The twin-engine plane that will make the journey uses a modified system that burns 25% less fuel than other aircraft of a similar size
Fast-growing Asian economies may be flush with money but filthy toilets remain a blight across the region despite rising standards of living.
Burma has said that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi may be freed after November 7 elections, as it attempts to deflect a barrage of criticism.
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/ 27 October 2010
Burma has come under pressure from its neighbours to address what Indonesia says is a "credibility deficit" surrounding its November 7 elections.
Software piracy cost technology companies more than $50-billion around the world last year, an industry report said on Tuesday.
Oil smashed past $135 a barrel for the first time on Thursday, continuing its astonishing rise following unexpected drops in United States crude and petrol stocks in a tight market, dealers said. Large institutional investors continued to pile money into oil, which is giving better returns than investments in stocks and bonds, further heating up prices, they said.
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/ 18 November 2006
United States President George Bush on Saturday kept the pressure on North Korea as he held a flurry of bilateral talks with key world leaders before heading into an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit focused on free trade. Bush, China’s Hu Jintao, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were to convene on Saturday afternoon.
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/ 16 November 2005
United States President George Bush arrived on Wednesday in South Korea ahead of a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders as a joint statement from the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum sought to pressure the European Union into making more concessions on agricultural subsidies.
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/ 6 September 2005
Investigators on Tuesday hunted for clues in the wreckage of the crashed jetliner in northern Indonesia as the airline ruled out terrorism in the disaster that killed at least 150 people. The Mandala Airlines Boeing 737-200 plunged into a suburb of Medan on Monday, seconds after taking off from the city’s airport.