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Breaking News Mon, 8 Feb 2010
Eggplant - Vegetable - Food
Food   India   Pesticides   Photos   Vegetable  
India awaits go-ahead on first GM crop despite scientists' warnings
| India will decide tomorrow whether to approve its first genetically modified (GM) food crop. It is a move that supporters argue will help to avert a global food crisis but which critics say is being... (photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba) The Times
A vehicle drives up a snow covered road towards Gulmarg, 55km (34 miles) west of Srinagar February 8, 2010. At least 17 Indian soldiers were killed when an avalanche smashed into a military training camp near the country's disputed border with Pakistan on Monday, security officials said.
India   Photos   Snow   Temperature   Weather  
Snow in higher reaches lowers temperature in north India
New Delhi: Heavy snowfall in the higher reaches lowered the temperature in parts of north India today even as the Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the third day and intermittent rai... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar) Zeenews
Pakistani Shiite Muslims take part in a rally to condemn Friday's bombing, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 in Lahore, Pakistan. Karachi grinds to a halt after fatal blasts
| By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | KARACHI, Pakistan - Business in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital, ground to a halt at the weekend after at least 33 people were killed and over 100 injured in two explo... (photo: AP / K.M. Chaudary) Asia Times
Bombing   Business   Karachi   Pakistan   Photos  
Cigarette - Smoking - Tobacco SC lens on airport cigarette sale
New Delhi, Feb. 8: The Supreme Court will decide whether international cigarette brands can be sold in duty-free outlets at the departure lounges of Indian airports without the statutory pictorial war... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag) The Telegraph India
Airports   Cigarettes   Delhi   Photos   Smoking  
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Lotte World - Department Store - South Korea Second Lotte shopping center to open in city soon
Lotte Mart trademark posted up outside of The EverRich apartment building at the corner of Ba Thang Hai - Le Dai Hanh Streets in District 11 - Photo: Quoc Hung HCMC - Sou... (photo: WN / sweet) The Saigon Times
City   Korea   Lotte   Photos   Trademark  
A pair of extra cheap "tennis shoes" made in China, aka "lancelet" China hauls EU to the World Trade Organization in dispute over duties on Chinese shoes
| GENEVA - China launched an unfair trade case against the European Union on Thursday, accusing the 27-nation bloc of imposing illegal duties on Chinese shoes, the World ... (photo: Creative Commons) Star Tribune
China   Industry   Photos   Trade   World  
Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures as he heads to receive U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, unseen, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. US, Karzai split over Taliban talks
| By Gareth Porter | KABUL - On the surface, it would seem unlikely that Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who presides over a politically feeble government and is highly de... (photo: AP / Ahmad Masood, Pool) Asia Times
Afghanistan   Photos   Politics   Taliban   US  
Thi Nguyn About this sound pronunciation (helpinfo) is a city and municipality in Vietnam. It is the capital of the Thi Nguyn Province, in northeastern Vietnam. Diplomats asked to lend helping hand to local tourism
HCMC - The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is calling on the country’s representative offices abroad to join forces in promoting Vietnam’s tourism a... (photo: Creative Commons / Magnus Manske) The Saigon Times
Japan   Photos   Tourism   Travel   Vietnam  
A rebranded Woolworths store in Temora, New South Wales The first sit-in at a Woolworth store began 50 years ago today
| Feb. 1, 2010 | Today: is the 32nd day of 2010. There are 333 days left in the year. | On this date | In 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a wh... (photo: Creative Commons / Bidgee) Penn Live
Lunch   Photos   Protest   Students   Woolworth  
 KLdy1 - Oct07 - jkt07 - Hong Kong ports - Hongkong International Terminals - cargo ships - containers - economy. (dy1) Dubai's DP World opens Vietnam container terminal
DUBAI, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Port operator DP World, part of the Dubai World conglomerate, said on Sunday it had opened a container terminal in Vietnam, as it looks to meet ... (photo: WN) The Guardian
Dubai   Finance   Market   Photos   Vietnam  
Variety of rice grains for sale - Agriculture product - Market - commodities NFA impounds ‘chemical-laced’ rice from Vietnam
| 01/31/2010 | The National Food Authority (NFA) has immediately sealed off the 20,000 bags of rice previously unloaded from the Vietnamese boat MV Trai Thien 66 to pave ... (photo: WN / Geeta) The Daily Tribune
Food   Health   Photos   Trade   Vietnam  
Business and Shopping Education
Major cultural park gets facelift ahead of Tet
China, Vietnam to set up new trade zone
Ex-mayor helps Fort Collins man share life story
The Final Frontier: Investing in Ghana
Lotte World - Department Store - South Korea
Second Lotte shopping center to open in city soon
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Toyota Vietnam expands after-sale service training
British Columbia boosts education ties with Vietnam
Vietnam court widens investigation into school rape allegati
Vietnam War-era shell explodes at school
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Health Entertainment and Arts
Cambodia's Past, Pakistan's Future?
Food for thought
Global human trafficking news roundup ( Feb. 5, 2010)
Vietnam convicts dissident writer of assault
Studies show drug resistance occurring in other Mekong regions, Myanmar
MYANMAR: WHO warns of tolerance to anti-malaria drug
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Berlin film fest looks back at 60 years of scandal
Berlin film fest looks back at 60 years of scandal
Berlin film fest looks back at 60 years of scandal
Aussie PM admits frustration over nephew's art works
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Travel Politics
Singapore to help Vietnam build terminals for cruise tourism
A central business district (or CBD, also called a central activities district and in North America a "downtown") is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city. In Algeria, Australia, Hong Kong , Kenya, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore and South Africa, the phrase is commonly used,[citation needed] and is often colloquially abbreviated to "CBD".
Singapore to help Vietnam build terminals for cruise tourism
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Taliban go-betweens draw up road map
John Murtha dies at 77; Pennsylvania Democrat forcefully opp
Cambodia's Past, Pakistan's Future?
John Murtha dies at 77; Pennsylvania Democrat forcefully opp
Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures as he heads to receive U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, unseen, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.
US, Karzai split over Taliban talks
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