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1. News - Asia - NEPAL

   Nepal's Maoists say they will never return to guerrilla war

   Posted Feb 03rd 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News Asia Nepal Maoists guerillas Guerrilla warfare Maoist Agence France-Presse in Hetauda, Nepal Party leaders say they will relinquish leadership to an independent and elected prime minister Nepal's Maoists vowed yesterday never to return to guerrilla warfare and offered to give up leadership to an independent prime minister to take the Himalayan nation towards democracy. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1142138/nepals-maoists-say-they-will-never-return-guerrilla-war
2. Lifestyle - Books - WARFARE

   Book review: Napalm, by Robert Neer

   Posted Apr 28th 2013, 12:00am by Kit Gillet

   ... Lifestyle Books Warfare Napalm Explosive Weapons Kit Gillet Napalm: An American Biography by Robert Neer Belknap Press It's one of the most notorious weapons of the 20th century, yet beyond its role in the Vietnam war, napalm is little known - both in its origins and nature, and in its use in warzones before and since that decade-long conflict. In Napalm , Robert Neer has ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1223783/book-review-napalm-robert-neer
3. News - Asia - PHILIPPINES

   12 killed in Philippine army clash with rebels

   Posted Nov 17th 2012, 06:10pm by Philippines Associated Press in Manila

   ... guerrillas, triggering a clash in which six soldiers were immediately killed, said army spokesman Colonel Cirilito Sobejana. He said another soldier died in the hospital, leaving eight government ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1084763/12-killed-philippine-army-clash-rebels
4. Lifestyle - Health - AGENT ORANGE

   Vietnamese school trains disabled victims of Agent Orange

   Posted Feb 19th 2013, 12:00am by PRIME SARMIENTO

   ... to this environment and stay in the classroom," she says. We will continue to remind everybody that chemical warfare should not happen again Mai Duc Chinh, Vava spokesman The children learn to draw, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health/article/1153160/vietnamese-school-trains-disabled-victims-agent-orange
5. Lifestyle - Technology - ROBOTICS

   Rights group calls for ban on ‘killer’ robots

   Posted Nov 20th 2012, 02:21pm

   ... of warfare.” The problem with handing over decision-making power to even the most sophisticated robots is that there would be no clear way of making anyone answer for the inevitable mistakes, said Noel ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1086623/rights-group-calls-ban-killer-robots
6. Ex-nuclear site marked for tourism

   Posted Jun 02nd 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Nuclear Warfare Kim Huang One of the mainland's former nuclear-weapons facilities will be developed into a site for 'red tourism'. The area, in Xinjiang's mountainous Heshuo county, was a centre for nuclear research and an army command centre during the 1960s. 'Red tourism' is increasing in popularity among mainland holidaymakers and is encouraged ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/682271/ex-nuclear-site-marked-tourism
7. News - China - SECURITY

   PLA general warns against 'accidental warfare'

   Posted Feb 05th 2013, 12:00am by CHOI CHI-YUK

   ... by wars. "We should not be interrupted by accidental [warfare] again," the official Global Times on Monday quoted Liu as saying. "What the Americans and the Japanese fear is that we ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1143481/pla-general-warns-against-accidental-warfare
8. Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 and 1945

   Posted Sep 14th 2008, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... Airborne Warfare Ed Peters Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 and 1945 by Lloyd Clark Headline Review, HK$320 To go into battle is to experience stark terror. To fly into battle, a lumbering target for enemy machine gun and anti-aircraft fire - in a glider made of plywood - is a display of courage at its most raw. Small wonder that paratroopers and pilots anxiously scrounged ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/652614/arnhem-jumping-rhine-1944-and-1945
9. News - World - SYRIA

   US suspects Assad used chemical weapons

   Posted Apr 26th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... the past 24 hours” and warned that use of such weapons “violates every convention of warfare.” In London, Britain’s Foreign Office too said it had “limited but persuasive” evidence of the use ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1223318/us-suspects-assad-used-chemical-weapons
10. Hiroshima's pall

    Posted Mar 24th 2011, 12:00am by Jonathan Power

    ... War Nuclear Warfare Jonathan Power We may not know for some time how bad were the nuclear accident and the devastation of the tsunami on Japan, but it has been serious enough to make Japanese wonder: 'Why us?' Why ...

    http://beta.scmp.com/article/741829/hiroshimas-pall

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