North Korea leader travels with son to China - sources |
- North Korea leader travels with son to China - sources
- FEATURE - Iraqis who fought view U.S. exit with mixed feelings
- Nurul Izzah has sinned by tarnishing country image: Jamil Khir
- China hopes for wider use of yuan in Southeast Asia
- Indian PM says wealth divide adding to instability
- Parents of teenagers apologise over surau incident
- Looking for a common future
- Gunmen kill four in southern Philippine bus attack
- China shipbuilder to be first mainland firm listed in Taiwan
- Cambodian court jails Russian for eight years for child sex
- Indonesian terror suspects go on trial
- Japan develops 'touchable' 3D TV technology
- Mother Teresa remembered, 100 years on
- Philippine police test guns used in hostage tragedy
- Indonesia seeks huge payout for oil spill
- Pakistan orders nearly half a million to evacuate
- English necessary to cope with globalisation
- FACTBOX - Ties binding China and North Korea
- FACTBOX - Iraq after U.S. troops end combat operations
- Book ban in Canada draws fire
| North Korea leader travels with son to China - sources Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:58 AM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il is visiting powerful ally China with his son and heir apparent, South Korean government sources said, ahead of a meeting next month that may settle his succession.
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| FEATURE - Iraqis who fought view U.S. exit with mixed feelings Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:58 AM PDT FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Sunni fighter Abu Mujahid lost a leg battling U.S. Marines in the Iraqi city of Falluja, scene of some of the fiercest battles of the Iraq war.
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| Nurul Izzah has sinned by tarnishing country image: Jamil Khir Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:38 AM PDT Those who tarnish their country's image with the aim of causing turmoil are regarded to have sinned, says Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom.
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| China hopes for wider use of yuan in Southeast Asia Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:28 AM PDT DANANG, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - China said Thursday it hoped for wider use of its currency in trade with Southeast Asian nations.
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| Indian PM says wealth divide adding to instability Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:27 AM PDT NEW DELHI, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that the country's widening divide between rich and poor was a factor that encouraged crime and caused difficulties for police.
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| Parents of teenagers apologise over surau incident Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:23 AM PDT The parents of four teenagers who allegedly splashed red paint and threw liquor bottles on a surau in Taman Pulai Impian, Sikamat, on Monday, today apologised to the surau management committee and Muslims in the country over the incident.
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| Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:21 AM PDT By LIM MUN FAH The slogans calling for toleration and difference acceptance have turned weak. The atmosphere is a bit odd and uneasy. The National Day is around the corner but at the moment, we are worried because of a series of unexpected words and actions. Where is actually the bottom line for racial remarks and extreme actions? Why are these words and incidents keep repeating? What are their intentions? Who are hiding behind the scene?
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| Gunmen kill four in southern Philippine bus attack Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:14 AM PDT MANILA, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - Gunmen stormed a bus in the volatile southern Philippines on Thursday and shot dead four people, including two policemen, the army said.
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| China shipbuilder to be first mainland firm listed in Taiwan Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:07 AM PDT TAIPEI, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - China's Yangzijiang Shipbuilding plans to sell shares in Taiwan next month, making it the first mainland firm to be traded on the island's bourse, the chief underwriter said Thursday.
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| Cambodian court jails Russian for eight years for child sex Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:06 AM PDT PHNOM PENH, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - A Cambodian appeals court on Thursday ordered a Russian businessman to serve a reduced prison sentence of eight years for buying sex from 17 under-age girls, including a deaf victim.
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| Indonesian terror suspects go on trial Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:06 AM PDT JAKARTA, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - Alleged Islamist extremists from a group dubbed "Al-Qaeda in Aceh" went on trial Thursday accused of plotting to kill Westerners including US aid workers and tourists.
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| Japan develops 'touchable' 3D TV technology Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:05 AM PDT TOKYO, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - A Japanese research team said Thursday it had developed the world's first 3D television system that allows users to touch, pinch or poke images floating in front of them.
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| Mother Teresa remembered, 100 years on Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:01 AM PDT KOLKATA, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - A solemn mass kicked off a day of remembrance Thursday on the birth centenary of Mother Teresa, known as the "Saint of the Gutters" for her life's work with the sick and destitute of Kolkata.
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| Philippine police test guns used in hostage tragedy Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:00 AM PDT MANILA, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - Philippine police said Thursday they were carrying out ballistic tests to determine if their commandos fired any of the bullets that killed eight Hong Kong tourists at the end of a hostage siege.
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| Indonesia seeks huge payout for oil spill Posted: 25 Aug 2010 11:58 PM PDT JAKARTA, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - Indonesia is seeking more than a billion dollars' compensation for environmental damage from an oil spill at a Thai-run rig off Australia's northwest coast, a report said Thursday.
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| Pakistan orders nearly half a million to evacuate Posted: 25 Aug 2010 11:58 PM PDT HYDERABAD, Thursday 26 August 2010 (AFP) - Pakistan ordered nearly half a million people to evacuate towns on Thursday as rising floods threaten further havoc in a country straining to cope after its worst humanitarian disaster.
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| English necessary to cope with globalisation Posted: 25 Aug 2010 11:47 PM PDT The United Nations has six specified official languages: English, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic; but in the world of business, English has effectively established itself as the common language. Recently, some Japanese firms have decided to make English their official language.
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| FACTBOX - Ties binding China and North Korea Posted: 25 Aug 2010 11:51 PM PDT Here are some facts about ties between the two countries.
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| FACTBOX - Iraq after U.S. troops end combat operations Posted: 25 Aug 2010 11:51 PM PDT It does not even have a new government five months after a national election in March as Shi'ite-led, Sunni-backed and Kurdish factions continue to tussle over their share of power.
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| Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:59 AM PDT  VANCOUVER: A book banned for sale aboard western Canadian ferries because a naked boy adorns the cover has drawn worldwide attention with critics crying censorship. "Alexander the Great novel gets bum rap in Canada," chortled a headline in a report Tuesday in the British Guardian about a ban by British Columbia Ferries of "The Golden Mean" by Canadian author Annabel Lyon. "Censorship ... is generally bad news," wrote Eileen Reynolds in a recent post on the New Yorker's web site. But, she added, the ban on Lyon's book "is particularly silly." The ferry service, owned by the government of Canada's westernmost province and connecting Canada's Pacific islands to the mainland, banned the book because the service is "a family show and we've got children in our gift shops," spokeswoman Deborah Marshall told the Vancouver Province newspaper. The cover features the nude back of a boy astride a white horse. Lyon's fictional account of Aristotle as tutor to Alexander the Great won Canada's prestigious 2009 Rogers Writers' Trust first prize, and was a finalist in Canada's two other largest literary awards, the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award. Craig Spence, president of the Federation of British Columbia Writers, called the ban "an overreaction to a photo that's artistic... are you going to stop kids from seeing Michelangelo's David? "The kinds of graphic material that kids are exposed to, through advertising and other media all the time, go much farther than that, and they're not in a context that would give it the justification." - AFP
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