More genuine bridge builders needed: Chandra |
- More genuine bridge builders needed: Chandra
- PTPTN opens door to negotiate with loan defaulters
- Obesity to worsen, weigh heavily on healthcare costs
- Japan aims to halve radiation in affected areas over 2 yrs
- Japan PM to resign, successor race wide open
- Continuous defense of cultural heritage
- China says US report on its military groundless
- Six killed in bombing, shooting in Thai south
- Flash floods kill at least 33 in NW Pakistan
- Japan PM to resign, successor race wide open
- Rebels to govern from Tripoli as Gaddafi hunt goes on
- Poor roads, lax laws hike Bangladesh death toll
- Hurricane Irene to hit cities, resorts on U.S. east coast
- Syrian forces kill 8, protesters hail Libya
- Six dead in Thai south attacks
- VIDEO: Japans prime minister resigns
- Japan PM to resign, successor race wide open
- The most terrible toxin in politics
- Kan to resign as Japan PM after party chooses new head
- China to boost solar energy generation
| More genuine bridge builders needed: Chandra Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:47 AM PDT If Dr Chandra Muzaffar has his way, he would be pasting posters throughout the nation saying "Wanted: More Bridge Builders."
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| PTPTN opens door to negotiate with loan defaulters Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:45 AM PDT The National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) is prepared to negotiate with blacklisted defaulters or those who have been issued with summonses to help them repay their loan, its chairman Datuk Ismail Mohamed Said said.
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| Obesity to worsen, weigh heavily on healthcare costs Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:12 AM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if present trends continue, about half of both men and women in the United States will be obese by 2030, health experts warned on Friday. 
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| Japan aims to halve radiation in affected areas over 2 yrs Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:12 AM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to halve radiation over two years in places contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, removing soil, plants and trees as well as cleaning roofs in an area spanning thousands of square kilometres. 
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| Japan PM to resign, successor race wide open Posted: 26 Aug 2011 01:12 AM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - The race to pick Japan's sixth leader in five years was in turmoil on Friday after a scandal-tainted party powerbroker looked likely to refuse to back the most popular candidate just days before a vote. 
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| Continuous defense of cultural heritage Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:58 AM PDT After some mediation, the old buildings on Jalan Sultan get to stay for the time being. However, the number of similar battles we must fight in the future to defend our culture and heritage remains unknown.
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| China says US report on its military groundless Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:47 AM PDT China on Friday dismissed a US report on its military expansion as "completely groundless" and said it had exaggerated the threat to Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing calls a breakaway province.
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| Six killed in bombing, shooting in Thai south Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:21 PM PDT YALA, Aug 26 — A bomb explosion killed five defence volunteers, and a rubber tapper was shot dead in Thailand's restive deep south today, police said, the latest violent incident in a region plagued for seven years by separatist unrest. Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a bomb buried in a road as a truck carrying six defence volunteers drove ... 
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| Flash floods kill at least 33 in NW Pakistan Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:39 AM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by monsoon rains wiped out a village in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 33 people, a government official said on Friday. 
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| Japan PM to resign, successor race wide open Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:39 AM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - The race to pick Japan's sixth leader in five years was wide open on Friday after a scandal-tainted party powerbroker looked likely to refuse to back the most popular candidate just days before a vote. 
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| Rebels to govern from Tripoli as Gaddafi hunt goes on Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:39 AM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan rebels announced a move to govern the country from Tripoli as they battled pockets of loyalists in their hunt for fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who taunted them from his hiding place. 
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| Poor roads, lax laws hike Bangladesh death toll Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:07 AM PDT DHAKA (Reuters) - Samia Halim struggles to hold back tears as she recalls the fateful night two years ago when a road accident in the Bangladesh capital took the life of her youngest son. 
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| Hurricane Irene to hit cities, resorts on U.S. east coast Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:07 AM PDT WILMINGTON, N.C. (Reuters) - North Carolina braced on Friday for a direct hit from Hurricane Irene, cities along the U.S. east coast were on alert and millions of beach goers cut short vacations to escape the powerful storm. 
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| Syrian forces kill 8, protesters hail Libya Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:07 AM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed eight people across Syria overnight, activists said on Friday, in a sustained campaign to crush street protests against his rule buoyed by the demise of Muammar Gaddafi's power in Libya. 
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| Six dead in Thai south attacks Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:53 PM PDT A roadside blast killed five security officers travelling to the scene of a fatal shooting in the Thai south Friday, police said, amid a spike in attacks during the holy month of Ramadan.
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| VIDEO: Japans prime minister resigns Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:00 AM PDT Japan's beleaguered Prime Minister Naoto Kan has announced his resignation, clearing the way for the country's sixth leader in five years.
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| Japan PM to resign, successor race wide open Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:36 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - The race to pick Japan's sixth leader in five years was up in the air on Friday after media said ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa was unlikely to back former foreign minister Seiji Maehara, a security hawk who is popular with voters. 
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| The most terrible toxin in politics Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:33 PM PDT We cannot tolerate nor ignore such wanton violence and threats. If we tolerate and remain silent, it would mean that we have equated violence to justice while indirectly encouraging more terrorist acts that threaten social peace and harmony. By then, we will lose democracy, as well as humanity and peace!
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| Kan to resign as Japan PM after party chooses new head Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:17 PM PDT Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Friday at the parliament that he would resign as Japan's prime minister after the next chief of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was elected, reports Xinhua news agency.
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| China to boost solar energy generation Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:16 PM PDT China has set a target of creating 1 million kilowatts of concentrated solar power (CSP) by 2015, a government plan showed Friday, as part of its efforts to expand the use of alternative energy sources.
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