The Star Potential in tourism, auto and retail industry | THERE is still room for growth in the tourism, auto and retail industries despite expectations of slower economic growth in the country and globally. | Reliance Pacific Bhd managing director (travel... (photo: GFDL / 663highland)
NZ Herald Michael Richardson: Oil prices conceal major power rift | High oil prices are bad for Asia-Pacific economies that rely on imported fuel. They stoke inflation, discontent, hardship and, in some places, instability. Never more so than now when the price of o... (photo: WN / james)
The Australian US help could save thousands of lives | ONE April day in 1991, the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand and the death toll rose to 13... (photo: US Navy file/PHAN Nicholas Morton) AidDisasterPhotosSocietyUS
The Australian It's time for an aid intervention | WHAT are we waiting for? Where now is liberal interventionism? | More than 100,000 people are dead after a cyclone in the Irrawaddy Delta and the UN has declared that up to 2 million people, deprive... (photo: U.S. Department of State / ) AidBurmaMillionPhotosUN
Orlando Sentinel Foodie paradise found: Penang PENANG, Malaysia - There's fresh crab, live from the tank, and bowls of miniature clams ready to pop out of their shells for sauteing in a spicy sauce with garlic and lim... (photo: Creative Commons / nourtarek) FoodMalaysiaPenangPhotosTourism
The Star Yet to grow our own food | MALAYSIA spends 70.4% more on food imports compared to the value of its exports. | We are a net importer of food and our major food imports are cereals (RM4.5bil), coco... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan) BusinessFoodMalaysiaPhotosTrade
Asia Times The case for invading Myanmar | By Shawn W Crispin | BANGKOK - With United States warships and air force planes at the ready, and over 1 million of Myanmar's citizens left bedraggled, homeless and sus... (photo: AP / ) AidBurmaDisasterPhotosUS
The Australian Yudhoyono faces test of faith | INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is standing atop an unstable new precipice of religious intolerance as his Government considers banning an allegedly heret... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi) IndonesiaPhotosPoliticsReligionSociety
