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- Taiwan 'shocked' as China solo travellers stay home
- Japan widens ban on radioactive beef
- Garuda Indonesia pilots end strike over pay
- Muddy
- China defends carrier plans, neighbours worry about buildup
- China's Wen says illness delayed crash site visit
- Seoul sees heaviest daily downpour for July
- Umno still open to talks with PAS on Muslim unity: Maslan
- Four killed in bus-lorry crash
- Extend registration of legal foreign workers: MBAM
- Utusan obtains leave to challenge industrial court decision
- Merdeka Day and general election
- Malaysia tops in social networking in Southeast Asia
- Testing
- Chavez's childhood friends root for cancer recovery
- Chinese railway institute takes blame for train crash
- HSBC to slash over 10,000 jobs: report
- China's Wen vows to punish those to blame for crash
- Russian teens world geography bee champs
- Australia's Jetstar denies exploiting Thai staff
| Taiwan 'shocked' as China solo travellers stay home Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:38 AM PDT Taiwan's travel operators said Thursday they were "shocked" that fewer than 600 solo Chinese tourists had visited the island since a ban on such travel was lifted a month ago.
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| Japan widens ban on radioactive beef Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:37 AM PDT Japan widened a ban on beef shipments to a second tsunami-hit region on Thursday, citing elevated radiation levels in the meat of animals because of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis.
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| Garuda Indonesia pilots end strike over pay Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:20 AM PDT Garuda Indonesia pilots called off a 24-hour strike Thursday after receiving assurances that their concerns over pay will be addressed, union officials said.
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| Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:09 AM PDT Residents walk on a street covered with mud after the floods caused by heavy downpours in Dongducheon, about 40km north of Seoul.
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| China defends carrier plans, neighbours worry about buildup Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's neighbours are worried its aircraft carrier programme may in time intimidate regional rivals but its military on Thursday defended the plan as vital for maritime security. 
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| China's Wen says illness delayed crash site visit Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:52 AM PDT Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday he had been in hospital for more than a week, delaying his visit to the site of a deadly weekend train crash, state media reported.
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| Seoul sees heaviest daily downpour for July Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:43 AM PDT Seoul was soaked with 301.5 millimetres of rain on Wednesday, the largest amount of daily precipitation ever recorded during the month of July, the state weather agency said Thursday.
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| Umno still open to talks with PAS on Muslim unity: Maslan Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:34 AM PDT Umno Information Chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan has said that Umno was still open to having talks with PAS to unite the Muslims and Malays in the country, especially with the advent of the Ramadan fasting month next week.
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| Four killed in bus-lorry crash Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:34 AM PDT Four people were killed in a head-on collision between an express bus and a lorry at Km201 of the North-South Expressway near Kamunting, 120km north of here, early today.
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| Extend registration of legal foreign workers: MBAM Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:33 AM PDT The Master Builders Association Malaysia (MBAM) has appealed to the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider extending the biometric registration of legal foreign workers until Aug 31 from July 31.
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| Utusan obtains leave to challenge industrial court decision Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:33 AM PDT The High Court here granted leave to Utusan Melayu (Malaysia) Berhad to challenge an Industrial Court's decision ordering the company to pay bonus equivalent to two months' salary to its staff for the year 2009.
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| Merdeka Day and general election Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:32 AM PDT Theoretically, the next general election should not be held in the near future since the memories for the July 9 rally are still fresh and the issue is still simmering. However, a delay might not necessarily benefit the BN either.
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| Malaysia tops in social networking in Southeast Asia Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:32 AM PDT The rapid growth of social networking in Malaysia, which is the most popular online activity, will result in an increased awareness for the need to build "walls" within existing networks, says Yahoo.
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| Chavez's childhood friends root for cancer recovery Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:30 AM PDT SABANETA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Far from the presidential palace where a convalescent Hugo Chavez huddles with doctors, hometown friends in the steamy village of his birth are praying for his speedy recovery from cancer. 
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| Chinese railway institute takes blame for train crash Posted: 28 Jul 2011 12:30 AM PDT WENZHOU, China (Reuters) - A Chinese railway research institute took responsibility on Thursday for a flaw in signalling equipment which led to a train crash that killed 39 people and has shaken public confidence in the government's high-speed rail programme. 
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| HSBC to slash over 10,000 jobs: report Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:45 PM PDT HSBC will slash more than 10,000 jobs as part of the global banking giant's recently announced cost-cutting drive, a report said.
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| China's Wen vows to punish those to blame for crash Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:19 PM PDT China's premier Wen Jiabao pledged Thursday to "severely punish" those responsible for a deadly train crash that has sparked public fury and triggered fears over the safety of high-speed rail.
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| Russian teens world geography bee champs Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:19 PM PDT They had to identify countries and regions of the world by economies, politics, latitudes -- even by a type of tortoise.
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| Australia's Jetstar denies exploiting Thai staff Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:18 PM PDT Budget Australian carrier Jetstar strongly denied claims Thursday that it was exploiting foreign cabin crew and overworking its staff following reports of 20-hour shifts.
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