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Museums must be more communityfriendly in outlook role
MUSEUMS in the country should widen their outlook and improve themselves to be more community-friendly in their creativity, image and role.This was said by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, ...
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MIB concept to be highlighted at seminar in Makassar S Sulawesi
Head of the Secretariat of the MIB Supreme Council, Dr Hj Muhammad Hadi Muhammad Melayong (L) and Special Duties Officer, Rushdi Hj Abdul Rahman (R) prior to their departure last night. Picture: BT/Nabilah ...
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Court of Appeal calls for end to intermittent trials
THE Court of Appeal has called for an end to the practice of "intermittent trials" in the subordinate courts saying they were prone to a "serious risk" of miscarriage of justice.While hearing an appeal on bail revocation of two suspected burglars on Thursday, the Court of Appeal criticised the lengthy trial the defendants were enduring which began in December 2011 and had yet ...
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MoHA minister inspects sluggish projects
Minister of Home Affairs, YB Pehin Udana Khatib Dato Paduka Seri Setia Ustaz Haji Awang Badaruddin Pengarah Dato Paduka Haji Awang Othman (2nd L), being briefed by an officer during a working visit to the Brunei-Muara District Office new building project at Jalan Airport Lama. Picture: BT/Saiful ...
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Bangladesh collapse search over after 1127 died
Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended yesterday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll hit 1,127. Mohammed Amir Hossain Mazumder, deputy director of fire service and civil defense, said search for bodies from the April 24 collapse was called off at 6pm. Bulldozers and other ...
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Karachi gunmen kill Khan party woman
Gunmen have killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election ...
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Pakistans Railroads Sum Up Nations Woes
RUK, Pakistan ...
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Authorities Hofstra student killed by police
View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...
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Americans Dream of Riches as Powerball Lottery Hits $600 Million
Saturday night's Powerball lottery jackpot climbed to an astronomical $600 million for a single winner, and may be even higher by the time the numbers are drawn. Winners must match five numbers picked from machines holding 59 white balls, and a special Powerball pulled from a machine filled with 35 red balls. Even if the chances of winning are tiny -- one in 175 million -- those ...
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Ivory Coast Militia Leader Arrested for 2011 Massacre
Soldiers in Ivory Coast have arrested a militia leader who was allegedly involved in a 2011 massacre of political opponents. Military officials say Amade Oueremigave himself up Saturday as soldiers began to converge near his hideout. Oueremi and his fighters backed President Alassane Ouattara in the violence that broke out after the 2010 election when former president Laurent Gbagbo ...
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Assad Says He Will Not Step Down
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says in a newspaper interview that he will not step down before next year's elections. Assad's comments were published Saturday in the Argentine ...
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Tourist dies in Indonesia after drinking tainted alcohol
Supplied A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police say. Cheznye Emmons, 23, was travelling with a fellow Briton through lush rainforest on Sumatra island, where many tourists go to see endangered orangutans, according to a police report into the incident. The pair, accompanied by a third tourist, drank four ...
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64 climbers including first ever Saudi Arabian woman scale Mount Everest from Nepal
This handout picture taken by Miura Dolphins on May 16, 2013 shows 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura (R), accompanied by his son Gota (L), leaving Base Camp to begin his ascent of Mount Everest in Nepal. Miura is trying to get back a Guinness World Record that he first held in 2003 when he became the oldest man to climb ...
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Gunmen Kill Pakistan Party Official
Officer Sarfaraz Nawaz said the victim, Zohra Shahid, was gunned down outside her home in Karachi in southern Sindh Province. Ms. Shahid was the vice president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the party led by the former Pakistani cricket ...
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Anwar Malaysia’s Opposition Leader Takes to the Streets
KUANTAN, Malaysia -- Not long ago he was flirting with the idea of semiretirement, maybe a teaching job at an American university. But now Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the Malaysian opposition, former political prisoner and longtime bugbear of the establishment, says those plans are firmly on the ...
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Some in Thailands Pheu Thai party oppose amnesty plan
Some rank-and-file members of the Pheu Thai Party oppose a proposal for blanket amnesty for the May 2010 riots in Thailand. Deputy Premier Chalerm Yubamrung enthusiastically endorses the proposal, the Bangkok Post reported Saturday. But in the ranks, dissidents say it would include Democrat Party leaders responsible for the bloody crackdown on protesters. Chalerm plans to introduce a bill that ...
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African Mines A Potential Source of Funds for Infrastructure
WASHINGTON, DC -- In sub-Saharan Africa, many economies are growing briskly, thanks to the continent’s abundant natural resources and global commodities boom. Development experts say revenues from minerals, oil and gas could help many countries fund much needed roads, bridges, dams and other infrastructure. A recent report by the Africa Progress Panel, a group of influential business and ...
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Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain killed in Karachi
PTI party supporters during the general election in Rawalpindi on May 11, 2013. PTI politician Zahra Shahid Hussain was killed in Karachi outside her home on Saturday evening. (FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty ...
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Government Officers Depart To UK And Indonesia
Bandar Seri Begawan - Two senior officers from the office of the Malay Islamic Monarchy (MIB) Executive council Secretariat have left for Indonesia to attend an international seminar entitled 'Historical Awareness through Strengthening the National Pillars towards a Smart and Civilised ...
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Wyndham enters into Singapore with 2 brands.
Wyndham Hotel Group announced the company's entry into Singapore with the opening of two properties: Ramada Singapore at Zhongshan Park and Days Hotel Singapore at Zhongshan ...
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Woman political leader killed in Pakistan
Imran Khan 's Movement for Justice in Pakistan was gunned down Saturday outside her Karachi home, police said. Investigators said the killing of Zahra Shahid Hussain, carried out by two men on motorbikes, was a robbery gone wrong, The (London) Guardian reported. But Khan, the cricket star turned politician, suggested the United National Movement or MQM party, which dominates politics in ...
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Pakistan to benefit fromChinese hybrid rice technology
BEIJING, China - Pakistan wants to benefit in the field of agriculture and particularly in enhancing rice production by employing Hybrid rice technology developed by an expert from Hunan province, said Pakistans Ambassador to China, Masood Khan. Pakistan largely benefited from the Hybrid rice seeds developed by Professor Yuan Long Ping, who is popularly known as Father of Hybrid Rice, said ...
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Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade
Hiker "Quinoa" talks about being given credit for saving the lives of Carson Balckburn, Dalton Thomason, and Faith Ritchie after he ran them and others off the road with a water gun during a festival parade in Damascus, Va., on Saturday. Just as the children ran off the street, a car came down the road and struck several ...
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Myanmar leader starts landmark US visit
Myanmar's President Thein Sein on Saturday began the first visit to Washington by a leader of his country in nearly 50 years as the United States throws its support behind his ...
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U.S. state cancels subsidy for investment from Pakistani company
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S. troops in ...
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Southeast Asia's growing prominence in world trade
Southeast Asia has been, for many centuries, a major part of world trade and the recent recession has not hampered this position as the region is recovering much faster than many more developed countries.
Southeast Asia, although geographically large, covering an area of around 5 million square miles, is comparatively small economically in relation to the number of people that inhabit the area. The Southeast Asian region is home to over 500 million people and yet the region’s GDP is just US$1.5 trillion, or around US$2,500 per person annually. Read more
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