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Thursday, February 07, 2008 |
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Nissin
bolts merger over dumplings
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TOKYO: Nissin Food Products Co., one of Japan’s leading food
companies, announced Wednesday it was pulling out of a high-profile
merger involving the group that imported Chinese-made dumplings
containing pesticide.
Nissin, famous for pioneering
instant noodles in the 1950s, is the biggest indications yet of the
fallout to business of the health scare shaking Japan.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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CIA admits using
waterboarding on questioning al-Qaeda detainees
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WASHINGTON: CIA director Michael
Hayden for the first time admitted publicly Tuesday that the agency
had used “water-boarding,” or simulated drowning, in
interrogations of three top al-Qaeda detainees...
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Saudi woman’s
arrest reveals rights problems
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RIYADH: A businesswoman was
detained and strip-searched by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for
sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop with an unrelated man, prohibited
in the country, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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WORLD
INBRIEF
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BANGKOK: Suspected insurgents on
Wednesday detonated a bomb near a Chinese shrine, in Thailand’s
violence-torn far southern province Pattani, wounding five soldiers...
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