April 2013 SOME OTHER NEWS

MYANMAR ESTABLISHES DIPLOMATIC LIES WITH ARMENIA
 

Myanmar has established diplomatic ties with Armenia, official media reported Armenia is the first country that Myanmar forged links in the new year of 2013 after Malawi, Bhutan, Luxembourg, Latvia, Estonia and Iceland in 2012, reported Xinhua. A joint communique was signed between Myanmar's permanent representative to the UN and counterpart of Armenia in New York on January 31.

PAK LEAST FORWARD LOOKING COUNTRY, SAYS GOOGLE

Pakistanis are the least forward-thinking people in the world, according to a research. The scientists who correlated data from Google searches and national economic performance, found Germany to be at the top of the list. The team first published a set of results last year, with Pakistan at the bottom of the list and Britain at the top of the list, as people looked forward to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. The researchers found this by referring the ‘mammoth amounts of data’ generated by internet use.

BHUTAN TO BECOME WORLD’S FIRST TO TURN TOTALLY ORGANIC

Bhutan will become the first country to produce exclusively organic food, after banning the sale of pesticides and herbicides relying only on animal and farm waste to fertilize crops. The country is already largely organic, but with this change Bhutan expects to be able to grow more.

CHINA REMAINS TOP GOLD PRODUCER FOR SIXTH YEAR

China produced the most gold in the world’s last year, making it the largest producer for the sixth year even as it remained the second largest consumer after India. China’s gold output rose from 11.7% to a record 403 tonnes in 2012, China Gold Association has said.

SOUTH KOREA OFFICIALLY JOINS UN SANCTIONS AGAINST NORTH KOREA

South Korea on February 7, 2013 confirmed it would implement the latest UN sanctions imposed on North Korea, despite dire warnings from Pyongyang about the consequences. The sanctions were ordered in response to the North’s long range rocket launch in December and prompted Pyongyang into threatening an imminent nuclear test.

PAK TESTS NUCLEAR CAPABLE HATH-II MISSILE

Pakistan on Feb 15, 2013 successfully tested the nuclear capable Hatf-II ballistic missile with a range of 180 km, marking the second test of a missile system in four days as part of measures to evaluate the capabilities of its Strategic Forces.

SOUTH KOREA FLEXES MUSCLES WITH NAVAL EXERCISES

South Korea staged a naval exercise involving US surveillance aircraft on Feb. 19, 2013 flexing its military muscles at a time of high tensions on the Korean Peninsula following the North’s third nuclear test. Day one of six-day drill in the East Sea (Sea of Japan) involved South Korean warships and submarines, as well as surveillance planes from US, the defence ministry said.

INDIA TO INK THE BIGGEST FIGHTER JET CONTRACT BY MID-YEAR

A day after Defence Minister A. K. Antony asked the armed forces to gear up for a cut in military spending, Air Chief        Marshal   N.A.K. Browne said that India was on track to ink the world's biggest fighter jet contract by the middle of the year.

India  had  last  year picked French firm Dassault Aviation's Rafale fighter jet over Eurofighter Typhoon in a hotly-contested $ 18 billion (T 99,000 crore) contract to equip the Indian Air Force

with 126 advanced combat aircraft. The IAF chief said, "The major part of contract negotiations is over. We are          now discussing what work share Hindustan Aeronautics Limited will have."