high profile
partnership with Microsoft would allow Nokia to recover lost ground. However, initial reactions to the new phone which uses Microsoft's Windows 8 software suggest it is not the gain change which experts say the company badly needs.
The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in East Timor shortly her seven air
stopover
as part of a six-nation tour of the region in an effort to boost US ties with the Asia. From Jakarta, here is Karishma Vaswani.
Mrs. Clinton is the first US Secretary of State to visit East Timor. The visit includes the meeting with the newly elected Timorese President Taur Matan Ruak and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. Mrs. Clinton’s trip is an attempt to highlight the role the US has played in Timor since it gained independence ten years ago. But analysts say this visit is about the US trying to remain relevant in East Timor which has seen a surge in Chinese investment and infrastructure projects in recent years.
The Peruvian President Ollanta Humala said a major figure in the Shining Path Rebel Movement had been killed. Mr. Humala said the rebel known as Comrade Williams had been killed in a clash with the security forces in a remote jungle location. The President said Comrade Williams was a skilled
sharpshooter
who had taken part in an ambush in which 14 soldiers died in 2009. The government says that it has defeated the Shining Path and their main stronghold but remnants of the Maoist group remain in Peru's coca growing heartland.