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Tiananmen victim's father 'commits suicide' in China
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» The father of a 22-year-old man killed by Chinese soldiers during the 1989 crackdown on democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square has committed suicide, a support group said Monday.
Japan's Renesas ups chip outsourcing to Taiwan giant
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» Japan's Renesas Electronics said Monday it will boost the outsourcing of its chip production to Taiwan's TSMC, but it declined comment on reports it would cut about 30 percent of its staff.
Australia denies mishandling dead soldiers' bodies
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» Australia's defence chief Monday denied reports that bodies of the country's soldiers killed in Afghanistan were mishandled during repatriation, or that the corpse of an Afghan insurgent was mistreated.
Second PNG judge charged with sedition
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» Papua New Guinea police Monday charged a second top judge with sedition, following a supreme court ruling that Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's rise to power was unlawful.
Toru Hashimoto: Japan's would-be dictator
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» He admires cockroaches, once allegedly offered on air to impregnate a TV personality and openly admits to a lust for power.
Malaysia's Anwar seeks to strike out protest charges
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim applied Monday to strike out criminal charges that he took part in an illegal political rally last month and that could bar him standing in elections.
13 children among 19 dead in Qatar mall fire
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» A fire that erupted at a nursery in a huge Venice-themed shopping centre in the expat-dominated Qatari capital of Doha on Monday killed 19 people including 13 children, the interior ministry said.
Djokovic untroubled, Federer levels Connors record
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» Novak Djokovic's bid for an historic Grand Slam enjoyed the perfect French Open start on Monday as Roger Federer celebrated his 50th straight major with a record-equalling 233rd Grand Slam win.
Japan power firm urges PM to OK nuclear plant restart
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» The head of Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Company Monday urged the prime minister to quickly decide on restarting two nuclear reactors at its Oi plant to avoid summer power shortages.
Chavez notches up three million Twitter followers
AFP, Published on 29/05/2012
» Firebrand Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez now has more than three million followers on Twitter, making him the most popular Latin American politician on the site -- a milestone he celebrated on Monday.