ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk is planning to cover on Friday, April 10, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA - President Erdogan to attend opening ceremony of a think tank named New Turkey Strategic Research Center in Golbasi district.
ANKARA - PM Davutoglu to attend the ceremony to be held for the 170th foundation anniversary of Turkish police organization at Police Academy.
ANKARA - Minister of Foreign Affairs Cavusoglu to meet his Sudanese counterpart Ali Ahmed Karti.
ANKARA - Turkish Statistical Institute, TurkStat, to announce the country's foreign trade indexes of February.
Special Report:
- Turkey: Corporate governance steadily improving in Turkey
By Andrew Jay Rosenbaum
ANKARA (AA) - Corporate governance practice is steadily improving in Turkey, experts say, but family companies still lag in implementing best practice.
- Tailored education is the cure of autism
By Burcu Arik
ISTANBUL (AA) - There are more than 450,000 autistics in Turkey who require access to special education needs.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
THAILAND
BANGKOK -- Thai junta bans all religious ceremonies in honor of Red Shirt protesters killed in clash with military five years ago.
SOUTH KOREA
SEOUL -- President Park Geun-hye meets with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.
JAPAN
TOKYO -- Japan’s stock exchange briefly rises above 20,000 points for first time in nearly 15 years.
MYANMAR
YANGON - Leaders from Myanmar’s government and military to meet with representatives of political opposition and ethnic minority for “six-party talks” on constitutional reform.
HONG KONG
HONG KONG -- Artist fined HK$6,000 for throwing plastic cup at flight attendant says Cathay Pacific airlines lacks Chinese morals and ethics: “I would rather pour my money into the sea or take Malaysian Airlines."
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE TOWN - Open society initiative for southern Africa and Amnesty International to launch the "Africa not for Sale" campaign, calling on African leaders to stop selling future of continent’s youth and start promoting alternative growth models.
CAPE TOWN - African, Nordic FMs expected to brief the media on outcome of their meetings.
UGANDA
KAMPALA - Muslim youths planning a walk in solidarity with the victims of recent Garissa university attack in Kenya by al-Shabab.
SAUDI ARABIA/YEMEN
RIYADH/SANAA - Ongoing Saudi-led military offensive against Houthi militants in Yemen.
Special reports:
- Cabinet, parliament picks will shape Buhari presidency
By Rafiu Ajakaye
LAGOS (AA) – Nigeria's President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has his work cut out for him. Analysts say he will inherit a country in dire need of fixing, whose woes include an epileptic power supply; a comatose economy, due in part to dwindling oil revenue and corruption; insecurity arising from an ongoing insurgency in the northeast; ethnic militias in parts of the south and the central region; and rampant banditry.
- Hawala closure bites Somali business in Kenya
By Yassin Juma
NAIROBI (AA) – The Kenyan government's recent decision to suspend the Hawala informal cash transfer system, mainly used by the Somali expatriate community, is already biting business in capital Nairobi's Eastleigh district.
- Sudan elections
By Mohammed Amin
KHARTOUM (AA) – Millions of Sudanese voters are expected to cast ballots next week to elect a president and members of parliament and state legislative assemblies.
