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Myanmar on Obama agenda

2009-11-8

US President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of e...

Beijing plans to expand swine flu inoculations

BEIJING is leading the country in expanding its swine flu inoculation program to cover all people with permanent residency in the capital. The rol...

Pipeline means better tap water

Base looks for hope amid grief

Smooth sailing off Somalia

Swine flu: city's schools safe

THE Shanghai Health Bureau acted quickly yesterday to avert panic with the official line: There is no outbreak of swine flu in city schools. Its i...

Party ploy fails -- drunk driver held

A MOTORIST who refused to get out of his car when police suspected him of drunk driving and then showed his membership certificate of Communist Party ...

Quick thieves steal from over 100 cars

THREE members of a gang that allegedly broke into more than 100 cars and stole property inside have been arrested, Qingpu District police said yesterd...

Fan fave '2012' opens Friday

4 in hospital as man runs amok

Tiny shrimp generate big prices

RARE tiny black and white shrimp raised in Taiwan are selling for as much as US$830 apiece to collectors in Japan, despite short life spans and proble...

'Golden Locks' adapted into opera

TAIWAN Peking opera "A Tale of Golden Locks" will be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing on November 21. The o...

Foggy havoc on highways

MAJOR highways to Beijing were closed as the capital, neighboring Hebei Province and Tianjin Municipality were shrouded in dense fog yesterday. Th...

Hu pledges peace in the cosmos

Chinese premier meets Arab League secretary general

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1937, China established the country’s first journalist association, the China Youth A...

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Elpida to outsource output

Shanghai's GDP seen to grow strongest

SHANGHAI'S economy is projected to grow the strongest among the top 30 cities globally by 2025, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said yesterday in a researc...

US jobless rate to rise after going over 10%

THE unemployment rate in the United States has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 -- and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million...

City's existing housing index's increase slows

Green cars may get free plates

Bullish Chinese data expected

Probe nets 3 fund managers

Celtics back on winning track

RAJON Rondo and Paul Pierce each scored 16 points as the visiting Boston Celtics bounced back from their first loss of the NBA season to beat the winl...

City out of top 4 after fifth consecutive draw

BIG-SPENDING Manchester City was held to a fifth consecutive draw in the English Premier League after finishing 3-3 with Burnley, while Arsenal booste...

Schalke holds Bayern to 1-1

TEENAGE midfielder Joel Matip scored on his Bundesliga debut to earn Schalke a 1-1 draw at Bayern Munich yesterday. Bayern defender Daniel van Buy...

Camoranesi leads Juventus to win over Atalanta

Capello issues World Cup warning to England players

Apple finds a home at Louvre

COMPUTER giant Apple Inc opened its first French store beneath the Louvre museum in Paris yesterday, just two weeks after Microsoft opened a theme caf...

Army: Shooting suspect taken off ventilator

A US Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive ...

Officer describes firefight that downed Hasan

ONE of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handc...

Suspect in 6 US shootings says his old colleagues had 'left me to rot'

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Following poets' footsteps to find Heaven Terrace Mount

ALMOST Heaven Legendary poet Li Bai extolled the peaks, magical valleys, swirling mists and waterfalls in Mt Tiantai, or Heaven Terrace Mountain. Zhu ...

Chiang Mai motto: Take it easy

I reached Chiang Mai on a foggy morning, after a dreadful night in seething Bangkok -- I had a sensation of being haunted. The flight took me one...

Century Park beckons in autumn

SPRAWLING Century Park in Pudong New Area offers lots to do: strolling and picnicking, boating, fishing, bird watching. There's a musical fountain lig...

Taiwan director films self, son, dad

In search of a 'Made in China' china that's really smashing

Chinese perspectives | Foreign perspectives

Why 'comfort foods' make us feel worse

MANY people respond to stress by eating sugary or starchy, high-carbohydrate snacks, but sometimes what are intended as "comfort foods" make them feel...

Business Books TOP FIVE USA

1.TWITTER Power How to add 140-character pops of Twitter power to your social networking efforts for your business and your brand. Joel Com...

Pressing the West to squarely face facts

Copenhagen climate deal can benefit business and promote development

SKorean woman passes driver's exam on 950th try

A WOMAN in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts sinc...

US woman, daughter hold signs admitting theft

Norwegian accused of skin-crawling snake smuggling

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