Woman to live with a hundred of cobras

Woman to live with a hundred of cobras


Woman to live with a hundred of cobras

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:49 AM PDT

Whenever we mention about museums, most of us will usually think of historical relics and static exhibitions. The National Museum is going to break the traditional image of museums in this school holidays by presenting a living snake exhibition called "Pameran Ular lawan Ular". Local "Snake Queen" Noorazhariah Andan has also been invited to live together with a hundred of cobras during the exhibition.

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Better late then dead

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:32 AM PDT

When driving home for the Hari Raya holidays, your family waiting at home are worrying about you and expecting you to return safely. Don't rush, better to be late then dead!

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Reform in the public sector

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:21 AM PDT

It is a cause for alarm when civil servants start to make inappropriate remarks and commit mistakes. The country will not be able to move forward if no reform is made in the public service sector.

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Gillard comes back as new Australian PM

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:27 AM PDT

SYDNEY, Sept 7: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, says her minority government will be held to higher standards of accountability as a result of the deal struck with the independents.


Indonesian volcano blows again, biggest eruption yet

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:02 AM PDT

BERASTEPU, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian volcano that lay dormant for 400 years shot ash 5 km (3 miles) into the air on Tuesday, its biggest eruption since it became active last week, and experts warned of more blasts to come.


David Westin resigning as news head at Disney's ABC

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:02 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - ABC News President David Westin said on Monday he was resigning after 13 years, according to a memo he sent to employees that was released on the network's website.


New Delhi ready to host Games with completion of venues

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:48 PM PDT

NEW DEHLHI, Tuesday 7 September 2010 (Bernama) -- New Delhi is ready to host the XIX Commonwealth Games with the completion of all venues less than a month before the games begin on Oct 3.

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NSE traffic rush from Wednesday: PLUS

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:47 PM PDT

Traffic on the North-South Expressway is expected to be heavy from tomorrow as more people begin to travel to their hometowns and villages for the Aidilfitri celebration.

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Australian independents hand power to PM Gillard

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:27 PM PDT

CANBERRA, Tuesday 7 September 2010 (AFP) - Australia's "kingmaker" independent MPs Tuesday handed power to Prime Minister Julia Gillard with a one-seat majority, two weeks after elections produced the first hung parliament in 70 years.

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Strict curfew after four new deaths in Indian Kashmir

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:26 PM PDT

SRINAGAR, Tuesday 7 September 2010 (AFP) - Thousands of Indian police and paramilitary forces enforced a strict curfew in much of Kashmir on Tuesday after security forces shot dead four protesters, police and witnesses said.

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Philippine lawmaker bail extended on Hong Kong drug charges

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:24 PM PDT

HONG KONG, Tuesday 7 September 2010 (AFP) - A Philippine lawmaker and music promoter accused of drug trafficking in Hong Kong told a court Tuesday he could not enter a plea to the charges because he was undergoing medical treatment.

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Bangladeshis sent RM3b back home last month

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:05 PM PDT

DHAKA, Sept 7 — Bangladesh received US$957.9 million (RM2.99 billion) in remittances from workers overseas in August, up 2.4 percent from a year earlier, central bank data shows. The income from more than 6 million workers overseas, a key source of foreign exchange for the cash-starved economy, hit US$10.97 billion in the 2009/10 fiscal year that ...


Australian PM Gillard secures minority govt

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:28 PM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard secured a second term in office on Tuesday, winning the support of independent lawmakers to form a minority Labor government after losing her majority at elections last month.


Iraq's six-month political stalemate

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:55 PM PDT

Six months on from the declaration of a hung parliament in Iraq's election, there is still no new government.


Strike over French pension reforms

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:37 PM PDT

France faces serious disruption in a nationwide strike to fight proposals to raise the retirement age.


Quake-hit New Zealand city struggles back to business

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:02 PM PDT

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's second-biggest city, Christchurch, struggled to get back to business on Tuesday as aftershocks caused more damage and kept parts of the city cordoned off three days after a magnitude 7.1 quake.


Greenpeace urges Japan to probe graft in whaling programme

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:43 PM PDT

TOKYO, Tuesday 7 September 2010 (AFP) - Greenpeace urged Japan on Tuesday to probe graft claims in its state-funded whaling programme, a day after two of its activists received suspended jail terms for committing theft during an investigation.

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Philippines bus driver recounts horror in rear view mirror

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:36 PM PDT

MANILA, Tuesday 7 September 2010 (AFP) - The driver of a Philippine tourist bus hijacked by a sacked policeman told a public inquiry Tuesday how he witnessed the gunman shoot more than a dozen Hong Kong visitors one by one as talks broke down.

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Taiwan to spend over 200 million dollars on 4G telecom

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:36 PM PDT

TAIPEI, Tuesday 7 September 2010 (AFP) - Taiwan will spend around seven billion Taiwan dollars (219.3 million US) over the next four years to boost the development of cutting-edge telecom technologies, an official said Tuesday.

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Singapore-Taiwan deal to draw out others: city state's PM

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:35 PM PDT

TAIPEI, Tuesday 7 September 2010 (AFP) - Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said more Asian nations will be inclined to forge trade pacts with Taiwan if it secures such a deal with his city-state first, Taiwanese media said Tuesday.

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