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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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The three Pakistan cricketers at the center of fixing allegations were dropped for the rest of the team's England tour on Thursday, shortly before they appeared for questioning by investigators of the Pakistan Cricket Board. Team manager Yawar Saeed said bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir and test captain Salman Butt will not play in the remaining Twenty20 and one-day international matches.
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| Posted at 02:37 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic recovery. But gains were modest across the region as investors took a wait-and-see stance ahead of closely-watched U.S. employment figures due out Friday.
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| Posted at 02:17 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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South Korea and the United States will hold joint anti-submarine exercises in another show of force against North Korea, officials said Friday, as Pyongyang renewed threats against the drills. The exercises will be the second in a series of joint maneuvers the allies planned to conduct in response to the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in March that they blame on the North.
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| Posted at 02:13 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that while the fight against corruption must be led by Afghans, the U.S. is working on new ways to prevent millions of American dollars flowing into the nation from underwriting bribery and graft. Gates spoke to reporters in the Afghan capital with President Hamid Karzai, who complained about the tactics of two Western-backed anti-corruption units that recently arrested one of his top aides on suspicion of bribery, likening them to heavy-handed Soviet tactics.
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| Posted at 02:10 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai reassured nervous customers at the troubled Kabul Bank on Thursday, saying every penny of their deposits would be guaranteed by the government. Larger than usual crowds gathered to withdraw funds from Afghanistan's largest bank Wednesday and Thursday after two top executives resigned amid allegations of mismanagement and unorthodox real estate loans.
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| Posted at 02:04 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes in this month's parliamentary elections. NATO said its airstrike on a car in northern Takhar province's normally quiet Rustaq district killed or wounded as many as 12 insurgents on Thursday, including a Taliban commander and a local head of an allied insurgent group, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, responsible for attacks in Kabul and elsewhere.
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| Posted at 02:02 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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An Australian man was attacked by a shark in the waters off a remote island resort in the Solomon Islands, officials said Friday. The 34-year-old from New South Wales state suffered lacerations to the face and neck in the Thursday attack, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement. He was in stable condition at a hospital in the capital Honiara.
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| Posted at 02:00 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. hstory. The indictment alleges that the scheme was orchestrated by four employees of labor recruiting company Global Horizons Manpower Inc. and two Thailand-based recruiters.
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| Posted at 01:57 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spiderman" pleaded not guilty Friday to charges related to his bare-handed climb up a 57-story building in downtown Sydney. Alain Robert, known for climbing some of the world's tallest and best-known buildings without ropes or other equipment, was arrested Monday at the top of the Lumiere building.
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| Posted at 01:40 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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A Malaysian man pleaded guilty to wildlife smuggling after his bag bursting with 95 live boa constrictors broke open on a luggage conveyer belt at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, an official said Friday. Keng Liang "Anson" Wong, 52, who was previously convicted of wildlife trafficking in the United States, was charged Wednesday in a district court with exporting the endangered boas without a permit, said Shamsuddin Osman, an official with Malaysia's wildlife department.
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| Posted at 01:33 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Asian Correspondent, Breaking News
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Japan approved fresh economic sanctions against Iran on Friday after the United Nations asked Tokyo to tighten restrictions against Tehran over its controversial nuclear enrichment program, an official said. The measures approved by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan include an asset freeze on 88 entities, 15 banks and 24 individuals, trade ministry official Hideaki Fujisawa said.
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| Posted at 01:25 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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Heather Leflamme, Happs Winery
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Happs & Three Hills winemaker Mark Warren visited Japan to promote Happs and Three Hills. Here’s what he had to say about it.
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| Posted at 12:00 PM, Sep 03, 2010 |
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