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Editorial Desk The Yomiuri Shimbun Publication Date : 17-06-2013   It is unusual in Japan to see the head of a major company suddenly dismissed. The market is now watching with a sharp eye the confu…

Amando Doronila Philippine Daily Inquirer Publication Date : 10-05-2013   A widespread power failure hit Metro Manila and parts of Luzon Wednesday with the force of a tsunami for up to six hours, pa…

Ifham Nizam The island Date of publication: 07-05-2013   Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Cabinet Minister are at odds over the proposed power rate relief package to low income and eff…

Amando Doronila Philippine Daily Inquirer Publication Date : 08-04-2013   The current Mindanao power shortage is relatively the most underreported main event in the mainstream news media in the run-…

Joy Lee China Post Publication date: 16-03-2013   Taiwan Premier Jiang Yi-Hammond said yesterday that it is unconstitutional for the Executive Yuan to announce the construction of the fourth nuclear…

Maila Ager Philippine Daily Inquirer Publication date: 16-03-2013   The Philippines should "limited power" use against Malaysia if the life of the Filipinos caught in the middle of a viole…

Song Sang-ho The Korea Herald Publication Date : 27-02-2013   Following its third nuclear test earlier this month, North Korea’s state media have churned out reports that call the country a nuclear-…

Whatever happens in the next general election -- my bet is early 2013 -- India will emerge an extremely divided country. The usual assumption that the two main political parties, the Congress and th…

The Pakistan government should acknowledge that it has failed to bring about any improvement in the power sector even after pouring a staggering sum of 1.4 trillion rupees (US$14.6 billion), Finance…

India and Bangladesh are now ready to sign a joint venture agreement in November to set up a massive 1,320 megawatt coal power plant in southern Bangladesh district of Bagerhat near the Sundarbans, …

There is no doubt that India's central government (centre) has too much power. It has reduced the federal structure to a unitary system. The states feel redundant in many ways. After the general…

A consortium of Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Electric Power Development Co., plans to build a large thermal power plant in Thailand, according to sources. The i…