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The eye in the sky over North Korea
SEOUL (AFP) – Global concerns over North Korea’s latest nuclear test and long-range rocket launch have shone a spotlight on the perennial, high-tech game of hide-and-seek played around Pyongyang’s...
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Hong Kong kicks off Year of Monkey, but primate relations sour
| Aaron TAM | HONG KONG (AFP) – As the people of Hong Kong usher in the Year of the Monkey, animal experts are working to quell their exploding numbers in a bid to keep the peace between them...
View ArticleJapan’s Asahi offers $3.5 billion for Peroni, Grolsch
TOKYO (AFP) –Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings has offered $3.5 billion for two top European lager brands from British giant SABMiller, in what would be the biggest-ever overseas acquisition by a Japanese...
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Rapidly ageing Thailand tells businesses to hire more elderly
| Pairat Temphairojana | BANGKOK (Reuters) – Pornsak Bowornsrisuk pulls an umbrella towards him to shield his head of thick grey hair from the blazing sunshine at the Bangkok bus terminal he...
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Weak trade, oil price cut into Maersk’s profits
HELSINKI (AP) – AP Moller-Maersk, a Danish company with subsidiaries in oil, gas, shipping and container terminal operating sectors, said Wednesday its net profit for 2015 had fallen more than 80 per...
View ArticleUS crude rebounds in Asia but supply glut worries weigh
SINGAPORE (AFP) – Oil prices rebounded on bargain-buying in Asia Wednesday after the previous day’s plunge but analysts warned any gains would be limited as the global glut that has hammered markets...
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Indonesia’s wealth managers bank on tax amnesty for take-off
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Competition is so tough among Indonesia’s wealth managers that one offers clients helicopter rides to soar above Jakarta’s notorious traffic jams, others provide golf clinics,...
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No easy way out for Deutsche Bank as investors ‘lose faith’
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank bosses face a formidable task to drag its shares off a 30-year low, with reassurances about its capital levels doing little to improve investor confidence and few...
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Nissan says profit soars on N America sales
TOKYO (AFP) – Nissan on Wednesday said strong North American sales drove it to another surging profit, and added that the world’s top auto market China was picking up. The Altima sedan maker said its...
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Sanders: Democratic socialist ready for revolution
CONCORD, United States (AFP) – Written off by his opponents as a wacky socialist, Bernie Sanders was long seen as the foil who would drag Hillary Clinton farther to the left, rather than a real White...
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In crucial vote, Hillary fails to rally women to her history-making bid
MANCHESTER, NH/COLUMBIA, SC (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton made the prospect of her being elected the first woman US president a centerpiece of her campaign, then lost a critical nominating contest to a...
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Trump: Celebrity billionaire, next US president?
MANCHESTER, United States (AFP) – Donald Trump is a billionaire real estate tycoon with bravado to spare, a former reality television star who says winning is everything. The unlikely Republican...
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Treating survivors of Boko Haram
| Phil Hazlewood | MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AFP) – A toddler not yet out of nappies lies motionless in a hospital ward, her skin seared red raw by burns. A 12-year-old boy opposite her nurses the...
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Spain attracts tourists shunning Mediterranean
| Daniel Bosque | BARCELONA (AFP) – It’s low season and the sun in Barcelona shines only timidly, but Noel Sheehan’s cycling tours are doing a roaring trade as holidaymakers shun their usual...
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Boys box to drown out bombs in Syria’s Aleppo
| Karam al-Masri | ALEPPO, Syria (AFP) – Bathed in the fluorescent light of a sparse basement in Syria’s war-torn Aleppo city, young boys pummel red punching bags under the close supervision...
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For virtual reality pioneers, no rush to succeed in 2016
| Derrik J Lang | LOS ANGELES (AP) – Palmer Luckey doesn’t just want to sell a bunch of virtual reality headsets. He wants buyers to use them every day. The founder of Oculus told a group of...
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Apple co-founder is bringing us an even nerdier ‘Comic Con’
| Michael Liedtke | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had a front row seat as the personal computer began to reshape society. So it made perfect sense to him to bring a...
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Ripple effect: scientists await word on gravitational waves
| Will Dunham | WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A century ago, Albert Einstein hypothesised the existence of gravitational waves, small ripples in space and time that dash across the universe at the...
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Iran now seeking tourism millions
| Siavosh Ghazi | TEHRAN (AFP) – Long seen as a destination strewn with shortcomings, Iran is making a fresh pitch for tourists, with the recent lifting of economic sanctions providing an...
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Australian cuts to climate change research may hit drive into Asia
| Jarni Blakkarly | SYDNEY (Reuters) – Funding and job cuts at Australia’s climate change research body could undermine the country’s goal of dominating the Asian premium food market by...
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