Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday he is considering sending personnel to Afghanistan for land-based activities.''We could be involved in land-based activities in Afghanistan if the conditions there enable us to deploy. I'm always considering such a possibility," Fukuda
TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday he is considering sending personnel to Afghanistan for "land-based activities."
Afghanistan supplies virtually all of the world's illegal opium. Last year, the country's drug trade was a $4 billion business, half of which alone was produced in the south where the fighting against the Taliban insurgency is the fiercest.
Getting Afghanistan to rid itself of poppy is a pillar of U.S. policy there, because the Taliban use profits from opium as a source of revenue. For Afghans themselves, however, feelings about poppy are conflicted: It's harmful to their country
Peter Spiege reports in the LA Times, from Singapore:A senior Chinese general insisted Saturday that Beijing's military buildup was solely for self-defense, as he sought to assure a gathering of Asian defense officials that China was not seeking to dominate
From AP, via the LA Times:A military transport helicopter crashed in China's earthquake-devastated south-central region with 14 people aboard, the official news agency said today.The New China News Agency's report gave no word on any survivors or casualties. The report
Salaries and wages of labourers in the private sector companies will be transferred through banks operating in the UAE on a monthly basis in the context of organizing the affairs of labourers working...Continue to the full story at www.dubaichronicle.com
There will be no more free parking at Bur Juman as the mall on Sunday imposed parking charges on an hourly basis.It will now cost Dh20 per hour from 6am to 6pm, but shoppers spending Dh 100 or more...Continue to
Beirut - Lebanese flooded the streets of Beirut on Sunday for the second annual Run for Peace. The marathon consists of a 5-kilometer students' race and a 21-kilometer international half-marathon, and is open to athletes of all nationalities.
A special police team, including Intelligence officials and 'Q' branch of Tamil Nadu police, who visited Melur to enquire about the call, found that the complaint had been lodged due to a 'misunderstanding' of what the caller, a teenager from
Amid tight security, Telgi was taken to the Parappana Agrahara central jail from the railway station here, police said. His shifting here comes after a court ruling.
The water release would benefit 15000 acres of land in Cumbum area, official said. Water would also be released from the Vaigai dam this evening where the level stood at 70ft(max 71ft) ,the officials said. They said 941 cusecs would
In a statement here today, she asked the Centre to consider the welfare of the people and drop any proposal on hiking the fuel prices, thus towing the Left parties' line, which have also been opposing hiking fuel prices. The
In a poem in DMK mouthpiece "Murasoli", titled "This is the birthday message," Karunanidhi, who will turn 85 on Tuesday, said the project augured well for the prosperity of the state and requested those against it to not to "stall
According to police, Benandit (28), his sister Pravinsha (44) and her daughters Priyanka (9), Diayana (7) were travelling from Tirunelveli to Tuticorin to attend a family function when the mishap occurred. Benandi, Priyanka and Diayana died on the spot while
For Manibalan, fate dealt him a cruel hand when his family lost everything they had in the 2004 tsunami. His father, a fisherman, became an alcoholic after the disaster and his mother fell sick, according to family sources. Undaunted he
June 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) trade unions express their concern over the efforts taken by the authorities to get a bill presented to the parliament this week and get it passed as an act on the
