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BANGUI: Nightfall in Bangui’s normally bustling streets brings an eery quiet to the capital of the Central African Republic, where authorities have enacted a curfew ahead of a possible rebel move on the city.

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:52AM

US Lawmakers still at odds on brink of fiscal cliff

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Monday 31 December 2012, 10:47AM

WASHINGTON: US lawmakers are returning to work on New Year’s Eve for the first time in more than 40 years in a final attempt to reach a deal to avert a fiscal calamity set to hit the world economy within hours.

Gang hits gem-cutting plant in Brazil, takes hostages

BRASILIA: Military police killed the leader of a gang that had spectacularly blasted its way into a gem-cutting plant Sunday, traded fire with police and made off with nine hostages who were later safely freed.

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:35AM

World waits to welcome New Year with a bang

SYDNEY: A wave of dazzling firework displays will sweep the world as local clocks strike midnight and herald the New Year tonight, with with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:31AM

Two tourists die in Phuket road crash

PHUKET: Two tourists, thought to be Russian, died on Saturday night (December 29) in Cherng Talay when they crashed their motorbike and a pickup truck ran over them.

Monday 31 December 2012, 10:04AM

Redfoo spotted party rocking in Hua Hin

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Monday 31 December 2012, 09:45AM

HUA HIN: Redfoo, one half of dance act LMFAO, of phenomenal global smash hit ‘Party Rocking’, was spotted on a Thai beach at the weekend.

Chavez suffers new post-op setback: VP

CARACAS: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has suffered a new setback after cancer surgery in Cuba, raising new fears about his political future, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday.

Monday 31 December 2012, 09:45AM

Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot: official

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been hospitalized after suffering a blood clot following an accident several weeks ago, her senior State Department aide Philippe Reines said Sunday.

Monday 31 December 2012, 09:02AM

Gang-rape victim's body back home in grief-stricken India

NEW DEHLI: The body of a gang-rape victim arrived back in New Delhi on Sunday after her death from sickening injuries in a Singapore hospital as India was engulfed by a mass outpouring of grief and anger.

Sunday 30 December 2012, 08:21AM

Booze hound actor Charlie Sheen opens bar in Mexico

LOS CABOS: US actor Charlie Sheen, who has a long history of hard partying and scandal, has a new night spot in Mexico -- his own, a local official said Saturday.

Sunday 30 December 2012, 08:19AM

26 injured in Macau-Hong Kong ferry collision

HONG KONG: Twenty-six people were injured on Saturday in a collision between a Hong Kong-bound passenger ferry and a buoy in Macau, authorities said.

Saturday 29 December 2012, 08:30PM

Phuket Sydictive megaparty announces arrival of first act

PHUKET: At 9.30pm last night (December 28), at a press conference held at Graceland Hotel in Patong, Sydictive chairman Dr Vorachat Petnunthawong made a statement to media present.

Saturday 29 December 2012, 08:21PM

Philippines seeks unity after birth control law signed

MANILA: President Benigno Aquino's government called for reconciliation on Saturday after a 'divisive' birth control act was signed into law despite bitter opposition from the influential Catholic church.

Saturday 29 December 2012, 02:37PM

Canada strips citizenship of alleged Nazi war criminal

OTTAWA: Canada has stripped citizenship from a Ukrainian-born man it is seeking to deport for alleged ties to a Nazi killing squad in World War II, the immigration ministry announced Friday.

Saturday 29 December 2012, 11:30AM

Australia legal challenge to Japan whaling moves closer

CANBERRA: Australia Saturday condemned Japan's annual whaling expedition as its hunting fleet steamed to the Southern Ocean, and said a challenge through the International Court of Justice should be heard in 2013.

Saturday 29 December 2012, 11:29AM

Indian gang-rape victim dies in Singapore

SINGAPORE: An Indian student whose savage gang-rape on a bus in New Delhi sparked mass protests across the country died on Saturday in a Singapore hospital after suffering severe organ failure.

Saturday 29 December 2012, 11:24AM

Alcohol banned at Phuket Sydictive megaparty

PHUKET: There will be no alcohol allowed inside the Sydictive Element party, said Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Choti Chavalviwat today after a meeting of police chiefs from every police station in Phuket, held at Kathu Police Station.

Friday 28 December 2012, 07:33PM

Two Brits caught in Phuket ‘ice’ bust

PHUKET: Two Britons, Billy David, 23, and Lee Cannon, 42, were arrested on Christmas Day (December 25) on charges of dealing in crystal methamphetamine (“ya ice”).

Friday 28 December 2012, 04:27PM

China launches rival GPS satellite system

BEIJING: China has launched commercial and public services across the Asia-Pacific region on its domestic satellite navigation network built to rival the US global positioning system.

Friday 28 December 2012, 02:28PM

North Korea is nuclear test-ready: US think-tank