LONDON – The price of gold leapt to a record peak above 1,070 US dollars per ounce here on Wednesday as the dollar slid in value against the European single currency.By channelnewsasia.com

SINGAPORE: The number of fatalities at workplaces has gone up. In their latest report, the Manpower Ministry (MOM) and the Workplace Safety and Health Council said 36 people were killed at the workplace in the first half of this year.By channelnewsasia.com

An intelligence official says Pakistani jets have bombed militant targets in an insurgent stronghold close to the Afghan border.By asia.news.yahoo.com

SINGAPORE, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Bank of America-Merrill Lynch
<BAC.N> has hired Tan Chong Lee, who was last at Goldman Sachs
<GS.N>, as its head of Southeast Asia investment banking, two
sources said on Tuesday.By asia.news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Alaska’s Aleutian Islands late Monday, the US Geological Survey reported.By channelnewsasia.com

BANGKOK : The Thai cabinet agreed on Tuesday to invoke a harsh internal security law for 10 days in central Bangkok to control mass rallies by anti-government “Red Shirt” protesters, the prime minister said.By channelnewsasia.com

Benedetto XVI vi si recherà 23 anni dopo la storica visita di Giovanni Paolo II. Non sarà la prima volta dell’attuale papa in un tempio ebraico: nel 2005 a Colonia condannò l’antisemitismo e auspicò un approfondimento del dialogo tra ebrei e cristiani anche per “giungere ad un’interpretazione condivisa di questioni storiche ancora discusse”.By new.asianews.it

La diocesi ricorda il massacro dei cristiani del 409 d.C., in cui vennero decapitate centinaia di persone per la loro fede. In programma un digiuno per la pace, preghiere, messe e una conferenza. Mons. Sako: le persecuzioni non hanno interrotto “la storia e il cammino” dei cristiani, forti nello Spirito Santo e nell’Eucaristia.By new.asianews.it

SINGAPORE : The Khoo Teck Puat Foundation has pledged S$100,000 worth of medical supplies to help earthquake victims in Sumatra, Indonesia.By channelnewsasia.com

SINGAPORE: Little India is abuzz with the grand light-up and heavy human traffic, ahead of Deepavali on Saturday.By channelnewsasia.com

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, state radio announced on Tuesday, as the government looks to gain from strong public support after its defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels.By channelnewsasia.com

BEIJING: China called Tuesday for restraint after a series of North Korean missile tests and said the launches should not hamper an improving outlook for diplomacy in dismantling Pyongyang’s nuclear programmes.By channelnewsasia.com

BERLIN : German supermodel Heidi Klum announced on Tuesday the birth of her fourth child, a daughter, the third with British singer husband Seal.By channelnewsasia.com

BEIJING: China and Russia on Tuesday will sign a deal in Beijing that will see 70 billion cubic metres of natural gas sent to China annually, the head of Russian gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, said.By channelnewsasia.com

SINGAPORE : Three organisations have come together to build a model of Singapore out of Lego bricks for charity.By channelnewsasia.com

SINGAPORE : OCBC is raising its stake in Bank of Ningbo in China.By channelnewsasia.com

BEIJING: China on Tuesday expressed anger over a recent visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to a border region at the core of a long-standing dispute between the neighbours.By channelnewsasia.com

NEW YORK : Michael Jackson “stole” the tapes of a song released almost four months after his death and his estate did not initially credit its co-author, the songwriter at the centre of the controversy said.By channelnewsasia.com

Ma la popolazione registra inflazione crescente. I lavoratori migranti, licenziati a decine di milioni lo scorso anno, vengono in parte riassunti con paghe più basse. In compenso, quest’anno i miliardari sono raddoppiati, grazie al pacchetto di aiuti anti-crisi del governo.By new.asianews.it

Verrà processato per le accuse di violenza sessuale su persone incarcerate per le proteste seguite alla rielezione di Ahmadinejad rivolte ad alcuni carcerieri. La notizia del rinvio giunge dopo quella della condanna a morte di tre persone che hanno preso parte alle manifestazioni che hanno contestato i brogli al voto presidenziale.By new.asianews.it