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SE Asia Standard
Sat 11/22/2008 09:15
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| News |  | Hong Kong launches CDMA2000 mobile network
HONG KONG, China -- PCCW-HKT Telephone has launched CDMA2000 mobile service, Hong Kong's fifth 3G mobile network after the four W-CDMA networks licensed in 2001, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority of Hong Kong announced Thursday. |  | EU digital library officially online
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- With the European digital library Europeana officially online Thursday, Internet users worldwide can now have access to over 2 million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archives, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). |  | French teachers on strike to protest job cuts
PARIS, France -- French teachers went on strike Thursday to protest against a government plan to cut jobs in education system, but the government insisted on the reform. |  | Japan considers additional steps to calm stock market
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan is studying whether any additional steps is needed to calm the turbulent stock market amid global financial crisis, Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told a press conference Friday. |  | Crude oil settles below 50 dollars
NEW YORK, US -- Crude oil fell to lowest level in more than three years below 50 U.S. dollars a barrel on Thursday as global economic downturn pared energy consumption. |  | PM: Cambodia not to wage war against Thailand
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia won't start a war against Thailand, although both sides have border dispute unsolved and an armed clash occurred at the border in October, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday at a scholarship-awarding ceremony. |
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| | paul577:
This is really SICK.....Indonesia send the wrong message by reducing sentences fro those who aided and abetted MASS MURDER...and at the same time dares to try to intimidate Australia for accepting refugees fleeing from Irian jaya from the murderous Indonesian military. Indonesia needs to get serious about combatting terrorism or be ostracised by the world community. I don't support death... |
| | | Hoang Huu Hao, Hanoi:
This morning I was stunned by the article on typhoon Chanchu. I was stunned not because of the number of over 200 people missing, but because it was not forecast; a harsh truth that I had a hard time believing.
Thousands of fishermen work at sea and they only rely on weather forecasts from Vietnam. Then incorrect and late information about the storm led many... |
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| And...it's Asia
The flight to Singapore was uneventful and I basically moped the whole time while trying to convince myself that there are still good things ahead. | | Dear wonderful world
Today I went to the trial lesson of yoga at the sports club, because recently I don't do any execise at all. Now in Japan execises like yoga and quite popular. The new schools are opening, We can see many articles about yoga in magazines.My impression is that it was so hard for me because I am anatomically inflexible. |
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 | Thaksin confirms not appealing conviction
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Pongthep Thepkanjana, a personal spokesman of Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, on Wednesday said that Thaksin had confirmed that he would not appeal the Supreme Court conviction that sentenced him to two-year jail term over a land purchase case. |
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 | Indonesia to order oil, gas firms to keep funds in local banks
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The Indonesian government will order oil and gas companies to use local banks to keep tens billions of U.S. dollars of funds for energy projects as an effort to boost falling rupiah, the oil-and-gas regulator body BP Migas said here Thursday. |
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 | Malaysia to continue negotiations on FTA with US
KUALA LUMPUR, Malsyia -- Malaysia will continue negotiations on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States (U.S.), Malaysian deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Jacob Dungau Sagan said here on Tuesday. |
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 | Singapore launches Ox year coins
SINGAPORE -- Singapore's central bank launched the 2009 Year of the Ox Almanac Coins and the 2009 Uncirculated Coin Set on Tuesday. |
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 | Cambodia to unveil hybrid rice to interest investors
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A newly developed Cambodian high-yielding hybrid rice variety will be presented in Kampong Thom province on Monday to interest investors in large-scale cultivation, national media said on Friday. |
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