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His Majesty likely to visit India this year, says envoy
27/01/2008
HIS Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam is likely to visit India sometime this year, the Indian...
Customs Dept to wipe out drug smuggling
27/01/2008
EFFORTS made by the Royal Customs and Excise Department to expand its services to include stamping out drug smuggling...
UBD switches on to e-learning systems
27/01/2008
HIGHER education has taken a step forward with the introduction of an e-Learning systems project, which will allow...
Seavern programme ends
27/01/2008
THE Fourth Southeast Asian Vocational Education Research Network (Seavern) Capacity Building Programme came to a close...
Private equity past may cloud Romney job pitch
27/01/2008
RECALLING his days as a businessman, Republican United States presidential contender Mitt Romney often cites the 25...
Russian spy exposes secrets in new book
27/01/2008
ONCE a senior KGB officer who says he was driven by patriotism, Sergei Tretyakov says he defected in 2000 because he...
Nokia finds Romania's labour force, closes German plant
27/01/2008
THE tiny village of Jucu in northwestern Romania, which will host a new factory making Nokia mobile phones, currently...
US uses horses to secure its borders
27/01/2008
US BORDER Patrol agent Galen Huffman leans over the saddle to look at faint tracks in a cattle trail leading up from...
El Escorial is 8th World Wonder to Spaniards
27/01/2008
WHEN talk turns to the massive fortified palace and monastery of El Escorial, Spaniards like to refer to it as the...
Caving in N Laos a lesson in local animist culture
27/01/2008
WE WERE exploring caves in northern Laos and had our base in the village of Vieng Phoukha, which is in Luang Namtha...
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