WITH its beaches, outdoor lifestyle and friendly schools, Australia has been voted the world’s best country to bring up children by expatriate parents working there, an HSBC bank survey shows.
Australia provided…
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A "DOOMSDAY" vault storing crop seeds in an Arctic deep freeze is surpassing 500,000 samples to become the most diverse collection of food seeds in history, managers said yesterday.
Set up on the Norwegian archipelago…
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CHINA’S economy grew even more bullish in February, with rising industrial production, investments, retail sales and trade.
However, the approval of new loans dropped sharply and consumer and producer prices advanced…
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MEXICAN telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world’s richest person, a shift that underlines the loosening of America and Europe’s stranglehold on the top spots in …
HURDLER Liu Xiang’s chances of defending his world indoor title this weekend are almost impossible, one of China’s top coaches said on Wednesday.
"He felt he should come," Feng Shuyong, technical leader of the…
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POLAND striker Ireneusz Jelen scored twice for Auxerre which moved up to third in French Ligue 1 after a 2-1 win at leader Girondins Bordeaux on Wednesday.
Defender Benoit Tremoulinas put Bordeaux ahead with a…
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TWICE Tour de France champion Alberto Contador seized control of the Paris-Nice race when he snatched a solo win in the 173l5-kilometer fourth stage from Maurs to Mende to lead a Spanish 1-2-3 yesterday.
The …
CHINA’S three-time Olympic table tennis champion Ma Lin risks missing out on this year’s world team championships unless he sorts out his personal life, according to national team coach Liu Guoliang.
The 30-year-old,…
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OLYMPIC champion Germany thrashed England 4-1 in the semifinals of the World Cup in New Delhi yesterday to stay on course for a third successive title.
Germany, which lost to England in the final of …