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Insight: China wrestles Mao’s ghost after official’s divisive fall

YoopyaApr 2, 20120

(Reuters) – Former Red Guard leader Tang Dahua says memories of the fanatical bloodshed that tore apart the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing return to

Suu Kyi’s party claims landslide win in Myanmar vote

YoopyaApr 2, 20120

By Aung Hla Tun and Andrew R.C. Marshall YANGON (Reuters) – Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi claimed on Monday a by-election landslide for her party,

Clashes between Yemeni army, militants kill 30

YoopyaMar 31, 20120

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked militants staged a surprise attack on a Yemeni army base in the south Saturday, setting off clashes that left 30

Cruise ship heads for Malaysian port after engine fire

YoopyaMar 31, 20120

By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) – A cruise ship temporarily stranded off the south Philippines coast after a fire disabled engines, injuring five crew, is

Exclusive: China Communist Party scandal triggered by British man’s death: source

YoopyaMar 30, 20120

(Reuters) – The scandal shaking China’s ruling Communist Party just as it readies for leadership change was triggered by claims that the wife of one

Syrian army must pull back first under Annan plan

YoopyaMar 30, 20120

By Erika Solomon and Douglas Hamilton BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian artillery hit parts of Homs city and at least five people were killed in clashes

Feature – Syrian suspicions swirl over Iranian hand in Assad’s repression

YoopyaMar 29, 20120

By Jonathon Burch ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) – The Syrian rebel fighter pulled a small copper-plated bullet from his trouser pocket, offering it as supporting evidence

Tibetan lights self on fire at anti-China protest

YoopyaMar 28, 20120

March 26, 2012 — NEW DELHI (AP) — A Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a demonstration in the Indian capital

Investors grapple with higher wages in “low-cost” China

YoopyaMar 26, 20120

(Reuters) – U.S. lawnmower manufacturer Briggs & Stratton is used to worrying about turnover – just not the human kind. Like many foreign investors in

Exclusive: Shell scrambles to pay huge bill for Iran oil

YoopyaMar 26, 20120

(Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is struggling to pay off $1 billion that it owes Iran for crude oil because European Union and U.S. financial