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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Bangladesh Sun.com http://www.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/303b19022816233b/ en-us Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:25:31 -0400 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:25:31 -0400 30 Taking her first international flight to be with her husband in Australia, a young Indian woman Wednesday gave birth to a healthy baby boy on the flight from Hong Kong to Adelaide. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399635/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:03:19 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399635/cs/1/ Sports is what Australia excels in, and it is to sports that the government is now turning to deepen business links with India. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399626/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:02:40 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399626/cs/1/ Sport is what Australia excels in. Now the government is using the Australian Football League (AFL) to deepen sport and business links with India. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399606/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:01:01 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399606/cs/1/ Hospitals should avoid prescribing expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics for pneumonia to avoid developing drug-resistant super bugs, says a new study. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399465/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:01:06 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399465/cs/1/ Australia is likely to face a crippling shortage in information technology professionals unless policies are changed, a new study has found. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399449/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:00:32 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399449/cs/1/ Australians Wednesday marked the centenary of the birth of Don Bradman, the nation's best-known son and a cricketer many believe is the greatest sportsman who ever lived. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399389/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:00:35 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399389/cs/1/ Kathmandu, August 27 : Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Wednesday said he would go to India for his first political visit after taking charge of the PM office. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399748/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:02 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399748/cs/1/ New Delhi, Aug 27 : President of Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) Choummaly Sayasone, who is on a five-day visit to India to strengthen bilateral ties, was accorded a ceremonial reception by President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here today. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399650/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:00:02 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399650/cs/1/ Washington, Aug 27 : Pakistani Americans, who are known for their support for the Republicans, have made their presence felt at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399573/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:00:03 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399573/cs/1/ Islamabad, Aug 27 : If sources in Pakistan Petroleum Ministry are to be believed, Balochistan has demanded its share in the transit fee for the part of the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline to be passed through the province. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399536/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:56 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399536/cs/1/ Washington, Aug 27 : Pakistan can no longer hide its poor governance under the cover of accusations that its eastern and western neighbours were behind the internal strife it was passing through. And, in order to alter its foreign policy fortunes, Islamabad needs much more than former president Pervez Musharraf's departure from its political scene, says an analysis published in the Yale Global online on the prevailing politics in Pakistan. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399524/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:00:25 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399524/cs/1/ London, Aug 27 : American actors George Clooney and Brad Pitt hosted a fundraising dinner on the eve of the 65th Venice Film Festival in aid of the Not On Our Watch charity. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399522/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:00:17 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399522/cs/1/ Washington, Aug 27 : The biggest danger that the ouster of former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's ouster from political scene in Islamabad is that nostalgia will blind India and the US to the opportunities that political change might bring in from there, said an analysis published in the Yale Global online. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399508/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:01:14 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399508/cs/1/ Kathmandu, Aug 27 : The Central Working Committee (CWC) members of the Nepali Congress (NC) demanded that the party should call its 12th General Convention as soon as possible to reunite the party. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399506/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:01:09 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399506/cs/1/ Lahore, Aug 27 : Punjab Chief Minister and PML (N) president, Shahbaz Sharif has reportedly said that his party had the majority in his Punjab province and that anyone trying to "intervene" into its politics would be dealt with "by force". http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399497/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:51 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399497/cs/1/ Kathmandu, Aug 27 : A high-level government team headed by ministers of defense and physical planning is to monitor the execution of work at the flood-affected areas at Sunsari and supervise the rescue and relief efforts for Saptakoshi flood victims. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399486/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:30 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399486/cs/1/ Lahore, Aug 27 : After the lone Swiss money-laundering case against PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was withdrawn on Monday, the Swiss court hearing the case has handed the seized money, over 60 million dollars, to the Swiss government. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399382/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:00:10 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399382/cs/1/ Peshawar, Aug 27 : Pakistan security forces claimed to have killed a top Taliban commander in Swat last evening, though a spokesman for the extremist organisation maintained that he died when his pistol misfired. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399380/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:00:02 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399380/cs/1/ Islamabad, Aug 27 : Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam (JUI) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who has gained bargaining power vis- http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399378/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:02:00 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399378/cs/1/ Lahore, Aug 27 : Reacting to the recent press reports appearing in the British media that PPP Co-chairman and presidential hopeful Asif Ali Zardari had suffered from mental illness till last year, Pakistan's High Commissioner to London Wajid Shamsul Hasan has stated that Zardari was now "fit and keeping well". http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399373/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:01:14 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399373/cs/1/ Researchers have created a dressing with a blend of honey and seaweed extract, which is about to hit the international markets. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399413/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:00:59 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399413/cs/1/ Islamabad, Aug 27 : As a precautionary measure, the UN has fortified all its offices in Pakistan following security concerns and general terror threats, especially in the wake of high degree of insecurity prevailing in the country and fresh new spate of suicide attacks. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399386/cs/1/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:00:29 -0400 Bangladesh Sun.com http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/399386/cs/1/ Living on one dollar or less a day - that is how poverty is commonly measured around the world. But the Asian Development Bank thinks that in Asia a new benchmark is needed that reflects the region's ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266383/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:00:57 -0400 VOA http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266383/ MALAYSIA kicked off their Raja Muda Johor Cup beach soccer invitation campaign on a positive note trouncing Timor Leste 12-3 in a Group A match in Desaru yesterday. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266464/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:53:21 -0400 New Straits Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266464/ Australian troops deployed to East Timor for security duty may be returning home by the end of 2009, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao told the newspaper in an ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266473/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:53:15 -0400 Pacific Magazine http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266473/ BANGKOK (Reuters) - A deadline set by Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej for tens of thousands of protesters to leave his official compound passed on Thursday as the group's leaders vowed to stay un... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266463/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:39:43 -0400 The Star http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266463/ Jon BoyleMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev looked east on Thursday for support for Moscow's tough line over Georgia, which has inflamed relations with the West and prompted talk of ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266471/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:14:24 -0400 Swiss Info http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266471/ 8/27/2008, 7:51 p.m. EDT DENVER (AP) — A column of people three blocks long, led by members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, streamed from the Denver Coliseum on Wednesday in an anti-war pr... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266466/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:10:45 -0400 New Jersey Online http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266466/ 8/27/2008, 8:10 p.m. EDT RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A federal jury on Wednesday began deliberating whether a former Marine squad leader committed manslaughter in Iraq, marking the first time in wh... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266467/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:10:35 -0400 New Jersey Online http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266467/ Why can’t Asia get its act together? It’s an old question, of course, and one that has already launched a thousand and more conferences. Yet the academics on parade today reckon there migh... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266465/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:07:00 -0400 Japan Today http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266465/ Ten South Korean nationals on vacation tour in northern Philippines were killed on Wednesday when their van crashed onto a concrete wall, local media reported. Police said that according to initial in... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266468/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:53:24 -0400 People's Daily http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266468/ A spokesman of the Pakistani army Major Murad Wednesday claimed that the security forces bombed positions of Taliban in Bajaur tribal area and killed 37 militants. The News Network International (NNI)... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266469/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:53:21 -0400 People's Daily http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17266469/ KARACHI: Eight judges among dozens sacked by Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf were reappointed by the government Wednesday, a move condemned by many lawyers as a political stunt. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261379/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:25 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261379/ Columbia Pacific said it’s raised $135 million in a second round of financing for its Asian hospital construction fund. The fund, Columbia Asia, has raised a total of $325 million, according to... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261773/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:53:01 -0400 Puget Sound Business Journal http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261773/ COLOMBO - India clinched its first-ever one-day international series in Sri Lanka by winning the fourth match by 46 runs overnight (NZT) to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-five series.Choosing to bat a... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17262100/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:50:05 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17262100/ Brokers at the Karachi Stock Exchange. Karachi stocks fell over four per cent in early trade on Wednesday to their lowest level in more than two years as investors sold blue chips amid persistent poli... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17262092/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:32:58 -0400 Gulf News http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17262092/ Government forces have killed at least 44 militants in clashes in northwest Pakistan, and the stock exchange has taken drastic action to stop steady losses stemming from increased violence and politic... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17262096/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:27:54 -0400 Stuff http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17262096/ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.N. agencies in Islamabad have fortified their offices throughout the city with blast walls amid a heightened threat of terrorist activity. Offices for the World... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261484/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:20:14 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261484/ Abu Dhabi: Led by their head coach, Bruno Metsu, the UAE senior football team started their last phase of preparations for the final round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup at Mohammad Bi... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261930/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:32:34 -0400 Gulf News http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261930/ BANGKOK -- Thailand on Wednesday ordered thousands of protesters to leave the main government complex and issued arrest warrants for their leaders, ratcheting up the pressure to end the two-day stand-... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17262101/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:49:02 -0400 Inquirer http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17262101/ NEW DELHI: Bangladesh and India are set to compete for the same set of telecom investors with Bangladesh announcing auctions for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum close on the heels of India... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261143/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:51:07 -0400 Times of India http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261143/ (PPF/IFEX) - Hasan Abdullah, an anchor and reporter for Pakistan's leading television channel "Dawn News", was detained for six hours by officers of an intelligence agency on 26 August 2008 and was re... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261141/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:59:12 -0400 IFEX http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261141/ DUBAI: Eleven Asian workers, most of them Indians, died in their sleep in a fire that broke out in a cramped hostel in Dubai, reports said Wednesday. Another six workers were injured in the dawn blaze... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261922/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:28 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261922/ Colombo, 28 August, (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lanka Housemaid Rizana Nafeek’s case is coming up again on the 30th of this month at the High Court of Dawadmi. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261308/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:11:14 -0400 Asian Tribune http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17261308/ Pakistani rivals stepped up their campaign for next week's presidential election yesterday as political uncertainty deepened by a split in the ruling coalition drove stocks lower.Hopes for stability a... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257200/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:00:19 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257200/ MIAMI (AP) -- The NFL has maintained a steady number of black head coaches, while slightly increasing the ranks of minority players, earning a B+ in an annual diversity study.However, the league didn'... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257213/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:45:31 -0400 ABC Action News http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257213/ A St. Paul businessman who emigrated from Sri Lanka decades ago is developing a $125 million health care facility in his home country with the help of several Twin Cities professionals. Tariq Rauf, m... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17256764/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:51:50 -0400 Business Journal http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17256764/ Thailand issued arrest warrants yesterday for protest leaders besieging the main government complex, as authorities scrambled to find a peaceful end to the administration's most serious challenge yet.... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257202/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:19:38 -0400 Daily Star http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257202/ An expected deluge of Asian debt offers in September runs the risk of turning into a mirage as issuers grapple with a severe global crisis of trust. Credit investors are bracing for an explosion of o... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17254861/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:34:38 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17254861/ India's army is using 250 motor boats to try to rescue some of the people trapped by the flood waters of the Kosi River in Bihar State. Air force helicopters are dropping food, as the scale of the dis... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257012/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:18:25 -0400 VOA http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257012/ KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Dissidents in Malaysia's ruling party clamored for the prime minister to resign Wednesday after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim returned to Parliament with a sweeping el... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17256849/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:17:39 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17256849/ A Philippine Christian vigilante group warned yesterday that it will start executing 10 Muslim rebels for every civilian killed, as violence in the south of the country intensifies.The Reform Ilaga Mo... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257203/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:19:33 -0400 Daily Star http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257203/ House+ (AP) - BANGKOK, Aug. 27 (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING) Tension was heightened late Wednesday in Bangkok as some 15,000 antigovernment protestors besieging Thailand's Government House refused to l... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257218/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:02:42 -0400 Breitbart http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257218/ Government of Singapore Investment Corp. , has named Peter Meyer to head the venture. Meyer was most recently group executive vice president with Tokyo-based New City Corp. and has held executive pos... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17255666/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:54:54 -0400 Business Journal http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17255666/ The recent turmoil in Pakistan has only heightened western anxiety over the country’s nuclear weapons programme. Yet, thanks to security measures put in place during the nine-year rule of President ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257193/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:57:14 -0400 Financial Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257193/ Picture shows Anwar Zaheer Jamali Chief Justice of the high court of southern Sindh province of Pakistan (C) reading an oath to seven judges who were among dozens sacked by Pakistan's former president... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257201/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:19:41 -0400 Daily Star http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257201/ Tibetan activists plan to resume protest rallies in front of the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu on Friday even though Nepal’s new Maoist-led government is expected to treat demonstrators harshly.Nepa... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257194/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:57:11 -0400 Financial Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17257194/ A Thai court ordered thousands of anti-government protesters to leave the compound of the Prime Minister's offices and open up the surrounding streets they have blocked for two days. A judge read out... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251231/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:04:28 -0400 RTE http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251231/ HONG KONG - Who is the "iPhone Girl"? Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251240/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:07:06 -0400 Star Tribune http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251240/ PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A U.S. diplomat narrowly escaped an attempt on her life Tuesday when two men with AK-47s jumped in front of her armored vehicle and sprayed it with bullets, staging a brazen att... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251241/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:04:32 -0400 The Register-Guard http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251241/ Danny Hall is a former winner of TV quiz show The Weakest Link How can someone disappear without trace on a small island? That is the question nagging the family and friends of Danny Hall, a Britis... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251004/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:43:04 -0400 BBC http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251004/ BANGKOK, Thailand – A Thai court issued arrest warrants at police request Wednesday for nine leaders of the anti-government movement whose members are occupying the prime minister's compound in ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17250329/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:25:27 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17250329/ KATHMANDU, Aug 27 (IPS) - The period between 2002 and 2007, was marked with various political and economic changes in Nepal. As the government and the Maoist rebels fought a bloody war in the hinterla... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251245/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:57:55 -0400 IPS http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251245/ Anti-government protesters swarm around Government House in an action led by the People's Alliance for Democracy against the rule of Thai Prime Minister Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej in Bangkok. The... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17250854/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:37:26 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17250854/ Manama, Aug 27 (bna)-- Industry And Commerce Ministry Dr Hassan Fakhro Today Met The Ambassador Of The Philippines To Bahrain Eduardo Pablo Maglaya. http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251233/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:33:51 -0400 Bahrain News Agency http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251233/ Dissidents in the Malaysian governing party demanded the prime minister's resignation Wednesday after the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim returned to Parliament with a sweeping election victory. ... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251029/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:40:05 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251029/ Posted on: Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 09:01 CDT DOR BioPharma, Inc. (OTCBB: DORB) ("DOR" or the "Company"), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing products to treat the life-threatening si... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251049/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:04:09 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251049/ Karachi - Pakistan's stock brokers and government were negotiating on various market stabilization measures, including freezing prices at current levels till the turbulent political situation improves... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251229/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:54:18 -0400 Earth Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251229/ Dhaka - Thousands of people gathered at a clinic in western Bangladesh see a double-headed baby boy born to a farm worker, media reports said Wednesday. The mass circulation newspaper Ittefaq quoted m... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251247/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:54:15 -0400 Earth Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251247/ Offshore staff LONDON -- The Te Giac Trang appraisal well, the TGT-7X on block 16-1 in the Cuu Long basin offshore Vietnam, flowed at a combined maximum rate of approximately 8,100 b/d of oil from tw... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17250439/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:05:39 -0400 Offshore http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17250439/ COLOMBO - Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina hit their second back-to-back fifties and shared in a fourth-wicket stand of 143 off 141 balls to carry India to 258 all out off 49.4 overs in t... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251234/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:17:28 -0400 Khaleej Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251234/ The United Nations food agency today announced the launch of a joint venture with the employees of industrial giant Unilever, who will donate a percentage of their pay to help combat child hunger in P... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17249894/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:03 -0400 UN News Centre http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17249894/ Thousands of Thai riot police are tonight trying to disperse crowds of demonstrators gathered on the lawn in front of the prime minister's office after they stormed the gates in the latest anti-gove... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17249728/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:57:35 -0400 The Independent http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17249728/ ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Security forces clashed with militants across Pakistan's wild tribal belt Wednesday, trading fire with insurgents in a health center and repelling a major assault on an out... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251242/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:12:56 -0400 Denver Post http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17251242/ Brunei will be sending a team of officers from the country's investment arm, the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), to explore opportunities in the Malaysian southern Iskandar economic corridor, Malaysia... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17250232/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:02:15 -0400 People's Daily http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17250232/ City of Industry, CA --(www.FinancialNewsUSA.com)-- 08/27/2008 - Entertainment industry news provided by Financial News USA (OTC: FNWU). Archer Entertainment Media and Communications (Other OTC: AEMC)... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17245869/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:55:42 -0400 Financial News USA http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17245869/ ANNIE SWEENEY Crime Reporter Herbert Balentine fought a war -- and lost a daughter and a grandson to violence four years ago. On Monday night, the Vietnam vet was shot and killed in the Grand Crossing... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246690/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:26:37 -0400 Chicago Sun-Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246690/ Thailand issued arrest warrants Wednesday for protest leaders besieging the main government complex, as authorities scrambled to find a peaceful end to the administration's most serious challenge yet.... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246698/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:10:21 -0400 Breitbart http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246698/ The outlawed Harkatul Mujahideen, which played a key role during militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1990s, has resurfaced as the Al Hilal Trust in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, media report s... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246695/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:17:35 -0400 Hindustan Times http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246695/ BANGKOK, Aug. 27 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Thailand's Criminal Court approved Wednesday an arrest warrant for nine leaders of the People's Alliance for Democracy who led massive demonstrators to seize and o... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246700/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:10:15 -0400 Breitbart http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246700/ Pakistan and Japan have reiterated their desire to further enhance and broaden bilateral cooperation in the areas of trade, economy and particularly defense, official Associated Press of Pakistan repo... http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246482/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:02:44 -0400 People's Daily http://story.bangladeshsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/17246482/