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Taiwan top military official missing after helicopter made emergency landing
Taiwan’s top military official is missing after a helicopter made an emergency landing in northern Taiwan, the island’s defense ministry said today. The defense ministry said a rescue mission was underway for the 13 people on board the black hawk
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Lady Gaga spotted kissing mystery man during New Year’s Eve celebration
NEW YORK: Lady Gaga may be caught in a New Year’s Eve romance! The Grammy winner two days celebrated the start of 2020 in Las Vegas with a special concert performance inside the Park Theater at Park MGM. But after delivering
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Countdown Celebration to 2020 at ‘Central World’, the Times Square of Asia
BANGKOK, Jan. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The government and prominent private sector companies led by Central Pattana Plc (CPN), Thailand’s top retail property developer, the Tourism Authority of Thailand, Advanced Info Service Plc. (AIS) and other partners joined forces to organize
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Oil climbs on US-China trade optimism, Middle East tensions
Oil prices rose on the first trading day of 2020 as warming trade relations between the United States and China eased demand concerns, and rising tensions in the Middle East raised worries about supply. Global benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1,
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Nine died, thousands displaced in flood in Jakarta
JAKARTA: Severe flooding in Jakarta has claimed at least nine lives and forced thousands of residents to flee their homes after heavy rains that start two days ago inundated both residential and commercial areas across the capital. Jakarta Police spokesperson
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Lim: Let us learn from the lessons of the past 19 months
Former top civil servant Tan Sri Alwi Jantan’s following 2020 New Year’s Day poem yesterday “Change” is food for thought for all Malaysians, regardless of race or religion, who care and love Malaysia and only want the best for Malaysia
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2019 Hainan Camping Exposition Attracts 50,000 Visitors
HAIKOU, China, Jan. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On December 27-29, 2019 Hainan Camping Exposition was held in Haikou. The Expo has been successfully held for five sessions, attracting many RV enterprises, self-driving outdoor camping equipment enterprises, camp supporting facilities and outdoor
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Sixteen inmates killed in Mexican prison fight, scarring troubled system
Sixteen inmates were killed and five wounded in a prison fight in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, authorities said, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s penal system since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took
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165,040 illegals repatriated under B4G programme
KUALA LUMPUR: About 165,040 illegal immigrants out of the 195,471 registered under the Back For Good (B4G) amnesty exercise which ended two days ago, have been deported to their respective countries. Immigration director-general Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud said while the
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Pope apologizes for ‘bad example’ of slapping arm of pilgrim who tugged him
Pope Francis apologized yesterday for having angrily slapped a woman’s arm when she had grabbed hold of his hand and yanked him toward her, saying he had lost his patience and set a “bad example”. His unusual apology came after
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