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Balik Kampung

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Quiet cars raise sound alarm

GENEVA 406t7.jpg Engineer Toshikazu Satoh's holds a sound level meter ...

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Taking batik beyond Indonesian shores

Sarah Shard PARIS l10174d2.jpg (Top) A student makes a pattern on a ...

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Zombies 101: A class to die for

BALTIMORE CALL it Zombies 101: The University of Baltimore is offering a new class on the undead. The course is being taught by Arnold Blumberg, the author of a book on zombie movies, ...

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Wasps sting woman more than 500 times

ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS ubatu.jpg A nest of yellow jackets stung a ...

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Believe It or Not: For world's smallest ...

NEW YORK 909sj.jpg Khagendra Thapa Magar, the world's smallest teenager ...

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... and shortest men life's beautiful

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA 7f1-0ol.jpg Edward Nino Hernandez, 24, poses for a ...

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American religious leaders flay growing Islamophobia

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Vietnam's art of Sinh ca fading

Feature Desk fztmu_22.jpg Sinh ca, the unique folk singing of the Cao ...

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Vietnam's maths genius shuns limelight

HANOI 235yv_c20.jpg French Vietnamese Mathematician Ngo Bao Chau stands ...

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Woman sues cinema over excessive ads

XIAN, CHINA stqhy.jpg Chinese movie-goers sitting back and enjoying a ...

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Chinese city imposes US$7 fine for smoking

BEIJING THE Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou has set the "toughest" anti-smoking rules in the tobacco-addicted nation as the city spruces up for the Asian Games in ...

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Vietnam's Chams remain steadfast to Islam

HO CHI MINH CITY 315h6.jpg (Top) Cham Muslim men pray inside a mosque ...

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Beijing revives mass exercises

BEIJING 112lg.jpg People perform exercises at the Working People's ...

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No Singlish please, we're Singaporeans

SINGAPORE 7ncuy.jpg (Top) A store vendor leans against a wall with ...

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Money can buy you happiness, to a point

WASHINGTON THEY say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong. At least up to a point. People's emotional well-being increases along with their income up to about $75,000, researchers ...

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Time running out faster than water: experts

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Hundreds of looted artifacts returned to Iraq

BAGHDAD d31-0it.jpg A Babylonian clay foundation cone, ca. 2100 BC, is ...

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The bug stops here

PARIS ONE of the hardiest insects around, the cockroach, may hold the key to next-generation antibiotics, British scientists hope. The brain and nervous system of the cockroach and ...

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Non-stick cookware blamed for high cholesterol level

CHICAGO CHEMICALS used to make non-stick coatings on cookware and to waterproof fabrics may raise levels of cholesterol in children, US researchers said on Monday. Children in a study ...

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New Oxford dictionary adds popular new Chinese terms