Monthly Archives: September 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday signed a small business bill into law to help small firms spur hiring and expansion, one move of the Obama administration’s package to accelerate the economic growth and job creation efforts. U.S. Congress on Sept. 23 passed a long-delayed bill that the Obama administration proposed to help small businesses … Continue reading »

Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba has been barred from public service for 18 years for allegedly having ties with a rebel group, the Colombian Public Ministry said Monday. The Public Ministry said that during investigations into the killing of FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) chief Raul Reyes, they found out she had ties with the … Continue reading »

Two people were killed and dozens injured in a gas explosion which destroyed three buildings in a suburb of the Belgian capital early Sunday. According to a statement released by local government, three houses in Schaerbeek were completely destroyed by the blast while nearby buildings were badly damaged. Two deaths were reported so far. Among … Continue reading »

A Pakistan International Airlines plane has left Sweden and a suspect was released after no explosives were found on board on Saturday, police said. The jetliner, a Boeing 777, was on its way from Canada to Pakistan with 273 people on board. It made a unscheduled landing earlier on Saturday at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport after … Continue reading »

A Mig-27 fighter of the Indian Air Force Friday crashed in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, said official sources. The crash took place at 08:25 a.m. during a routine sortie, just 40 km from Kalaikunda airbase, said the sources. The pilot of the combat aircraft ejected safely, said the sources.

Two soldiers were wounded following a clash with leftist rebels in southern Philippines early Friday, the military said. Government troops were conducting an anti-dengue fever advocacy campaign with local health officials in a village in Malapatan town, in Mindanao’s Sarangani province when some ten armed men believed members of the New People’s Army appeared and … Continue reading »

Mas Selamat Kastari, a member of a Southeast Asian militant Islamic organization, has been released from the Malaysian Internal Security Act (ISA). The Malaysian police said in a statement here on Friday that the man from Jemaah Islamiah has also been handed over to the Malaysian Immigration Department for deportation. Mohamad Fuzi Harun, Malaysian police … Continue reading »

Two of the seven victims kidnapped on Thursday in Southern Philippines have been released unharmed, officials said on Friday. “They were already released. We are working out others will also release soon,” Chief Superintendent Bienvenido Latag, regional director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters Friday afternoon. The victims came from Davao city … Continue reading »

The Philippine government on Friday secured a five-year 434 million U.S. dollar anti-poverty grant from the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), a statement of the U.S. state firm said. Aimed at reducing poverty through economic growth, the compact is intended to support reforms and investments to modernize the Bureau of Internal Revenue, expand and improve a … Continue reading »

The pro-government “multicolour- shirts” group will launch signature-collection campaigns against the move by coalition Bhumjaithai Party to propose the amnesty bill to parliament, the group’s core leader said on Friday. Multicolor-shirt core leader Tul Sitthisomwong said at a news conference held at the parliament that he decided to launch the campaign after learning that the … Continue reading »