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Jetstar Asia flies into Bangalore

Jetstar Asia flies into Bangalore The Singapore-based value for money airliner, Jetstar Asia on Monday flew into the city with Bangalore becoming its second destination. Launching five flights a week Jetstar Asia is also looking into other cities, within a five hour flying range from Singapore, its Acting CEO Neil Thompson told newsmen here. A brand new Airbus 320 landed this morning at 0245 hrs and would target corporate travelers, especially from the Small and Medium Enterprises, leisure passengers and the IT sector to enhance its business. Jetstar Asia is already flying into Kolkota with three flights a week. '' We are

Mideast diplomacy shifts to Asia as Rice flies in

Mideast diplomacy shifts to Asia as Rice flies in Efforts to end fighting in Lebanon move to Asia on Thursday as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flies to Malaysia for a regional security meeting. Rice, arriving from Wednesdays one-day conference in Rome where world powers called for an urgent ceasefire in Lebanon but offered no plan to end the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas, will also have talks on North Koreas nuclear plans. Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded southern Lebanon early on Thursday, with the death toll in the 16-day conflict rising to 433 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 51 Israelis. Washington

Asia Energy-linked protests continue in Bangladesh

Asia Energy-linked protests continue in Bangladesh Protesters in northern Bangladesh have set up road blocks and staged rallies for a fourth day following the fatal shooting of at least five people demonstrating against an open-pit mine in the region being developed by UK coal firm Asia Energy plc, police said. The protestors held two marches this morning and also put up road barricades to press their demands to cancel the open-pit coal mine, said local senior police officer Ruhul Amin. Thousands of protestors went on the rampage yesterday ransacking and torching buildings linked to Asia Energy which is developing the mine at Phulbari,

Deaths push rare Asia dolphins nearer extinction

Deaths push rare Asia dolphins nearer extinction Ten dead Irrawaddy dolphins have been found in Cambodia's Mekong river, eight of them calves, pushing one of the rarest cetaceans nearer extinction, the environmental group WWF International said on Friday. The deaths mean a 10 percent drop in the number of Irrawaddy dolphins living in the Mekong, previously thought to be between 80 and 100. They are restricted to a 190km (115 mile) stretch of the river in the Cambodia/Laos border area. There are believed to be about 1,000 of the dolphins worldwide, other groups being found in Thai coastal estuaries and a few other

World Reflects on Fury of Asia Tsunami

World Reflects on Fury of Asia Tsunami Survivors wept and prayed beside mass graves and at beachside memorials Monday, marking one year since earthquake-churned walls of water crashed ashore in a dozen nations, sweeping away hundreds of thousands of lives and uniting the world in grief and horror. Mourners filled mosques in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province, the region hit hardest. Candlelight vigils in chilly Sweden remembered citizens lost during sunny holidays. An achingly personal tribute - a bouquet of white roses - stuck in the sand in Thailand. In a taped message, President Bush recalled "the acts of courage and kindness