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SKorea to plant trees in China to reduce 'yellow dust'

The Seoul city government will help fund a tree-planting project in a Chinese desert to reduce the amount of harmful "yellow dust" blowing over South Korea, officials said Wednesday. The city government signed an accord Tuesday...

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Alasdair marches home with a message

IPSWICH: Alasdair Ross will be a familiar face to many around Ipswich. But for the last seven months he has been at the heart of a bloody conflict in Afghanistan. Flown in to the Upper Sangin valley, one of the key...

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The great global land grab

The global food crisis has prompted various rich countries to start buying up land in the poorer world to secure their food supplies. As well as affecting domestic food supplies in the countries affected, Sue Branford says it...

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SKorea's Pohang wins Asian Champions League

Posted: Saturday November 7, 2009 11:54AM; Updated: Saturday November 7, 2009 11:54AM TOKYO (AP) -- South Korea's Pohang Steelers won the Asian Champions League title Saturday, beating Saudi Arabia's Al Ittihad 2-1 in the final...

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South Korean Workers Protest Gov't Labor Policy

Tens Of Thousands Of South Korean Workers Protest Government Labor Policy (AP) SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Tens of thousands of South Korean workers rallied Saturday to protest the government's plan to begin implementing...

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Yemen starts natural gas exports from new plant

Yemen began exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its newly built LNG plant in Balhaf on the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, with the first shipment destined for South Korea. In a hillside ceremony overlooking the coast,...

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'Time to consider global tax'

Scotland - Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis, and urged world finance officials meeting on Saturday in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting...

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Indian women's hockey team come in for praise

The Indian women team's superb performance at the Asia Cup, particularly their attacking style, has come in for praise from the continent's hockey fraternity who on Saturday said the country deserves to be in next year's World...

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G20 finance officials pledge to maintain emergency support until recovery is assured

Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured and committed themselves to urgent action on tackling ...

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Qafco seeks expansion in South American market

Qatar Fertilizer Company (Qafco), an arm of Industries Qatar, said that it will raise urea production to 5.6 million tons a year by 2012 from three million tons a year to tap South American markets, QNA reported. Qafco awarded...

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