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Bantul education agency announces 100 percent graduation
Bantul High and Informal Education Agency head Masharun Gozhalie has announced that all senior high school students who took the final examinations passed. However, the official announcement is slated to be made tomorrow."Frankly, none of the students in Bantul failed the exam. Therefore, they can move a step up, whether to continue education or start looking for jobs," Masharun ...
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As Myanmar Reforms Indonesia Offers Some Lessons
Police and students stand off at Trisakti University in West Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 8, 1998, before scuffles erupted. Student protests against President Suharto that ignited throughout Indonesia ultimately ended the 30-year rule of the military ...
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Market Snapshot U.S. stocks drop hit by Fed Asian selloff
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks dropped in Thursday morning trade after Japanese equities dived overnight, as global markets reacted to weak Chinese manufacturing data and worries about the Federal Reserve's potential tapering of its bond-buying ...
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The best books on Vietnam start your reading here | Pushpinder Khaneka
Vietnam ) war by a North Vietnamese army veteran, although fiction, revealed truths to many people inside and outside Vietnam. The main protagonist, Kien - a thinly disguised portrait of the author - is a tortured soul whose sanity is threatened by his brutal experiences during the war.The story begins after the war, with Kien working in an army unit clearing battlefields of rotting corpses. The ...
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Heres the Bottom Line on Singapore GDP
in the first three months of the year compared with the previous quarter. That was much better than an advanced estimate of the gross domestic product (GDP) data released last month that showed Singapore contracted 1.4 percent in the first quarter or expectations for a contraction of around 1.1 percent. A surge in financial services was cited as reason for the unexpected upward revision. ...
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Paragua topples Sadorra wrests Asian Chess lead
Standings after Round 5: (Open) 4.5 points--GM Mark Paragua (PH); 4.0--GM Julio Catalino Sadorra (PH), GM Le Quang Liem (Viet), GM John Paul Gomez (PH), GM Richard Bitoon (PH), GM Li Chao (Chn); (Women's) 4.0 points--IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul (Mgl), WGM Mary Ann Gomes (Ind), WGM Guo Qi (Chn), WGM Wang Jue (Chn); 3.5--WGM Huang Qian (CHn), WGM Nafisa Muminova (Uzb), IM Pham Le Thao Nguyen ...
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Bangladesh factory owners failings led to collapse says report
The defects and errors that led to the world's deadliest garment-industry accident extend from the swampy ground the doomed Rana Plaza was built on, to "extremely poor quality" construction materials, to the massive, vibrating equipment operating when the eight-story building collapsed, a committee appointed by Bangladesh's government concluded. The committee recommended ...
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RPT-U.S. new home sales rise prices surge to record highs
Thu May 23, 2013 10:07am EDT WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - Sales of new U.S. single-family homes rose 2.3 percent in April, and prices climbed to record high levels, offering strong proof the sector's rebound trend is intact. The Commerce Department said on Thursday sales increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 454,000 units. Economists polled by Reuters had expected sales to rise ...
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Asian European Stocks Plunge on Weak Chinese Factory Data
Japan's Nikkei stock index tumbled 7.3 percent after release of the report showing Chinese factory production dropped in May for the first time in seven months. It was the biggest one-day loss since Japan's March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster. Stocks in London, Paris and Frankfurt followed suit, dropping about 2 percent. U.S. future indexes fell ahead of the opening of ...
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Scientists family seeks US Congress Thai experts help
SINGAPORE (AFP) - The parents of a US scientist found hanged in Singapore last year said Thursday they will seek a US congressional inquiry and tap a celebrity Thai pathologist to prove their son was murdered.Mary Todd, mother of the late researcher Shane Todd whose death in June 2012 was ruled a suicide by the Singapore police, indicated the family did not expect the US government to intervene ...
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Confusion reigns after Asian market meltdown
Overnight Asian markets were a complete and utter mess and while a seven per cent correction in the Nikkei may be par for the course after an 80 per cent rally, the reasons behind the sell-off have significant implications for Canadian ...
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Toronto architects build sideways in Bangladesh
Rendering of Shobuj Pata low-rise condo project, Dhaka, Bangladesh by Toronto-based JCI Architects. Instead of pushing tall buildings upright, you can tip the towers onto their sides, as JCI decided to do here. The move lets skyscrapers do what they do best - provide dwellings that are safe and private, but compactly stacked in the landscape. (JCI ...
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Pakistan 12 killed in Quetta blast
Quetta, May 23 : At least 12 people were killed and several others were injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan's Quetta city on Thursday, officials ...
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Remittances Buoy Up Myanmar’s Economy
She has been on her feet in this laundromat in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai since seven in the morning and had been hoping to call it a day when two more customers walked in. She is not in a position to turn anyone away: ';I need the money. My family needs me to work," she tells IPS, her voice tinged with desperation as she begins yet another load. Six do-it-yourself washing ...
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Dhaka building collapse probe finds many failings
Sohel Rana also "used extremely poor quality iron rods and cement," Ahmed told The Associated Press on Thursday. "There were a series of irregularities." The report found that Rana had permission to build a six-story structure and added two floors illegally so he could rent them out to garment factories. Past statements from authorities said the owner had permission for a ...
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Shoddy Materials And Illegal Construction Caused Bangladesh Factory Collapse
The report also said the building was not built for industrial use and the weight of the heavy garment factory machinery and their vibrations contributed to the building ...
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Spot-fixing Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf allegedly being probed dropped from Champions Trophy
Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf will not be officiating in the upcoming Champions Trophy in England after being withdrawn by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in wake of media reports that he was under investigation by Mumbai Police."In the wake of reports that the Mumbai Police are conducting an investigation into Asad Rauf's activities, we feel that it is in Asad's best ...
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Malaysian police arrest opposition figures in crackdown
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police arrested three opposition politicians and activists on Thursday and charged another with sedition, launching a crackdown on dissent three weeks after an election exposed deep divisions in the country and sparked a series of opposition protest rallies. The arrests and the charging of a student activist under the country's Sedition Act signal a ...
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Video Watch Rare Vietnam War tapes unearthed
Military families of the past used to rely on film to keep in touch with loved ones on the front line. Jim Axelrod reports on a man who found some rare footage from the Vietnam War, and wants to return those memories to more than 200 ...
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In the Arena New Asian Tennis League Is Lining Up Big-Name Stars
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Taliban rickshaw bomb kills 13 in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- A large bomb hidden by the Taliban in a rickshaw exploded as a police vehicle passed in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 policemen and two civilians, police ...
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Terror Attack in London
A police officer carries an evidence bag containing a knife near the scene of the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich, London, May 23, ...
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China survive Indonesia scare in Sudirman Cup
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Defending champions China had to dig deep to avoid a surprise defeat to Indonesia, winning 3-2 on Thursday in the quarter-finals of the Sudirman Cup.Two days after whipping their arch rivals 5-0 in a group match, China, who have not lost a tie since falling 2-3 to South Korea in the 2003 final, were stunned by a determined and gallant Indonesian outfit.But Chinese supremo Li ...
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Crane error blacks out one third of Vietnam
HANOI (AFP) - Over a third of Vietnam as well as the capital of neighbouring Cambodia suffered a blackout this week after a crane operator knocked a tree onto a key power line, electricity officials said Thursday.Twenty-two of Vietnam's southern provinces -- out of a nationwide total of 63 -- lost power for a few hours on Wednesday afternoon including the southern commercial centre of Ho ...
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Garuda to operate 3 Bombardier aircraft in Kuala Namu
Garuda Indonesia has prepared three Bombardier CRJ 1000 NextGen aircraft carriers with a capacity of 96 seats to serve in Kuala Namu, an international airport in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, which has been designated to replace Polonia Airport in Medan."The supplying of aircraft carriers with 12 seats in executive class and 84 economy seats in Kuala Namu is in line with plans to make Medan ...
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Sri Lanka sees major tourism industry investment
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, especially the cruising scene, is getting back on its feet following the war, with significant interest being shown by major cruise lines wanting to schedule Sri Lankan ports on Indian Ocean Cruises, while the local yachting scene is seeing exciting growth and a local cruise industry may be emerging from infancy.
Sri Lanka, following the long and devastating civil war, which lasted around two and a half decades, is now making renewed attempts to redevelop its tourist industry. The industry is extremely import to the economy of Sri Lanka and is a vital part of the country’s access to foreign currency reserves, but saw marked declines in tourist arrivals during periods in which the ongoing civil war was perceived to be increasing in intensity and violence. Read more
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