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Saudi women win in landmark elections
dpa, Published on 13/12/2015
» RIYADH - Three Saudi women have won in the conservative kingdom's municipal elections in which women were allowed to vote and stand as candidates for the first time, unofficial results from the election commission showed on Sunday.
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Indonesia bans maids from working in Mideast
dpa, Published on 05/05/2015
» JAKARTA – Indonesia will aim to stop domestic workers from going to 21 Middle Eastern countries over concerns about poor working conditions and abuse, the government said Tuesday.
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Toyota names first foreign VP
dpa, Published on 04/03/2015
» TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp on Wednesday named its first non-Japanese executive vice president and first female non-Japanese executive.
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Jakarta bans virginity tests for cadets
dpa, Published on 23/12/2014
» JAKARTA — Indonesia will abolish virginity tests at the state-run college for would-be civil servants following criticism of a similar practice in the police force, media reports said Tuesday.
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Study: Chimps plan their breakfast
dpa, Published on 04/11/2014
» LEIPZIG - Just as the early bird gets the worm, the early ape gets the fruit.
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Women still MIA on Singapore boards
dpa, Published on 05/11/2014
» SINGAPORE — Only a fraction of seats on the boards of Singapore's listed companies are taken by women, a new study revealed.
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Internet "offline" packages for sale
dpa, Published on 21/09/2014
» HAVANA - Game of Thrones fever is beginning to die down in Cuba. The fourth season of the wildly popular medieval-setting United States television series wrapped up in June.
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Parks chief to meet Pata Zoo activists
dpa, Published on 23/09/2014
» A campaign to free a gorilla from a zoo inside a Bangkok shopping mall gained new momentum as a senior official agreed to meet with the activists, they said Tuesday.
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Aussies roiled by wife-cooking chef
dpa, Published on 07/10/2014
» SYDNEY — Australia has been gripped by the case of a chef who dismembered and cooked the body of his wife who, local media reported, was a transgender prostitute from Indonesia.
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Myanmar ends curfew in Mandalay
dpa, Published on 11/08/2014
» Authorities lifted the curfew on Monday in Myanmar's second-largest city, where sectarian violence left two people dead and 17 injured last month.
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