Thai, Cambodian troops clash again on the border is in dispute - Reuters India

Thai soldiers to carry their comrade injured near the border in the province of Surin, April 22, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Daily News newspaperBy Prak Chan Toul

PHNOM PENH. Saturday, April 23, 2011 10 pm IST

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thai and Cambodian troops delivered again Saturday on their disputed border, a day after four Thai and three Cambodian soldiers were killed in the worst bloodshed since the Organization of the Nations United called a cease-fire in February.

Thousands of villagers were evacuated the thick jungle on the Ta Moan and Ta Krabei temples, approximately 150 km (93 miles) West of the temple of Preah Vihear 900 years, which saw a deadly stalemate in February.

Two Cambodian journalists to Banteay Ampil, a town about 15 km (nine miles) by fighting, said Reuters, another Cambodian soldier was killed and two injured Saturday according to army radio.

The latest confrontation began before dawn and lasted several hours. Witnesses said heavy shelling had stopped but of small arms fire could still heard.

Chhum Sucheat Cambodian Defence Ministry spokesman described the clashes as more intense than the fighting Friday and charged with operating Thailand "spy planes" in the region.

Both sides blame the other for starting the fighting, the most serious since three Thai and eight Cambodians were killed and dozens of people injured in the course of 4-7 February during the bloody border clashes in nearly two decades.

Under a ceasefire agreement, the Thailand and Cambodia agreed on 22 February, to allow military observers non-armed with the Indonesia to be placed along their border.

But this arrangement - negotiated at a meeting of the Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta at the urgent request of the Organization of the Nations United - not yet implemented. International observers said Thailand are not required, insisting that the two countries should resolve the issue bilaterally.

"There is a mechanism in place, so there is no need to cry for ASEAN and the international community," Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya Thais told journalists later Friday in Bangkok.

Responding to a letter from Cambodia, addressed to ASEAN.

stating that the Thailand had staged "a large-scale attack".

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ASEAN CHAIRMAN URGES RESTRAINT

The Thailand and Cambodia were locked in a stalemate since July 2008, where Preah Vihear has obtained the status of world heritage of UNESCO, which has opposed on the grounds that the lands around the temple had never been demarcated in the Thailand.

An International Prize Court temple in Cambodia 49 years ago, but both countries claim a patch of 4.6 square miles (1.8 square miles) of land around it.

The temple of Preah Vihear, Cambodia, and Khao Phra Viharn in Thailand, sits on land that forms a natural border and has been a source of tension for future generations.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore said that he is "deeply concerned" and called for restraint and dialogue. The Indonesia, the current Chairman of ASEAN, has urged both parties to stop fighting.

Indonesia "strongly calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities between Cambodia and the Thailand." "for the two parties to continue to settle their disputes by peaceful means", he said in a statement.

The reasons behind the deadly skirmishes of this year are obscure and both sides typically blame the other, but the border dispute has become a bone of contention in tense domestic policy of the Thailand.

Some analysts say some hawkish Thai generals and ultra-nationalist allies, with the Thai King of yellow color, events may be trying to create a pretext for a coup and cancel the elections expected in June or July.

Others say that it is perhaps a breakdown in communication at a time of tense relations between the neighbours and unease after a coup rumor of military State imminent swirled in the day to the next Thailand. The army dismissed the rumors as baseless.

The Thailand and Cambodia are both members of the regional grouping of ASEAN, which plans to form a single market for European style by 2015.

(Written by Jason Szep;) (Editing by Robert Birsel)

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The India found Corruption in the fast-growing Aviation sector

Several of the carriers of the India, and its State-run airline, Air India, fired drivers active as a result of the investigation, which discovered drivers forge flywheels, cheating in flight reviews and pay corrupts them official trials.

The Indian Government and the private sector are already shaking with the corruption scandals which have tainted the companies of mobile phone and last year's Commonwealth Games. The survey pilot, transports, special shock value.

"You really are messing with people's lives if you are messing with pilot's licence," said Neil Mills, Director General of SpiceJet, a carrier of low prices here who fired three pilots for violations. "The sentences imposed for bribery and step to stick to the rules should be much stricter and better enforced.

The review of the India active commercial pilots licenses is half-finished, said an official with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the main airline the India regulator. Until now, government officials have revoked licenses of 6 commanders, certify the pilots experienced support in the cockpit, and the licences of 13 other commercial pilots, often held by agents of first.

The Agency is also investigating dozens of flight schools which were cropped in recent years, as demand has grown for new pilots. Pilot here schools attract new students, engineers for women at home and may require more than $65,000 for a course which lasts less than a year.

The airline industry of the India began to expand 20 years in economic liberalization, but it has grown phenomenal as the economy has flourished in recent years, attracting billions of dollars in investments and giving rise to a number of new airlines to manage tens of millions of new passengers. Monitoring of the Government of the boom, the airline professionals and analysts here say, dragged dangerously.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, D.G.C.A., is responsible for monitoring, the security of the airport maintenance of vehicles and pilot training and certification. This week, r. s. Passi, Director of aviation safety, has been removed from employment amid accusations that his daughter, Garima Passi, had received preferential treatment in obtaining his pilot's licence. She was suspended from SpiceJet month last on irregularities.

But more serious problem of the Agency is not the corruption within, but the crippling lack of staff, critics say, adding that he has little real chance of the police a rife of nepotism and corruption-prone industry.

"It is not the question of a single case, or a Director of D.G.C.A. or an airline, and then we can fix and get over it," said Kapil Kaul, Chief Executive in Asia in the South for the Center for Asia Pacific Aviationa research group. "It's a failure of the whole system."

Just more than 63 million people flew in Indian airlines in 2010, more than double the number of passengers, five years ago. The India has added more than 300 commercial aircraft and more than 500 private aircraft and helicopters in the past 10 years, Mr. Kaul estimates.

While air transport growth is slowed in Asia over the past months, in India he is still in full expansion. Domestic airlines transported 9.6 million passengers in January of this year, an increase of 19.6% per one year before.

Accident rates have remained relatively low. Last may crash of a flight of Air India Express at Mangalore that killed 158 people, was the first major accident by an Indian carrier in a decade.

The Director General of the Office of aviation acknowledged that he did had not grown rapidly with the industry. "If you look at the F.A.A. for the United States, they have five or six thousand employees," said the official, E.K. Bharat Bhushan. "I have 140 people, with 82 airports."

About two years, the Federal Aviation Administration found enough problems with Indian carriers that it threatens to downgrade their category 2 status, which would have limited their ability to extend the road to the United States. But this threat was lifted when the Indian agency aviation has promised to add 550 positions and any other major change.

Most of these jobs were not filled, said Mr. Bhushan. He said "because it is a Government Department, recruitment was difficult,". Even if a fast-track hiring plan, he had proposed to the India top Ministers succeeds, he said, experts qualified conclusion airline in the country will be difficult. "We just have enough people," he said.

Pilot groups say that the test system itself is in need of modernization.

"Our system is just prehistoric," said Rishabh Kapur, the Secretary General of the Association of Commercial Indians, a national pilots union pilots. Written tests are given only four times a year and do are not computerized, and results take two months, he said. Often, the tests have more to do with the skills of understanding and grammar that flying skills in reading, he added.

"We must raise our socks and global standards", said Mr. Kapur.

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Summit of bric in India in 2012 - Times of India

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that the next Summit of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) will be held in India in 2012.

"I have invited the BRICs in India leaders for the next Summit of bric in 2012 and I am pleased that they have accepted my invitation," said the Prime Minister.

He told the media that the quality and sustainability of the process of global economic recovery depends to a large extent on how the BRIC economies performed. "We have reason to celebrate the management of our economies, but there is no room for complacency." Developments in Western Asia and North Africa, and subsequently of the immense tragedy that struck at the Japan brought fresh uncertainties in the global recovery process. ?

Singh said that the India has reaffirmed its commitment to a balanced and ambitious outcome for the Doha round of WTO negotiations. India would continue to engage with its partners to facilitate a multilateral trade rules-based regime which is fair, equitable and deals with the development agenda effectively, he added.

"Our economy is more open and more connected to the world that it was in the past." Our financial markets are healthy and willing to absorb foreign direct investment. "We have put in place of the ambitious plans to the social sectors and infrastructure began to bear fruit," said the Prime Minister.

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Libya rebels reject peace plan - Times of India

BENGHAZI: Mustafa Abdul Jalil Monday the Libyan leader of the rebels rejected an initiative African Union for a ceasefire with the forces of Muammar al-Gaddafi and demanded the eviction of veteran strongman. "This initiative (African Union) has now been exceeded." As soon as "the first day that the application of our people was the eviction of Gaddafi and the fall of his regime, Abdul Jalil told a press conference of Benghazi held the rebels."

"Gaddafi and his sons must leave immediately if they want to be safe...". Any initiative which does not include the popular demand, the popular demand, application key, we can possibly recognize. "Abdul Jalil refused any sort of mediation which would allow Gaddafi stay and invective against the strong man. "We cannot negotiate with the blood of our matryrs." "We are going to die with them or become victorious and of God, will we will be victorious,", said the rebel leader.

Jalili remarks came after discussions with a delegation of African heads of State of Benghazi Monday, a day after Gaddafi has accepted the peace proposal. The President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, said that Tripoli had accepted the plan of the African Union for a ceasefire that would stop the NATO bombing campaign.

About 200 people waving rebel flags gathered outside the airport, Benghazi, arrival of the delegation to the, to welcome his efforts, but demanding the overthrow of Kadhafi.

In Ajdabiya, a correspondent saw more than a dozen burned trucks that pro-Gaddafi fighters were equipped with heavy machine guns for their offensive failed on the front between eastern line held of rebels and Government-held West.

Many of the bodies that rebel fighters buried near battlefield on the outskirts of the city were charred beyond recognition after a NATO strike, combined with their own efforts to push the loyalist assault. We found 35 bodies, with two more melted in the vehicles,"said a rebel fighter. AFP

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