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/ 7 September 2005
First came singles bars, dating services, and click-and-date websites. Then young urban professional searching for a little tenderness turned to speed dating. Now a pair of French cooking schools are blazing another, somewhat less frenetic, trail in the quest for modern romance: ”cook-dating”.
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/ 7 September 2005
Kim Clijsters’s never-say-die philosophy kept her bid for her first Grand Slam title on track on Tuesday as she rallied to beat Wimbledon champion Venus Williams in three sets and book a US Open semifinal berth. Clijsters was down a set and trailing 2-4 in the second, looking tentative in the face of Williams’s power and perhaps in the face of yet another Grand Slam disappointment.
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/ 7 September 2005
A Singapore electronics industry executive has been charged with 125 counts of insider trading, police said on Wednesday. Koh Soe Khon (55) managing director of listed disk drive parts maker Brilliant Manufacturing, was charged by the Commercial Affairs Department, which investigates financial crimes, siad a police spokesperson.
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/ 7 September 2005
Internet giant Yahoo! supplied information to the Chinese government that led to the jailing of journalist Shi Tao for 10 years, international watchdog Reporters sans Frontières said on Wednesday. The California-based company’s Hong Kong subsidiary gave details to China’s state security, which helped to identify and convict Shi (37) the group said.
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/ 7 September 2005
China could move ahead the launch of its next manned space mission to as early as this month, a state newspaper reported on Wednesday. ”The launch time for the Shenzhou VI is around September or October,” Zhang Qingwei, president of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, told the Shanghai Morning Post.
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/ 7 September 2005
Gauteng minister of community safety Firoz Cachalia wants the sword to fall on the Booysens policemen shown taking bribes on the South African Broadcasting Corporation televison programme Special Assignment on Tuesday night. ”We are expecting nothing less than firm and decisive action from the area and provincial commissioners,” Cachalia said on Tuesday night.
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/ 7 September 2005
Spaniards are the most prolific users of cocaine in the world, according to a report from state prosecutors obtained by El PaÃs newspaper on Tuesday. Spain has overtaken the United States and left Britain and Ireland behind, with the proportion of people who use the drug rising to more than one in 40.
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/ 7 September 2005
Germany’s conservative leader Angela Merkel faced acute embarrassment on Tuesday night after aides admitted that she had plagiarised a speech used by Ronald Reagan in a 1980 United States presidential debate for her own television election duel with Gerhard Schröder, the Social Democratic chancellor.
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/ 7 September 2005
Seventeen miners died, mostly from burns or suffocation, in a gas explosion at an illegal coal mine in northern China’s Shanxi province, state media said on Wednesday. The miners were killed when the blast happened on Tuesday in the Zhike Town Coal Mine in Zhongyang county, Luliang city, the Xinhua news agency said.
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/ 7 September 2005
Old habits die hard, especially in Egypt. When President Hosni Mubarak launched his election campaign, the party faithfully declared their support in traditional fashion. ”With our souls, with our blood, we will sacrifice for you,” they chanted, but the president was not pleased and asked them to stop.