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Thai Beverage sets up venture in East Timor
Business, Pitsinee Jitpleecheep, Published on 09/03/2015
» Thai Beverage Plc, the food and beverage company owned by tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, is expanding its business empire to cover East Timor.
Poisoning investigation after Crufts dog dies
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» LONDON - The owners of a prize-winning Irish Setter who died after competing at the renowned Crufts dog show claimed on Sunday their dog had been poisoned at the British event.
Britain's 'white jihadi' is teen from Australian - report
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» SYDNEY - A westerner pictured alongside Islamic State group fighters and dubbed by media as "Britain's white jihadi" is in fact a teenager from Australia who converted to Islam, a report said Monday.
UN chief calls on world to stop destruction of Iraqi sites
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced outrage Sunday over the destruction by the Islamic State group of Iraqi cultural sites, and urged the world to stop it.
Families visit Australians on Indonesian death row
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» CILACAP, INDONESIA - The families of two Australian drug smugglers facing imminent execution in Indonesia visited them Monday on the prison island where they will be put to death.
Mother killed in Australia while on phone to husband in India
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» SYDNEY - A mother has been stabbed to death in a Sydney park in a brutal attack while speaking by phone to her distraught husband in India, reports said Monday.
Colombia puts Chinese ship captain under house arrest
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» BOGOTA - A judge has ordered house arrest for the Chinese captain of a freighter Colombia stopped in port for carrying unregistered Cuba-bound weapons and materiel, a prosecutor said.
Solar-powered plane takes off in first round-the-world attempt: AFP
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» ABU DHABI - The first attempt to fly around the world in a plane using only solar power launched Monday in Abu Dhabi in a landmark journey aimed at promoting green energy.
More than two million migratory birds killed in Cyprus
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» NICOSIA - More than two million migratory birds were killed in Cyprus last autumn to feed an illicit taste for the delicacy on the Mediterranean island, a conservationist group said Monday.
S. Korea rejects US envoy attacker's denial he intended to kill
AFP, Published on 09/03/2015
» SEOUL - South Korean police vowed Monday to press on with attempted murder charges against the man who injured US ambassador Mark Lippert in a knife attack, despite the assailant's denial that he intended to kill.