Japan plans additional $165 bln for reconstruction - source |
- Japan plans additional $165 bln for reconstruction - source
- Singapore ups inflation forecast
- Chronology of events pertaining to inquest into Teoh's death
- Languages on Papua vanish without a whisper
- Murdoch is facing the music
- Beating death highlights Vietnam police 'abuse'
- Making life easier for women
- Boys and girls
- Japan man given life over 2007 murder of Briton Lindsay Hawker
- China gives foreign media rare look at elite military unit
- Astronauts close shuttle doors for last flight home
- Singapore's GDP growth forecast remains at 5-7%
- Beng Hock committed suicide: CI
- Australia looks to toughen privacy laws after News Corp scandal
- Air-conditioned clothes' help Japan beat summer heat
- China manufacturing at 28-month low: HSBC
- VIDEO: Germans divided on Greek bail out
- Australia seeks to stop Guantanamo Bay book profits
- Dow Jones panel says found no U.S. wrongdoing
- VIDEO: Tamils return home after Sri Lanka war
| Japan plans additional $165 bln for reconstruction - source Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:45 AM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government plans additional spending of 13 trillion yen ($165 billion) for reconstruction projects after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, on top of a combined 6 trillion yen already set aside in two extra budgets, a government source said on Thursday. 
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| Singapore ups inflation forecast Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:39 AM PDT Singapore's headline inflation for 2011 is now expected to be between four and five per cent, but the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) forecast for core inflation remains unchanged.
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| Chronology of events pertaining to inquest into Teoh's death Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:38 AM PDT The following is the chronology of events pertaining to the inquest and commission of inquiry (CI) into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock.
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| Languages on Papua vanish without a whisper Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:37 AM PDT Who will speak Iniai in 2050? Or Faiwol? Moskona? Wahgi? Probably no-one, as the languages of New Guinea -- the world's greatest linguistic reservoir -- are disappearing in a tide of indifference.
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| Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:27 AM PDT For other tabloids, this is an ideal opportunity to ditch their gossip news and media sensationalism in a bid to regain the value of journalistic ethics.
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| Beating death highlights Vietnam police 'abuse' Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:20 AM PDT It started with a row over a motorbike helmet. Eight days later a 53-year-old man was dead after a beating by Vietnamese police, in a case activists say fits a pattern of brutality in the force.
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| Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:20 AM PDT Give the women a break, let them carry out their favourite activities before they take over the chores again in order to build a happy family.
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| Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:16 AM PDT We are still pursuing examination-oriented education today. All genders are equal under the memorising-oriented education. However, would we admit that the current education system is disadvantaging male students due to physiological, psychological, mindset, personality and interest differences?
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| Japan man given life over 2007 murder of Briton Lindsay Hawker Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:14 AM PDT CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - A Japanese man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for raping and killing Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker and burying her naked body in a sand-filled bathtub in a case that horrified Japan and sparked a media frenzy. 
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| China gives foreign media rare look at elite military unit Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:14 AM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - With handshakes and smiles, China showed off the friendly face of its most high profile military unit to foreign journalists on Thursday in a bid to allay concerns about its military might, but officers deflected questions about modernisation efforts. 
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| Astronauts close shuttle doors for last flight home Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:14 AM PDT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The shuttle Atlantis astronauts closed their spaceship's cargo bay doors on Thursday, aiming to conclude the final U.S. space shuttle mission with a predawn landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 
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| Singapore's GDP growth forecast remains at 5-7% Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:49 PM PDT Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the republic's central bank, says Singapore's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth forecast remained between five and seven per cent, but uncertainties have increased.
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| Beng Hock committed suicide: CI Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:48 PM PDT The Commission of Inquiry has established that political aide Teoh Beng Hock committed suicide.
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| Australia looks to toughen privacy laws after News Corp scandal Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:43 PM PDT CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia is looking at strengthening privacy laws because of public concern over media intrusion in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the British operations of News Corp, the government said on Thursday. 
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| Air-conditioned clothes' help Japan beat summer heat Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:35 PM PDT Japan is braced for a sweltering summer with little air conditioning due to post-earthquake measures to save electricity. One clothing company has created special air conditioned outfits to help people through the hot working season. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.
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| China manufacturing at 28-month low: HSBC Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:24 PM PDT Manufacturing activity in China contracted for the first time in a year in July and hit a 28-month low, early HSBC data showed Thursday, the latest sign tightening measures are impacting the economy.
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| VIDEO: Germans divided on Greek bail out Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:52 PM PDT In Germany, public opinion is divided on whether Europe's strongest economy should spend yet more money on a bail-out for Greece.
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| Australia seeks to stop Guantanamo Bay book profits Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:10 PM PDT SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian prosecutors said on Thursday they had begun legal action to seize book profits from David Hicks, the only inmate at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay military prison inmate convicted of terrorism offences. 
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| Dow Jones panel says found no U.S. wrongdoing Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:10 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow Jones Special Committee, responding to a letter from two U.S. senators, said it had found at News Corp's Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires no sign of journalistic wrongdoing like the phone-hacking scandal at its British newspapers. 
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| VIDEO: Tamils return home after Sri Lanka war Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:17 PM PDT Two years after the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, hundreds of thousands of displaced Tamil civilians are returning to their home villages in the north.
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