Fresh clashes in northeast India, toll rises to 22 |
- Fresh clashes in northeast India, toll rises to 22
- Bearing witness to Mantin's growth
- Security tightened after Iraq attacks kill 113
- Four dead, 17 missing in NW China downpours
- 13 dead, 7 injured in SE China road accident
- 40 India nuclear plant workers contaminated: firm
- China plays cards close to chest in military transparency bid
- S.Korea's President Lee apologises for graft scandal
- Thais warned of heavy rain, flash floods
- High Court quashes home minister's decision declaring Bersih 2.0 unlawful
- Malaysia's debt still manageable: Idris Jala
- Tajik troops strike ex-warlord after general killed
- Social structure and crime
- Trial signals milestone in search of new TB drugs
- South Korean president apologises over graft cases
- Where the world's perfumes come to rest
- Young African women risk HIV infections from older men
- Afghans embrace social media as NATO pullout nears
- VIDEO: Markets jumpy over Spain bail out fears
- U.S. commander accused of stalling Afghan hospital abuse probe
| Fresh clashes in northeast India, toll rises to 22 Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:37 AM PDT New clashes took the death toll from ethnic violence in India's remote northeast to 22 on Tuesday despite an official curfew backed by shoot-on-sight orders, police said.
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| Bearing witness to Mantin's growth Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:37 AM PDT A Tam Kung Temple can be seen standing near the main street in the vicinity of the Hakka village at Mantin, Negeri Sembilan. The oldest heritage building around, the temple has witnessed the tremendous growth and development of the town. The engravings on the ancient bell inside the temple prove its age of at least 110 years.
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| Security tightened after Iraq attacks kill 113 Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:37 AM PDT Security was tightened on Tuesday in Baghdad neighbourhoods engulfed by a wave of nationwide violence which saw 113 people killed and 250 wounded in Iraq's deadliest day in two and a half years.
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| Four dead, 17 missing in NW China downpours Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:25 AM PDT Continuous heavy rains have killed four people and left another 17 missing in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
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| 13 dead, 7 injured in SE China road accident Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:24 AM PDT Thirteen people were killed and another seven injured after a farming vehicle plunged into a valley in southeast China's Fujian Province Tuesday morning, local authorities said.
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| 40 India nuclear plant workers contaminated: firm Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:15 AM PDT More than 40 workers at a nuclear power station in northern India have been exposed to tritium radiation in two separate leaks in the past five weeks, company managers said on Tuesday.
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| China plays cards close to chest in military transparency bid Posted: 24 Jul 2012 12:19 AM PDT TONGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China showed off an elite helicopter unit to foreign media on Tuesday in its latest bid to address concerns about its growing military might amid increasingly aggressive moves to assert its sovereignty over the South China Sea. 
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| S.Korea's President Lee apologises for graft scandal Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:59 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak issued a public apology on Tuesday for what he said was "unsavoury" conduct by people close to him, two weeks after his brother was arrested in a graft scandal that also sent some of his closest aides to jail. 
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| Thais warned of heavy rain, flash floods Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:39 PM PDT Thailand's Meteorological Department on Tuesday issued a warning for people in the North, Northeast, East and the South to prepare for widespread scattered rain with heavy falls in some areas, the danger of floods and forest-runoff today and over the next few days, Bangkok Post online reported.
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| High Court quashes home minister's decision declaring Bersih 2.0 unlawful Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:12 PM PDT The High Court today quashed the declaration of Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein on July 1 last year declaring Bersih 2.0 an unlawful society.
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| Malaysia's debt still manageable: Idris Jala Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:47 PM PDT Malaysia's debt is still manageable as it is below 55 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala.
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| Tajik troops strike ex-warlord after general killed Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:32 PM PDT DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan's security forces said on Tuesday they had launched a military operation in the remote eastern region of Gorno-Badakhshan against a former opposition warlord accused of killing a security services general at the weekend. 
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| Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:22 PM PDT There are also reasons behind the high crime rates in cities. The high cost of living in urban areas has caused a serious wealth disparity. Urban poverty is perhaps one of the factors of crime growth.
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| Trial signals milestone in search of new TB drugs Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:42 PM PDT A novel approach to develop the first new tuberculosis (TB) combination drug regimen has cleared a major hurdle when Phase II clinical trial results have proved it could kill more than 99 percent of patients' TB bacteria within two weeks and could be more effective than existing treatments, according to a study published Monday in the journal Lancet.
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| South Korean president apologises over graft cases Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:38 PM PDT South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak apologised to the nation Tuesday for corruption cases allegedly involving his elder brother and close aides.
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| Where the world's perfumes come to rest Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:38 PM PDT "Here it is, the little wonder, our 'Chypre' from 1917," whispers the cellar-master as he plunges a paper strip into a vial, one of the many treasures at a one-of-its-kind library of world perfume.
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| Young African women risk HIV infections from older men Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:35 PM PDT Poverty drove single teenage mother Kate Mzungu to seek out a rich older man, who buys her food and pays for her housing in exchange for the pleasures of her young company.
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| Afghans embrace social media as NATO pullout nears Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:33 PM PDT Ten years after the fall of the Taliban, who banned modern technology as un-Islamic, the use of social media in Afghanistan is booming as politicians, warlords and even militants rush to get their message across.
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| VIDEO: Markets jumpy over Spain bail out fears Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:30 PM PDT Fears grow that Spain will need a bail out after its borrowing costs reach 7.5%.
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| U.S. commander accused of stalling Afghan hospital abuse probe Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:03 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. general in Afghanistan sought to stall an investigation into waste, abuse and mismanagement at a U.S.-funded hospital in Kabul for political reasons, a former U.S. military official will tell Congress on Tuesday. 
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