Former Chinese soccer chief charged with taking 1.7 million in bribes |
- Former Chinese soccer chief charged with taking 1.7 million in bribes
- Vietnam police break up land protest: witnesses
- Protest over police shooting of Aboriginal teens
- The earth has not been mobilised
- Views on ageing differ among Asia Pacific countries
- Jamil Khir seeks to set aside Anwar's review application
- VIDEO: How oil is being stolen in Nigeria
- VIDEO: Battle to be new French leader steps up
- Change of tune
- VIDEO: Ireland loan pay back faltering
- Romney to pick up scores of delegates in five U.S. states
- Exclusive - China firm boasts about missile-linked North Korea sale - envoys
- Death penalty repeal to go before California voters
- Indonesia's Mount Lokon erupts
- Energy guzzler Singapore boosts 'green' buildings
- Europe's young musicians in the spotlight
- Arthouse meets glamour in Cannes festival line-up
- Malaria still affecting 99 countries
- Moderate quake hits Banda Sea
- Bumi equity ownership rose to 23%: Najib
| Former Chinese soccer chief charged with taking 1.7 million in bribes Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:26 AM PDT Former Chinese Football Association (CFA) chief Xie Yalong has been charged with taking over 1.7 million yuan (about 273,000 U.S. dollars) in bribes as a northeastern Chinese court opened the second round of trials on soccer corruption on Tuesday morning.
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| Vietnam police break up land protest: witnesses Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:24 AM PDT Vietnamese riot police fired warning shots and tear gas to break up a protest by hundreds of angry farmers against a forced eviction on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi on Tuesday, witnesses said.
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| Protest over police shooting of Aboriginal teens Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:06 AM PDT Angry protesters rallied outside Sydney's Parliament House on Tuesday over the shooting by police of two Aboriginal teenagers arrested in a stolen car in the city's nightclub district.
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| The earth has not been mobilised Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:04 AM PDT Twenty years have passed, and the little girl is now 33 years old. Is she still crying? I do not know. I only know that today, children around the world are apparently living in an environment even worse than the one 20 years ago! Humans have not stopped their greediness! And the world, including Malaysia, has not been fully mobilised!
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| Views on ageing differ among Asia Pacific countries Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:58 PM PDT A recent survey in nine Asian-Pacific markets showed that some 73 per cent of consumers in the region identified brain as a key organ to protect while others put more emphasis on skin deterioration as signs of ageing, Thai news agency reported.
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| Jamil Khir seeks to set aside Anwar's review application Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:56 PM PDT Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom and two others today filed an application to set aside an application by Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in the Syariah Appellate Court to review a ruling that Jamil Khir and the two others need not get leave to hear an application relating to his "qazaf" case involving his former personal aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
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| VIDEO: How oil is being stolen in Nigeria Posted: 24 Apr 2012 12:06 AM PDT Mark Doyle flies over the Niger Delta to see how much oil is being stolen.
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| VIDEO: Battle to be new French leader steps up Posted: 23 Apr 2012 11:11 PM PDT France is weighing the possibility of a new President after a narrow first round election victory by Socialist candidate, Francois Hollande.
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| Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:37 PM PDT As government officials are forced to change, we can always see that they are actually outwardly compliant but inwardly not submissive.
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| VIDEO: Ireland loan pay back faltering Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:32 PM PDT One of Ireland's key plans to pay back its EU/IMF bailout loan appears to be faltering as a 100 euro levy tax is being fiercely resisted.
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| Romney to pick up scores of delegates in five U.S. states Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:12 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's expected wins in five states that hold primary votes on Tuesday will earn him scores of delegates on his way to becoming the Republican presidential nominee and allow him to concentrate on a general election campaign against President Barack Obama. 
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| Exclusive - China firm boasts about missile-linked North Korea sale - envoys Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:03 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Chinese firm that intelligence agencies believe provided North Korea with the body of an off-road transport vehicle used to carry missiles appears to have a press release on its website that boasts about the sale, U.N. diplomats told Reuters. 
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| Death penalty repeal to go before California voters Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:36 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California voters will decide in November whether to repeal the death penalty in a state that is home to nearly a quarter of the nation's death row inmates, after activists collected the more than 500,000 signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot. 
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| Indonesia's Mount Lokon erupts Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:19 PM PDT Indonesia's Mount Lokon in North Sulawesi Province erupted at 10:20 Jakarta time (0320 GMT) on Tuesday, an official said here.
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| Energy guzzler Singapore boosts 'green' buildings Posted: 23 Apr 2012 10:14 PM PDT From the bone-chilling air conditioning that pumps through Singapore's malls and offices to lights that burn all night, the city state is one of Asia's most intensive energy users.
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| Europe's young musicians in the spotlight Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:50 PM PDT (WASHINGTON-AFP) - A band of 116 musical prodigies from the European Union Youth Orchestra are on tour in the United States with some of classical music's greats -- a showcase for top talent, and for the EU itself. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.
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| Arthouse meets glamour in Cannes festival line-up Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:49 PM PDT (France-AFP) - With a month to go until the Cannes film festival, organisers named the 54 films awarded a red-carpet slot at the world cinema showcase, 22 in the official race for the Palme d'Or and the rest in the new talent section, Un Certain Regard. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.
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| Malaria still affecting 99 countries Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:26 PM PDT Malaria still affects 99 countries despite a reduction in mortality rates of more than a quarter since 2000, the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership said Monday.
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| Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:26 PM PDT An earthquake of 5.5-magnitude on the Richter scale occurred in Indonesia's Banda Sea at 10.54pm tonight.
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| Bumi equity ownership rose to 23%: Najib Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:25 PM PDT Bumiputra equity ownership rose to 23.09 per cent worth RM167.7 billion in 2010, up from 21.9 per cent worth 27.4 billion in 2008, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today.
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