Kuwait picks outgoing PM to form new Cabinet - KUNA |
- Kuwait picks outgoing PM to form new Cabinet - KUNA
- Daughter of South Korea's slain ex-leader to run for president
- Asian nations want to sink South Korea whale hunt plan
- Thai Constitutional Court begins hearing on charter amendment
- Fukushima was 'man-made' disaster: Japanese probe
- Eat, drink, and be pregnant?
- Fund managers bullish on Q3 equities: HSBC
- VIDEO: 'Relief' at Arafat poison inquiry
- Top aide to S. Korea's Lee offers to step down over military pact with Japan
- Philippine official sacked over Facebook photos
- How could it be so terrible?
- Hong Kong lawmakers seek to oust new leader
- New food crisis looms in Somalia - aid agency
- Asian nations want to sink South Korea whale hunt plan
- VIDEO: Air France crash report awaited
- India's street children bank on the future
- BN committed to second Penang bridge
- Bus driver dies, 13 injured in road accident
- Pakatan practises double standards: MCA Youth
- VIDEO: Defying danger for Iraq pilgrimage
| Kuwait picks outgoing PM to form new Cabinet - KUNA Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:15 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - Kuwait's head of state on Thursday reappointed outgoing Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah in a move that may help ease renewed political deadlock in the OPEC member, state news agency KUNA said. 
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| Daughter of South Korea's slain ex-leader to run for president Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:11 AM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - Park Geun-hye, the daughter of slain South Korean strongman Park Chung-hee who built the war-torn country war into an industrial powerhouse, will announce she is to stand for her conservative New Frontier Party's nomination for president on July 10, her spokesman said on Thursday. 
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| Asian nations want to sink South Korea whale hunt plan Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:08 AM PDT PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - South Korea on Wednesday proposed resuming whaling for scientific research, angering other Asian countries and conservationists who said the practice would skirt a global ban on whale hunting. 
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| Thai Constitutional Court begins hearing on charter amendment Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:46 AM PDT The Thai authorities tightened security at the Constitutional Court on Thursday as judges set to start two-day witness testimony on constitutionality of charter amendment.
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| Fukushima was 'man-made' disaster: Japanese probe Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:39 AM PDT Last year's nuclear accident at Fukushima was a man-made catastrophe and not only due to the tsunami that hit the plant, a Japanese parliamentary panel said Thursday in its final report on the disaster.
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| Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:13 AM PDT A new series of studies from Denmark finds that women can drink up to eight alcoholic drinks a week in early pregnancy with no effects on intelligence, attention, or self-control of children at age five.
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| Fund managers bullish on Q3 equities: HSBC Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:01 AM PDT Global fund managers are looking to move to equities from bonds in the third quarter (Q3) of 2012, according to HSBC's latest Fund Managers' Survey.
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| VIDEO: 'Relief' at Arafat poison inquiry Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:39 PM PDT Suha Arafat says she is relieved at the call by Palestinian officials for an international inquiry into former leader Yasser Arafat's death, over renewed claims that he was poisoned.
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| Top aide to S. Korea's Lee offers to step down over military pact with Japan Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:08 AM PDT A senior security aide to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Thursday offered to step down over the controversy surrounding its move to sign the first military pact with Japan since the end of the WWII, local media reported.
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| Philippine official sacked over Facebook photos Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:06 AM PDT A Philippine local official has been sacked after bunking off work for a school reunion on a tropical island and posting photos of the trip on Facebook, the government said Thursday.
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| Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:06 AM PDT I dare say that there is no saint or sage in the political arena of Malaysia. All politicians are more or less flawed. Why should we use public resources to expose, slander and deal with those involved in private problems that do not violate the law, contrary to public interests or abuse government resources?
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| Hong Kong lawmakers seek to oust new leader Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:30 PM PDT Pro-democracy lawmakers Thursday filed legal challenges to the election of Hong Kong's new leader less than a week after he took office amid the biggest demonstrations in the city in nearly a decade.
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| New food crisis looms in Somalia - aid agency Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:18 PM PDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - A deadly combination of conflict, poor rainfall and a predicted late harvest threatens to push hundreds of thousands of Somalis back into hunger, undermining aid efforts put in place during last year's drought, Save the Children warned on Thursday. 
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| Asian nations want to sink South Korea whale hunt plan Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:24 PM PDT PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - South Korea on Wednesday proposed resuming whaling for scientific research, angering other Asian countries and conservationists who said the practice would skirt a global ban on whale hunting. 
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| VIDEO: Air France crash report awaited Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:02 PM PDT The final report is due to be released into the crash on an Air France airliner in June 2009, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil, killing 228 people.
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| India's street children bank on the future Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:22 PM PDT Ram Singh, 17, earns just one dollar from the 100 cups of tea he makes every day outside Delhi railway station, but each evening, after packing up, he goes to the bank and deposits nearly half of it.
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| BN committed to second Penang bridge Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:54 PM PDT The 23.6km Second Penang Bridge reflects the federal government's strong commitment to spur the state's economic growth although the "Pearl of the Orient" is now under opposition rule.
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| Bus driver dies, 13 injured in road accident Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:39 PM PDT A bus driver was killed and 13 other people were injured after an express bus and two lorries were involved in an accident at Km303.6 of the North-South Expressway near Kampar early today, police said.
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| Pakatan practises double standards: MCA Youth Posted: 04 Jul 2012 07:57 PM PDT The MCA Youth today slammed the opposition pact for practising double standards over a question raised by Duyong State Assemblyman Gan Tian Loo during the Melaka state legislative assembly sitting on Monday.
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| VIDEO: Defying danger for Iraq pilgrimage Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:10 PM PDT Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis converge on the city of Karbala in southern Iraq to celebrate one of the most important figures in Shia Islam.
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