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On its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York, the Titanic rammed into an iceberg late on April 14, 1912, and sank in just over two hours. »News in Nepal: Fast, Full & Factual
Poetry? Yes, please! UJJWALA MAHARJAN When I found out that we had to study poetry for a whole year for my undergraduate course, I was super excited. I was the kind of girl who, as soon as she got new course books at the beginning of the academic school year, would gobble up every poem in the book before classes even started.Informations et actualité de la Chine, asie - QuestionChine.net
Le 28 mars, le Conseil des Affaires d’état a approuvé la création à Wenzhou d’une zone d’expérimentation de réformes financières, dont le but est double : 1) Tester la possibilité d’autoriser légalement les capitaux privés à créer des sociétés d’investissement - ils le font déjà massivement dans « l’économie grise », dont le flou autorise tous les abus -. Avec pour objectif d’augmenter la masse des financements disponibles pour les petites et moyennes entreprises et les coopératives rurales ; 2) Expérimenter la liberté – aujourd’hui strictement contrôlée - accordée aux particuliers d’effectuer, sous certaines conditions, des investissements directs à l’étranger, leur ouvrant ainsi la possibilité de retours plus lucratifs que ceux des banques chinoises, dont les taux d’intérêt sont presque toujours inférieurs à (…)AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
May 09, 2012 Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), Japan's biggest utility and the owner of the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant, will be taken over by the government after the country's trade minister on May 9 approved a $12.5 billion capital injection.RIA Novosti
Location of Assam within India The following article about the expanding operations of the CPI(Maoist) into northeast India originally appeared at A critique of the times . Reports of Maoists mobilising people against dams in Arunachal Pradesh, shortly after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had warned about ultra-Left presence in Assam, can only mean that policymakers both in New Delhi and the North-East can no longer ignore the presence of the Reds in the region. The situation in the state is increasingly worrying, especially now that captured Maoist members have reportedly confessed links to elements in the North-East. Gogoi’s claims were not backed by reports from the ground. All he said was that two officials – one from the Assam Students Youths Organisation (ASYO) and the other from the Assam Chah Janajati Suraksha Samiti (ACJSS) – had been nabbed by security forces in Orissa’s jungles.
Revolution in South Asia
Bien que le scénario des frappes militaires sur l'Iran n'est jamais été totalement exclu, celui-ci refait régulièrement surface à la une de l'actualité, principalement en fonction d'un agenda diplomatique judicieusement choisi. Dernier exemple en date, les déclarations de plusieurs responsables israéliens au début de ce mois de novembre qui, à l'instar du président Shimon Peres, estimaient que la solution militaire à la question nucléaire iranienne était dorénavant plus proche que la solution diplomatique. Le choix de ces déclarations, à la veille de la remise par l'AIEA de son dernier rapport sur les activités nucléaires de Téhéran, n'est pas anodin.
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DISSONANCE - ДИССОНАНС
samedi, mars 24, 2012 - 01:00 L’Inde Delhi a voté jeudi en faveur d’une résolution de l’ONU exhortant le gouvernement sri-lankais à enquêter sur les violations des droits de l’Homme et du droit international pendant la guerre. New Delhi en a toutefois dilué la teneur, afin de ne pas froisser son voisin et partenaire stratégique au sud.
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Udvada: Parvez Damania, offers a glimpse into the Parsi community through a photography exhibition in the cityBy Reuters UK U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday nominated a Korean-American known for work fighting HIV/AIDS in impoverished countries to lead the World Bank, a job emerging economies are contesting for the first time. (12:35 pm) By Reuters
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The location of legal activist Chen Guangcheng remains uncertain following his escape from house arrest in the Shandong village of Dongshigu, with widespread speculation pointing to the US embassy in Beijing. He is reported to be somewhere “100% safe”, but the same cannot be said of friends, family and supporters, against whom reprisals are either feared or already apparently underway. Chen is said to have prepared for months for his escape, spending more and more time in bed so that

