China export growth beats estimates

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:34:22 GMT

China reported 45.7 per cent growth in exports for February from a year earlier, providing fresh evidence of a robust recovery in an economy poised to overtake Japan in size

New law bars Suu Kyi from election

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:19:28 GMT

Burma has published new election laws that in effect deny Aung San Suu Kyi, the imprisoned opposition leader and Nobel laureate, any future formal political role in the country

Gunmen attack US aid agency in Pakistan

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:12:54 GMT

Suspected Islamist militants have attacked the office of a US-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan with a bomb and gunfire, killing 5 people, police say

Indonesia confirms killing of Bali terror suspect

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:34:29 GMT

Indonesian police have killed a most-wanted Islamist terror suspect in a shoot out capping a series of raids against a new militant network ahead of a visit next week by US President Barack Obama

Dubai World debt talks ‘making progress’

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:09:36 GMT

British minister optimistic about restructuring conglomerate’s $26bn debts despite specific terms yet to be tabled, as creditors upbeat about avoiding a ‘haircut’ on principal

Dalai Lama voices support for Uighurs

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:54:23 GMT

The exiled Tibetan leader expressed solidarity and support for the Muslim people of western China’s Xinjiang region, which was hit by bloody riots last year, saying they had suffered ‘increased oppression’

Call for action on speculation rules

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:16:19 GMT

Germany and France are stepping up pressure for urgent EU action to tighten regulation in sovereign debt markets – in particular of credit default swaps – in the wake of the Greek crisis

Iran discloses Afghan role in guerrilla leader’s capture

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:02:08 GMT

Iran’s president acknowledges for the first time that Afghan and Pakistani intelligence helped his government to hunt down the leader of an ethnic opposition movement

Turkey’s IMF financing talks end

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:44:00 GMT

Turkey’s two-year saga of on-off negotiations with the International Monetary Fund ended as prime minister says country can “stand on its own feet”

Ashton hits back at her critics

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:28:30 GMT

Lady Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, hit back at her critics, by blaming rivalry among the EU’s institutions for slow progress in establishing the bloc’s new diplomatic service