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- US Senate to hold 11th hour vote on debt plan
- Plight of the MIC
- S.African high speed train link takes off
- U.S. military chief sees no direct Syria involvement
- S. Korea summons Japan envoys in islands row
- Pockets of high radiation remind of Fukushima plant danger
- French hotels take off....with treetop resorts
- Property bubble burst unlikely in near future: AmInvestment Bank
- Jeff Ooi to face DAP disciplinary committee Friday
- Cambodian girl dies in cremation blast: police
- Japan warns of China's growing naval muscle
- Durban talks unlikely to strike climate deal - U.N.
- VIDEO: Leeches 'catch on' in Georgia
- VIDEO: US House passes debt-limit bill
- VIDEO: Syria crisis: 'More deaths' in Hama
- VIDEO: Serving food to thousands in Somalia
- VIDEO: Survivor recounts Treblinka uprising
- Confrontation and compromise
- Thai parliament starts work by electing speaker
- Body size no guarantee of health
| US Senate to hold 11th hour vote on debt plan Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:37 AM PDT With only hours to go before a deadline, the US Senate was expected Tuesday to approve a massive austerity plan to avert a debt default that would have wreaked havoc through the global economy.
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| Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:36 AM PDT Linking up all the events related to the MIC over the past few days, I don't think they are coincidental, but rather traceable.
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| S.African high speed train link takes off Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:29 AM PDT South Africa's first high-speed train on Tuesday morning made its first trip between economic hub Johannesburg and capital city Pretoria.
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| U.S. military chief sees no direct Syria involvement Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:02 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer called on Tuesday for a swift end to violence in Syria but said direct U.S. involvement was unlikely beyond diplomatic pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to implement reforms. 
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| S. Korea summons Japan envoys in islands row Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:09 AM PDT South Korea summoned a Japanese envoy Tuesday to lodge a strong protest against Tokyo's restated claim to disputed islands, a day after barring Japanese legislators from entering the country.
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| Pockets of high radiation remind of Fukushima plant danger Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:01 AM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a fresh reminder of the risks faced by workers battling to contain the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. 
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| French hotels take off....with treetop resorts Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:11 AM PDT If you want to get away from it all, why not travel straight up. A new kind of hotel is catching on in France -- where your room is a cabin lodged high in the forest canopy. AFPTV went to stay in the rough-and-ready accommodation that keeps your feet off the ground. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2011.
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| Property bubble burst unlikely in near future: AmInvestment Bank Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:11 AM PDT A property bubble burst is unlikely to happen in the Asia Pacific, including Malaysia, as there are no signs to indicate such a trend in the next two years, says AmInvestment Bank Group.
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| Jeff Ooi to face DAP disciplinary committee Friday Posted: 01 Aug 2011 11:54 PM PDT DAP central committee member and member of parliament for Jelutong Jeff Ooi will face the party's Disciplinary Committee this Friday after calling for the resignation of Penang state executive councillor Wong Hon Wai.
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| Cambodian girl dies in cremation blast: police Posted: 01 Aug 2011 11:47 PM PDT An eight-year-old girl was killed on Tuesday in an explosion at a crematorium in Cambodia after her relatives poured gasoline on her late grandmother's casket to make it burn faster, police said.
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| Japan warns of China's growing naval muscle Posted: 01 Aug 2011 11:46 PM PDT Japan voiced concern Tuesday over China's growing assertiveness and widening naval reach in the South China Sea and Pacific Ocean and what it called the "opaqueness" of Beijing's military budget.
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| Durban talks unlikely to strike climate deal - U.N. Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:58 PM PDT WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Major climate talks in South Africa at year-end will be unlikely to strike agreement on a new pact, but will be important in determining the shape of long-term efforts to tackle climate change, a senior U.N. climate official said on Tuesday. 
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| VIDEO: Leeches 'catch on' in Georgia Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:18 PM PDT Leeches have apparently been rediscovered as a form of treatment, after being used in medicine for thousands of years.
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| VIDEO: US House passes debt-limit bill Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:16 PM PDT After weeks of wrangling, the US House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill in order to stop the country potentially defaulting on its debts.
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| VIDEO: Syria crisis: 'More deaths' in Hama Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:18 PM PDT More people are reported to have been killed in Syria, after government forces shelled the city of Hama for the second day in a row.
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| VIDEO: Serving food to thousands in Somalia Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:22 PM PDT The BBC's Andrew Harding reports from an aid station in the capital Mogadishu, as the African Union says it will hold a summit to pledge help for the victims of Somalia's drought.
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| VIDEO: Survivor recounts Treblinka uprising Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:21 PM PDT It is 68 years since more than a one thousand Jewish prisoners at the Nazi death camp, Treblinka, rose up against their guards and attempted to escape. Survivor Samuel Willenberg, 87, talks about the horrors he saw.
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| Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:42 PM PDT If the US debt ceiling crisis is staged in Malaysia, I wonder whether it would result in a happy ending.
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| Thai parliament starts work by electing speaker Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:31 PM PDT Thailand's new parliament convened for business for the first time on Tuesday, electing a speaker in initial steps that pave the way for the country's first female prime minister to take power.
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| Body size no guarantee of health Posted: 01 Aug 2011 10:31 PM PDT Scene One: Like any other weekend, a man goes for his routine jogging on Sunday. Despite being only slightly obese, the man continues doing regular exercise thinking that if he does not get thinner, it would be unhealthy.
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