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New records, reflection mark Everest 60th anniversary
AFP, Published on 26/05/2013
» Sixty years ago this week two men became the first to stand on the roof of the world in a remarkable feat of endurance and strength of the human spirit.
Bali investigators begin retrieving jet wreckage
AFP, Published on 15/04/2013
» Indonesian investigators Monday began retrieving the wreck of a Lion Air plane that crashed at Bali's airport, as accounts emerged of a freak storm that could have caused the accident.
S.Korea sets $694 mln payout for 2007 oil spill
AFP, Published on 17/01/2013
» A South Korean court has ordered a $694-million compensation payout to victims of the country's worst oil spill, which fouled miles of coastland in 2007, decimating local fishing and tourism industries.
Two die in London helo crash
AFP, Published on 17/01/2013
» LONDON - Two people were killed on Wednesday when a helicopter hit a crane at a building site in central London during morning rush hour and plunged to the ground in a ball of flames.
Two killed as helicopter hits crane in London
AFP, Published on 16/01/2013
» A helicopter crashed into a crane on an unfinished apartment block in central London on Wednesday, killing the pilot and another person as it spread burning wreckage over the ground.
Dozens hurt in New York ferry accident
AFP, Published on 09/01/2013
» Nearly 60 people were injured, two of them critically, when a rush-hour ferry packed with commuters smashed into a New York City pier on Wednesday, sending passengers flying, officials said.
Flood-damaged machinery replaced
Jon Fernquest, Published on 06/12/2011
» As the inspection, repair & replacement of flood-damaged machinery begins, Berli Jucker Company (founded in Bangkok in 1882) to play important role.
Floods: Duel of the sluicegates
Jon Fernquest, Published on 30/11/2011
» Rogue red shirt police major takes law into own hands with locals, back & forth sluicegate duel: half meter up, half meter down, Bangkok governor says stop ...