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Indonesian district to ban mixed sexes on motorbikes
Reuters, Published on 04/05/2015
» BANDA ACEH — An Indonesian regency has passed legislation requiring schools to teach boys and girls separately and hopes to follow that up with a ban prohibiting the two sexes from riding motorcycles together.
TomTom maps out self-driving cars
Reuters, Published on 05/05/2015
» Dutch navigation company TomTom aims to become a main provider of technology for self-driving cars as it charts its way back to success after seven lean years, chief executive Harold Goddijn said.
Gangnam Style: South Korea set to demolish slum in shadows of Seoul glitz
Reuters, Published on 05/05/2015
» SEOUL – Close by the luxury highrises of Seoul's most expensive neighbourhood, 80-year-old Kim Ok-nyo burns charcoal to heat her two-room shack in Guryong, a shantytown of 2,000 residents.
China out to prevent lay-offs
Business, Reuters, Published on 07/05/2015
» BEIJING: As growth in China's sagging economy looks on the verge of spilling below 7%, officials worried about a spike in unemployment are pulling out all the stops to avoid mass lay-offs.
Pridiyathorn: Progress made against illegal fishing
Reuters, Published on 06/05/2015
» Thailand has made significant headway in its fight against illegal fishing, Deputy Prime Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula said on Wednesday, following a decision by the European Union last month to give the country six months to drastically clean up its fishing industry.
EU launches antitrust probe into e-commerce giants
Reuters, Published on 06/05/2015
» BRUSSELS — The European Commission will conduct a comprehensive review this year of the role of web giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to decide whether it should regulate them more tightly, it said on Wednesday.
Anwar's wife wins his parliament seat
Reuters, Published on 08/05/2015
» KUALA LUMPUR — The wife of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has won his seat in a by-election, officials said on Friday.
China April exports unexpectedly fall, imports slide
Reuters, Published on 08/05/2015
» BEIJING — China's exports unexpectedly fell 6.4% in April from a year earlier, while imports tumbled by a deeper-than-forecast 16.2%, fueling expectations that Beijing will quickly roll out more stimulus to avert a sharper economic slowdown.
Typhoon, volcano pose twin threats to Philippines
Reuters, Published on 08/05/2015
» MANILA — The Philippines is preparing to evacuate residents along its northeastern coast as a typhoon approaches, as well as those near a rumbling volcano that has been spewing steam and ash over a central province, officials said on Friday.
117 migrants questioned as crackdown deadline nears
Reuters, Published on 09/05/2015
» SONGKHLA — Authorities on Saturday questioned more than 100 migrants discovered in the country's south to determine whether they were victims of human trafficking, as they race to meet a deadline to uncover people smuggling camps within its borders.