Health Ministry to engage private GPs to implement "DOT" on TB patients

Health Ministry to engage private GPs to implement "DOT" on TB patients


Health Ministry to engage private GPs to implement "DOT" on TB patients

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:19 AM PDT

The Health Ministry is planning to expand the "Directly Observed Treatment" (DOT) method for treating Tuberculosis (TB) patients to private clinics soon.

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Uganda's new slave trade: girls trafficked for sex

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:19 AM PDT

Sitting at a table in a run-down bar on the edge of Ugandan capital Kampala, Stella Kobusingye stares into the distance as she recalls the tangle of lies and deceit that led to her sex-slavery ordeal.

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Football: Former Chinese internationals arrested

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:11 AM PDT

Chinese police have arrested four former Chinese internationals on suspicion they accepted substantial bribes to throw a league match in 2003, state press said on Saturday.

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Hong Kong leader hopefuls in final campaign push

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:01 AM PDT

Hong Kong leadership candidates launched a final push for votes on Saturday, on the eve of the hardest fought election since the city's handover from British rule in 1997.

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France defends operation to catch gunman

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:29 PM PDT

France's interior minister has launched a robust defence of the police as criticism grows of the operation that ended in the dramatic death of a gunman who killed seven people, three of them children.

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Cambodia's ruling party president elected f senate president

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:23 PM PDT

The president of the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) Chea Sim, 80, was elected the president of the Senate in the third legislature on Saturday.

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The Big Blue II: free-diving with dolphins at Italian villa

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:20 PM PDT

The son of Jacques Mayol, the French diver who inspired the cult film "The Big Blue", has turned his father's Mediterranean island house into a celebration of his ecological vision and passion for nature.

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Two wounded in Myanmar golf course bombing: official

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:11 PM PDT

Two bombs exploded at a Myanmar hotel golf course Saturday, wounding two people during a tournament to mark next week's Armed Forces Day, a government official said.

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20 foreigners detained in two raids in Kota Damansara

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:08 PM PDT

Twenty foreigners working without permits and abusing their social visit passes, and two local men, were detained in two raids in Kota Damansara, here, last night.

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Clashes after Egypt soccer club banned, 1 killed

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:43 PM PDT

CAIRO, March 24 — One person was shot dead and 18 injured in clashes between security forces and angry soccer fans in Egypt's Port Said after their club al-Masry was banned for two seasons following the country's worst stadium disaster, a medical source said. The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) said the club was banned for two seasons ...



US soldier charged with 17 murders in Afghan killings

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:32 PM PDT

KABUL, March 24 — A US Army sergeant was formally charged with 17 counts of murder on Friday for killing eight adults and nine children in a pre-dawn shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan that further eroded US-Afghan relations already frayed by a decade of war. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a decorated 38-year-old veteran of four combat tours ...



Pope’s trip sparks hopes for change in Cuba

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 07:38 PM PDT

HAVANA, March 24 — For years at Havana's historic Cristobal Colon cemetery, Communist Party members refused to enter the Roman Catholic chapel there for funeral services. They stayed outside while others honoured the dead because religious believers were banned from the party and being seen in a church, particularly a Catholic one, could bring ...



VIDEO: Sydney harbour's floating opera

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:59 PM PDT

Verdi's opera, La Traviata, is being staged on a massive barge in Sydney's iconic harbour.


VIDEO: 'Tanks shell houses' in Hama, Syria

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 10:37 PM PDT

An Syrian activist has described how "at least 19" government tanks have rolled into the city of Hama and "shelled houses".


Australia hit by biggest quake in 15 years

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 09:58 PM PDT

Australia has been hit by its biggest earthquake in 15 years, seismologists said Saturday, rattling a remote part of the desert with local Aboriginals reporting strong shaking but no major damage.

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The declining bamboo splitting industry

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:34 PM PDT

The sound of splitting bamboo using sharp sickle could be heard vividly. As a result of continuous repetition work of splitting bamboo poles into thinner sticks, a great amount of bamboo sticks were seen on the ground.

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Duo shot dead in shootout with police

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:04 PM PDT

Two men who had earlier stolen a car belonging to a couple were shot dead in a shootout with the police in Damansara tonight.

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Najib not worried about personal attacks by opposition

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:04 PM PDT

Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said tonight he is not worried over the personal attacks launched by the opposition against him.

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Five Myanmar teenagers arrive in Shah Alam to assist police investigation

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:04 PM PDT

Five Myanmar teenagers who were kidnapped along with a Malaysian teenage girl and rescued by Thai police in Bangkok nearly two weeks ago, arrived at the Shah Alam police headquarters, here tonight.

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Villagers involved in Rapid project assured of welfare - Azalina

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 08:03 PM PDT

The government has assured that the welfare of villagers in Pengerang where the RM60 billion Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development (Rapid) project by Petronas is located, will be taken care of.

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