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	<title>East Asian Times</title>
	<link>http://www.eastasiantimes.com</link>
	<description>Shayne Heffernan on ASEAN</description>
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		<title>Google: Search engine blocked in mainland China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google says people in mainland China are being blocked from using its Internet search engine.
The company posted a Thursday notice about the new  barrier without any other details. A Google spokesman in the U.S. says  he is still trying to gather information about the situation in China.
It&#8217;s the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US to press China, UAE, others on Iran sanctions</title>
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States announced  Thursday that top officials will fan out starting next week to China,  the United Arab Emirates, and other key countries in support of tighter  sanctions against Iran.
&#8220;China is of concern to us in this regard,&#8221; Robert Einhorn, the US State  Department&#8217;s special adviser for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota recalls 412,000 cars in US to fix steering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – Toyota is recalling nearly half a million cars, most of  them large sedans sold in the U.S., for problems that can cause the  steering wheel to lock up. It&#8217;s the latest indication that the automaker  is still struggling with vehicle problems even as it works to overhaul  quality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eastasiantimes.com/toyota-recalls-412000-cars-in-us-to-fix-steering.htm</link>
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		<title>Rivers burst, floods kill at least 60 in Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Rivers burst their banks during deadly monsoon  rains lashing Pakistan, washing away streets, battering a dam and  submerging thousands of homes, officials said Thursday.
The hardest hit region was the northwest, where at  least 60 people died and hundreds of thousands were stranded in the  region&#8217;s worst flooding in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian watchdog alleges graft in Commonwealth Games works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI (AFP) – An Indian anti-corruption body has found a host of  problems with construction work for the New Delhi Commonwealth Games,  including the use of poor quality materials and dubious contracts.
The chief technical examiner from the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)  inspected 15 sites around the national capital and found a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh urges garment workers to accept wage hike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh&#8217;s Labour Minister urged millions of garment  workers on Thursday to accept a new 80-percent wage hike, which looks  set to end months of violent protests over pay and conditions.
The government said Tuesday it would raise the minimum wage from 1,662  taka, the lowest industry salary worldwide, to 3,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain, India unite to pressure Pakistan over terror</title>
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – Britain and India pressed Pakistan  on Thursday to tackle militant groups operating from its soil as British  Prime Minister David Cameron wrapped up a two-day, trade-driven visit  to the country.
Cameron&#8217;s trip, seen as test of his much-hyped business-oriented foreign  policy, was engulfed from the start by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British PM works to deepen Indian economic ties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI – British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that  his visit to India had deeply strengthened the bonds between Britain and  its former colony, whose burgeoning economy he wants to help his own  country recover from a brutal recession.
Cameron and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hailed a  string of agreements [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eastasiantimes.com/british-pm-works-to-deepen-indian-economic-ties.htm</link>
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		<title>ASEAN Markets Consolidate Gains‏</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over Night trading in the USA will bring some pressure to regional  exchanges today however, the trend of late in ASEAN has been to  consolidate during soft periods on the US exchange followed by gains  during USA rallys. So, today is a good day to be buying in ASEAN.
The  Jakarta Composite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea&#8217;s prime minister offers to resign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea&#8217;s prime minister offered to resign  Thursday after parliament shot down his efforts to scrap a plan that  would relocate several government ministries out of the capital.
Chung Un-chan, an academic appointed in September,  has led the charge to abandon the project, thought up by the previous  [...]]]></description>
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