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Indonesian men walk past a monitor screen at the Jakarta Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. Indonesia´s main stock index hit historic highs at over the 1,000 mark for the first time by midday Thursday, with further gains Asia markets mixed as Japan falls and HK gains

The Times of India                  HONG KONG : Asian markets were mixed on Wednesday, as Japan stocks fell and Hong Kong shares rose sharply after solid earnings from leading... (photo: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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Tibetan protests as Beijing closes 2008 Olympics Chinese tilt Olympic spotlight at Hong Kong election

The Star  HONG KONG (Reuters) - A surge in post-Olympic nationalism could colour Hong Kong's legislative polls next week, giving a further advantage to pro-Beijing candidates over the city's bruised democratic... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
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Nature - Storm - Weather (UPDATE) Oil nears $119, euro rallies on ECB talk
Inquirer HONG KONG -- Oil prices rose for a fourth day on Thursday on worries that a tropical storm may strengthen to become the worst threat to US offshore oil and gas production since 2005, while the euro... (photo: WN / Geeta)
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An investor reacts in front of the stock price monitor at a securities company Thursday, Oct. 11, 20 Asian shares are little changed
International Herald Tribune : Oil prices climbed for a fourth day on Thursday on worries a storm may gather force to become the worst threat to U.S. offshore production since 2005, while the euro rose on tough inflation talk... (photo: AP Photo)
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Tibetan protests as Beijing closes 2008 Olympics Past presents problems for Tibet

Asia Times By Karine Gagne, Francois Pesant and Denis Burke Sporadic negotiations between Beijing and representatives of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, over... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
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In this photo released by China's official Xinhua news agency, a man watches the share price screen in a stock trading hall in Beijing on Monday November 20, 2006. Encouraged by the appreciation of the Chinese currency and the fall in oil price, the Composite Stock Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange broke the 2,000-point level on Monday, first time since July 30, 2001, Xinhua reported. Wednesday Asia markets: Energy shares gain, oil up for third day

Canada Dot Com HONG KONG - Asian exporter shares fell on Wednesday as oil rose to $117 a barrel and developed economies sputtered, though investors found some value in energy stocks and... (photo: AP / Xinhua, Wei Ming)
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Vice Presidential nominee Senator Joseph Biden greets supporters The Biden factor in US-Iran relations
Asia Times By Kaveh L Afrasiabi Senator Barack Obama's choice of Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate for the Democratic ticket for the US presidency is a good omen for troubled... (photo: Public Domain / Demcratic Covention)
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A Georgian flag flies in front of the guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul anchored in the harbor of Batumi, western Georgia, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. The USS McFaul is the first of three U.S. Navy ships that will carry supplies such as blankets, hygiene kits and baby food to Georgia via the Turkish Straits to help the country following its war with Russia over the breakaway republic of South Osset Georgia war rooted in US 'self-deceit'

Asia Times By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - The United States policy of absorbing Georgia and Ukraine into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was enthusiastically... (photo: AP / Bela Szandelszky)
Georgia   NATO   Photos   Russia   US
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. speaks to the Delaware Delegation breakfast, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, in Littleton, Colo., on the second day of the Democratic National Convent Biden as Obama's 'bridge'

Asia Times By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - In picking six-term Senator Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running-mate, Senator Barack Obama hopes to plug some key gaps in the electoral... (photo: AP / Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo released by Democratic Voice of Burma, members of the Myamar opposition National League for Democracy party chant slogans urging the junta to release party's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, portrait on left, during a protest in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, May 27, 2008. The UN at dead-end in Myanmar Asia Times
China -Muslim Uighur men pray at the Id Kah mosque in Kashgar, in China´s western Xinjiang province, Friday, Sept. 28, 2001. Thousands of Uighur´s, muslims of Turkic descent, pray at the 568-year-old mosque each Friday, the main muslim day of China misfires with divisive 'people's war' Asia Times
Chinese armed escorts prepare to transport Chinese currency at a bank in Changchun, northeastern China's Jilin province, Tuesday Aug. 22, 2006. China raised interest rates last Friday for the second time this year amid efforts to rein in a boom in lending and construction that the government worries could spark a financial crisis. The central bank raised the minimum rate that commercial banks charge on one-year loans in China's currency, the yuan, by 0.26 percent to 6.12 percent, effective last Saturda China's banks churn out profits Asia Times
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Sony Sony's Chubachi warns stagflation threatens Asia Syracuse
US swimmer Dara Torres Dara Torres has minor shoulder surgery The Examiner
Like it or not, it is our own Oil.. China, Iraq reach $3 bln oil service deal Lexington Herald-Leader
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Kerala boatrace /ntf1 Dragon Boat Races Increase in Popularity at Kipona PR Newswire
This is a Oct. 21,1997 photo of a truck being loaded at Anglo American´s copper mine hg3, Jiangxi Copper says 1st half net up 32 pc The Times of India
Malaysia's leading opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim, Victorious Anwar on path to power Asia Times
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President Islam Karimov, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev meet in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008. Georgia crisis casts shadow on summit Independent online (SA)
Report: China tobacco merger to create No. 4 maker Report: China tobacco merger to create No. 4 maker Lexington Herald-Leader
KLps1 - January07 - Computer - Technology - Dell. (ps1) Dell's new low-cost PCs target China, India USA Today
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Baskin Robbins, food industry, food. tp1 What would Willy Wonka think? Baskin-Robbins launches new cafe The Boston Globe
-- Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev, January 1936. wnhires (cg1) Ghost of Stalin strides the Caucasus The Australian
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Office workers gather below a building in Singapore´s financial district after being evacuated, Wednesday Sept. 13, 2007, in Singapore when tremors were felt from an 8.4-magnitude earthquake in Indonesia´s coastal city of Padang on Sumatra. A
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Investors study stock prices as traders work at a brokerage firm in Hong Kong Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. Hong Kong shares surged Wednesday morning, rebounding with a vengeance from the market's recent plunge as investors welcomed a hefty, surprise interest rate cut overnight by the U.S. Federal Reserve. The blue chip Hang Seng index shot up 7.45 percent, to 23,379.5 points within minutes of opening. It was up 1,179.39 points, or 5.42 percent, to 22,937.02 in midmorning. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) hg3
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