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MUMBAI, Jan 8, 2010 (AFP) - India's Reliance Industries has sweetened its bid for bankrupt Netherlands-based chemicals maker LyondellBasell, but is still unlikely to succeed with the current offer, a report said on Friday.
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COLOMBO, Jan 8, 2010 (AFP) - Sri Lanka was under new pressure Friday to submit to a war crimes investigation after the United Nations authenticated a video allegedly showing prisoners being executed by troops last year.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
BEIRUT, Jan 8, 2010 (AFP) - Lebanese authorities have arrested a man suspected of being a key operative in an Al-Qaeda-inspired militant group, an army spokesman said on Friday.
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Malaysian Muslims shout slogans during a protest inside the compound of a mosque in Kuala Lumpur on January 8, 2010 (AFP photo)
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SYDNEY, Jan 8, 2010 (AFP) - A high-tech protest boat sank without trace on Friday after a dangerous collision with a Japanese whaling ship, as Australia protested to Tokyo over its fleet's alleged tactics.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (AFP file photo)
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Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan January 7 asked the Nghe An People’s Committee to review restoration and preservation plans for the Truong Bon relic zone in My Son Ward, Do Luong District, Nghe An Province.
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JERUSALEM, Jan 8, 2010 (AFP) - Israel will not make any more concessions to Hamas in negotiations for the exchange of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Gaza militants in 2006, reports said on Friday.
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KARACHI, Jan 8, 2010 (AFP) - A blast flattened a house being used by militants in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi on Friday, with eight people killed when explosives apparently detonated accidentally, police said.
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Newly appointed Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan at a press conference at the finance ministry in Tokyo on January 7, 2010 (AFP photo)
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
Vietnam is an excellent model for researchers of Marxism, offering an insightful look at the road to socialism, said a foreign leftist delegation currently in Ho Chi Minh City on a working visit.
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The Alumin Nhan Co Joint Stock Company and relevant authorities should carefully consider economic benefits and measures to protect the environment while mining for bauxite in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, President Nguyen Minh Triet said January 7.
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Although prices of milk increase, it has not led to a fall in sales because milk is an essential item
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The country should strive to achieve GDP growth of 6.7-6.8 percent this year instead of the earlier target of 6.5 percent, and inflation must be kept to a single digit, the Government said at its extended conference in Hanoi on January 6 and 7.
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SaiGon GP English 43 month(s) ago
Only 3.8 million foreign tourists visited the country in 2009, a year-on-year fall of 11 percent, with critics blaming it on poor coordination between the hospitality, airline, and tourism industries.
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