Indonesia stages Asia's biggest Labour Day rally |
- Indonesia stages Asia's biggest Labour Day rally
- Gunfire, blasts as Nigerian forces raid Islamist base
- U.S.'s Clinton heads to China and into dissident drama
- Suu Kyi's party ends boycott of Myanmar's parliament
- Afghan leaders should raise their game - EU ambassador
- Motorcycle bomb kills two soldiers in Thai south
- China wants "drastic" U.S., Russia nuclear arms cuts
- China, Russia resist West's sanctions push for Sudan, South Sudan
- Once a supermodel, always a supermodel: 90s supers still riding high
- 2 soldiers killed, 6 others injured by bomb in restive S. Thailand
- Children and baby among 13 killed in Indonesia bus fire
- Lima's sacred, pre-Inca ruins fall prey to growth
- New Zealand gas research to help farmers' bottom line
- Public relations disaster
- Arthus-Bertrand exhibition kicks off Rio+20
- Cars banned from foot of France's Mont-Saint-Michel
- Four bodies found in Australian home
- May Day rally
- No plan to offer citizenship to draw foreign talents: Talent Corp
- VIDEO: Mali junta 'in control'
| Indonesia stages Asia's biggest Labour Day rally Posted: 01 May 2012 12:49 AM PDT Thousands of Indonesian workers held Asia's biggest May Day rally on Tuesday, demanding better pay and protection of job security, watched warily by a heavy police and army presence.
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| Gunfire, blasts as Nigerian forces raid Islamist base Posted: 01 May 2012 12:23 AM PDT KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunfire and explosions rang out through Nigeria's main northern city of Kano on Tuesday as Nigerian forces battled Islamist militants in a raid on one of their hideouts, witnesses and the military said. 
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| U.S.'s Clinton heads to China and into dissident drama Posted: 01 May 2012 12:18 AM PDT WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left on Monday on a high-stakes trip to Beijing, where a blind dissident is reportedly holed up in the U.S. embassy in a drama threatening to overshadow top-level meetings between the two governments. 
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| Suu Kyi's party ends boycott of Myanmar's parliament Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:54 PM PDT YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi agreed on Monday to end her party's boycott of parliament, setting aside her first major dispute with the government since winning by-elections and clearing the way for what could be an acceleration of reforms. 
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| Afghan leaders should raise their game - EU ambassador Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:08 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - Just after news broke that U.S. special forces had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the top EU diplomat in neighbouring Afghanistan received a flood of emails from jubilant Afghans. 
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| Motorcycle bomb kills two soldiers in Thai south Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:43 PM PDT BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two Thai military rangers were killed and six were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb planted in a motorcycle exploded in the southern province of Pattani, a police officer said. 
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| China wants "drastic" U.S., Russia nuclear arms cuts Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:22 PM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - China called on the United States and Russia - which hold the vast majority of the world's nuclear warheads - on Monday to make further "drastic" cuts in their atomic arsenals. 
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| China, Russia resist West's sanctions push for Sudan, South Sudan Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:13 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China and Russia are resisting a Western push for the U.N. Security Council to threaten Sudan and South Sudan with sanctions if the two countries fail to comply with demands to halt their escalating conflict, U.N. envoys said. 
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| Once a supermodel, always a supermodel: 90s supers still riding high Posted: 01 May 2012 12:33 AM PDT This week Chanel unveiled its Spring/Summer 2012 Eyewear campaign starring Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer showed her age-defying looks in the Guess 30th anniversary shots and not a day goes by without a campaign release starring Kate Moss. A renaissance of the 1990s supermodel is undoubtedly in full swing, but what about the names we've stopped seeing splashed across the pages of our monthly glossies?
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| 2 soldiers killed, 6 others injured by bomb in restive S. Thailand Posted: 01 May 2012 12:08 AM PDT Two soldiers were killed and six others injured by the explosion of a motorcycle bomb in restive southern province of Pattani on Tuesday morning, Bangkok Post online said.
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| Children and baby among 13 killed in Indonesia bus fire Posted: 01 May 2012 12:03 AM PDT A bus fire on Indonesia's Sumatra island killed 13 people early Tuesday including four children and a baby, police said, with survivors forced to smash locked windows to escape the blaze.
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| Lima's sacred, pre-Inca ruins fall prey to growth Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:49 PM PDT On street corners, under garbage dumps, at construction sites -- pre-Inca archeological sites abound in Lima, where the ruins of hundreds of sacred places are at the mercy of urban growth and public indifference.
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| New Zealand gas research to help farmers' bottom line Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:42 PM PDT Scientists have long accepted that gas from farm animals is a major factor in climate change, but how do you stop cattle and sheep from doing what comes naturally?
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| Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:32 PM PDT The police will show the video footage captured during the Bersih 3.0 rally. However, could the footage reflect the whole truth?
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| Arthus-Bertrand exhibition kicks off Rio+20 Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:27 PM PDT (RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-AFP) - The "Earth from Above" lands in Brazil for the first time. The exhibition of famous French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will open the "Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development" in Rio de Janeiro. The 130 large aerial images displayed are a result of 20 years of work from a photographer that seeks to depict the Earth's environmental problems. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.
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| Cars banned from foot of France's Mont-Saint-Michel Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:03 PM PDT Cars have been banned from the foot of Mont-Saint-Michel in northwest France. People coming to the country's most visited tourist site now have to park their vehicles three kilometres from the historic mount, walk one kilometre, then take a shuttle bus to the entrance. It's the latest stage in a long-running project to turn Mont-Saint-Michel into an island once more. But it's getting a mixed response from tourists. Copyright (AFP RELAXNEWS/ AFPTV), 2012.
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| Four bodies found in Australian home Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:01 PM PDT Two adults and two children, believed to be a Fijian-Indian family, were found dead inside a Melbourne house Tuesday in a case police termed a "tragedy".
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| Posted: 30 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT Thai workers parade next to elephants to mark the International Workers' Day in Bangkok.
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| No plan to offer citizenship to draw foreign talents: Talent Corp Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:30 PM PDT Talent Corporation Malaysia Berhad (Talent Corp) has no plan to offer citizenship as an inducement to attract foreign talents to work in Malaysia, according to CEO Johan Mahmood Merican.
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| VIDEO: Mali junta 'in control' Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:53 PM PDT The leadership of Mali's military junta say they are in control of the country's TV station and the capital's airport after they say rival soldiers tried to stage a counter coup.
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