Rebels kill 11 railway workers | TRIBAL insurgents have killed 11 railway workers in India's remote northeast, police say, a day after security forces gunned down 11 rebels. | Police said militants today attacked a remote railway s... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)The Australian
Surging food prices bite across Asia | From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring prices of food are breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the specters of hunger and unrest, experts warn. | A billi... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)The Manila Times
Transport groups to hold strike; govt ready By Nora O. Gamolo, Senior Desk Editor and Ruben D. Manahan 4TH and James Konstantin Galvez, Reporters | Transport groups led by the 200,000-member Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nati... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)The Manila Times OilPhilippinesPhotosPriceTransport
PASG seizes smuggled sugar By William B. Depasupil, Reporter | SOME 22,000 sacks of smuggled imported sugar worth P30 million were uncovered by the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG)in Meycauayan, Bulacan. | The PASG head... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)The Manila Times JusticeManilaPhilippinesPhotosSugar
Deadly power of 'delicate daffodil' | NARGIS, the name of the killer cyclone that has devastated Burma, was revealed by Indian officials yesterday to be an Urdu language word meaning "delicate daffodil". | ... (photo: AP Photo / Pavel Rahman)The Australian ClimateDisasterNaturePhotosSociety
Grief is compounded by desperation | BURMA'S great Irrawaddy river runs flat and muddy. It twines and forks through kilometres of rich delta and has always given nurture and good fortune to the people of s... (photo: US Marine Corp / Ezekiel R. Kitandwe)The Australian AidBurmaDisasterPhotosSociety
US help could save thousands of lives | ONE April day in 1991, the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand... (photo: US Navy file/PHAN Nicholas Morton)The Australian AidDisasterPhotosSocietyUS
Give generals the boot, it's the only way | THE United Nations this week said the refusal of Burma's Government to allow workers into the country's devastated agricultural region was unprecedented in the history ... (photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein)The Australian BurmaDisasterMilitaryPhotosUN
News of USA's demise greatly exaggerated | Will Hutton, in The Observer, on why it is a bit premature to concede the 21st century to China or India | THE fashionable view is that the US economy is a busted flush... (photo: AP Photo / kalpana)The Australian ChinaEconomyIndiaPhotosUS
Tear down Burma's bamboo curtain | Thousands more will die if aid does not start flowing | THERE seems to be no underestimating the brutality of Burma's regime as millions of people struggle to stay aliv... (photo: AP / )The Australian BurmaDisasterPhotosSocietyUN
