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Asia shares down on oil, US jitters
May 22 - Concerns about U.S. interest rates and soaring oil kept Asian share markets under...
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Nikkei falls for 11th day
July 3 - Asia stocks continued to slide on Thursday with inflation and economic growth worries...
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Asia rebounds on oil price drop
Jul 9 - Markets rebound and anxious Japanese consumers line up ahead of launch of Apple's iphone...
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Singapore's economy shrinks
July 10 - Asia stocks largely gained on Thursday despite fresh signs of a weakening economies...
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Stocks mixed amid iPhone mania
July 11 - Asia stocks were mixed on Friday as investors eyed rising oil prices.
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Asia stocks fall to two-year low
July 15 - U.S. financial woes continued to weigh on Asian confidence and regional banks on...
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The jet set braces for turbulence
Jul 16 - Sales of private business jets have enjoyed rapid growth in recent years buoyed by...
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Asia stocks leap but inflation looms
July 21 - Asia stocks rose on Monday as investors took heart from a smaller than expected loss...
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Lenovo, Asia exporters face pressure
July 22 - Asian electronics giants like PC-maker Lenovo face investor concern about earnings...
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Asia stocks helped by oil
July 23 - A drop in oil prices helped boost Asia stocks on Wednesday.
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Oil prices drop
July 24 - A drop in oil prices helped boost Asia stocks on Thursday.
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Samsung disappoints, Asia mkts dips
July 25 - Samsung earnings disappoint, while early week market optimism faded on Friday.
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Asia stocks mixed despite oil dip
July 28 - A profit warning by Australia's third-largest bank ANZ casts a pall over Asian stocks,...
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Merrill weighs on Asia
July 29 - Merrill Lynch's 5.7 billion dollars debt write-down and plans for 8.5 billion dollars...
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Anger after WTO talks collapse
Jul 30 - Recriminations fly across Asia as WTO talks fail while Latin America demand a banana...
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Asia stocks climb amid caution
July 31 - Many Asian stock markets rose on Thursday after central banks moved to boost liquidity...
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Economic jitters weigh on Asia
Growing economic pessimism weighed on Asian investor confidence Friday, but market players looked...
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Oil surge hits Asian markets
Oil prices jump on signs US inventories are falling, hitting energy-dependent firms across Asia...
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Asia rebounds on bargain-hunting
A battered Asian share market saw investors return to bargain-hunt Monday, but a sustained rally...
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Asia fears economic slowdown
Asia stocks fell sharply on Tuesday with investors worried about further signs of a global credit...
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Asia shares recover
Asian investors shook off worries about U.S. financial system stability, with commodity-linked...
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Asia shares fall on oil surge
Asian shares fell to a two-year low as oil surged to $121 a barrel on escalating U.S.-Russian...
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China market firms on earnings
Beleaguered Chinese markets firmed ahead of a slate of company results, while much of Asia ran in...
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Oil up for 4rth straight session
Asia investors eyed rising oil prices and weak global economies on Thursday.
Phone giant...
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Markets end week on high note
Asia stocks rose on Friday with exporters boosted by stronger than expected U.S. economic growth...
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Oil up, Asian stocks down
Asian shares eased as oil rose above 116 dollars a barrel Monday, as a quarter of U.S. crude...
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Tech, economy weigh on Asia
Technology and U.S. economic jitters weighed on Asian investors Thursday, as concerns grew about...
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Asia shares tumble
Stocks across Asia fell sharply on Friday with investors again worried about the outlook for the...
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Asia shares jump
Asian shares jump after Washington took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to save the U.S. housing...
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Asia banks, officials cheer move
Banks across Asia and regional financial officials took heart Monday from the U.S. government...
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Asia shares fell
Asian stocks fell and government bonds rose Tuesday as investors said the U.S. takeover of Fannie...
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Lehman bankruptcy rocks Asia
Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy sent shock waves across Asia Tuesday, as much of the region came back...
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Wall St. gyrates on AIG speculation
The Dow swung from a 174-point drop to a 100-point rally and back to modest declines as...
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Wall Street snaps global sell-off
U.S. stocks rallied on Tuesday, following steep losses in Europe and Asia, as speculation of...
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Raw fear hits stocks
Asia stocks plunged on Thursday with investors spooked by the unravelling global credit...
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Asia awaits bailout plan
Asian investors remained cautious on Thursday as they await U.S. congressional approval of a $700...
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Asia stocks dip before bailout vote
Japan's Nikkei fell on Monday as investors remained cautious ahead of a key vote by U.S....
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Asia falls on failed US bailout
Stock markets across Asia sank on Tuesday after U.S. lawmakers rejected a $700 billion plan to...
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Asia unexcited by bailout vote
The Senate's passage of a $700 billion U.S. financial bailout plan failed to boost Asian share...
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Asia shares dive in global slide
Asian shares plummeted Wednesday in Wall Street's wake as worries the credit crisis would further...
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Asia latest to cut interest rates
South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan become the latest countries to interest rates.
The move on...
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Panic grips Asian investors
Asian shares plummeted Friday after a Wall Street nosedive, as investor panic reigned across the...
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Asia greets G7 weekend pledges
Asian markets started higher on Monday after officials pledged to help repair the world's broken...
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Asia Markets Mostly Up Monday
Most Asian stock markets recovered Monday after last week's
historic sell-off as governments in...
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European stocks follow Asia fall
After falls on U.S. and Asian equities markets, European shares also head downwards as fears of a...
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Stocks mixed, market fears remain
Regional market gains were muted by investor concerns over a slowing global economy.
Asia...
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European stocks fall on econ fears
European shares fall as the spectre of a global downturn hit industrials, banks and...
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Asia shares hit, oil dips
Asian shares mostly declined as global recession fears and Wall Street's worst two-day tumble...
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U.S., Asia jitters hit shares
Asian shares declined Tuesday as mild regional optimism gave way to U.S. and local economic...
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Asia stocks slide, yen jumps
Asian stock markets tumbled early Thursday, hit by renewed financial crisis jitters and signs the...
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Asia rebounds pre-G20
Asian shares crawled back Friday from recent losses on hopes ahead of a weekend Group of 20...
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Asia shares dip, yen up
Asian share markets eased Wednesday as yen strength and economic jitters chilled interest.
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Asia rallies on bargain-hunting
Asian shares shook off a host of economic and company woes, rallying on mild bargain-hunting and...
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Bush pleges new trade push
The outgoing U.S. president has told APEC leaders meeting in Peru that Washington will press for a...
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Financial crisis dominates APEC
Global financial crisis remains at the forefront of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in...
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Big Asia deals stall
Two major takeover deals in the Asian region broke down, rattling the shares of targets Rio Tinto...
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Asia eyes cenbank moves
Asian shares found support Monday on hopes about central bank action to stem rapidly slowly...
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Asia shrs edge up, Qantas soars
Most Asian share markets crawled higher Wednesday, although regional automakers remained under...
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Asia telcoms eye 3G, beyond
Japan's top mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo, wants to dial up more overseas business, while...
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Business Update: Asia stimulus hope
Passage of an $825 billion U.S. stimulus plan by the House of Representatives boosted Asian...
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Asia losses mount
Asian manufacturers record a disappointing first wave of results as consumer demand dries...
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Asia up ahead of US stimulus vote
Asia stocks rose ahead of a vote on a$920 billion U.S. stimulus package, looking to turn around...
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Business Update: "bad" bank worries
Asia markets edged lower ahead amid worries a "bad" bank to soak up toxic debts would...
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Business Update: Asia sours
Lack of detail about a $2 trillion U.S. bank rescue soured previously optimistic Asian markets,...
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Business Update: Asia slip on dollar
Asian stocks dipped as the dollar nursed huge losses after the Fed pledged to pump an extra $1...
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Intel profits drop 55 per cent, but upswing seen
San Francisco - Computer-chip giant Intel reported a 55-per- cent drop in first-quarter income...
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US ratings agency Moody's to quit Taiwan
Taipei - Taiwan confirmed Friday that US ratings agency Moody's plans to quit the country in...
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Airlines agree to 214-million-dollar fine for price fixing
Washington - Three international airlines have agreed to plead guilty to price fixing and pay a...
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New Golf GTI in European showrooms
Wolfsburg/St Tropez - The sixth generation of the VW Golf GTI hits European showrooms this month...
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Malaysia firm and Detroit Electric to produce electric cars
Malaysia's national carmaker and Dutch firm Detroit Electric on Monday inked a...
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Global airfreight, passenger volume drop sharply
Kuala Lumpur - International demand for air cargo recorded a severe dip of 25 per...
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China's Chery launches two new models at Bangkok motor show
Bangkok - China's Chery Automobile on Wednesday used the annual Bangkok...
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Singapore takes editor of Wall Street Journal to court
Singapore - The Singapore government is taking an editor of The Wall Street...
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Gates tops world rich list as fortunes plummet
New York - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates regained the top spot on Forbes' annual list of the...
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Motorola and Visto Reach Deal on Good Technology
Motorola sold Good Technology to e-mail provider Visto.
The two companies released a joint...
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HTC Presents Its New Mobile Devices
HTC chose the Mobile World Congress to present its new devices, the...
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Nokia Presents Its New XpressMusic Mobile Phone
Nokia presented yesterday its new 5630 XpressMusic mobile phone, which was...
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Telecommunications Giant Nortel Files For Bankruptcy
North American telecommunications equipment manufacturer Nortel has filed for bankruptcy protection...
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Wine Still A Good Investment In Hard Times, Say Experts
Hong Kong - When James Christie held his first auction in 1776, bottles of wine were among the...
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Microsoft Takes Care Of Its Clients
Microsoft had a very busy week, as the company managed to complete and release the patch needed to...
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Siemens' Bribery Flourished Despite Warnings
Washington - A culture of bribery and impunity flourished at German corporate giant Siemens AG...
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Bernard Madoff, Not As Impeccable As Thought
Bernard Madoff has been arrested for a multibillion fraud that stretched from Europe to Asia and...
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Global air traffic declines for second consecutive month
Geneva - Air traffic continued to contract in October, statistics released Thursday showed, marking...
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AirAsia Forges Ahead Despite Air Travel Slowdown
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's budget airline AirAsia hopes to soar above the current global travel...
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US stocks fall sharply on opening
Washington - US stock indices posted steep drops on opening Friday, plunging more than 4 per cent...
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Heavy-Vehicle Makers Volvo, Scania to Cut Back Production
Stockholm - Swedish heavy-vehicle makers Volvo and Scania on Friday said they were preparing to cut...
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Ivory Products Will No Longer Be Available On eBay
In an effort to help protect the endangered African and
Asian elephants, eBay announced that it...
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Asian-Pacific Stocks Rising on South Korea Financial Rescue Package
Tokyo - Asia-Pacific stocks rose on Monday after South Korea announced a more than...
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Ericsson Profits and Sales Increase in 3rd Quarter
Stockholm - Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson's pre-tax income for the third...
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Global Meltdown Set to Hit Hong Kong's Luxury Market Hardest
Hong Kong - It is home to some of Asia's wealthiest and most successful people - a city where...
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Japan Sucked Ever Deeper into Financial Maelstrom
Tokyo - Never before has the Japanese economy been buffeted so severely by financial sources...
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Poor Take Hits too as Financial Crisis Moves Beyond the Rich
Washington - As the world's richest nations debate how to bring a catastrophic financial crisis...
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RIM's BlackBerry Storm: The Touchscreen Comes To Life
We always thought touch-screen technology belongs to the future,
but it’s time to face it: the...
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Asia-Pacific Markets Fall Sharply Wednesday
Tokyo - Stock markets throughout Asia and the Pacific fell sharply Wednesday in response to Wall...
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Financial Meltdown Spells Nightmare for Japan and other Asian Countries
Tokyo - News about the latest emergency package to save Germany's real estate financier Hypo Real...
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U.S.
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Former US candidate McCain in Vietnam, calls for military ties
Hanoi - The United States "would like to increase military- to-military relations" with...
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Obama praises Turkey and seeks to end rift with Muslim world
Ankara - US President Barack Obama on Monday moved to heal rifts between the United States...
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World leaders greet Obama inauguration with hope, caution
World leaders lined up on Tuesday to pay tributes to Barack Obama on the occasion of his...
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Obama sworn in as 44th president of the United States
Washington - Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday as the 44th president of the United States,...
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Obama's Choice For CIA Drawing Criticism
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama's choice of former White House chief of staff Leon...
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American Students Getting Better at Math
According to a survey published Tuesday, American children
have gotten better at Math, doing much...
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Survey Shows US Students Gain In International Math Test
The most recent international survey on teen mathematics and
science achievements released by the...
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Chances of a Terror Attack Higher than Ever: Report
The odds that terrorists will attack a
major city somewhere in the world using weapons of mass...
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Geithner To Head Obama's Economic Team During Crisis
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled the economic team that will attempt to...
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Geithner to head Obama's economic team during crisis
Washington - President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled the economic team that will attempt to...
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Bush Closed His Final Summit with World Leaders
United States president George W. Bush ended his
final global summit with world leaders by...
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George W Bush leaves world stage with a "goodbye"
Washington - It was a farewell without fanfares, tears or dollops of praise. Instead, US President...
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Obama Wants to Strengthen Alliance with South Korea
Seoul - US president-elect Barack Obama vowed to closely cooperate with South Korea on achieving...
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World embraces Obama, but expectations are high
Governments and leaders around the globe were overwhelmingly positive Wednesday to the election of...
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US Stocks Up as Oil Price Rise Helps Energy Firms
Washington - Most US stock indices closed higher Thursday, led by an increase in oil prices that...
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Asian, Latino voters could change course of election, report says
Washington - A large and growing, but underestimated, voter bloc of Asian and Latino immigrants...
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US Pledges $40 M to Save Coral Triangle
Manila - The United States Thursday pledged 40 million dollars to help save the Coral Triangle, the...
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Music
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Michael Jackson shows a sell-out on first day
London - Tickets for Michael Jackson's This Is It comeback tour in Britain were sold out within...
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Rihanna Cancels Jakarta Show Afraid for Her Own Safety
Young R&B singer Rihanna cancelled a concert she was
scheduled to perform in Jakarta
on...
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‘American Idol’: And There Were 12…
Top-rated TV show “American Idol” sent home four more contestants on Thursday night with the help...
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Top 12 Announced on American Idol
The top 12 contestants have been announced last night. Sadly, Danny Noriega went home, the popular...
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Girls Fail to Impress on Idol, 4 to Go Home Tonight
Last night, the top 8 girls took on the stage of American Idol: Kristy Lee Cook, Asia’h Epperson,...
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VFTW Strikes Again! The Worst Still on American Idol
The Vote for the Worst campaign has did it again! They managed to keep the worst American Idol...
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Brooke White Leads Girls' Performances on American Idol
Tuesday, the top 10 guys on American Idol performed: David Archuleta, Robbie Carrico, Jason Castro,...
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Archuleta Woos Judges on American Idol
Last week, the dreams of four young wannabe singers were crushed on Thursday during the American...
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Four Contestants Eliminated from American Idol
The dreams of four young wannabe singers were crushed on Thursday night, during the American Idol...
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American Idol: The Final 24 Chosen!
On Tuesday, the top 24 contestants were unveiled on American Idol. The two-hour edition of the show...
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Video Games
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Need For Speed SHIFT Gets A Release Date
The first game with which EA will try to push its Need For Speed franchise toward new boundaries is...
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Halo Wars Spawns One Million Seeds…Err…Copies
If you ever doubted the success of the Halo Wars, the RTS game based on Halo universe, then...
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EA Announces Three Hits In The NFS Series
Electronic Arts (EA) has just announced details of what is in store for the Need for Speed...
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SimCity Now On An iPhone Near You!
EA Mobile, the division of Electronic Arts that handles the mobile games said that SimCity, the...
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Blizzard Counts 11 Million WoW Players As WOTLK Approaches Launch
It’s no secret that Blizzard Entertainment’s World of
Warcraft MMORPG has been constantly gaining...
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Microsoft Shows Off Xbox Live Experience at TGS
Alongside the US-based E3 and the Leipzig Games Convention,
the Tokyo Games show is one of the...
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Sony Is Getting Ready to Launch the New Wireless Keypad
During the Leipzig Games Convention, Sony announced the release of a brand new peripheral called...
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Teens Love PS3, Habbo Says
Maybe the sales of PlayStation 3 are trailing behind Xbox 360 and
Wii, but it seems like Sony’s...
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Spielberg's BOOM BLOX Game for Wii Is a Hit
BOOM BLOX, a game developed by Electronic Arts, and with Steven Spielberg’s personal touch, is...
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Boom Blox, Spielberg's Game, Is Here
Everyone has been waiting for May 6 to come. Why? Because BOOM BLOX, a game developed by Electronic...
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Microsoft Makes Aggressive Xbox 360 Price Cuts in Asia
Microsoft has cut prices for its Xbox 360 gaming console in Asia. The cuts range from 5 to 20...
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MSG4: Guns Of The Patriots Official Release Set For June 12
Konami announced the release of
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots exclusively designed for...
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Guild Wars Hits 5 Million Players Milestone
NCsoft, the publisher behind the Guild Wars, announced that
the fracnhise developed by ArenaNet...
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10 Million People Playing World Of Warcraft Worldwide
In just six months Blizzard’s widely-popular MMORPG, World
of Warcraft, has added another one...
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Specials
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Oxfam: Climate crises to affect 375 million by 2015
Bangkok (dpa) - Natural disasters caused by climate change are expected to affect 375 million...
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Hong Kong pop star takes leave from industry after drugs arrest
Hong Kong - Hong Kong pop singer Kelvin Kwan plans to leave the entertainment...
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Google Makes another Smart Move with Google Ocean and Google Mars
Google Earth has ventured into new waters. Really, it got its feet wet.
The 5.0 version...
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Number of Internet Users Exceeds 1 Billion
According to a report that was released on Friday by ComScore, global Internet usage surpassed...
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Taiwan Bans Indoor Smoking
Taiwan on Sunday announced the decision to ban indoor smoking, becoming the 17th state in the...
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Zoos Detrimental to Elephants from the Wild
Researchers and conservationists who have
compared, in a premiere study, the behaviour of captive...
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They kill elephant in zoos, says “Science” article; zoo expert sputters in denial
Researchers compounded a study showing that elephants and zoos don’t go well together at all. Their...
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Zoo Conditions Not So Great For Elephants
Seeing elephants at the zoo might be an incredible
experience for many, but knowing that their...
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Wine lovers defy recession to pay up to 40,000 dollars a bottle
Hong Kong - Wine lovers from across Asia showed their love for a fine vintage is recession-proof...
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Hong Kong Shows Halloween Spirit to Lure in Short-Haul Visitors
Hong Kong - Hong Kong has been named many things: Asia's world city, former British colony, the...
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IUCN: More than 1,140 Mammals in Danger of Extinction
Barcelona - The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced Monday that more...
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Shipwreck Found in Namibia: "A Heritage for the World"
Oranjemund, Namibia - The archeologists are into raptures about the close to 500-year-old shipwreck...
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The Chinese Are Aiming For the Moon
China’s Shenzhou 7 spacecraft was launched at 9:07 p.m. Thursday, carrying three Chinese astronauts...
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Warner Music’s Management Team Is the Definite Target of Change
Change is said to be always welcome. Warner Music Group
seems to completely agree with this. The...
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Survivors of 1918 Flu Pandemic Still Immune
Although hard to believe antibodies from survivors of the most devastating 1918 influenza pandemic...
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One Third of the World’s Population Watched the Olympics’ Opening
Over two billion people or almost one third of the world’s
population watched the opening ceremony...
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Social Networking Worldwide Frenzy Continues; Facebook Is Number One
On Tuesday, ComScore released the results of a recently completed study; as it turned out, the...
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There Is Still Lots To Be Done To Meet Ends In The Fight With AIDS
How to improve HIV treatment and to prevent the spreading of
the virus are two questions that lie...
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Bush And Lee Say North Korea Should Keep Nuclear Pledges
US President George W Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak called Wednesday on North Korea...
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Could Soy Foods Affect Male Fertility?
Although many previous studies have shown that soya is good
for humans by lowering cholesterol,...
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Global PC Frenzy Keeps Going Strong
On Tuesday, Gartner and IDC, two major IT research firms,
brought forward the results of a...
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iPhone Explodes Worldwide
On Friday, Apple finally released the new version of its
iPhone, thus making its anxious fans jump...
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U.S. Southwest Air and Canada WestJet Link Up Expanding Market Views
Southwest Airlines Co., the largest U.S.
discounter, announced yesterday that it reached an...
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SIA: Chip Sales Up 5.9 Percent Due To Growing Demand
The Semiconductor Industry
Association’s April report on semiconductor sales reflected a 5.9...
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Artists Stand Together For Art
Actor Robert Redford, musician John Legend and actress Kerry Washington were joined yesterday by...
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Nearly All Oceans Damaged by Human Activities, Scientists Say
Nearly every corner of the world’s oceans have been damaged
in some way by human activity and 41...
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Sanofi-Aventis Teams up with Danish SSI to Develop New TB Vaccine
French drugs group Sanofi-Aventis announced on Thursday its intention to team up with Danish...
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California Museums Raided by Feds
Federal agents raided several Southern California museums on Thursday in search of looted...
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Terri Irwin To Launch Anti-Whaling Programme
Next year, widow of TV host, Steve Irwin, will launch a
scientific campaign in order to show the...
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Human Evolution: Homo Sapiens Sapiens Sapiens…?
How much wisdom (sapientia) would
humans be able to accumulate? Homo sapiens sapiens is on the...
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World
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New Zealand school isolates 31 swine flu suspects
Wellington - Twenty-seven students from a New Zealand college orchestra and four teachers are being...
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At swine flu epicentre, death toll climbs amid world alert
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Arctic counries meet to discuss climate change
Oslo - Nobel Peace laureate Al Gore called for more action to tackle global warming Tuesday on the...
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Australia warns of rise in people smuggling
Bali Island, Indonesia - The global financial crisis may force more people...
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North Korea launches rocket, draws international ire
Seoul/Tokyo/Washington - North Korea launched a rocket early Sunday and claimed to have put a...
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Home of former British banking boss targeted by vandals
London - The private home of a top British banker at the centre of a heated row over lavish...
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Beijing upholds two-year sentence for rights activist
Beijing - A Beijing court has upheld a two-year prison sentence for a...
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EU deadlocked over 5-billion-euro stimulus plan
Brussels - The Czech presidency of the European Union on Monday urged the bloc's member states to...
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Benedict to push reconciliation on first Africa papal visit
Johannesburg - Four years after his ascension to the throne of St Peter, Pope Benedict XVI embarks...
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NATO to divert South-East Asia warships to fight Somali pirates
Mons, Belgium - NATO is to divert seven warships, bound on the alliance's first-ever visit to Asia,...
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Clinton meets Chinese foreign minister, days after naval spat
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang...
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Beijing Woman Dies Of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Japan's Stock Market Ends Worst Year In Trading History
Tokyo - For Tokyo's traders, it was the worst year on record for Asia's leading stock market -...
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Calls Grow For China To Free Charter '08 Dissident
Beijing - Leading international writers, scholars, lawyers and rights advocates...
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Pakistan Teetering In Fight Against Terrorism
Islamabad - In 2008, Pakistan wobbled in its fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, who have...
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Myanmar In An Hour And A Half
Myawaddy, Myanmar - Go to those places where poor countries meet rich and you will find hope. The...
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Authoritarian Kazakhstan Prepares To Assume OSCE Chairmanship In 2010
Astana/Moscow - When Western politicians speak of Kazakhstan with a gleam in their eyes, they're...
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Airports Closure Casts Long Shadow On Thai Tourism
Bangkok - The week-long closure of Bangkok's two airports has left the capital's hotels empty,...
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Soldiers Wounded By Communist Rebels In The Southern Philippines
Davao City, Philippines - Four soldiers facing communist rebels in the southern Philippines were...
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New Zealand puts plane on standby for citizens stranded in Bangkok
Wellington - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced Tuesday that he had ordered an air...
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Crisis Means Good Deals In Asia For Flashpackers
Hong Kong - "It's a buyers market," Malcolm O'Brien said. "There's bargains out...
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Taiwan-China Meeting At APEC Summit Marks Milestone
Taipei - China's decision to allow Taiwan's former vice president Lien Chan to attend the APEC...
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Peru seeks increased military ties, trade with Russia and China
Lima - Peruvian officials took advantage of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Lima this...
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Bush Encourages Cooperation At APEC Summit
U.S. President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and...
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Russia, China Strike Deals, Challenge US In Latin America
Lima - By the time United States President George W Bush arrived in Lima Friday for the annual...
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Britain to clamp down on "sex-slave trafficking"
London - The British government announced plans Wednesday to clamp down on prostitution involving...
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EU's Biggest Immigrant Group Is Composed Of Poles
Warsaw - According to an EU report released today, Poles make up the largest immigrant group in the...
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Taiwan And China Are Both Looking For Peace
Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou announced earlier today that the future looks bright thanks...
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IMF Hopes To Improve Reputation With Expanded Lending Role
Washington - As leaders of the Group of 20 nations gather for Saturday's historic meeting, one of...
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Science
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British scientists trace early horse domestication to Kazakhstan
London - Horses were domesticated around 1,000 years earlier than previously believed and...
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Homo Ergaster Or Early Homo Erectus 1.5 Million-Year-Old Footprints Found!
Some 1.5 million-year-old footprints, found in sediment deposits in northern Kenya, are the oldest...
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The Discovery of Atlantis, Not On Google Ocean’s Resume Yet
The legendary island of Atlantis is one of the treasures of the Ancient world that has kept...
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China Reveals Bilateral Climate Change Roadmap With the U.S.
China, as one of world’s largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions, has vowed to address...
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Paleontologists Uncover the Fossilized Remains of Paleocene Giant Snake
Almost 60 million years ago, northeastern Colombia was dominated by the presence of what is...
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Serotonin Changes Locusts’ Behavior
A new research pointed out that serotonin plays an important role in the way locust swarm...
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Study: Serotonin Stimulates Swarming Behavior in Locusts
It is for good reason that locust swarm outbreaks are considered not only disastrous for the...
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Study Says Zoo Life Is Killing Elephants
Seeing elephants at the zoo might be an incredible
experience for many, but knowing that their...
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Study: Zoo Conditions Halve Life Spans Of Captive Elephants
Seeing elephants at the zoo might be an incredible
experience for many, but knowing that their...
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American Students Gain in TIMSS Test
A recent international survey of student achievement
released on Tuesday, Trends in International...
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Study: US Students Getting Better At Math
The most recent international survey on teen mathematics and
science achievements released by the...
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Video Game Designer Embarks On Space Journey
The love for space in general, and space travel in
particular, is something one might expect to...
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IUCN Red List: 1/4 Of World’s Mammal Species on the Verge of Extinction
The world’s population of mammals is in constant decline,
and at least one fourth of them are on...
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Update 2: Mammals Everywhere Need Protection!
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) recently released an extremely...
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Shenzhou VII - Another Chinese Success
The Chinese space shuttle Shenzhou VII was launched on
Thursday, September 25th, from a remote...
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Study Links Global Warming To The Increase Of Kidney Stone Cases
As the planet warms there will be more people suffering from
kidney stones most probably due to...
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Mars Starts Journey Into The Mysteries Of Cocoa Genome
Mars, the giant chocolate maker, is planning on solving
humanity’s cocoa crisis (yes, there is...
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A New Patch To Fight Traveler’s Diarrhea
According to a study published in the medical journal the
Lancet, a patch impregnated with the...
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Carbon Dioxide and Methane Levels - An Upward Trend in 2007
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s latest report on greenhouse emissions...
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Scientists Map Worldwide Journey of Seasonal Flu
Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery of
where seasonal flu viruses originate and...
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Pre-Clovis DNA Samples Point to 14,000 Year Old North Americans
North America – first there was
Clovis…Correction: North America, 1,000 years before the so-called...
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Study: Primates Moved From Asia To North America 55 M Years Ago
The fossil of the earliest known
primate to have inhabited the North American continent -...
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DNA Links Humanity To One Common Origin: Africa
Have you ever been to Africa?
According to the latest studies on human diversity, you have!...
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Global Warming Will Induce Drought In Western U.S.
The western part of the United
States should expect intensive drought, as global warming already...
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Two New Species Found in Indonesian “Lost World”
Although recent studies and researches mainly focus on lost or endangered species, it seems that...
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The Researchers May Have Found the Missing Link
A jawbone of a pre-human great ape that a team of Kenyan and
Japanese researchers found in the...
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Evidence: Indonesian "Hobbit" Not Diseased Human
After a three year long debate, it appears that those scientists claiming that "hobbit"...
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Georgian Discovery Sheds Light on Human Evolution
A new discovery of skeletal remains outlined in the journal Nature sheds light on the evolutionary...
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ESA’s Satellites Shows The Opening of The Northwest Passage
European Space Agency satellites revealed that the sea ice
in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest...
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IUCN’s Report Says 16.306 Species Are Facing Extinction
An annual survey published Wednesday by the World
Conservation Union, IUCN revealed a sad and...
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Technology
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Third undersea cable planned to bring faster internet to Asia
Taipei - Several Asian countries plan to jointly build a third Asia-Pacific...
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Merkel and Schwarzenegger open CeBIT trade fair
Hanover, Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and California Governor Arnold...
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Blu-ray Patent Holders Reunite Into One Single Licensing Entity
Blu-ray patent holders are encouraging companies to create more such products by offering them a...
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Gmail Service Outage: Trouble in Paradise
Google on Tuesday apologized for an outage that struck possibly millions of users of its email...
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HTC Dream Hits Asia Tomorrow Via SingTel
The HTC Dream will make its way into the Asian market through Singapore Telecommunications....
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HTC Updates Diamond and Touch Pro Models
On Monday, the smartphone manufacturer HTC announced that it would release revised versions for the...
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EA Announces Three New Hits In The NFS Franchise
Electronic Arts (EA) has just announced details of what is in store for the Need for Speed...
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Google: Inauguration-Related Searches Increasingly Popular
The Inauguration Day attracted a lot of interest from United States users, but also from users all...
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Downadup Infects 8 Million Computers
Most of the corporate life now is highly dependable on computers and networks, making a virus one...
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Report: Conficker Worm Infects 7 Million Computers In 4 Days
Security company F-Secure warned about a rapidly spreading ‘Downadup’ worm,...
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The New iPhone Nano, This Summer’s Must Have
Chinese-language paper The Economic Daily News reported on Tuesday that two chip manufacturers are...
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Slim Pickings from Motorola at Consumer Electronics Show
The Consumer Electronics Show saw Motorola reveal little in the way of new handsets on...
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NORAD And Google Once Again Track Santa Claus
A special Google Maps-powered Web site established by the North American Aerospace Defense...
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$1 billion Needed for US-Made Lithium Ion Batteries Master Plan
Electric cars seem more and more close to become a practical, normal alternative to those using...
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Hoffman Returns As CEO For LinkedIn
According to recent information, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is reclaiming his role as...
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Pirates Dupe Blu-Ray Disk Buyers
Using a technological quirk, movie disk pirates are selling
so-called Blu-Ray disks, which can be...
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Sony Recalls Yet More Laptop Batteries
Sony has done it again apparently. Three of the biggest
laptop manufacturers who fit their...
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World computer sales grew 15 per cent but slowdown felt
San Francisco - Global computer sales from July to September grew 15 per cent from 2007, but...
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Microsoft Shows Off Xbox Live Experience At TGS '08
Alongside the US-based E3 and the Leipzig Games Convention,
the Tokyo Games show is one of the...
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Facebook, MySpace Absolute Rulers In Mobile Social Networking
Social networking has longtime crossed the border between
desktops and mobile devices, and as a...
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BlackBerry Storm: The Touchscreen Comes To Life
We always thought touch-screen technology belongs to the future,
but it’s time to face it: the...
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Nintendo Introduces Their New DS
On
September 28, „The Nikkei Business Daily” informed that Nintendo would
be releasing a new...
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Report: TOM-Skype User Logs Stored On Insecure Chinese Servers
Chinese Internet users now have yet another reason to be
frustrated: not only do they have to face...
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Microsoft Ads Finally Get to the Point, Fail to Impress
Microsoft's mega-expensive advertising campaign has finally got to the point. The Redmond company's...
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Amazon Presents Content Delivery Service In The Making
Amazon is planning on releasing a new service for content
delivery, which is still in the making...
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O3b to Deploy 16 Satellites to Bring the Internet to Developing Countries
O3b Networks, which by the way stands for “the other three
billion”(people worldwide with no...
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Google & Partners Fund Satellite Internet Project For Emerging Markets
O3b Networks will support Google, Liberty Global and HSBC
Principal Investments in their plan to...
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Cheap Web Access for Poor or Remote Countries
Satellite Company O3b Networks that stands for "other 3 billion," referring to the...
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iPhone Gets “Spore Origins”
Electronic
Arts Mobile announced that “Spore Origins”, which is an original game designed
for...
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Apple-China Mobile Talks Progress, iPhone to Hit Chinese Market Soon
Apple Inc is reportedly making progress in its bid to launch the iPhone 3G on the biggest piece of...
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Health
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WHO confirms 1025 flu cases in 20 countries
Geneva - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 1025 officially reported cases of influenza...
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WHO to Intensify Anti-Malaria Fight in Asia-Pacific
The World Health Organization (WHO) vowed on Friday to intensify the fight against malaria in...
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WHO calls for disaster-resistant hospitals, health facilities
Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged Asian countries to...
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WHO earmarks 15 billion dollars to curb drug-resistant TB by 2015
Beijing - Ministers from 27 nations have backed a 15-billion-dollar plan to...
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China launches partnership to fight drug-resistant TB
Beijing - China on Wednesday launched a partnership with the Gates...
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FDA Clears Ixiaro for Japanese Encephalitis
The Us Food and Drug Administration said Monday it approved Ixiaro, a vaccine designed to prevent...
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Forum Calls for Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Asia
On Friday, after three days of debate during a health forum, representatives at health...
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HIV Infections Explode in China Due to Unprotected Gay Sex
AIDS is just killing China. HIV became the top killer among infectious diseases in China last year...
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Smoking Bans in Restaurants, a New Attempt to Cut Smoking Rates
Why ban smoking in restaurants and other public places? Supporters of the proposed smoking ban in...
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More Hong Kong Birds Test Positive for H5N1
Three of the 21 dead birds that were recently discovered on Hong Kong’s shores tested...
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Tamiflu-resistant Flu Strain Found in Salt Lake County
Health officials from the Salt Lake Valley Health Department have found a recently mutated strain...
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Smoking Bans, Anti-smoking Efforts Are Not Enough To Cut Tobacco Deaths
Despite the states’ increased effort to fight smoking, the rate of tobacco-related...
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China Fears Bird Flu Could Kill Thousands During Lunar New Year
The bird flu is making new victims, this time in China. The Chinese Health Ministry said on its...
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HIV’s Threat Has Not Come to an End Yet
When President Bush announced in 2003 his five-year, $15 billion plan to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS...
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New Malaria Treatment to Be Approved by the FDA
The US Food and Drug Administration is one step closer to approving a new malaria drug with...
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China Confirms Beijing Woman Died of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Bird Flu Found In China Too
Chinese agriculture officials have recently announced
that they have found poultry infected with a...
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WHO Warns Governments to Keep Guard Up For Bird Flu
Thursday a World Health Organization official warned Asian
governments to be vigilant for bird...
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Malaria Vaccine, In Development
Malaria is very well-known disease, part of the vector-borne diseases. It has been discovered that...
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Guinea Worm Disease, Close To Eradication
The Guinea worm disease, also known as the Medina worm disease or, by its scientific name,...
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FDA Defends the Low Levels of Melamine In Baby Formulas
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration assured us that trace amounts of melamine and other toxic...
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Complacency About AIDS Heightens Risks, Experts Say
Geneva - Asian countries, youngsters and people spoiled by the availability of medicines in the...
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Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua
A controversial bill that requires some HIV patients to be implanted with microchips has just...
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Baby formula makers target Asian mothers after melamine scare
Hong Kong - An attractive, smiling, healthy-looking couple pose with their thumbs up in front of a...
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GE, Pittsburgh Hospital Collaborate to Open Cancer Centers Worldwide
GE Healthcare, a division of General
Electric Co. and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,...
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Thailand: New Bird Flu Outbreak Detected
Bangkok - Thailand has detected a fresh outbreak of avian influenza among free-range chickens in...
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Colorectal Cancer Screenings Should Stop at Age 75, Government Task Force Recommends
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has
rejected the latest X-ray screening technology, called...
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China’s Toxic Milk Crisis Spreads Fear in Other Parts of the World
China’s tainted milk crisis that killed four infants and sickened 53,000 babies across the country...
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WHO IDs Diseases, Warming as Asia-Pacific Health Challenges
Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) is bracing for major health challenges in Asia and the...
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GAO Warn of Unsafe E-Waste Exports
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published
a report (PDF),
according to which...
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