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During the month of August it’s all about Mom, Horizon Sea View Restaurant is celebrating
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SINGAPORE (July 20, 2011) – Agoda.com, Asia’s global hotel booking site and part of the Nasdaq-listed Priceline Group. (Nasdaq: PCLN), is giving travelers a last-minute chance to nab pole position at the Hungarian F1 Grand Prix 2011 in Budapest
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ZAMBALES, Philippines: Fifteen million households in the Philippines have no access to potable water. Private sector initiatives help provide water systems that are very much needed in rural communities.
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MANILA - The Philippines said Friday it would seek regional backing for a plan on pursuing joint development of disputed areas in the South China Sea amid China's increasingly robust assertions of its claims.
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TOKYO: Japan on Friday denied that a government project to monitor online news reports and Twitter posts about the Fukushima nuclear crisis was an attempt to censor negative information and views.
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KUALA LUMPUR : Asia's football chiefs held top-level talks following calls for leadership elections after regional boss Mohamed bin Hammam was banned from the sport over corruption.
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KABUL: The toll from a roadside bomb that blew up a minivan on Friday in southern Afghanistan's restive Helmand province rose to 18 and included at least one woman, the provincial deputy police chief said.
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TOKYO: Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan was due on Friday to outline a plan to scale back nuclear power and boost renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, reports said.
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SYDNEY: Australia said on Friday it would probe the high number of suicides and self-harm incidents among asylum seekers in immigration detention centres, including at the strife-hit Christmas Island site.
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Diageo Plc (DGE), maker of Johnnie Walker scotch and Smirnoff vodka, will pay more than $16 million to resolve U.S. regulatory claims the firm bribed officials in South Korea, India and Thailand to win sales and tax benefits.
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The EdgeWalk at Toronto's CN Tower is an adrenaline filled excursion around an open-mesh metal walkway almost a quarter of a mile above the ground. There's no guard rail and no hand holds, just an uninterrupted view of the Toronto skyline and a through-the-mesh view of the ground, 1,168 feet beneath your feet.
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NEW DELHI: The lone surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead has approached the Indian Supreme Court asking for his death sentence to be overturned, a court source told AFP on Friday.
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SEOUL: Authorities came under fire on Friday for allegedly "man-made" disasters in South Korea as the toll from this week's record rainfall rose to 59 dead and 10 missing.
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PHNOM PENH: A four-year-old Cambodian girl has become the seventh person to die from bird flu in the country this year, officials said on Friday.
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MANILA: The death toll in the Philippines from tropical storm Nock-ten climbed to 41 on Friday, as millions of people across the main island of Luzon mopped up after a week of heavy rain, officials said.
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UNITED NATIONS: The United States tested North Korea's willingness to negotiate giving up its nuclear arsenal on Thursday in talks that a top North Korean official said had been "constructive."
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NEW DELHI: India's cabinet approved a new anti-corruption bill on Thursday that aims to create a powerful new ombudsman tasked with investigating endemic graft in the public sector.
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MANILA: The Philippine government said Thursday it would investigate fresh allegations that former leader Gloria Arroyo used the police to steal the 2004 presidential election.
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YANGON: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday called on the army and ethnic insurgents to end a decades-long civil conflict in her first direct letter to the country's new president.
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The Expected Fiduciary Duties of Foreigner’s working in the Field of Real Estate in Thailand:
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TOKYO: Japan widened a ban on beef shipments to a second tsunami-hit region on Thursday, citing elevated radiation levels in the meat of animals because of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis.
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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines: Seven Philippine soldiers were killed and 21 were wounded in fierce clashes with Al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants in the southern Philippines on Thursday, the military said.
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BEIJING: China's premier Wen Jiabao pledged Thursday to "severely punish" those responsible for a deadly train crash that has sparked public fury and triggered fears over the safety of high-speed rail.
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There are skinny houses. And then there is Jakub Szcz?sny's Keret House, which could make Calista Flockhart look like a fatty. At its most generous, the proposed place, in Warsaw, Poland, will clock in at 4 feet wide. At its narrowest, it'll be just 28 inches wide -- thinner than the average doorway.
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L'Oreal ads of Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington banned for airbrushing
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BEIJING, July 28, 2011 - Chinese railway officials have blamed "design flaws" in signalling equipment for a high-speed train crash in which at least 39 people were killed, the official Xinhua news agency said Thursday.
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SEOUL, July 28, 2011 - The pilot and co-pilot of an Asiana Airlines cargo plane were killed when the aircraft caught fire and crashed Thursday off South Korea's southern island of Jeju, officials said.
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WASHINGTON: Australia's defence minister on Wednesday urged a greater role in Asia for India, calling the world's largest democracy a positive force in a region where attention has long been focused on China.
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GIFU, Japan: Recently, the Naoto Kan government asked the greater Osaka area to cut energy use by 10 per cent. Though not yet mandatory, some local governments around Japan are voluntarily cutting power consumption.
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SEOUL: Tens of thousands of South Korean troops joined a massive clean-up on Thursday after record-breaking rainfall killed at least 39 people, flooded hundreds of homes and turned main roads into muddy rivers.
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