The Thai stock exchange halted trade in Sri Trang stock for a second day on Tuesday pending a pricing announcement, the company said in a statement.
Regular session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will begin on Monday.
The highlight of the event will be Council of Europe Rapporteur Dick Marty’s report on organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania.
A suicide-bomber blew himself up Tuesday in the midst of a crowd of aspiring police recruits in the Sunni-Arab town of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, VOA reports. The bloody bombing left at least 50 people dead and wounded at least 150 others. The attack appears to mark a strategy by insurgents of targeting Iraq’s fledgling security forces.
On Tuesday, Marvel unveiled new promo pictures of comic book superheroes Captain America (Opening July 2011) and Thor (In Theaters May 2011) as moviegoers inch closer the summer blockbuster season. Chris Hemsworth makes a formidable Thor, but we doubt Chris Evans could stop a nose bleed clad under all that metal. Poor thing must have [...]
Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid speculation about an imminent reshuffle of the union council of ministers. Gandhi, the chief of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), met Manmohan Singh at his 7 Race Course Road residence in New Delhi for nearly two hours, party sources disclosed. She was accompanied [...]
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Singtel stock closed up 0.66% on Tuesday at $3.07.
Singapore shares may open slightly lower on Tuesday tracking losses on Wall Street overnight, as investors turn more cautious amid fears that Portugal will be the next euro zone member to need a bailout. Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index <.FTSTI> was down 0.98% on Monday to 3,229.27 points.
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A partial solar eclipse is taking place today and is visible from Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East.
The eclipse started at 07:40 CET, and will last until 12:01 CET, the Belgrade-based Astronomical Society Ruđer Bošković said.
Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković visited on Tuesday the central Serbian town of Kraljevo, that was hit with a 5.4 earthquake in early November. The premier said that in the year to come, the construction of prefabricated houses should continue intensively, and promised that all the works in the city will be completed by October 1, 2011.
SonicWALL researchers analyzed the malware and threat landscape of 2010 and found several global trends, including the intriguing finding that Tuesday is typically the most threat-heavy day of the week. – After analyzing the malware and online threats of 2010,
SonicWALL security researchers said they found that Tuesday was the most
threat-heavy day of the week.
Monday was a close second for threat-related traffic, Ed
Cohen, Sonic Walls vice-president of e-mail security, told eWEEK. It wasnt
clea…
President Boris Tadić said late on Tuesday that the talks between Belgrade and Priština should start with technical issues. This, he told an audience in Novi Sad, regardless of the report of Special Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Dick Marty.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Tuesday touched down here early Tuesday morning on a two-day visit during which the two sides are expected to sign over a dozen agreements, including a key pact on Moscow building more nuclear reactors in India. Manmohan Singh and Medvedev will discuss a wide range of bilateral and international issues, including [...]
Singapore shares may open higher on Tuesday after the S&P 500 hit a two-year high overnight, continuing a steady upward march that investors believe will continue in 2011.
The following companies may have unusual price changes in Singapore trading today. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close. Singapore’s Straits Times Index dropped 0.6% to 3,132.96.
The FCC will vote tomorrow morning between 10:30 and 12:30 Eastern time on a proposed rule written by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski which would gut the Internet. It would allow the big carriers to create different tiers of mobile Web access and spee…
In its final Patch Tuesday for the year, Microsoft plugs a total of 40 security holes, including a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer. – Microsoft bid farewell to 2010 Patch Tuesday updates with 17
security bulletins and 40 security fixes, among them a patch for an
Internet Explorer vulnerability first disclosed in November.
Two of the 17 bulletins are rated quot;Critical quot;–the IE bulletin and
another that covers three vulne…
The continued twists and turns regarding WikiLeaks joined Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday and IE9 privacy plans as some of the top news stories of the past week. – Cyber-attacks and other twists and turns tied to the WikiLeaks
controversy continued to dominate the news this past week.
The story of the whistle-blower site has taken a number of twists and turns.
The week started with the arrest of WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange in the U.K.
on sexual assa…
Microsoft is prepping 17 security bulletins for release next week. – Microsoft has plans for a gigantic Patch Tuesday next week to plug 40 security vulnerabilities across a number of products, including critical bugs impacting Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows.
The bugs will be squashed by a total of 17 security bulletins, two of which are rated ‘critical. On…
