao and Xi’an have [...]

Terror struck at the heart of cricket when masked gunmen attacked the bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Five cricketers, including Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan captain, and his deputy Kumar Sangakkara, received minor injuries. The attack also left six security men and two civilians dead.
Ijaz Butt, the [...]

Anisur Rahman Dhaka, Feb 24 (PTI) Bangladesh today sought intensified cooperation among the South Asian countries to fight terrorism, saying the Mumbai attacks showed that terrorists were “very good” in forming trans-national linkages. Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said that nothing short of the expected mutual partnership would enable South Asia to effectively face the growing [...]