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Giving migrant workers a voice
| I was tuned in to dzMM a few days ago and the public service program hosts were elated to announce that they had just come from the airport where they fetched a group of women OFWs from Dubai. The w... (photo: WN / Dominic Canoy)
Anti-poverty campaigner and rock star Sir Bob Geldof listens to a question during a press conference in Athens, on Monday, April 10, 2006. Geldof, a candidate for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, received an award from the Greek branch of Doctors of the World.
Africa   Aid   Humanitarian   Hunger   Photos  
 The Independent 
Bob Geldof: 'Who says aid doesn't work?'
| Bob Geldof sat uncomfortably in a vast field of igneous rocks scattered apparently at random among the sere grass. But the rocks had been placed deliberately on the volcanic soil of the great platea... (photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis)
Korean teenagers walk along the white sandy beach in Samal Island, Davao del Norte, Philippines as seen on this April 25, 2009 file photo.  Malaya 
Visitor arrivals inch up 4% in first 10 months of the year
| Tourist arrivals for the first ten months of 2008 reached 2.6 million reflecting a 4 percent growth over the same period last year. | Koreans make up 20 percent of total arrivals followed by balikba... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
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Kingfisher airlines logo in ticketing window at Pune airport, India  The Times Of India 
Kingfisher pilot sets off hijack alarm by mistake
MUMBAI: A Kingfisher flight from Hong Kong sounded a hijack alarm just while it made a landing at Mumbai airport on Tuesday evening. It was later clarified though that the alarm was accidentally trigg... (photo: WN / Geeta)

Airlines   Hijack   Mumbai   Photos   Pilot  
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Mobile phone - cell phone The Times Of India
Handsets without unique IDs go dead
NEW DELHI: After the government banned the use of handsets without unique identity numbers for security reasons, around 17 to 25 million mobile subscribers owning such ph... (photo: WN / Geeta)

Consumer   Delhi   Mobile Phone   Photos   Security  
Portugal's Primer Minister, Jose Socrates, delivers his speech during the Inaugural Session of the New European Treaty at the Belem Tower in Lisbon, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. The Lisbon treaty is designed to give a more influential say in world affairs for the European union, after years of wrangling within the union bloc . Al Jazeera
Lisbon Treaty comes into force
| The European Union has hailed the start of a new era after its Lisbon reform treaty went into force, carrying with it the bloc's hopes of becoming a stronger player on ... (photo: AP / Alvaro Barrientos)

Defence   EU   Economy   Lisbon Treaty   Photos  
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought hard-line clerics to power, in Tehran on Tuesday Feb, 10, 2009. Daily Star Lebanon
Iran lashes out at nuclear partner Russia over IAEA vote
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Wednesday, December 02, 2009 | - Powered by | Jay Deshmukh and Hiedeh Farmani  | Agence France Presse  |   | TEHRAN:... (photo: AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian)

IAEA   Iran   Nuclear   Photos   Russia  
Myanmar women, who sell fish, wait for customers in a market on outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday Jan. 29, 2009 The Star
WTO urged to spin off fishing pact to protect seas
| GENEVA (Reuters) - Marine scientists warned the World Trade Organisation on Tuesday that the world's seas were in peril and called for a new WTO deal to discourage over... (photo: AP / Khin Maung Win)

Environment   Fishing   Industry   Photos   WTO  
 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran speaks at Columbia University, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Spencer Platt, Pool) cg1 The Star
Ahmadinejad says West cannot isolate Iran
| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday the West could not isolate Iran over its nuclear activities. | "Talking about isolating Iran (o... (photo: AP/Spencer Platt, Pool)

Energy   IAEA   Iran   Nuclear   Photos  
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