Indonesia’s energy minister made suspect in graft case
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency said on Wednesday the energy minister was a suspect in a case involving extortion and abuse of authority, the latest in a string of cases that have tainted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s fina…
Australia to sign civil nuclear deal with India; imposes Russia ban
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday he hoped to sign a deal this week to sell uranium to India for peaceful power generation, but halted uranium exports to Russia over Moscow’s role in Ukraine.
Thailand picks team for talks with Muslim rebels
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand will assemble a peace negotiating team by the end of the week to revive talks with Muslim separatists whose insurgency in the south of the country has cost thousands of lives in the past decade, the military junta said on W…
Anonymous research firm says targeted China’s Tianhe for public good
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Secretive stock research firm Anonymous Analytics, which has publicly accused China’s Tianhe Chemicals of falsifying financial statements, said it published the report for the public good, not money.
Malaysia Airlines tweaks its ‘Bucket List’ sales campaign
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia Airlines has changed the wording of an online contest called “My Ultimate Bucket List” after Internet users derided the campaign as insensitive following two disasters suffered by the airline this year that claimed 537…
Fukushima workers sue Tepco over unpaid wages, reliance on contractors
IWAKI Japan (Reuters) – A group of Fukushima workers on Wednesday sued Tokyo Electric for unpaid wages in a potentially precedent-setting legal challenge to the utility and its reliance on contractors to shut down a nuclear plant destroyed by the indus…
Ramirez removed as PDVSA head, oil minister in Venezuela shake-up
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday pushed Rafael Ramirez from his twin posts as oil minister and a chief of state oil firm PDVSA in a cabinet shake-up that opposition critics said fell short of the overhaul needed to reverse the OPEC nation’s economic decline.
Crew of doomed South Korea ferry drank beer while awaiting rescue: media
SEOUL (Reuters) – Some crew of a ferry that capsized in April in South Korea’s worst maritime disaster in 44 years drank beer while waiting for rescue, one of them told a court, in an admission likely to fuel anger at their conduct during the final mom…
Ukraine steelmen hold their ground as frontline marches towards port
MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – The war is being fought just over the hills. Civilians have started to flee the city. But the men of the vast Ilyich iron and steel works in the Ukrainain port of Mariupol are still in place, pouring molten steel, running t…
Ukraine steelmen hold their ground as frontline marches towards port
MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – The war is being fought just over the hills. Civilians have started to flee the city. But the men of the vast Ilyich iron and steel works in the Ukrainain port of Mariupol are still in place, pouring molten steel, running t…
