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- Shocks hit Italy quake zone as rescuers search for missing
- Qatar orders arrest of mall owner, others over deadly fire
- Banned antibiotics in Asian fish imports: Australia
- Thai webmaster gets suspended sentence in royal insult case
- Study loan borrower loses suit against PTPTN
- UM ranked first among Malaysia's higher learning institutions
- It is not about money, but talent
- US police to quiz Bieber over photographer clash
- VIDEO: Suu Kyi leaves Burma after 24 years
- Pakistani doctor in bin Laden hunt rejected U.S. escape - officials
- For Pakistani truckers, NATO route row is all about the money
- U.N. group urges release of American in Nicaraguan prison
- Dead Japan woman kept in freezer 'up to 10 years'
- Suu Kyi to Myanmar migrants: will 'try my best'
- Australia moves to criminalise forced marriage
- Thai webmaster guilty, jail suspended under royal slur law
- Indonesia president warns of Europe impact on Asia
- White House: Obama 'misspoke' on death camps in Poland
- India's unlikely romance with Ayn Rand
- VIDEO: World Chess tiebreaker challenge
| Shocks hit Italy quake zone as rescuers search for missing Posted: 30 May 2012 12:24 AM PDT Dozens of aftershocks hit northeastern Italy overnight as thousands of jittery survivors spent the night in tent camps after the region's second killer quake in days.
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| Qatar orders arrest of mall owner, others over deadly fire Posted: 30 May 2012 12:13 AM PDT Qatar has ordered the arrest of five people involved in the management of a Doha shopping mall ravaged by a fire in which 19 people, mainly children, were killed, the state news agency reported.
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| Banned antibiotics in Asian fish imports: Australia Posted: 30 May 2012 12:12 AM PDT Australian officials are seeing a rising number of Asian fish imports containing banned antibiotics, a report said Wednesday.
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| Thai webmaster gets suspended sentence in royal insult case Posted: 29 May 2012 11:27 PM PDT BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai website editor was found guilty on Wednesday of insulting the monarchy but was given a suspended jail sentence, a light punishment in a high-profile case that has renewed the debate over strict royal censorship laws. 
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| Study loan borrower loses suit against PTPTN Posted: 29 May 2012 11:50 PM PDT A study loan borrower who was blacklisted for allegedly failing to settle his study loan, has lost his suit against the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN).
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| UM ranked first among Malaysia's higher learning institutions Posted: 29 May 2012 11:49 PM PDT Universiti Malaya (UM) reaffirmed its status as the premier university for the fourth year in a row as it achieved its best position in the QS Asian University Rankings 2012 in 35th overall and the first among all higher learning institutions in the country.
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| It is not about money, but talent Posted: 29 May 2012 11:46 PM PDT It is indeed an encouraging news to hear that Pua is trying to bring back talents. However, it is not enough to depend merely on him. Instead, we need more entrepreneurs like him to invest here and bring back brain drainers.
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| US police to quiz Bieber over photographer clash Posted: 29 May 2012 11:37 PM PDT US detectives plan to question Justin Bieber after a press photographer claimed the teen idol hurt him during a scuffle over the weekend, a sheriff's department spokesman said.
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| VIDEO: Suu Kyi leaves Burma after 24 years Posted: 29 May 2012 01:34 PM PDT Aung San Suu Kyi has travelled outside Burma for the first time in twenty-four years.
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| Pakistani doctor in bin Laden hunt rejected U.S. escape - officials Posted: 29 May 2012 11:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden turned down an opportunity to leave his country and resettle overseas with his family, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday. 
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| For Pakistani truckers, NATO route row is all about the money Posted: 29 May 2012 10:54 PM PDT KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani truck drivers who deliver supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan seethe whenever they recall a cross-border NATO air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year. 
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| U.N. group urges release of American in Nicaraguan prison Posted: 29 May 2012 10:44 PM PDT (Reuters) - A United Nations group has called for the immediate release of a U.S. citizen serving a 22-year prison sentence in Nicaragua for drug trafficking and money laundering, concluding that he was wrongly convicted, his supporters announced on Wednesday. 
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| Dead Japan woman kept in freezer 'up to 10 years' Posted: 29 May 2012 11:10 PM PDT An 80-year-old man was being questioned in Japan on Wednesday on suspicion of strangling his wife and keeping her body in the freezer for up to 10 years, police and media reports said.
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| Suu Kyi to Myanmar migrants: will 'try my best' Posted: 29 May 2012 11:10 PM PDT Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday told an ecstatic crowd of Myanmar migrants in Thailand she would do all she could to help them, on the first stop of her first trip abroad in 24 years.
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| Australia moves to criminalise forced marriage Posted: 29 May 2012 11:09 PM PDT Australia on Wednesday moved to criminalise forced marriage, forms of slavery prevalent in the sex industry and the trafficking of organs.
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| Thai webmaster guilty, jail suspended under royal slur law Posted: 29 May 2012 11:09 PM PDT A Thai court on Wednesday convicted an online editor for hosting posts critical of the revered monarchy on her website, but suspended her jail sentence amid demands to reform the lese majeste law.
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| Indonesia president warns of Europe impact on Asia Posted: 29 May 2012 10:32 PM PDT Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Europe's economic woes could hit Southeast Asia and warned the region against copying the integrated eurozone model, in comments printed Wednesday.
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| White House: Obama 'misspoke' on death camps in Poland Posted: 29 May 2012 10:32 PM PDT The White House Tuesday tried to head off a diplomatic spat with Poland after President Barack Obama mistakenly called a Nazi facility used to process Jews for execution as a "Polish death camp."
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| India's unlikely romance with Ayn Rand Posted: 29 May 2012 10:31 PM PDT Literary tastes in India, as anywhere, change with the times, but one writer has never gone out of vogue: Ayn Rand -- the high priestess of free-market capitalism and unfettered individualism.
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| VIDEO: World Chess tiebreaker challenge Posted: 29 May 2012 10:54 PM PDT The World Chess Championship is due to be decided by a tiebreaker, as the match between the current Champion Vishy Anand and the challenger Boris Gelfand ended 6-6.
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