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- China defends Brahmaputra dam project amid Indian concern
- British author to appeal Singapore jail sentence: lawyer
- 18 November 2010
- Umno information chief cautions against taking comfort in PKR turmoil
- Malaysians less fearful of becoming victim of crime: survey
- Zaid was never PKR coordinator: Anwar
- EPF to revert employee contribution to 11%
- Japanese whaler cleared of ramming protest boat
- Mind over antimatter: Physicists explore new frontier
- Afghan canine hero put down by mistake in Arizona
- Need a change in lifestyle to be happy?
- See the country from the windows of your heart, Rais tells Anwar
- Up to 14 A380 Rolls Royce engines affected
- BN to retain consensus way of selecting electoral candidates: Muhyiddin
- Facebook messaging poses risks for users: tech watchdog
- Girl rescued after falling down a well
- Shipwreck champers passes taste test
- Ahmadinejad: Iran has no use for nukes
- Japan arrests number two boss of largest yakuza group
- AirAsia X to launch Paris route in February 2011
| China defends Brahmaputra dam project amid Indian concern Posted: 18 Nov 2010 01:13 AM PST BEIJING, Thursday 18 November 2010 (AFP) - China on Thursday defended its decision to build a dam on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, amid concerns it could disrupt water supplies downstream in India and harm ecosystems.
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| British author to appeal Singapore jail sentence: lawyer Posted: 18 Nov 2010 01:12 AM PST SINGAPORE, Thursday 18 November 2010 (AFP) - A British author jailed for six weeks after his book on Singapore's death penalty was found to be in contempt of court is filing an appeal to overturn his conviction, his lawyer said Thursday.
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| Umno information chief cautions against taking comfort in PKR turmoil Posted: 18 Nov 2010 01:07 AM PST Umno information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan cautioned party members against taking comfort at the turmoil plaguing opposition Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), saying the effort to win the hearts of the people should continue.
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| Malaysians less fearful of becoming victim of crime: survey Posted: 18 Nov 2010 01:06 AM PST Malaysians are now less fearful of becoming a victim of crime, according to a survey by TNS Research International, the world's largest custom market research specialist.
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| Zaid was never PKR coordinator: Anwar Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:58 AM PST Parti Keadilan Rakyat advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim denied today that Datuk Zaid Ibrahim was ever PKR co-ordinator.
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| EPF to revert employee contribution to 11% Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:57 AM PST The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) monthly statutory contribution rate for employees will revert to 11% from 8%, with effect from the January wage next year, the EPF said in a statement.
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| Japanese whaler cleared of ramming protest boat Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:26 PM PST  WELLINGTON: A Japanese whaler did not deliberately ram and sink a Sea Shepherd protest boat during a high-seas confrontation in Antarctic waters early this year, New Zealand investigators found Thursday. There was no evidence either the whaler Shonan Maru II or Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil deliberately caused the January 6 collision, which sheared the bow off the militant environmental group's hi-tech trimaran, Maritime New Zealand said. Instead, the government agency blamed poor seamanship on both sides for the accident, which occurred as Sea Shepherd boats harassed Japanese harpooners in a campaign to prevent whaling in Antarctic waters. "(It) appears to have resulted from a failure by both masters and the crew of both vessels to appreciate and react appropriately to the potential for the collision," the inquiry found. The environmental group had accused the Shonan Maru II of deliberately crashing into the much smaller protest boat, describing it as an act of piracy. One of the Ady Gil's crew suffered broken ribs in the collision. The New Zealand inquiry noted there had been a number of incidents in the weeks before the collision, including an attempt by the Ady Gil to foul the Shonan Maru II's propeller with a mooring line. "(This) contributed to a tense operating environment and probable uncertainty over each other's intentions," it said. The Ady Gil's skipper Pete Bethune told the inquiry that about two minutes before the crash, the whaler aimed powerful water jets at his vessel but he did not order the boat to retreat. "I was like, 'No mate, we're just gonna sit here and take this' ... my intention was to just glare at these guys as they went past," he told investigators. The whaler then veered toward the protest boat, which investigators said "rendered a close-quarters situation inevitable", prompting the Ady Gil to accelerate forward at the last minute in an attempt at evasive action. Maritime NZ said both sides "failed to comply with international collision regulations and to act as prudent seafarers should have". It did not make any recommendations for prosecutions. Attempts to tow the Ady Gil to a French Antarctic base were abandoned after two days and Sea Shepherd left the boat to sink, although the report said it was unclear whether or not it was salvageable. A month after the collision, Bethune boarded the Shonan Maru II, saying he wanted to confront its captain about the crash, and subsequently spent five months in custody in Japan before being deported to his native New Zealand. The 45-year-old had a public falling out with Sea Shepherd and last month accused it of deliberately scuttling the Ady Gil to gain publicity for its cause, a charge the group strongly denies. Bethune said Thursday he felt vindicated by the report, arguing it placed the bulk of blame of the Shonan Maru II because Ady Gil had right of way when the collision occurred. "It's the equivalent of two cars approaching traffic lights and it was the Japanese who ran the red light," he said. Bethune added: "When you're doing three knots, and an 800 tonne boat is passing you doing 15 knots, you don't expect them to try and run you over." Japan hunts whales in southern waters around Antarctica using a loophole in a 1986 international moratorium that allows "lethal research". The hunt has resulted in a spate of clashes in recent years as conservation groups such as Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace seek to disrupt the Japanese fleet's activities. Japan's fisheries agency, the quasi-governmental Institute of Cetacean Research, and Kyodo Senpaku, the contractor that sends out the harpoon ships every year, all declined immediate comment on the report from New Zealand. "The institute has yet to confirm the report, so it cannot make any comment," said a woman at the institute who declined to be identified. - AFP
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| Mind over antimatter: Physicists explore new frontier Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:24 PM PST  PARIS: Scientists at CERN said they had trapped dozens of hydrogen "antimatter" atoms, a technical feat that boosts research into one of the great puzzles of particle physics. Under a theory expounded in 1931 by the eccentric British physicist Paul Dirac, when energy transforms into matter, it produces a particle and its mirror image -- called an anti-particle -- which holds the opposite electrical charge. When particles and anti-particles collide, they annihilate each other in a small flash of energy. If everything were equal at the birth of the cosmos, matter and anti-matter would have existed in the same quantities. The observable Universe would have had no chance of coming into being, as these opposing particles would have wiped each other out. In reality, though, matter came to be far more dominant, and antimatter is rare. But understanding why there is this huge imbalance presents a daunting technical challenge. Until now, experiments have produced anti-atoms, namely of hydrogen, but only in a free state. That means they instantly collide with ordinary matter and get annihilated, making it impossible to measure them or study their structure. In a paper published on Wednesday by the British journal Nature, a team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva explain a method of snaring these so-called antihydrogen atoms. Experiments conducted in its ALPHA laboratory found a way of using strong, complex magnetic fields and a vacuum to capture and hold the mirror-image particles apart from ordinary matter. Thousands of antihydrogen atoms have been made in the lab, but in the most successful experiment so far, 38 have been trapped long enough -- one-tenth of a second -- for them to be studied. "For reasons that no-one yet understands, nature ruled out antimatter," CERN physicist Jeffrey Hangst said. "It is thus very rewarding, and a bit overwhelming, to look at the ALPHA device and know that it contains stable, neutral atoms of antimatter. This inspires us to work that much harder to see if antimatter holds some secret." - AFP
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| Afghan canine hero put down by mistake in Arizona Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:22 PM PST  WASHINGTON: A dog credited with saving her owner's life in Afghanistan by barking at a suicide bomber has been put to death by mistake in Arizona after straying and ending up in a pound. Target, a two-year-old shepherd mix, had appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and won American hearts with her tale after being brought back from Afghanistan by owner Sergeant Terry Young, who was distraught at her untimely end. "I just can't believe that something like this would happen to such a good dog," Young, who found and adopted his four-legged friend at his Afghan base, told local media. "Even while she was alive, they've been asking me what does this dog mean to you? And really, all I can say is everything. There are no words to describe it." Back in February, Target and two others dogs, Rufus and Sasha, barked when a suicide bomber came to Young's Dand Patan base, near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. Sasha, who reportedly bit the bomber, was killed when the man detonated himself outside the camp, but the other two canine heroes survived and were feted like human heroes on their return to America. Spotted in the San Tan Valley area of southeast Phoenix, Arizona on Friday and mistaken for a stray, Target was picked up by the Pinal County Animal Care center and taken to the pound. She was not scheduled to be put down, but an animal care center employee mistakenly took Target out of her pen on Monday and euthanized her. The employee has since been placed on administrative leave for failing to follow the correct procedures. "I am heartsick over this," the director of the facility, Ruth Stalter, said in a statement. "I had to personally deliver the news to the dog's owner and he and his family are understandably distraught." The center has promised to investigate the incident thoroughly. - AFP
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| Need a change in lifestyle to be happy? Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:21 AM PST |
| See the country from the windows of your heart, Rais tells Anwar Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:18 AM PST Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim urged Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today "to see the country from the windows of your heart" and not from his political point of view, which he said was muddied by the ongoing turmoil plaguing his party.
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| Up to 14 A380 Rolls Royce engines affected Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:17 AM PST MELBOURNE, Thursday 18 November 2010 (Bernama) -- Up to 14 Rolls Royce engines on the Qantas' A380s will need to be inspected and potentially replaced, the airline's chief executive Alan Joyce says.
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| BN to retain consensus way of selecting electoral candidates: Muhyiddin Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:16 AM PST The Barisan Nasional (BN) is to retain its concept of consensus without any drastic change in the selection of candidates for the next general election, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today.
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| Facebook messaging poses risks for users: tech watchdog Posted: 18 Nov 2010 12:15 AM PST SINGAPORE, Thursday 18 November 2010 (AFP) - Facebook's new online messaging service makes users of the social networking site more vulnerable to identity theft by cybercriminals, computer security firm Sophos warned Thursday.
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| Girl rescued after falling down a well Posted: 17 Nov 2010 09:38 PM PST Dramatic rescue in Argentina as a three-year-old girl falls more than 20 metres down an abandoned irrigation well.
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| Shipwreck champers passes taste test Posted: 17 Nov 2010 11:39 PM PST Wine lovers in Finland have been enjoying a sip of vintage champagne that was salvaged from a shipwreck after more than 200 years underwater.
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| Ahmadinejad: Iran has no use for nukes Posted: 17 Nov 2010 11:46 PM PST BAKU, Nov 18: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed Western allegations over the country's nuclear program, reiterating that Tehran is not after nuclear bombs.
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| Japan arrests number two boss of largest yakuza group Posted: 17 Nov 2010 11:12 PM PST TOKYO, Thursday 18 November 2010 (AFP) - The number-two crime boss in Japan's biggest yakuza group was arrested Thursday for alleged extortion as police intensify a crackdown on organised crime, police and media reports said.
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| AirAsia X to launch Paris route in February 2011 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 10:58 PM PST Malaysia's long-haul budget airline AirAsia X will launch a Kuala Lumpur-Paris route -- its second stop in Europe -- in February next year, the carrier's chief executive said Thursday.
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