Saturday, May 15, 2010
International Headlines
>TOP STORIES as of 0800 HKT -- 16 May, 2010
> DEATH TOLL CLIMBS IN BANGKOK AS THAI PM WARNS OF CIVIL WAR
At least eight people are dead amid continuing unrest in Bangkok
on Saturday as Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva accuses
protesters of attempting to foment civil war.
> UK AIRPORTS FACE NEW ASH CLOUD CLOSURES
Volcanic ash may force British airports to close again next
week, the country's Department of Transport said Saturday.
> DEATH PENALTY FOR CHINA SCHOOL ATTACKER
A court in eastern China sentenced a man to death Saturday for
attacking 29 kindergarten students and three teachers with a
knife, state-run media said.
> DISPERSANTS TO BE USED TO FIGHT OIL SPILL
The Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency planned
a new tactic Saturday against the massive oil leak in the Gulf
of Mexico, authorizing BP to use oil dispersants.
> 'D.C. FIVE' APPEAR IN COURT IN PAKISTAN
Five Pakistani-Americans on trial in Pakistan on terrorism
charges appeared at a brief hearing Saturday, but did not face
the detailed questioning they had expected.
> NEW UK GOVERNMENT TO HOLD BA TALKS
Britain's new transport secretary plans talks Monday with
British Airways and the union representing its cabin crews to
try to avert a series of four planned strikes.
> BOY SURVIVOR OF LIBYA CRASH BACK HOME
Ruben van Assouw, the 9-year-old sole survivor of the plane
crash that killed 103 people in Libya, returned home to the
Netherlands on Saturday, the Dutch foreign ministry said.
> ACTRESS: POLANSKI ABUSED ME AT AGE 16
A British actress says she was sexually abused by Roman Polanski
when she was 16, after she was cast in a Polanski film in Paris,
France.
BUSINESS
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> BATTLE FOR BANGKOK HITS ECONOMY
The economy of Thailand -- whose growth this year so far has
belied its political ails -- is now seeing more of a direct
impact as protests grow increasingly violent.
> EXCLUSIVE: JAILED BILLIONAIRE SPEAKS FROM CELL
Russia's most famous prisoner, and once its richest citizen,
says the latest corruption charges against him are designed to
prevent his release from jail.
> EUROPE ENTERS ERA OF BELT-TIGHTENING
Amid cries of outrage and expressions of disbelief, a new age of
austerity has arrived in Europe.
