http://www.mail.com/locations/316-southeast-asia.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/316-southeast-asia.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861256-australian-general-key-us-army-post.html FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii (AP) — Maj. Gen. Richard Burr salutes with his palm facing out, like he's shielding his eyes from the sun. He wears a wide-brimmed felt "slouch hat" with a brown and green camouflage uniform. The two-star general in the Australian Defence Force stands out amid the American soldiers donning berets and green and beige fatigues at the U.... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861256-australian-general-key-us-army-post.html 2013-02-01T13:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861008-oil-slips-closer-to-97-ahead-us-jobs-report.html The price of oil slipped to near $97 a barrel on Friday after figures showed weak growth in China's manufacturing sector and as investors awaited a key U.S. jobs report. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for March delivery was down 32 cents to $97.17 a barrel time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 45 ce... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1861008-oil-slips-closer-to-97-ahead-us-jobs-report.html 2013-02-01T11:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1860948-international-literary-festival-opens-myanmar.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The latest first for fast-reforming Myanmar — its first international literary festival — is putting the spotlight on dozens of the country's authors, a number of whom once spent time in prison for their writings. The Irrawaddy Literary Festival, which runs from Friday through Sunday, comes as Myanmar relaxes its censorship rules, b... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1860948-international-literary-festival-opens-myanmar.html 2013-02-01T09:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861170-hillary-clinton-takes-rest-weird-that.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan for 2013 was simple. She'd embark on an epic swansong around the world as secretary of state, a dizzying itinerary of east-west and north-south flights that would take her past 1 million miles in the air at the helm of American diplomacy and perhaps break her own record of 112 countries visited while in the ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1861170-hillary-clinton-takes-rest-weird-that.html 2013-02-01T07:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1860966-cambodians-mourn-king-funeral-procession.html PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thousands of mourners accompanied a gilded chariot carrying the body of former King Norodom Sihanouk -- the dominant figure of modern Cambodia -- in a funeral procession Friday to a cremation ground next to the palace where he was crowned more than 70 years ago. His body had been lying in state at the Royal Palace after being f... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1860966-cambodians-mourn-king-funeral-procession.html 2013-02-01T05:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1858194-asia-stock-markets-mixed-us-jobless-data.html BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Friday after a weak jobs report from the U.S. unnerved some investors, although losses were stanched by Wall Street's overall sterling performance for January. Japan's Nikkei 225 index, meanwhile, was once again energized by the yen's continued descent against the dollar. It rose 0.4 percent to 11,177.33. On T... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1858194-asia-stock-markets-mixed-us-jobless-data.html 2013-02-01T02:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1858206-oil-prices-stay-98-ahead-us-jobs-data.html Oil prices hovered near $98 a barrel Thursday, close to four-month highs, as traders waited for more economic indicators from the U.S. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for March delivery was down 29 cents to $97.65 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 37 cents to finish at $97.94 per barrel on th... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1858206-oil-prices-stay-98-ahead-us-jobs-data.html 2013-01-31T11:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1858734-vietnam-deports-us-activist-held-9-months.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Vietnamese-American accused of conspiring to overthrow Vietnam's communist government smiled broadly as he reunited with his family after he was deported back to the United States. Nguyen Quoc Quan, who had been detained for nine months, was greeted by his wife, children and other family members, who carried balloons and placed leis a... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1858734-vietnam-deports-us-activist-held-9-months.html 2013-01-31T09:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858238-vietnam-rage-growing-loss-land-rights.html KIM SON, Vietnam (AP) — Faced with a group of farmers refusing to give up their land for a housing project, the Communist Party officials negotiating the deal devised a solution: They went to a bank, opened accounts in the names of the holdouts and deposited what they decided was fair compensation. Then they took the land. The farmers, angry at the sum an... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858238-vietnam-rage-growing-loss-land-rights.html 2013-01-31T08:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1855528-asia-stocks-fall-us-4q-contraction.html BANGKOK (AP) — An unexpected contraction in the U.S. economy at the end of 2012 sent Asian stock markets into retreat Thursday. The U.S. economy shrank in the fourth quarter for the first time since mid-2009, hurt by big cuts in defense spending, falling exports and sluggish growth in company stockpiles, the government reported Wednesday. That put the bra... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1855528-asia-stocks-fall-us-4q-contraction.html 2013-01-31T01:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1857996-monkeys-attack-7-people-east-indonesian-village.html MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — A mob of wild monkeys has gone on a rampage in a village in eastern Indonesia, entering houses and attacking residents. Seven people were injured, including one who is in critical condition. Ambo Ella, a spokesman for Sidendeng Rappang District in South Sulawesi province, says the surprise attack by about 10 monkeys happened in ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1857996-monkeys-attack-7-people-east-indonesian-village.html 2013-01-31T00:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855896-borneo-elephants-dead-toll-rises-to-13.html KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities found remains of another three endangered Borneo pygmy elephants, deepening a mystery surrounding at least 13 such deaths this month. The wildlife department in Malaysia's Sabah state is bracing for the possibility of finding more dead elephants in the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve, where an unknown number ... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1855896-borneo-elephants-dead-toll-rises-to-13.html 2013-01-30T23:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1855548-oil-rises-ahead-release-us-indicators.html Oil prices rose to near $98 a barrel on Wednesday ahead of the release of more U.S. economic indicators and the conclusion of a meeting of U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for March delivery was up 35 cents to $97.92 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.13, o... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1855548-oil-rises-ahead-release-us-indicators.html 2013-01-30T11:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1853052-asia-stocks-up-strong-us-earnings.html BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Wednesday after strong U.S. corporate earnings led investors to ignore sagging consumer confidence. Japan's Nikkei rose 1.1 percent to 10,990.77 as the yen continued to weaken against the U.S. dollar. Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 1 percent to 23,884.24. South Korea's Kospi rose 0.2 percent to 1,959.91 after the govern... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1853052-asia-stocks-up-strong-us-earnings.html 2013-01-30T02:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855308-myanmar-abolishes-25-year-ban-public-gatherings.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's nearly 2-year-old reformist government has abolished a ban on public gatherings of more than five people that was ordered in 1988 on the day a military junta took power after crushing nationwide pro-democracy protests. The state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper reported Tuesday that Order No 2/88 was abolished as it was not in l... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855308-myanmar-abolishes-25-year-ban-public-gatherings.html 2013-01-30T00:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1852738-10-dead-borneo-pygmy-elephants-feared-poisoned.html KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Ten endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in a Malaysian forest under mysterious circumstances, and wildlife officials said Tuesday that they probably were poisoned. Carcasses of the baby-faced elephants were found near each other over the past three weeks at the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve, said Laurentius Am... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1852738-10-dead-borneo-pygmy-elephants-feared-poisoned.html 2013-01-29T14:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1852714-oil-steady-us-china-manufacturing-improves.html The price of oil was steady above $96 a barrel on Tuesday, supported by expanding manufacturing output in the world's two largest economies and ahead of the release this week of several key U.S. economic indicators. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for March delivery was up 5 cents to $96.50 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercan... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1852714-oil-steady-us-china-manufacturing-improves.html 2013-01-29T12:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1853100-british-man-6-years-bali-drug-trial.html BALI, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court sentenced a Briton to six years in prison Tuesday for his role in a cocaine-smuggling case that led to a death sentence last week for a British grandmother. Julian Anthony Ponder, 43, was convicted of receiving cocaine from 56-year-old Lindsay June Sandiford, who was found guilty of smuggling $2.5 million worth o... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1853100-british-man-6-years-bali-drug-trial.html 2013-01-29T10:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1852964-china-urged-to-face-philippines-un-tribunal.html MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A senior U.S. lawmaker meeting with Philippine officials said Tuesday that China should agree to face the Philippines before a U.N. arbitration tribunal to avoid a possible crisis over their long-raging territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The Philippines took a daring legal step last week when it notified China that it ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1852964-china-urged-to-face-philippines-un-tribunal.html 2013-01-29T07:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850534-asia-stocks-rise-wall-street-flirts-with-highs.html BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets posted modest gains Tuesday as the feel-good factor lingered from near-record highs on Wall Street and signs of an upswing in U.S. manufacturing. Analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore said that benchmarks in South Korea and Taiwan are recuperating after recent sell-offs amid worries that the depreciating yen will hurt e... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850534-asia-stocks-rise-wall-street-flirts-with-highs.html 2013-01-29T04:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850400-philippine-dictatorship-victims-to-compensated.html MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Almost four decades after he was arrested and tortured and his sister disappeared into a maze of Philippine police cells and military houses, playwright Bonifacio Ilagan is finally seeing his suffering officially recognized. A writer for an underground communist newspaper, Ilagan and thousands like him were rounded up by dictato... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850400-philippine-dictatorship-victims-to-compensated.html 2013-01-29T00:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850330-oil-steady-96-barrel-ahead-us-data.html The price of oil was steady near $96 a barrel on Monday as investors awaited the release this week of key U.S. economic indicators, including on jobs, home sales and GDP. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for March delivery was down 4 cents to $95.84 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 7 cents to... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850330-oil-steady-96-barrel-ahead-us-data.html 2013-01-28T11:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850188-asia-stocks-up-strong-us-earnings.html BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets posted slight gains Monday after strong U.S. earnings pushed Wall Street indexes to multi-year highs, though Japan's Nikkei dipped amid profit-taking. The U.S. is due to report durable goods and pending home sales for December later in the day, but the numbers would have to sharply disappoint to dampen enthusiasm for sto... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850188-asia-stocks-up-strong-us-earnings.html 2013-01-28T04:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850178-deal-signed-to-clear-myanmar-debt-allow-loans.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The World Bank announced a long-awaited deal to allow Myanmar to clear part of its huge decades-old foreign debt, opening the door for new much-needed lending to jumpstart its lagging economy. The bank's Washington headquarters said in a statement Sunday that the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the country's overseas devel... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1850178-deal-signed-to-clear-myanmar-debt-allow-loans.html 2013-01-28T02:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850218-vietnam-tries-22-democracy-activists-subversion.html HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese court has begun the trial of 22 democracy activists on charges of plotting to overthrow the Communist government in one of the biggest such trials in years. A court official in central Phu Yen province says the defendants appeared in court Monday. The official didn't give his name, citing government policy. He says the t... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850218-vietnam-tries-22-democracy-activists-subversion.html 2013-01-28T02:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1849736-karnow-vietnam-reporter-historian-dies-age-87.html Stanley Karnow, the award-winning author and journalist who wrote a definitive book about the Vietnam War, worked on an accompanying documentary and later won a Pulitzer for a history of the Philippines, died Sunday morning. He was 87. Karnow, who had congestive heart failure, died in his sleep at his home in Potomac, Md., said son Michael Karnow. A Paris... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:47:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1849736-karnow-vietnam-reporter-historian-dies-age-87.html 2013-01-27T21:47:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1848002-indonesia-readies-1-trillion-trade-talks.html DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Indonesia may hold the key to a $1 trillion injection into the global economy. That's how much the World Trade Organization believes is riding on talks later this year in Bali, when trade ministers hope to cut through some of the red tape that slows global commerce. Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told The Associate... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1848002-indonesia-readies-1-trillion-trade-talks.html 2013-01-26T19:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1847510-myanmar-rejects-us-criticism-ethnic-conflict.html YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar has rejected the latest U.S. criticism of its conflict with ethnic Kachin rebels, and deplores that Washington still calls the country by its old name, Burma, according to a statement published Saturday. A Myanmar Foreign Ministry statement published in the state-run Myanma Ahlin newspaper "rejected" a news release issued Th... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1847510-myanmar-rejects-us-criticism-ethnic-conflict.html 2013-01-26T10:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1845562-cambodia-reports-3-bird-flu-cases-2-fatal.html PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia on Friday reported three new human cases of bird flu, two of them fatal, in the first three weeks of this year. That's as many cases as the Southeast Asian country reported in all of 2012. The cases are among the first reported in 2013 for the virulent H5N1 virus, which the World Health Organization says has killed 360... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1845562-cambodia-reports-3-bird-flu-cases-2-fatal.html 2013-01-25T12:12:00Z