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AFPHARARE — President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace, has flown to Singapore for a medical check-up after injuring herself and possibly dislocating her hip, a report said on Sunday.The privately owned Standard newspaper quoted "impeccable" sources as saying that Grace "slipped and fell in the bathroom at (the Mugabes') Borrowdale house and is suspected to have suffered a dislocated hip".George

Asia Sentinel, 7 Apr 2011From a microeconomic perspective, one method of identifying an asset-price bubble is to spot self-fulfilling or reflexive dynamics underway. In China today, higher prices in many of its asset markets are generating demand more rapidly than supply. Such dynamics are rarely stable and create situations prone to rapid corrections.Consider property markets in which

Australia Network News, 5 Apr 2011The Japanese government will toughen inspection of marine products after increased levels of radiation were found in some fish caught near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.Elevated levels of radioactive iodine have been detected in young launce fish found off Ibaraki, about 140 kilometres south of the nuclear plant.The government has advised that the public

Reuters Africa, 31 Mar 2011TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog suggested Japan consider widening an evacuation zone around a stricken nuclear plant as French President Nicolas Sarkozy was due to arrive on Thursday, the first leader to visit since a devastating earthquake and tsunami sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.Concerns over radiation spreading beyond Japan

The Malaysian Insider, 30 Mar 2011KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — The sex video implicating Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim could end up strengthening his position if he can convince Malaysians he is not the man in the recording, a leading US newspaper said today.The internationally distributed Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said that if the opposition leader is successful in his denial, it will reinforce the

Daily Times, 28 Mar 2011Only a few months ago investors were pouring into Indian equities, seeing the country as a promising high-growth market and talking about the “India story”. But now the mood looks to be on the turn. The government’s lack of progress on economic reform, massive corruption scandals including the cut-price sale of telecoms licences, and eight interest rate hikes to try to

Business Spectator, 17 Mar 2011SINGAPORE - The company at the centre of a nuclear reactor crisis following the biggest earthquake in Japan's recorded history has had a rocky past in an industry plagued by scandal.In 2002, the president of the country's largest power utility was forced to resign along with four other senior executives, taking responsibility for suspected falsification of nuclear

Reuters, 16 Mar 2011(Reuters) - Foreign bankers are fleeing Tokyo as Japan's nuclear crisis worsens, scrambling for commercial and charter flights out of the country and into other major cities in the region.BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered and Morgan Stanley were among the banks whose staff have left since Friday's earthquake and tsunami, and now a nuclear plant disaster, according to industry

CNBC, 15 Mar 2011SINGAPORE - Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan's earthquake-crippled nuclear plant may contaminate food and water resources, with children and unborn babies most at risk of possibly developing cancer.Experts said any exposure to radioactive materials has the potential to cause various kinds of cancers, with higher levels of radiation seen as more dangerous. Full

Haaretz.com, 15 Mar 2011Panic swept Tokyo on Tuesday after a rise in radioactive levels around an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant north of the city, causing some residents to leave the capital and others to stock up on food and supplies.Several embassies advised staff and citizens to leave affected areas, tourists cut short vacations and multinational companies either urged staff to leave or

Dailypress.com, 4 Mar 2011A former commanding officer of the USS Enterprise who faces possible punishment because of lewd videos shown to the crew has lost his job as head of a Singapore-based logistics group.Rear Adm. Ron Horton, commander, Logistics Group, Western Pacific, was promptly relieved of command on Thursday by Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, commander of the U.S. Pacific fleet.Walsh said he

Africa Review, 3 Mar 2011Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe Thursday left the country for Singapore for yet another medical check-up, further fuelling speculation about his health.Celebrating his 87th birthday on Saturday, President Mugabe admitted that his body was “spent” but insisted he still had political ideas of a young man.His spokesman George Charamba was quoted saying the veteran ruler had

Democratic Voice of Burma, 3 Mar 2011An investigation in the Maldives has implicated the Burmese military and a number of private companies in an $US800 million money-laundering scam involving the sale of Maldivian cut-price oil.Ships carrying the oil from Singapore, which had been channeled through the two companies, had records demonstrating that they embarked but never arrived in the Indian

Asia Sentinel, 28 Feb 2011Top Chinese officials have declared that there can be no limit to the expansion of Beijing's nuclear arsenal amid growing regional fears that it will eventually equal that of the United States with profound consequences for the strategic balance in Asia.Records of secret US-China defence consultations, leaked to WikiLeaks and provided to Asia Sentinel, have revealed that

Project Syndicate, 21 Feb 2011SINGAPORE – The Chinese are everywhere. Or, more accurately, Chinese money is everywhere, thanks particularly to the China Development Bank (CDB) and the China Export-Import Bank. As the two institutions responsible for all Chinese overseas financing, they are making waves around the world.According to The Financial Times, Chinese lending in 2008-2010 surpassed World

The Korea Times, 15 Feb 2011North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s second eldest son Kim Jong-chul, 31, was spotted by a South Korean TV camera crew in Singapore, Monday.KBS showed video footage of him Tuesday waiting in line at a concert hall to see a performance by Eric Clapton, the famous British rock singer.The footage showed Kim accompanied by dozens of men and women.Separate shots showed him

Reuters Africa, 13 Feb 2011HARARE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for a medical review after undergoing a cataract operation there last month but is expected to come home before his birthday next week, state media reported on Sunday.Mugabe, one of Africa's longest serving leaders who turns 87 on Feb. 21, last month dismissed as "naked lies" media reports

AFPAsia must prepare for millions of people to flee their homes to safer havens within countries and across borders as weather patterns become more extreme, the Asian Development Bank warns."Asia and the Pacific is particularly vulnerable because of its high degree of exposure to environmental risks and high population density. As a result, it could experience population displacements of

AFPSINGAPORE — Widening imbalances across and within countries are sparking tensions which threaten to derail the fragile global economic recovery, the IMF chief said Tuesday.Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned that these tensions could lead to rising protectionism, social and political instability and even spark war."While the recovery is underway

Times LIVE, 24 Jan 2011ZIMBABWE'S 86-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, has denied he has been gravely ill and described reports he underwent surgery in Malaysia as "naked lies".On his return from his annual vacation, Mugabe said he had been in Singapore, not Malaysia. Full storyRelated:President Robert Mugabe is back - The ZimbabweanPresident Scoffs at Ill Health Talk - allAfrica.comMugabe