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<title>Kazakh embassy celebrates traditional goodwill festival of Nauryz</title>
<description>Central Asian diplomatic missions, including that of Kazakhstan, headquartered in New Delhi gathered at a venue to celebrate the festival of Nauryz with traditional fervor and gaiety over the weekend.</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:50:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Malaysian Indian enterprises need 100,000 foreign workers</title>
<description>Projecting a requirement of 100,000 foreign workers, a Malaysian Indian trade body wants a dialogue with Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak over the prevailing shortage of foreign labour in the country.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:50:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>New dinosaur species found in China</title>
<description>Paleontoligists in China Saturday claimed to have found the skeleton of a new species of carnivorous dinosaur that believed to have lived about 80 million years ago.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:10:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan&amp;#039;s Poverty Pushes Its Children To Work</title>
<description>In this photo made March 1, 2010, Pakistani youths working at a recycling factory look at erotic images they found between the items, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. At least 10 million children are believed...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:08:16 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</source>
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<title>Lufthansa Flight Blocked As Japanese Group Falls Ill</title>
<description>BERLIN : The take-off of a German flight to Tokyo was delayed after two dozen Japanese tourists on board fell ill with violent stomach cramps, German police said. Shortly before take-off Saturday afte...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:53:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Live - Bangladesh V England</title>
<description>From Professor Stat, TMS inbox: &amp;quot;A milestone - Naeem Islam became the fourth half-centurion in Bangladesh&amp;#039;s innings. This is only the second time four Bangladeshis have reached 50 in a Test innin...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:43:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pakistan&amp;#039;s Poverty Pushes Its Children To Work</title>
<description>&amp;quot;Every day from the car garage, I see children walking to their schools,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I wish I could go to school with them, finish high school and study engineering. After that, I would have a good job...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:40:47 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Five Asian Suspects Arrested For Kidnapping Of Two Brothers In Dubai</title>
<description>Dubai: Five Asian suspects were arrested recently for kidnapping two brothers on separate periods recently.  A senior Dubai police official told</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:40:42 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>U.s. May Expand Use Of Its Prison In Afghanistan</title>
<description>The U.S. military recently opened this new prison at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, but the facility remains controversial in Afghanistan because of cases of detainee abuse at the former prison ther...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:36:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Sandstorm Sweeps Into Beijing</title>
<description>Beijing Tons of sand turned Beijing&amp;#039;s sky orange Saturday as the strongest sandstorm this year hit northern China.    A thin dusting of sand covered the capital, causing workers and tourists to muffle...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:36:55 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Protest Winds Through Bangkok</title>
<description>Bangkok, Thailand Crimson-clad protesters snaked their way through the Thai capital Saturday, with thousands of cars, trucks and motorbikes tangling up traffic as demonstrators sought to drum up suppo...</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:36:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Under Panetta, A More Aggressive Cia</title>
<description>The plan was a standard one in the CIA&amp;#039;s war against extremists in Pakistan: The agency was using a Predator drone to monitor a residential compound; a Taliban leader was expected to arrive shortly; a...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:06:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Pope Failed To Answer Our Concerns, Say Irish Abuse Victims</title>
<description>DUBLIN: Victims of sexual abuse by  Catholic priests in Ireland said on Saturday a pastoral letter from the pope  expressing shame and remorse &amp;quot;falls far short&amp;quot; of addressing their concerns.    Irish ...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:40:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Tough Task For Asian Junior Meet</title>
<description>MALAYSIA, without the majority of the players from last year&amp;#039;s winning squad, will face a tough time defending their mixed team title in the Asian Junior Championships which begin at Juara Stadium in ...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:34:07 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Osama Bin Laden&amp;#039;s Son Slams Qaida, Says Family Doing Well In Iran</title>
<description>RIYADH: Osama bin Laden&amp;#039;s son Omar  said on Saturday that al-Qaida&amp;#039;s North Africa branch should keep out of his  family&amp;#039;s affairs, after it accused Iran of mistreating his siblings stranded in  Tehran...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:05:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bohras Help War-ravaged Kufa Get Back Its Glory</title>
<description>KUFA (IRAQ): A sprinkling of  Dawoodi Bohras, with their white and gold pillbox skullcaps, stand out among  thousands of pilgrims paying obeisance at one of the holiest Islamic shrines  &amp;mdash; the Great ...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:05:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Scientists Say Dogs Were Domesticated In Middle East, Not Asia</title>
<description>From French poodles to German shepherds, domestic dogs likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East Asian origins suggested by previous research, a genetic study reported...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:13:10 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.csmonitor.com/">Christian Science Monitor</source>
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<title>Asian Stocks Gain For Fourth Week</title>
<description>Tokyo : Asian stocks rose for a fourth week after the US Federal Reserve pledged to keep borrowing costs near zero for an &amp;quot;extended period&amp;quot; and as the Bank of Japan expanded a bank-loan prog...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:58:49 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://gulfnews.com/">Gulf News</source>
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<title>Alert In China Over Toxic Cooking Oil</title>
<description>BEIJING: One in every 10 meals in  China may be cooked with refined oil made from discarded kitchen waste  containing cancerous substances, according to a study, which prompted officials  to issue a n...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:32:04 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Us Middle East George Mitchell Envoy To Meet Netanyahu, Abbas</title>
<description>PARIS: US Middle East envoy George  Mitchell will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday and  Palestinian authority chairman Mahmud Abbas the day after, he told reporters.    &amp;quot;I will...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:32:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bring Advance Teams Home From Asia</title>
<description>(AP)  WASHINGTON - Rooms were booked, limousines waiting, snipers  staking out positions. Then President Barack Obama ditched  plans to visit Guam, Indonesia and Australia-health care  trumping ...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:13:53 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.nj.com/">New Jersey Online</source>
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<description>Rooms were booked, limousines waiting, snipers staking out positions. Then President Barack Obama ditched plans to visit Guam, Indonesia and Australia - health care trumping Asia, an expected House vo...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:09:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Obama Makes Final Pitch On Eve Of Historic Vote On Healthcare Overhaul</title>
<description>WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama  looked to energize his Democratic allies Saturday with an in-person appeal for  his historic healthcare overhaul on the eve of a cliffhanger vote on the  sweeping l...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:03:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bring Advance Teams Home From Asia</title>
<description>Indonesian activists display posters of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against his planned visit in June in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 20, 2010. Obama put off a trip to Indonesi...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:37:46 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.signonsandiego.com/">San Diego Union-Tribune</source>
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<title>Taliban Adjust, Wage Bomb Attacks In Afghan Town</title>
<description>MARJAH, Afghanistan -- Explosions rumble through this former Taliban stronghold three or four times a day - an ominous sign that the insurgents have not given up despite losing control of this town to...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:37:28 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</source>
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<title>Huge Health Disparities Among Asian-americans</title>
<description>WASHINGTON, DC -- Although Asian Americans have long been portrayed as a &amp;quot;model minority&amp;quot; with few major problems, data released online today in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) ...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:36:43 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Bring Advance Teams Home From Asia</title>
<description>(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Indonesian activists display posters of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against his planned visit in June in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 20, 2010. Obama p...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:25:13 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.examiner.com/">The Examiner</source>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:19:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:16:54 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</source>
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<description>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rooms were booked, limousines waiting, snipers staking out positions. Then President Barack Obama ditched plans to visit Guam, Indonesia and Australia - health care trumping Asia, a...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:08:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Taliban Adjust, Wage Bomb Attacks In Afghan Town</title>
<description>MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) -- Explosions rumble through this former Taliban stronghold three or four times a day - an ominous sign that the insurgents have not given up despite losing control of this to...</description>
<link>http://story.asiabulletin.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/bf053b50c46383e0/id/33325916/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:08:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:47:17 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.denverpost.com/">Denver Post</source>
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<description>WASHINGTON (AP) - Rooms were booked, limousines waiting, snipers staking out positions. Then President Barack Obama ditched plans to visit Guam, Indonesia and Australiahealth care trumping Asia,...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:45:30 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.breitbart.com/">Breitbart</source>
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<title>Nepal Leader Who Helped End King&amp;#039;s Rule Dies At 86</title>
<description>KATMANDU, Nepal Nepal&amp;#039;s former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who served five terms and led mass protests that ended the king&amp;#039;s authoritarian rule in the Himalayan nation, died Saturday. He was...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:20:41 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://feeds.latimes.com/">Los Angeles Times</source>
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<title>Iyad Allawi Marginally Ahead Of Pm Maliki In Iraq Election Vote Count</title>
<description>BAGHDAD: Prime minister Nuri  al-Maliki&amp;#039;s main rival Iyad Allawi inched ahead of the incumbent in the  nationwide vote tally, updated results from Iraq&amp;#039;s general election showed on  Saturday.    Allaw...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:58:10 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/">Times of India</source>
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<title>Thai Red Shirt Leaders Say They Will Only Talk With Pm</title>
<description>BANGKOK, Thailand : Leaders of Thailand&amp;#039;s anti-government Red Shirt demonstrations said on Saturday they would only talk to the government if they could speak with the prime minister directly. Earlier...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:10:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>India Pays Tribute After Former Nepal Pm Dies</title>
<description>New Delhi - India paid tribute to former Nepal prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala after his death on Saturday, describing him as a wise leader who guided the Himalayan nation in the right direction....</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:25:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Sandstorms Blanket Beijing In Yellow Dust</title>
<description>Beijing - Beijingers woke up Saturday to find the Chinese capital blanketed in yellow dust, as a sandstorm caused by a severe drought in the north and in Mongolia swept into the city.    The storm, wh...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:25:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Un Chief Ban Ki-moon Arrives In Ramallah To Push For Peace Talks</title>
<description>RAMALLAH: UN Secretary General Ban  Ki-moon arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday to push for talks  that would eventually lead to direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine.    ...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:03:39 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>India To Question Us Terror Convict</title>
<description>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS    NEW DELHI -- Indian investigators will be able to question a Chicago man who pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, a senior U.S. official sa...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:32:21 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</source>
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<title>Thai Government And Red Shirts To Meet</title>
<description>BANGKOK, Thailand : A Thai government minister is to meet a representative of the &amp;quot;Red Shirt&amp;quot; protesters holding mass anti-government rallies in Bangkok, a senator said on Saturday. Satit Wonghnongtae...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:17:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Tokyo Marks 15th Anniversary Of Subway Gas Attack</title>
<description>Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pays respect to the victims of the sarin nerve gas attack at Kasumigaseki subway station in Tokyo on Saturday, March 20, 2010. Tokyo subway workers observed a mo...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:10:29 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</source>
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<title>Nepal Leader Who Helped End King&amp;#039;s Rule Dies At 86</title>
<description>KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Nepal&amp;#039;s former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who served five terms and led mass protests that ended the king&amp;#039;s authoritarian rule in the Himalayan nation, died Saturday...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:42:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Nepal Leader Who Helped End King&amp;#039;s Rule Dies At 86</title>
<description>By BINAJ GURUBACHARYAASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER    KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal&amp;#039;s former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who served five terms and led mass protests that ended the king&amp;#039;s authoritarian ...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:49:47 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</source>
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<title>Cambodia To Build Memorial For Slain Journalists</title>
<description>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS    PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia will erect a memorial to nearly 40 foreign and Cambodian journalists who died covering a savage five-year war that ended with the triumph of th...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:49:46 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</source>
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<title>Aust. State Named Disaster Zone As Cyclone Nears</title>
<description>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS    AIRLIE BEACH, Australia -- The premier of Australia&amp;#039;s Queensland state has declared parts of its coast a disaster zone as a tropical cyclone approaches.  Premier Anna Bligh sai...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:49:45 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.seattlepi.com/">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</source>
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<title>Nepalese Ex-leader Koirala Dies</title>
<description>The former Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has died in Kathmandu, his aides and state TV say.Mr Koirala served four terms as prime minister with the Nepali Congress Party and led protest...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:25:30 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/">BBC</source>
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<title>&amp;#039;world&amp;#039;s Factory Floor&amp;#039; To Raise Minimum Wage</title>
<description>Guangdong, China&amp;#039;s biggest export centre, announced yesterday it would raise the provincial minimum wage by an average of more than 20 per cent.The move comes amid growing worries about inflation and ...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:53:50 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://news.ft.com/">Financial Times</source>
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<title>Fedex&amp;#039;s Quarterly Profit More Than Doubles On Asia Air Shipments</title>
<description>NEW YORK -- FedEx Corp., the world&amp;#039;s largest cargo airline, said quarterly profit more than doubled on increased shipments in Asia and Europe as the global economy improves.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/">The China Post</source>
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<title>Dollar, Profit-taking Boost Asian Shares</title>
<description>HONG KONG -- A bout of bargain-hunting and a stronger dollar boosted sentiment in Asia on Friday with stock markets higher during a quiet trading day.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:14:19 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/">The China Post</source>
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<title>Philippine Rebels Endorse &amp;#039;fatwa&amp;#039; Against Estrada</title>
<description>MANILA: Muslim separatist rebels on Saturday declared deposed ex-leader Joseph Estrada an enemy of Islam and called on Philippine voters to reject his bid to become president again. The Moro Islamic L...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:14:02 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/">Channel News Asia</source>
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<title>Hansaworld Expands Its Operations Into Australasia</title>
<description>HansaWorld is expanding its global operations as a part of its strategic push into Australasia by opening three new regional offices in Manila, Philippines, Auckland, New Zealand and Singapore.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:03:41 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/">24 / 7 Press Release</source>
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<title>Afghan Detainee Releases Aimed At Earning Goodwill</title>
<description>The community-release program is part of a U.S.-led effort to redress a major Afghan grievance over suspected insurgents being held for months with little or no opportunity to make their case.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:55:17 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://feeds.latimes.com/">Los Angeles Times</source>
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<title>In Van Nuys, &amp;#039;gene&amp;#039;s Garden&amp;#039; Is A Hidden Gem</title>
<description>&amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s the best-kept secret for 25 years,&amp;#039; says Gene Greene, who has long overseen the lush 61/2-acre Japanese Garden on the campus of the sprawling Tillman Water Reclamation Plant.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:55:15 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://feeds.latimes.com/">Los Angeles Times</source>
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<title>Asian Art Museum Of San Francisco Names Korean Art Curator</title>
<description>Korean art curator namedHyonjeong Kim Han, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been named curator of Korean art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.Kim, who will assume her new...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:55:14 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://feeds.latimes.com/">Los Angeles Times</source>
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<title>General Kayani - A Musharraf In The Making</title>
<description>It  is true to pattern that Kayani is the man at the helm of affairs in a Pakistan  hemmed in from all sides by a host of problems &amp;mdash; it fits in nicely with  its history.    General Ashfaq Kayani, th...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:31:39 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/">Times of India</source>
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<title>Tantric Tries Killing Sceptic Live On Tv, Fails</title>
<description>LONDON: A sceptic challenged an Indian  tantric to kill him live on television, after the guru proclaimed that he could  kill another man using only his mystical powers. Sanal Edamaruku, self-appointe...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:31:35 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/">Times of India</source>
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<title>Asean Regional Forum Holds Meeting On Confidence Building, Preventive Diplomacy</title>
<description>Officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum met on Friday for a three-day meeting to discuss the confidence-building measures and development of preventive diploma...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:27:24 -0400</pubDate>
<source url="http://english.people.com.cn/">People&amp;#039;s Daily</source>
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<title>Malaysian Healthcare Takes Positions As Demand Surges In West Asia</title>
<description>Malaysia, a strong competitor in the global health tourism market, is stepping up its campaign in the GCC and other West Asian markets where demand for high quality medical care outstrips supply in sp...</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:11:06 -0400</pubDate>
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