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Australia voted best for expat youngsters
Friday, 12 Mar, 2010 – 7:51 | Comments Off

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.
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Largest seed bank buried in Arctic ice
Friday, 12 Mar, 2010 – 7:51 | Comments Off

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.
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Grim task after deadly landslide
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Productive spurt puts economy in ‘overdrive’
Friday, 12 Mar, 2010 – 7:51 | Comments Off

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 self-made tycoon Slim named as world’s richest person
Friday, 12 Mar, 2010 – 7:51 | Comments Off

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 …

Professor charged over ‘wife-swap’ parties
Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 – 18:07 | Comments Off

A PROFESSOR in east China’s Jiangsu Province has been charged with assembled pruriency after allegedly operating an online partner-swapping community that organized 22 illegal orgies.
The professor, 53, surnamed…

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Isinbayeva senses gold again
Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 – 18:07 | Comments Off

AFTER her debacle at the world championships last year, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva is sensing she’ll redeem herself with a gold medal at the world indoors which open tomorrow.
Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang…

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Professor charged over ‘wife-swap’ parties
Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 – 18:07 | Comments Off

A PROFESSOR in east China’s Jiangsu Province has been charged with assembled pruriency after allegedly operating an online partner-swapping community that organized 22 illegal orgies.
The professor, 53, surnamed…

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Isinbayeva senses gold again
Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 – 18:07 | Comments Off

AFTER her debacle at the world championships last year, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva is sensing she’ll redeem herself with a gold medal at the world indoors which open tomorrow.
Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang…

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Man abandons sick baby in dustbin
Thursday, 11 Mar, 2010 – 18:07 | Comments Off

POLICE in central China’s Hubei Province have detained a 30-something man who had allegedly abandoned his ill newborn son in a dustbin. A cleaner dumped burning charcoal on him before realizing the boy was alive,…

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