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- Gates meets Hu as US, China play down rivalry
- 10 south Sudanese killed at north border: minister
- Deadly Australian floods spark evacuations in Brisbane
- North Korea border guards kill five defectors to China - report
- Shootings in Thai south kill 4: police
- Animal-shaped potatoes
- Panic-buying as floods threaten Australian city
- Politics overshadow Haiti earthquake anniversary
- Director shoots first major movie solely with iPhone
- Samsung ordered to pay $532 million to creditors
- Impact from ETP increasingly visible: Najib
- Selangor assembly to meet over constitutional amendment
- Game the politicians play
- Taiwan lets universities merge as students get scarcer
- Philippine police nab 36 in cybersex raid
- China's Baidu search engine launches English blog
- Indonesia welcomes BlackBerry porn pledge
- Communist Laos opens new stock exchange
- Australia's flood to exceed 1974 deluge in coming days
- Thefts leave million at flood risk in Philippines
| Gates meets Hu as US, China play down rivalry Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:50 AM PST BEIJING, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday as their two countries attempt to defuse military tensions before Hu makes a key visit to Washington next week.
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| 10 south Sudanese killed at north border: minister Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:49 AM PST JUBA, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Armed Misseriya Arab tribesmen killed 10 south Sudanese civilians and wounded 18 near the border as they were returning from the north, southern internal affairs minister Gier Chuang said Tuesday.
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| Deadly Australian floods spark evacuations in Brisbane Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:55 AM PST BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) - Authorities urged thousands of people to leave the outskirts of Australia's third-largest city, Brisbane, on Tuesday as floodwaters raced eastwards after a surging two-metre wall of water killed nine people overnight. 
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| North Korea border guards kill five defectors to China - report Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:55 AM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean border guards, in a rare cross-border pursuit, shot dead five defectors and wounded two others who fled the reclusive state into China, a South Korean newspaper reported on Tuesday. 
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| Shootings in Thai south kill 4: police Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:38 AM PST YALA, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Suspected Islamic rebels have killed four people and wounded another two in gun attacks across the violent Thai south, police said Tuesday.
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| Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:31 AM PST A sundry shop owner in Teluk Intan Zheng Nan Fu told Sin Chew Daily he had found some potatoes that looked like animals.
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| Panic-buying as floods threaten Australian city Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:31 AM PST BRISBANE, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Panic-buying hit Brisbane Tuesday, as businesses and offices in Australia's third largest city were forced to close as surging floodwaters raced in.
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| Politics overshadow Haiti earthquake anniversary Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:30 AM PST PORT-AU-PRINCE, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Haitians on Tuesday were marking the one-year anniversary of a devastating earthquake while awaiting the publication of a post-election report that could stoke political unrest.
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| Director shoots first major movie solely with iPhone Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:28 AM PST SEOUL, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - A movie claimed to be the first ever cinema-standard film to be shot solely on the iPhone has been premiered by celebrated South Korean director Park Chan-Wook.
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| Samsung ordered to pay $532 million to creditors Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:27 AM PST SEOUL, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - A South Korean appeal court ordered Samsung group companies Tuesday to pay creditors of its failed automaking unit $532 million as a penalty for a delayed debt repayment and in accumulated interest.
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| Impact from ETP increasingly visible: Najib Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:16 AM PST PUTRAJAYA, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said impacts from the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) were increasingly visible. "The confidence of the business sector and investors in the Malaysian economy is rising higher," he said during a media briefing on the Third Economic Transformation Programme Update here today. "This we can see from the performance of Bursa Malaysia which had touched the highest closing level on Jan 7 which was 1,572.21 points," he said.
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| Selangor assembly to meet over constitutional amendment Posted: 11 Jan 2011 12:15 AM PST Selangor is to convene a meeting of the state legislative assembly on Jan 24 to amend the state constitution, apparently to revert to the state and the sultan the power to appoint the state secretary, state legal advisor and state financial officer.
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| Posted: 10 Jan 2011 11:15 PM PST Regardless when the next general election will be held, Malaysians are going to take the country into a historical turning point in which it will decide the country's future for the next half a century.
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| Taiwan lets universities merge as students get scarcer Posted: 10 Jan 2011 11:03 PM PST TAIPEI, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Taiwan has decided to allow public universities to merge as student numbers continue to shrink due to one of the world's lowest birth rates, an official with the education ministry said Tuesday.
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| Philippine police nab 36 in cybersex raid Posted: 10 Jan 2011 11:02 PM PST MANILA, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Thirty-six people have been arrested in the Philippines for illegally selling Internet sex to web users in the United States, authorities said Tuesday.
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| China's Baidu search engine launches English blog Posted: 10 Jan 2011 11:02 PM PST BEIJING, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Chinese search engine giant Baidu has launched an English-language blog on the country's online culture, a company spokesman said Tuesday, as the firm looks to expand into overseas markets.
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| Indonesia welcomes BlackBerry porn pledge Posted: 10 Jan 2011 11:01 PM PST JAKARTA, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Indonesia welcomed Tuesday Canadian firm Research in Motion's (RIM) promise to filter its BlackBerry web services for pornography, after threatening to revoke the smartphone maker's licence.
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| Communist Laos opens new stock exchange Posted: 10 Jan 2011 11:00 PM PST HANOI, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - Communist Laos launched its first stock exchange on Tuesday, an official said, in the latest capitalist step by the rural-based nation aimed at spurring development.
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| Australia's flood to exceed 1974 deluge in coming days Posted: 10 Jan 2011 11:19 PM PST CANBERRA (Reuters) - Flooding in Brisbane, Australia's third largest city, was likely to exceed level of the deadly 1974 floods over the coming days, as high tides intensified already high water levels, Queensland state Premier Anna Bligh told reporters on Tuesday. 
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| Thefts leave million at flood risk in Philippines Posted: 10 Jan 2011 10:58 PM PST MANILA, Tuesday 11 January 2011 (AFP) - A million people in the Philippines are more at risk from deadly deluges after expensive flood warning equipment was stolen, likely by scavengers for scrap metal, meteorologists warned Tuesday.
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