Kuala Lumpur, Mar 16:  Malaysia's telecoms industry regulator on Friday named four newcomers as winners of much-coveted WiMAX licences, further pressuring established players such as state-controlled Telekom Malaysia Bhd .

Malaysia badly lags more tech savvy nations such as Singapore and South Korea, despite a decade-long plan to become a high-tech nation.

Analysts say the decision to award the licences for WiMAX -- an emerging mobile broadband technology -- to smaller companies is aimed at accelerating competition to meet its objective of wirelessly.....

Beijing, Mar 16:  A bus crash in southwestern China has killed 14 people and injured 12, state media today reported.

A minibus carrying 26 people in Yunnan province overturned yesterday night and fell into a bamboo-covered valley, Xinhua news agency said, citing local police.

Rescuers said 10 of the 26 passengers died immediately and four died in hospital.

Yesterday morning, 22 people were killed when a bus veered off a highway and plunged into a reservoir in China's northwestern Shaanxi province.

Nearly 99,000 people were.....

New Delhi, Mar 16:  The Nandigram issue reverberated in the Lok Sabha for the second day today with the BJP-led Opposition creating noisy scenes and staging a demonstration, forcing the adjournment of the house for an hour.

As soon as the question hour began, Opposition members trooped into the well of the house, shouting slogans and demanding the resignation of the West Bengal government over the issue of police firing in Nandigram on March 14 which resulted in the death.....