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Asia must trim socioeconomic disparity
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SINGAPORE: Asia must work harder to narrow economic and social
disparities that remain despite the region’s economic boom, the
head of Brunei’s economic development board said here Friday.
While Asian economies have resumed strong
economic growth 10 years after the 1997 to 1998 financial crisis,
the per capita income of the region’s richest country, Japan, is
200 times bigger than its poorest nation, Timothy Ong said.
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Bush suspends troop withdrawal in Iraq
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WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush on Thursday suspended
further US troop withdrawal from Iraq beyond July and cut Army
combat troops in Iraq from 15 months to 12 months.
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Virginia Tech victims get $11M in settlement
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WASHINGTON: Survivors and families of victims of last year’s
Virginia Tech massacre will share a settlement from the state of
Virginia worth more than $11 million, their lawyers said Thursday.
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US election sharpens China Olympic debate
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WASHINGTON: The White House race is reverberating with a grassroots
backlash over China’s crackdown in Tibet, and is in turn hiking
pressure on President George W. Bush to skip the start of the
Beijing Olympics.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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HANOI: The future food security of millions of people is at
risk because over-fishing, climate change and pollution are
inflicting massive damage on the world’s oceans, marine scientists
warned this week.
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