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• in Technology
  Full U.S. Ban on Using Cellphones While Driving Being Reviewed, Is It Needed?
  NTSB is after a full ban of cellphone use while driving across the U.S.
  by jbinc / on Dec 14, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “lawmakers”

 

• Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season

  
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  MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season. Visit link: Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season
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• Apple pays no tax on much of its overseas income, Senate panel finds

  
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  Apple’s Tim Cook will make his debut testifying before Congress on Tuesday, when the chief executive will press lawmakers to simplify corporate taxes as well as defend the company’s tax practices. Cook will appear before the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on investigations, which is looking into what it ...
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• Obama’s DOJ leaked documents to smear ‘Fast & Furious’ whistleblower

  
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  . ____ GREEN link below . -__ Report : DOJ Leaked Docs  ___ to Smear Fast & Furious  ___ Whistleblower , Says IG . .
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• Taiwan vows to protect Filipinos from attacks

  
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  Taiwan yesterday ordered all law-enforcement personnel to step up the protection of Filipinos on the island, after a suggestion that Manila might evacuate its nationals from the island after hearing reports of attacks targeting them. “We have instructed all prosecutorial and law-enforcement agencies to step up ...
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• Li Keqiang visits New Delhi and vows to end disputes on border with India

  
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  China and India agreed yesterday to launch a fresh round of talks to settle their long-running border disputes. They also pledged to draw up a roadmap to reach a “dynamic balance” in trade between the two emerging economic powers. We need to improve the border mechanisms…and make them more efficient Li Keqiang, ...
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• South Korea’s complaint about US use of term ‘Sea of Japan’ is dismissed

  
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  Academics and the Japanese government have dismissed the complaint by South Korea’s defence ministry about US Forces Korea referring to the body of water between the Korean peninsula and Japan as the “Sea of Japan”. Read more from the original source: South Korea’s complaint about US use of term ‘Sea of ...
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• Drug trafficking charges for US Virgin Islands environment officer

  
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  Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the US Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol boat. Read more here: Drug trafficking charges for US Virgin Islands environment officer
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• Beware of pitfalls in buying property

  
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  Signing a contract to buy a property (a flat, an office block or whatever) marks a point of no return. You have passed from the zone of negotiations to that of binding commitment. At least that is the idea. Once you sign the contract it should be all over bar the shouting. In principle, it only remains for the seller ...
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• Divorced Briton confesses to killing his children in France

  
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  A 48-year-old divorced Briton locked in a bitter custody battle has confessed to killing his two young children by slitting their throats near the eastern French city of Lyons. The bodies of a five-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were discovered on Saturday afternoon in the man’s apartment in Saint-Priest, a ...
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• Cyclone Mahasen a ‘dress rehearsal’ for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims

  
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  Myanmar’s victims of sectarian strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon season weeks away. Myanmar’s Rakhine state is pockmarked with makeshift settlements for up to 140,000 people – mainly Rohingya Muslims – ...
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• Beijing silk products fail quality tests

  
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  Is anything in China real? Study finds some silk on sale in Beijing do not contain any silk Link: Beijing silk products fail quality tests
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• Asia markets up after US delivers positive data

  
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  BANGKOK (AP) — Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. A gauge of future economic activity issued Friday rose more than expected, a sign that the world’s biggest economy is improving. Consumer confidence also rose, offsetting several lackluster reports on ...
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• More bodies recovered in collapsed Indonesia mine

  
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  Rescuers recovered four more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13, police said on Monday. Fifteen other workers were still missing and feared dead. The Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport ...
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• Going out in style: Piano-themed coffins among attractions at Hong Kong cemetery expo

  
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  Piano-themed coffins, paper caskets and pet urns were all on display at Wan Chai Exhibition Centre last week as more than 2,500 undertakers from around the world descended on Hong Kong to exhibit their wares at the Asia Funeral and Cemetry Expo. Organisers called it “practical ideas on global trends regarding the ...
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• China investigates North Korea boat hijack claim

  
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  Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said. Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters ...
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• Lottery official: 1 winning ticket sold in US for record Powerball jackpot of more than $590M

  
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  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery official: 1 winning ticket sold in US for record Powerball jackpot of more than $590M. Read more: Lottery official: 1 winning ticket sold in US for record Powerball jackpot of more than $590M
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• Infographic: Breast cancer in Hong Kong

  
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  Angelina Jolie recently revealed that due to her defective gene BRCA1, she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer from 87 per cent to 5 per cent. In Hong Kong, breast cancer is the most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Here we ...
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• China earmarks billions for internal security, ‘stability maintenance’

  
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  Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing. The ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order – more even than on its military. View original post here: China earmarks billions for internal security, ‘stability ...
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• Syria’s Assad says peace talks are ‘unrealistic’, will not resign

  
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  Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. Link: Syria’s Assad says peace talks are ‘unrealistic’, will not resign
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• Scores injured after ‘elderly man’ drives car into crowd at US parade

  
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  Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported but about 50 to 60 people are injured. Read the original here: Scores injured after ‘elderly man’ drives car into crowd at US parade
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