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- Australian cyclone shuts Rio Tinto ports
- VIDEO: Piers Morgan: US gun lobby 'stupid'
- Japan's Abe to visit Southeast Asia to boost economic ties
- Censors kept busy as strike-hit Chinese paper hits newsstands
- Three Kurdish women found shot dead in Paris - police
- Bomb halts Yemen Marib oil pipeline flows again - officials
- U.S.'s Richardson says didn't meet detained American on North Korea trip
- Three Kurdish women found shot dead in Paris - police
- Cambodia pledges clemency for Thai 'spies'
- Driverless car concept gains traction at CES
- Wholesale and retail to contribute RM156bn to GDP by 2020
- Lawyer alleges police brutality in Delhi gang-rape case
- Taiwan probes illegal money transfer for Macau casinos
- 4 National Education Blueprint initiatives to be implemented this year
- Killer whales trapped in Canada ice, in danger
- Don't revert policy of levy payment: MTUC
- Singapore hit by another train disruption
- Perkasa urges Malay rulers to intervene in use of 'Allah'
- Rare snowstorm paralyses Jerusalem area, northern Israel
- US’s Richardson says didn’t meet detained American on North Korea trip
| Australian cyclone shuts Rio Tinto ports Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:55 AM PST SYDNEY, Jan 10 — Australia's first cyclone of the storm season is intensifying off the country's northwest, shutting key iron ore export terminals and disrupting coastal areas in mining powerhouse Western Australia state. Rio Tinto , the world's second-largest iron ore producer, has suspended ship loading at the ports of Dampier and Cape Lambert ... 
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| VIDEO: Piers Morgan: US gun lobby 'stupid' Posted: 09 Jan 2013 03:40 PM PST More than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for the British TV host Piers Morgan to be deported after he criticised America's gun control laws. | ||
| Japan's Abe to visit Southeast Asia to boost economic ties Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:35 AM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will this month make his first overseas trip since winning office to Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, aiming to strengthen ties with the growing Asian economies as relations with China stay tense. 
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| Censors kept busy as strike-hit Chinese paper hits newsstands Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:26 AM PST GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - A weekly Chinese newspaper at the centre of anti-censorship protests appeared on newsstands on Thursday as a newsroom strike ended amid fresh calls for the Communist Party leadership to loosen its grip on the media. 
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| Three Kurdish women found shot dead in Paris - police Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:17 AM PST PARIS (Reuters) - Three Kurdish women said to include a founding member of the PKK militant group were shot dead overnight in Paris in killings that appeared politically motivated, police and other sources said on Thursday. 
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| Bomb halts Yemen Marib oil pipeline flows again - officials Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:06 AM PST SANAA (Reuters) - Flows of oil through Yemen's main crude export pipeline have stopped again after it was blown up by unknown attackers on Thursday morning, government and oil industry officials said. 
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| U.S.'s Richardson says didn't meet detained American on North Korea trip Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:05 AM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt failed to secure the release of a Korean-American held in North Korea during a controversial trip to the secretive state that ended on Thursday. 
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| Three Kurdish women found shot dead in Paris - police Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:39 PM PST PARIS (Reuters) - The bodies of three Kurdish women who appeared to have died from gunshots to the head were found early on Thursday at the Kurdish Institute in Paris, a police source said. 
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| Cambodia pledges clemency for Thai 'spies' Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:49 AM PST Cambodia said Thursday that it would grant clemency to two Thais convicted of spying in a disputed border area, to mark the cremation of its former king Norodom Sihanouk. | ||
| Driverless car concept gains traction at CES Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:36 AM PST Automakers and technology firms are jumping on the bandwagon of the driverless car, which remains a concept as well as a platform for new technologies to improve safety on the road. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now | ||
| Wholesale and retail to contribute RM156bn to GDP by 2020 Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:27 AM PST The wholesale and retail sector which has 12 entry point projects (EPP) under the National Key Economic Area (NKEA) is expected to contribute RM156 billion to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and create 454,190 job opportunities by 2020. | ||
| Lawyer alleges police brutality in Delhi gang-rape case Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:26 AM PST A defence lawyer accused Indian police Thursday of beating confessions out of five men charged with murdering and gang-raping a student in New Delhi, as they were due to appear in court again. | ||
| Taiwan probes illegal money transfer for Macau casinos Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:23 AM PST Taiwanese prosecutors said Thursday they were investigating a locally-based Hong Kong firm for allegedly carrying out huge money transfers for use in Macau casinos, circumventing strict forex rules. | ||
| 4 National Education Blueprint initiatives to be implemented this year Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:18 AM PST The Education Ministry will focus on four initiatives under the National Education Blueprint 2013-2025 in the first 100 days of this year, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today. | ||
| Killer whales trapped in Canada ice, in danger Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:15 AM PST Twelve killer whales could be in imminent danger after getting trapped by ice in the Hudson Bay off the shore of northern Quebec, the Canadian broadcaster reported Wednesday. | ||
| Don't revert policy of levy payment: MTUC Posted: 10 Jan 2013 12:13 AM PST The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) today called on the government not to bow to the demands of employers to revert the policy of levy payment for foreign workers. | ||
| Singapore hit by another train disruption Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:58 PM PST A busy stretch of Singapore's metro system broke down for several hours Thursday due to a power fault, in the latest of a series of disruptions that have riled the public. | ||
| Perkasa urges Malay rulers to intervene in use of 'Allah' Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:54 PM PST Perkasa, the Malay right-wing group, has urged the institution of the Malay rulers to act in accordance with the principles of the law on the issue of the use of the word "Allah" in the Malay version of the Bible. | ||
| Rare snowstorm paralyses Jerusalem area, northern Israel Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:51 PM PST JERUSALEM, Jan 10 — The worst snowstorm in 20 years shut public transport, roads and schools in Jerusalem today and along the northern Israeli region bordering on Lebanon. Elisha Peleg, an official in charge of emergencies with Israel's municipality for Jerusalem, urged the city's residents to remain at home and stay off the streets, telling ... 
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| US’s Richardson says didn’t meet detained American on North Korea trip Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:30 PM PST BEIJING, Jan 10 — Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt failed to secure the release of a Korean-American held in North Korea since December during a controversial trip to the secretive state. Richardson told a media briefing at Beijing's airport today he was unable to meet Korean-American Kenneth ... 
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