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- Pakistan frees 55 Indians for independence day
- BN Youth keen to buy land to build low-cost houses
- India's GDP to grow more than 6.5%
- GDP likely to accelerate in Q2: Moody's
- Genting directors paid highest remuneration
- Insight - Chavista militants may be wild card after Venezuela vote
- Cambodia, Vietnam pledge to intensify drug combat cooperation
- VIDEO: Parma's experiment in new democracy
- S.Korean leader says N.Korea should consider ‘transformation’
- Venezuela’s Chavez says US given access to ‘mercenary’ suspect
- Judge tosses lawsuit over FBI surveillance of California mosques
- China seeking to coax compromise in Syria, says state paper
- Bomb explodes near U.N. hotel in Damascus, 3 wounded -TV
- Insight - Chavista militants may be wild card after Venezuela vote
- Myanmar names navy chief as new vice president
- Rights and freedom
- Yemen separatist leader detained in Aden - source
- South Korean leader says North Korea should consider "transformation"
- Bitter history tangles Japan's Asia ties on war anniversary
- Insight - Chavista militants may be wild card after Venezuela vote
| Pakistan frees 55 Indians for independence day Posted: 15 Aug 2012 12:27 AM PDT Pakistan on Wednesday released 55 Indian fishermen, 15 of them teenagers, as a "goodwill gesture" to mark independence day in India.
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| BN Youth keen to buy land to build low-cost houses Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:54 PM PDT The state Barisan Nasional (BN) Youth is prepared to buy 0.445 hectare of vacant land at Taman Manggis, Jalan Zainal Abidin, here from the state government to build low-cost housing units, said Penang Gerakan Youth chief Oh Tong Keong.
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| India's GDP to grow more than 6.5% Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:41 PM PDT India, Asia's third largest economy, will grow more than the 6.5 per cent achieved in fiscal years 2011/12, despite the external and domestic challenges, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today.
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| GDP likely to accelerate in Q2: Moody's Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:27 PM PDT Malaysia's growth is likely to accelerate to five per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in the second quarter, following a 4.8 per cent expansion in 2012's opening stanza, said Moody's Analytics.
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| Genting directors paid highest remuneration Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:17 PM PDT Genting Bhd topped the list of companies that paid out higher remuneration to their directors last year, with a big payout of RM117.69 million, according to a Malaysian Business survey.
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| Insight - Chavista militants may be wild card after Venezuela vote Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:48 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Sitting in front of a mural of Jesus and the Virgin Mary armed with AK-47s, three red-shirted children are clutching assault rifles and copies of Venezuela's constitution. 
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| Cambodia, Vietnam pledge to intensify drug combat cooperation Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:32 PM PDT Cambodia and Vietnam on Wednesday expressed their commitment to intensify cooperation to fight against cross border drug trafficking and all forms of drug offensives.
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| VIDEO: Parma's experiment in new democracy Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:34 PM PDT Alan Johnston reports from the city of Parma in Italy, where ''people power" is challenging the country's political establishment.
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| S.Korean leader says N.Korea should consider ‘transformation’ Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:46 PM PDT SEOUL, Aug 15 — South Korean President Lee Myung-bak today said North Korea should face reality and consider bringing about a "transformation", adding that Seoul will monitor changes in the secretive North. Lee's comments were included in a televised speech to mark Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule from 1910-1945, and follow signs ... 
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| Venezuela’s Chavez says US given access to ‘mercenary’ suspect Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:04 PM PDT CARACAS, Aug 15 — US officials will be allowed access today to an American citizen arrested in Venezuela on suspicion of being a mercenary, President Hugo Chavez said. Clearly implying a plot was afoot less than two months before a presidential election, the socialist leader has said the man was detained entering illegally from Colombia a week ago ... 
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| Judge tosses lawsuit over FBI surveillance of California mosques Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:59 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, Aug 15 — A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit charging that the FBI violated civil liberties by sending an informant into several California mosques to spy on US Muslims, ruling that allowing the case to proceed could risk disclosure of government secrets. US District Judge Cormac Carney wrote in a 36-page order that he was ... 
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| China seeking to coax compromise in Syria, says state paper Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:39 PM PDT BEIJING, Aug 15 — China hopes talks with a Syrian government envoy and a proposed visit by opposition representatives will help rescue chances for a brokered solution to their deepening conflict, Beijing's top state newspaper said today. The People's Daily, the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, warned that the civil war risked ... 
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| Bomb explodes near U.N. hotel in Damascus, 3 wounded -TV Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:05 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in Damascus near a hotel used by United Nations monitors and three people were wounded, Syrian state television said on Wednesday. 
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| Insight - Chavista militants may be wild card after Venezuela vote Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:56 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Sitting in front of a mural of Jesus and the Virgin Mary armed with AK-47s, three red-shirted children are clutching assault rifles and copies of Venezuela's constitution. 
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| Myanmar names navy chief as new vice president Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:07 PM PDT Myanmar's parliament on Wednesday appointed the navy chief to replace a regime hardliner as one of the country's vice presidents, in a move seen as strengthening the country's reformers.
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| Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:06 PM PDT You might have heard a cliché for thousands of times, but I still have to mention it here. That is, there is no absolute freedom in the world, but only relative freedom.
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| Yemen separatist leader detained in Aden - source Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:36 PM PDT ADEN (Reuters) - A Yemeni secessionist leader was detained on Wednesday when his plane from Britain landed at Aden airport, a fellow leader of the separatist movement told Reuters. 
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| South Korean leader says North Korea should consider "transformation" Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:28 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday said North Korea should face reality and consider bringing about a "transformation", adding that Seoul will monitor changes in the secretive North. 
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| Bitter history tangles Japan's Asia ties on war anniversary Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:14 PM PDT SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday warned that conflicts over bitter shared history were complicating ties with former colonial master Japan and urged Tokyo to do more to resolve an emotive dispute over Korean women abducted to serve as sex slaves to wartime Japanese soldiers. 
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| Insight - Chavista militants may be wild card after Venezuela vote Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:04 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Sitting in front of a mural of Jesus and the Virgin Mary armed with AK-47s, three red-shirted children are clutching assault rifles and copies of Venezuela's constitution. 
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