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• Increase of contribution to Pension Plan proposed

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:32 Author: Aurea Gerundio-Dizon

  The Board of Trustees and the management of Civil Service Pension Plan are soliciting assistance of the Olbiil Era Kelulau to enact a legislative measure to amend the contribution level from 12 percent to 20 percent over the next four years.In a letter to...

• Hong Kong airline criticised over dolphin cargo

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:32 Author: Administrator

  Hong Kong Airlines was under pressure Sunday to stop its live dolphin cargo business after an internal memo describing a recent delivery from Japan to Vietnam was leaked to Chinese media.More than 2,800 people have signed an online petition at change.org ...

• Japan PM says 'sorry' to Okinawa in US base row

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:31 Author: Administrator

  Japan's premier Yoshihiko Noda offered a personal apology to Okinawa over his government's attitude to the moving of an unpopular US air base.In his first trip as prime minister to the subtropical island chain, Noda on Monday told governor Hirokazu Nakaim...

• Australian PM survives leadership challenge

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:30 Author: Administrator

  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday survived a leadership challenge from Kevin Rudd, crushing her arch-rival in a damaging battle to head the ruling Labor party.The nation's first female prime minister retained office after smashing Rudd 71-...

• S. Korea, US begin military exercise

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:21 Author: Administrator

  South Korea and the United States began a major annual military exercise Monday despite North Korean threats of possible retaliation over what it calls a rehearsal for invasion.A spokesman for Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed the start of Key Resol...

• Reports: Three dead in Canada train derailment

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:16 Author: Administrator

  At least three people were killed and dozens injured after a passenger train derailed Sunday near Burlington in Canada's eastern Ontario province, a report said.{reg}The accident at 3:30 pm (2030 GMT) occurred when two train cars came off the tracks betwe...

• Police: Suicide blast kills six at Afghan airport

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:14 Author: Administrator

  At least six people were killed and seven wounded on Monday in a suicide car bomb attack at Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan where NATO forces have a base, police said."Six people are dead," Nangarhar provincial police spokesman Hazrat Mohammad to...

• Second Marine acquitted in hazing that led to suicide

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:13 Author: Administrator

  HONOLULU   - The last of three U.S. Marines court-martialed on charges they physically abused and humiliated a fellow Marine who later killed himself was acquitted on Friday of all charges in the case by a military jury.The case stems from the suicide o...

• Colombia's FARC to free captives, stop kidnapping for ransom

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:12 Author: Administrator

  BOGOTA   - Colombia's feared FARC rebel group said it would abandon its decades-long policy of kidnapping for ransom and free all military and police hostages it holds in jungle camps, another sign the drug-funded leftist insurgents may want a move towa...

• Governors asked to submit request for national assistance in FY 2013

  Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 18:11 Author: Aurea Gerundio-Dizon

  Governors of all states have been requested by President Toribiong to submit request for national assistance to subsidize its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2013.{reg}Toribiong wrote the governors yesterday informing them that his office is working on th...