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Key to adult happiness is buzzing social life in childhood and teen years
AFP, Published on 22/08/2012
» Attention tiger moms and dads: if you want your kids to grow up into happy, well-adjusted adults, best lay off the academic pressure and focus on fostering a social network full of strong relationships for your children.
Most young US adults expect marriage for life: study
AFP, Published on 13/08/2012
» Eighty-six percent of young adults in the United States expect their marriages to last a lifetime, even though half of all marriages end in divorce, a study released Wednesday suggests.
HK child has bird flu
AFP, Published on 02/06/2012
» Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday urged the public not to panic after the southern Chinese city reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months in a two-year-old boy.
Faster, cheaper hepatitis C test
AFP, Published on 14/03/2012
» The American University in Cairo said Wednesday that a team of its researchers has designed a faster and cheaper test for all types of hepatitis C, which it says affects about 10 million Egyptians.
'Peepoo' to stop flying toilet
AFP, Published on 13/03/2012
» Can Peepoo stop the flying toilet? A small Swedish company believes so.
After the storm, education needs attention
Life, AFP, Published on 28/02/2012
» It's the end of the school day at a middle school in Iligan City, Mindanao, Philippines, and children are milling about excitedly, poking each other in the ribs as they strut to the school gates. Meanwhile in the gym, 400 children from a nearby elementary school are noisily pouring out of makeshift classrooms separated by small partitions. They have no uniforms _ they barely have any books now _ and their learning days haven't been the same since their school was destroyed as Typhoon Sendong ripped through parts of the Philippines on Dec 16 last year.
Deadly bug at HK govt complex
AFP, Published on 04/01/2012
» Hong Kong officials said Wednesday the discovery of a bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease at the new government complex was ``under control``, while it was probing the source of the deadly bug.