SAN FRANCISCO - MICROSOFT'S much-heralded Windows 7 operating system made its global debut on Thursday.
By the time the day was a minute old, Microsoft workers were handing out Windows 7 software as gifts at a party the US technology giant held at a San Francisco night club to coincide with a Web 2.0 Summit here.
NEW DELHI - CHINA is turning a blind eye to the thriving illegal trade in tiger parts, a campaign group said on Thursday following an undercover investigation in western China and Tibet.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a British-based organisation, showed photos it said were taken by a spy camera revealing the 'rampant' sale of tiger and white leopard skins, bones and claws in retail stores.
MANILA - TYPHOON Lupit was poised to slam into the north coast of the Philippines, forecasters said on Thursday, as the cyclone-devastated nation sought foreign aid to rebuild and to fight a deadly outbreak of disease.
After an erratic track over the past few days, the typhoon was set to make landfall with gusts of up to 195 kilometres an hour, chief government weather forecaster Prisco Nilo told a news conference.
CHA-AM (Thailand) - THAILAND has mounted one of its biggest security operations in recent history with more than 36,000 military and police to prevent anti-government demonstrators from overrunning a summit of Asian leaders, an official spokesman said on Thursday.
The government is still smarting from the storming of the East Asian Summit in April in the seaside city of Pattaya where protesters charged through thin police ranks and forced the evacuation of several leaders by helicopter and boat.
