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• Hong Kong visitor arrivals surge 7.6 percent in November

  
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  Hong Kong, Dec 26 (DPA) Hong Kong visitor arrivals surged 7.6 percent year-on-year in November, thanks partly to moves allowing more mainland Chinese into the former British colony, officials said Saturday.The city of seven million welcomed 2.6 million visitors in November, with a 13.3 percent rise in arrivals from ...
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• Toyota to recall 43,000 cars in China

  
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  Tokyo, Dec 25 (DPA) Toyota Motor Corp has announced the recall of about 43,000 cars in China because a defect might cause engine oil to leak, media reports said Friday.The cars were all manufactured in Japan, the Nikkei economic daily said. The four models affected are the Lexus ES 350, the Lexus RX 350, the [...]
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• Singapore extradites terror suspect to US

  
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  Singapore, Dec 25 (DPA) Singapore has extradited a businessman to the US, where he had allegedly tried to buy weapons for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Straits Times reported Friday.Balldev Naidu Ragavan, 47, tried to act as a broker between firearms manufacturers and purchasers between February and ...
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• Japan’s unemployment climbs to 5.2 percent

  
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  Tokyo, Dec 25 (DPA) Japan’s jobless rate climbed for the first time in four months in November, to 5.2 percent, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Friday.The unemployment rate was 5.1 percent in October. The number of unemployed people rose to 3.31 million in November, up 750,000 from a year ...
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• Lillo appointed by struggling Almeria

  
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  Madrid, Dec 24 (DPA) Spanish football club Almeria announced on Thursday that Juan Manuel Lillo will be their new coach.Lillo, 44, takes over from Mexican Hugo Sanchez, who was sacked a week ago with the team fourth from bottom of La Liga.Lillo started out as a coach in the Spanish lower divisions aged just 20 [...]
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• Zaragoza’s negotiations with Victor break down, Gay to continue

  
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  Madrid, Dec 24 (DPA) Spanish football club Zaragoza announced Thursday that negotiations with Victor Munoz had broken down - and that Jose Gay would be their coach until the end of the season.It seemed Wednesday that Victor was all set to return to Zaragoza for a second spell as coach. However, negotiations then broke ...
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• Philippine passenger vessel sinks

  
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  Manila, Dec 24 (DPA) At least 27 people were missing as a wooden-hulled passenger vessel sank Thursday in the Philippines after colliding with a fishing boat, the coast guard said.Forty-six people were rescued from the waters around Limbones Island off Cavite province, just south of Manila, where the accident took ...
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• 2010 is UN year of Millennium Development Goals

  
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  New York, Dec 23 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon decided Tuesday to call 2010 the year of Millennium Development Goals, which will review progress to achieve a set of eight programmes by 2015.The goals were set by the UN General Assembly in 2000, including halving extreme poverty, universal education for ...
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• More Banks Using Hardware to Secure Online Banking Sessions

  
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  European Banks Way Ahead of US Counterparts When it Comes to Providing Security for Online Banking Customers The device pictured on the left is an online banking authentication device.  (looks more like a calculator)  Millions of these types of devices, from Todos, Gemalto, Vasco, etc. have been purchased (about ...
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• New City boss Mancini targets repeat of Inter success

  
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  London, Dec 22 (DPA) Roberto Mancini said Monday he believed he could repeat the success he had at Internazionale with his new club Manchester City.Mancini was confirmed as the new boss at Eastlands Sunday after the sacking of Mark Hughes.“I hope history repeats itself,” he told the club website.“I am proud to ...
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• Messi crowns exceptional season with World Footballer award (Lead)

  
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  Zurich, Dec 22 (DPA) Barcelona’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi, who earlier this month won the European Footballer of the Year, was Monday named FIFA World Footballer of the Year 2009.Messi, who made history by becoming the first Argentine player to win the award, beat off the other finalists Kaka, Xavi, Andres ...
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• Microsoft executive named GM chief financial officer

  
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  Washington, Dec 22 (DPA) General Motors (GM) has hired Microsoft’s Chris Liddell as chief financial officer, the US carmaker said Monday.The 51-year-old New Zealander will also serve as vice president and will hold the position as of Jan 1.He replaces Ray Young, who will become GM’s vice president of international ...
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• Boris Becker amazed by logistics of Woods’ affairs

  
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  Frankfurt, Dec 21 (DPA) Former tennis bad boy Boris Becker expressed his amazement Monday at how Tiger Woods managed to hide his numerous affairs for so long from his wife and other insiders.Three-time Wimbledon champion Becker, 42, experienced a marriage-breaking moment of his own a decade ago when he fathered a baby ...
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• ‘Handful’ of states blocked climate treaty, claims Brown

  
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  London, Dec 21 (DPA) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Monday accused a “handful of countries” of preventing a climate change treaty at last week’s Copenhagen conference and vowed that there would be no repeat of the “chaotic proceedings”.Speaking via video link to a meeting in London, Brown said he was ...
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• Toxic liquor kills 12 in Pakistan

  
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  Islamabad, Dec 21 (DPA) At least 12 people died after drinking locally brewed liquor apparently tainted with lethal chemicals in Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab, a news report said Monday.The deaths occurred overnight in two neighbourhoods of Multan town, located 340 km south-west of the provincial capital, ...
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• Dowry Prohibition Bill passed

  
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  New Delhi, Dec. 16: The Rajya Sabha today passed the Dowry Prohibition Bill but after deleting a controversial explanation, added by the Lok Sabha, thus making the Bill more vigorous. To the definition of Dowry the Rajya Sabha made two other amendments in the Bill, one of which deletes the provision making penal ...
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• Google’s Chrome browser focuses on speed, not extras

  
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  By Philipp LaageMunich, Dec 21 (DPA) Google threw its hat into the browser ring back in 2008. Chrome is what they called their new product, now available in its third iteration. A beta version of the fourth generation is currently making the rounds as well.While Chrome itself is clearly rapidly changing, one thing ...
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• Sci-fi saga ‘Avatar’ gets phenomenal start

  
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  New York/Los Angeles, Dec 21 (DPA) US director James Cameron’s newest film “Avatar” filled the cinema cash registers this weekend with a $73-million take that put it way in the lead at the box office.The futuristic science fiction epic, shown with new 3D technology that was 12 years in the making, thus took in ...
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• US actress Brittany Murphy dead at age 32

  
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  Washington, Dec 21 (DPA) US actress Brittany Murphy, of “Sin City”, “8 Mile” and “Just Married”, died Sunday, but the details were not known, broadcast media reported.Fox News broadcaster reported that the husband of the 32-year-old actress had called emergency services for help when she fell ill. ...
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• Schalke ‘autumn champions’ - at least for a day

  
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  Gelsenkirchen (Germany), Dec 19 (DPA) Schalke 04 climbed to the top of the Bundesliga standings with a 1-0 victory over Mainz 05.The three points, secured through a first-half goal from Jefferson Farfan Friday, takes Schalke to 34 points from their 17 matches and they can - at least for a day - consider themselves as ...
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