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- Singapore needs 100,000 workers as economy sizzles
- China's GDP up 11.1% in first half 2010
- BN, NGOs submit MoU on sand mining
- Refugees in a dilemma
- China faces worst floods in 12 years
- Fresh unrest flares in N.Ireland
- 'Abducted' Iranian denies being nuclear scientist
- Indonesia cautious on Australia’s Timor refugee plan
- Iran nuclear scientist returns home from U.S.
- Amiable mood for N.Korea-U.N. military talks - officials
- New strike hits Honda parts supplier in China
- FEATURE - Torture victim's saga mirrors Iran's history
- Radical overhaul for British universities
- One dead, over 100 ill in China after taking malaria pills
- What are the major issues between India and Pakistan?
- China faces worst floods in years, Japan on alert
- Iranian nuclear scientist returns home from U.S.
- U.S. paid Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million - report
- Philippine leader to resume talks with Muslim rebels
- The craze over excellence rating
| Singapore needs 100,000 workers as economy sizzles Posted: 15 Jul 2010 01:03 AM PDT SINGAPORE, Thursday 15 July 2010 (AFP) - Singapore will need 100,000 new foreign workers this year to keep on track an economy enjoying a stunning rebound, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in remarks published Thursday.
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| China's GDP up 11.1% in first half 2010 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:45 AM PDT BEIJING, Thursday 15 July 2010 (Bernama) -- China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 11.1% in the first half of 2010 to reach 17,284 billion yuan, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) here today.
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| BN, NGOs submit MoU on sand mining Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:44 AM PDT More than 300 representatives and supporters of Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties and non-governmental organisations today handed over a memorandum to the Selangor government protesting against what they claimed to be uncontrolled sand mining in the state of late.
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| Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:44 AM PDT Bernama recently interviewed Alan Vernon, thehead of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Malaysia, where he spoke on issues relating to refugees and asylum seekers. This is the final of a two-part series.
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| China faces worst floods in 12 years Posted: 14 Jul 2010 08:17 PM PDT BEIJING -China could be facing the worst floods in more than a decade if rains continue to drench the Yangtze river region, an official said Thursday, as a major tropical storm threatens the southern coast.
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| Fresh unrest flares in N.Ireland Posted: 14 Jul 2010 07:53 PM PDT LONDON -Nationalist rioters in Northern Ireland threw petrol bombs at police, who responded by firing rubber bullets, in a fourth night of unrest during the province's marching season, a report said Thursday.
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| 'Abducted' Iranian denies being nuclear scientist Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:05 PM PDT TEHRAN -An Iranian who claimed he was "abducted" by US spies last year denied upon his arrival in Tehran Thursday that he was a nuclear scientist, but said he was questioned by Israelis during his captivity.
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| Indonesia cautious on Australia’s Timor refugee plan Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:24 AM PDT JAKARTA, July 15 — Indonesia sees Australia's proposal to build a refugee processing centre in East Timor as a potential component of a broader regional plan to tackle people smuggling, Indonesia's foreign minister said today. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard floated the idea earlier this month in an effort to allay voter fears about rising ...
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| Iran nuclear scientist returns home from U.S. Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:46 AM PDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian nuclear scientist who says he was abducted by CIA agents a year ago returned home from the United States early on Thursday saying he was pressured to lie about Iran's nuclear programme.
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| Amiable mood for N.Korea-U.N. military talks - officials Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:46 AM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean and U.N. Command officers held talks on Thursday on the sinking of a South Korean warship in an amiable mood, agreeing to continue dialogue, after Pyongyang had issued threats of war, officials said.
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| New strike hits Honda parts supplier in China Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:46 AM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - A strike has broken out at a south China factory supplying parts for Japan's Honda Motor7267.T>, the latest in a string of stoppages by Chinese workers demanding a bigger piece of the country's economic wealth.
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| FEATURE - Torture victim's saga mirrors Iran's history Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:46 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Houshang Asadi is an equal opportunity torture victim.
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| Radical overhaul for British universities Posted: 14 Jul 2010 04:17 PM PDT By Tim Castle LONDON: Business Secretary Vince Cable is expected to propose radical measures to address a looming shortfall in the funding of English universities today when he delivers his first speech on higher education.Cable, in office since the coalition government came to power in May, will set out his vision for the future of universities ahead of a review of student fees due to report in the autumn. Universities want a cap lifted on the 3,225 pounds (RM15,790) a year they can charge students, saying without higher fees the quality of teaching will suffer. Cable is reported to be interested in exploring the alternative of a tax levied on the earnings of all graduates. The option could be politically attractive as his Liberal Democrat party fought the May election pledging to phase out student fees in England. At present, students take out government loans to pay for courses, repaying the money when they start earning more than 15,000 pounds a year. Other money-saving options Cable is reported to be considering include shortening university courses to two years from three years. More students could be encouraged to save money by staying at home and studying university degrees externally, along the lines of Open University courses. Demographic boom Cable is under pressure to find savings in higher education spending, which accounts for around half the 19 billion pound budget of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. He has to find ways of cutting expenditure by a quarter over the next four years as his contribution to the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition's promise to tackle a record peacetime deficit. At the same time demand for university places has soared to a record high for the fourth year running, thanks to a demographic boom, a lack of jobs elsewhere as the country emerges from recession, and thousands of applicants rejected last year trying their luck again. Critics of a graduate tax say higher earners would end up paying far more than the actual cost of their university course. It would also require the government to bridge a funding gap for a number of years until the first graduate tax contributions reach the Exchequer -- a tricky option at a time when overall spending is due to be cut. - Reuters
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| One dead, over 100 ill in China after taking malaria pills Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:45 PM PDT  BEIJING: One child died and more than 100 villagers fell ill in southwestern China after they took anti-malarial medicine, state media reported, in the latest product-safety scare. A villager in Sichuan province was diagnosed with falciparum malaria, the most dangerous type of the disease, in May and 143 people who had contact with the patient took preventative medicine, the official Xinhua news agency said. They soon started complaining of exhaustion and nausea, and a child who suffered a headache after taking the drugs died earlier this week, the report late Wednesday quoted the provincial health department as saying. A statement on the department's website confirmed the death, adding that one other person was in a serious condition in hospital but that 103 others were out of danger. Health authorities were investigating why the drugs caused such a reaction. China is regularly plagued by food and medicine-related product safety concerns. In May, authorities fined two drug companies, including one authorised to make swine flu vaccines, for producing substandard rabies shots. And allegations in March that four children had died and more than 70 others fell ill in the northern province of Shanxi after they received vaccines against illnesses such as hepatitis B and rabies caused huge concern. - AFP
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| What are the major issues between India and Pakistan? Posted: 14 Jul 2010 10:59 PM PDT ANALYSIS, July 15 — The foreign ministers of nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India are holding their first substantive talks since the Mumbai attacks of 2008 in Islamabad today. The talks between S.M. Krishna of India and Shah Mehmood Qureshi of Pakistan are widely seen as the first step in trying to revive a peace process broken off in the wake ...
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| China faces worst floods in years, Japan on alert Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:41 PM PDT BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) - Heavy rains and powerful winds battered East Asia on Thursday, pressing authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in Japan and putting China on alert for its worst floods in years.
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| Iranian nuclear scientist returns home from U.S. Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:41 PM PDT TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian nuclear scientist who says he was abducted by CIA agents a year ago returned home from the United States early on Thursday saying he was pressured to lie about Iran's nuclear programme.
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| U.S. paid Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million - report Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:41 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Iranian nuclear scientist who said he was abducted by U.S. agents was paid more than $5 million by the CIA for information about Iran's nuclear program, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.
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| Philippine leader to resume talks with Muslim rebels Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:00 PM PDT MANILA, Thursday 15 July 2010 (AFP) - New Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Thursday he would resume peace talks aimed at ending a decades-old Muslim separatist rebellion that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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| The craze over excellence rating Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:00 PM PDT The ranking of universities should serve only as a standard for self-evaluation. It must not be taken as a target to be achieved. The spirit of democracy and academic freedom should always come first and always be the core values of all universities.
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