Hong Kong film star Maggie Cheung has settled down in Beijing and turned a new page in her life with German architect boyfriend."I'm quite happy nowadays even when I've got no work to do." Maggie said on Wednesday in a
South Korean pop singer Kangta held an "Eternity" concert in Yonsei University's main auditorium in Seoul on Sunday.Since the 29-year-old singer will begin fulfilling his mandatory 2-year military service starting on April 1, it is the last concert for his
ArmInfo. The Armenian Justice Ministry denied the statement that arrested Armenian former foreign minister Alexander Arzumanyan, MPs Myasnik Malkhasyan and Hakob Hakobyan, as well as former head of the penitentiary system Mushegh Saghatelyan embark on hunger strike. Replying to ArmInfo
ArmInfo. The DPA leader Aram Sarkisyan thinks the present situation in the country is a "waiting" one, he expressed such a view over today's press-conference in Pastarq club dedicated to domestic political situation in Armenia after the 1 March events
ArmInfo. Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran Torossyan met members of the Ago Monitoring Group of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers headed by Swedish Ambassador to CoE Per Sjogren, Tuesday. The Armenian parliamentary press-service told ArmInfo that
ArmInfo. A number of persons arrested within the frames of the criminal case on the March 1 mass disorders in Yerevan embark on a hunger strike starting from April 2. Arsen Babayan, the press-secretary of the criminal execution department of
ArmInfo. The Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) considers the appointment of US ambassador to Armenia to be extremely important, Director of the AAA Office in Yerevan Arpi Vardanyan told ArmInfo correspondent, commenting upon the nomination of US ambassador by George
Hours after Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh was killed, huge billboards of his burly face stencilled like the iconic Che Guevara portrait or a photo of him in battle fatigues were printed and ready to display all over Lebanon. Pictures of
The past year has seen Lebanese politicians disagree with respect to the election of a president, the composition of a "national unity" government, and the drafting of a new electoral law, a new report issued by Arab League Secretary General
So now what happens? The Arab League summit is over, the participants followed a time-honored tradition by failing to agree on very much of significance, and the uncomfortable stalemate in Lebanon is unchanged. Political junkies are already putting their respective
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Tuesday warned against the Israeli decision to build 1,400 housing units in Occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank within the plan of a new Israeli colonial settlement. "Parallel to talk of international efforts to revitalize
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday warned Lebanon's Hizbullah not to "test" Israel along its heavily guarded northern border. "The soldiers of the Israeli Army are watching everything that occurs near the frontier with Lebanon and I would not
The French Foreign Ministry expressed satisfaction on Tuesday with the progress of the investigation into the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri, which will culminate with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon to try the culprits. It also called on the
While demonstrating Lebanon's place at the top of the Arab agenda, last weekend's Arab League summit in Damascus made plain the chasm separating regional supporters of Lebanon's feuding political camps, while host Syria looked strong in brushing away pressure to
Hizbullah chastised Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, on Tuesday, accusing him of unfairly blaming the oppositon for the failure of efforts to resolve the political impasse in Lebanon. "The Saudi foreign minister knows that the opposition has positively
A proposal Monday for the most sweeping overhaul of financial market regulation since the New Deal evoked a range of reaction from praise to outright skepticism. But even backers of the plan, unveiled by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, said
Swiss bank UBS revealed a second round of subprime-related writedowns of about $19 billion on Tuesday, becoming the world's worst-hit bank in the US mortgage crisis. The latest writedown was the biggest single subprime hit so far worldwide and came
Representatives of all the major players in the Middle East, both indigenous and otherwise, have been preaching "non-interference" in Lebanon's internal affairs for more than year. It is hard to take any of them - or their local allies -
The public garden in the southern port city of Tyre has been turned into a dump for waste and dead animals, a graveyard for cars and boats, a swamp for filthy water and a refuge for stray dogs, according to
