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SAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 2007 (AFP) – Google announced Monday that it is shortening the lives of software “cookies” used to track users’ online preferences. In coming months Google will begin issuing cookies that automatically expire two years after a person visits the website provided they don’t return, according to the US firm’s global privacy […]
Indian launches betel condoms
NEW DELHI, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – A condom flavoured with the popular mixture of betel nut and tobacco known as paan is to go on sale in India, newspapers said Tuesday.State-owned company Hindustan Latex has already tested the pungent and bitter mixture on their main market, sex workers, who preferred it to other flavours […]
Bangladesh ex-PMs ordered to explain wealth
DHAKA, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – Bangladesh’s army-backed emergency government on Tuesday ordered two former prime ministers to submit details of their financial affairs as part of its corruption crackdown, an official said.Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who was arrested and detained over extortion allegations Monday, have each been asked to provide the information […]
Market Offence
July 16, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan court has convicted four executive directors of a listed company that went bust some years ago for not revealing information that affected the firm’s share price. The present SEC administration has made it clear that it would not allow compounding of offences with the provision that it […]
Another Deadline
RIYADH, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – An appeal for a teenage Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murdering a four-month-old baby has been launched, her lawyer said on Tuesday. Rizana Nafeek, 19, was convicted of strangling her employer’s baby in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom in February 2005 in a case that […]
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister arrested: aide
DHAKA, July 16, 2007 (AFP) – Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed who led the country from 1996 to 2001 and faces charges of corruption and murder was arrested Monday, an aide said.“She has been arrested and taken away and is now being taken to the court,” Hasan Mahmud, personal secretary to Sheikh Hasina, […]
France, Germany pledge to defend independent ECB
TOULOUSE, France, July 16, 2007 (AFP) – France and Germany agree on the need to keep the European Central Bank free of political meddling, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday. “We are both in agreement on the fact that the European Central Bank is independent.It is very important,” Merkel told a joint news conference with […]
Human Attempt
July 16, 2007 (LBO) – Lawyers hired to file an appeal for the condemned Sri Lankan teenager Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia have met the girl and started proceedings, the rights body that raised funds to fight her case said Monday. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) said representatives of the legal firm Kateb Fahad […]
Bangladesh to donate Buddha hair relic to Sri Lanka
DHAKA, July 15, 2007 (AFP) – The small Buddhist community in Bangladesh plans to donate a few strands of a lock of hair said to have come from the Buddha to Sri Lanka as a goodwill gesture, officials said Sunday. Three cabinet ministers from majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka along with religious leaders are scheduled to arrive […]
Zimbabwe arrests business people as money printing drives prices up
HARARE, July 13, 2007 (AFP) – Authorities in Zimbabwe announced the arrest of hundreds more retailers and executives as part of an ongoing price crackdown Friday as it emerged the head of the central bank had warned against the blitz. Mugabe has warned that his government will seize and nationalise companies that refuse to toe […]
Sri Lanka low grown teas fetch record prices
July 13, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s low grown tea prices have surged owing to strong demand from key buying countries and a shortfall in the crop, brokers said. Prices of low grown teas, grown mainly in the low country districts and by smallholders, have been climbing steadily for the past one year. But the […]