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Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar reform process ‘stalled’

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Wednesday (November 5) the country’s reform process has stalled. Suu Kyi warned the international community not to be too optimistic, and called on the United States to make a more objective assessment of the reality in Myanmar. Speaking at a news conference at the National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters in the capital of Yangon, Suu Kyi said she believes the U.S. and other western countries are serious about wanting to help reforms […]

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Obama, Republicans sound conciliatory note but battles loom

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama and his powerful U.S. Senate adversary struck a conciliatory tone on Wednesday, but Obama’s plans to proceed with new immigration rules foreshadowed a bumpy start to his relationship with a Republican-controlled Congress. Obama and Mitch McConnell, who will become majority leader when Republicans take charge in the Senate in January, signaled they hoped to get past a previously frosty relationship to pass legislation on priorities on which they can both agree. Republicans […]

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Pakistani police officer axes man to death over blasphemy

(Reuters) – A policeman in Pakistan hacked a man to death for allegedly making derogatory remarks about the companions of the Prophet Muhammad, police said, just two days after a Christian couple was lynched over blasphemy in the same province. The man, Tufail Haider, 55, was taken into custody late on Wednesday in the city of Gujrat after a group of people allegedly overheard him making the remarks, beat him up and handed over to […]

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Close enough not good enough for Jokowi’s cabinet picks

Author: Edward Aspinall, ANU (Courtesy East Asia Forum) — Indonesia’s new president, Joko Widodo (Jokowi) promised to bring a new spirit of reform to Indonesia. Indeed, he has offered nothing less than a ‘mental revolution’. In his first real test, the formation of cabinet, Jokowi seems to have gone for realpolitik over reform. What is striking about the new cabinet he announced on 26 October is how familiar it looks. It’s a cabinet with the […]

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Aquino pushes again for passage of Bangsamoro Basic Law

(Eagle News Service) — President Benigno S. Aquino III on Thursday pushed for the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law in Congress that would establish the Bangsamoro as a political entity. In his speech during the 2014 Philippines Development Forum on Bangsamoro in Davao City, President Aquino urged Davaoeños to make their voices hear so that the bill on Bangsamoro would be passed. “At this point, I believe all of us are duty-bound to make our […]

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Inflation slows anew to 4.3 percent in Oct 2014; price increase for food slows down

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News Service) — For second consecutive month, price increases for food slowed down pulling down the inflation rate to 4.3 percent this October, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). Food inflation recorded a 7.2 percent year-on-year growth in October 2014 compared to the previous month’s 7.8 percent. “Ample supply of meat, fish, and vegetable items in the market and easing of commodity prices helped reduce price pressures,” said Economic […]

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Are our academic Institutions ready for the ASEAN Integration?

Based on the 2014 ranking of top universities in Asia, National University of Singapore is at the no. 1 spot (with a score of 100%).  Ranking no. 7 is another university from Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University. Sadly, only one university from the Philippines made it to the top 100 list.  This is the University of the Philippines (UP) with a rank of 63 (and a score of 60.7).  Ateneo de Manila University was ranked […]

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Honda ordered to give Takata air bag papers to U.S. agency

(Reuters) – U.S. safety regulators ordered Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co Ltd (7267.T) on Wednesday to provide documents and answer questions under oath about potentially defective air bags installed in millions of recalled U.S. vehicles. The air bags were made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp (7312.T), which received a similar order last Thursday from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. For the past 18 months, Takata has been besieged by chronic, widespread problems with defective […]

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Tesla third-quarter loss doubles to $75 million

(Reuters) – Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) said its third-quarter loss nearly doubled from a year ago to $75 million, as manufacturing, sales and development expenses increased to meet rising demand. Revenue doubled to $852 million. The company delivered a record 7,785 Model S sedans in the quarter, most of them in North America. Research and development spending climbed as Tesla added a new dual-motor version of the Model S and readied the Model X […]

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Taylor Swift gives gloomy U.S. album sales a platinum shine

(Reuters) – Taylor Swift’s “1989,” the strongest pop turn for the longtime country singer, roared to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with the biggest opening week in a dozen years for the declining album sales industry. Backed by No. 1 hit “Shake It Off” and weeks of TV appearances, “1989” sold 1.3 million copies, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. “1989” not only goes platinum by selling over a […]

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