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China property firm blames takeover for tough conditions
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» SHANGHAI - China's biggest property firm Vanke on Monday blamed a takeover it is trying to fight off for worsening business conditions, even as it reported higher...
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Seniors rule in USA's run to basketball gold
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - On a team of mostly first-time young Olympians, it was the USA veterans Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant who stole the Rio show as the USA won...
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Rio Olympics 2016 -- tops and flops
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Who hit, who missed at the Rio Olympics:
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Airport protest as China official visits Taiwan
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» TAIPEI - Taiwanese shouting anti-communist slogans staged an airport protest on Monday against a visit by a top Shanghai official which they see as intended to...
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Japan's first lady visits Pearl Harbor
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» TOKYO - The wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited Pearl Harbor, bombed by Japanese planes nearly 75 years ago in an attack that brought the United States...
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Typhoon Mindulle drenches Tokyo, halts flights
Reuters, Published on 22/08/2016
» TOKYO - Heavy rain drenched the Japanese capital on Monday as Typhoon Mindulle swept in, bringing floods that suspended train services and high winds that forced...
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Women in business
Christopher Bruton, Published on 22/08/2016
» Until the more progressive countries of the World came to recognise the realities of "LGBT", it was popularly believed that all of society was born...
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Cambodia deploys police as part of exam cheat crackdown
Reuters, Published on 22/08/2016
» PHNOM PENH - Cambodia deployed 1,570 police at high-school exam test sites across the country on Monday as part of a government crack down on bribery and corruption...
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Fingerprint banking: How not to lose one million baht
Jon Fernquest, Published on 22/08/2016
» After fake customer withdrew 986,700 baht from Ayutthaya businessman's bank account instead of making online payment, fingerprint app solution proposed.
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Belgian jazz legend 'Toots' Thielemans dies aged 94
AFP, Published on 22/08/2016
» BRUSSELS - Belgian legend 'Toots' Thielemans has died after a 70-year career as the world's top harmonica player during which he made music with some of the biggest...