November 26, 2011
A woman pulls shopping carts through the aisle of a Target store on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Retailers were hoping for more shoppers like Shawn Elzia as the annual Black Friday bargain stampede marked the unofficial start of what is widely expected to be a middling [...]
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November 25, 2011
A man loads a flat screen television into his car on the shopping day dubbed “Black Friday” in Torrington, Connecticut November 25, 2011. Bargain hunters flocked to stores late Thursday and overnight Friday, searching for deals on big screen televisions, video games and toys while fretting about their own shaky economic well-being. Some stores, [...]
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October 23, 2011
Thailand's prime minister warned Saturday the kingdom will endure weeks more flooding, telling anxious Bangkok residents to prepare for possible metre-deep water as the inundation spread. Thai troops on Sunday reinforced vulnerable barriers along Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river after a sudden rise in the water level set back efforts to contain the worst floods in [...]
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September 9, 2011
The sun rises over highrise buildings in downtown Beijing in 2010. A person tries to kill themselves in China every two minutes, the government and state media said Thursday, giving the country one of the highest suicide rates in the world. China’s suicide rate is 22.23 people out of every 100,000, the Centre for Disease [...]
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August 5, 2011
A rehearsal for a six-meter tsunami will be carried out in the central region’s city of Da Nang this October, officials said a city meeting on Wednesday. Â Nearly 3,000 people are expected to join the tsunami-drill in Son Tra District, including more than 2,100 police officers and soldiers. Â The rehearsal will follow [...]
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July 10, 2011
More than 26,000 people will be moved out of the famous Old Quarter in Hanoi by 2020 to preserve the area’s heritage values, according a project announced Wednesday.  The project, presented by authorities in Hoan Kiem District to the municipal authorities, estimates that the evacuation will cost over VND4.2 trillion (US$204 million).  The [...]
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May 3, 2011
One of the Xayaburi Dam’s most vocal critics says Laos’s ‘green energy’ claim is spurious A boat moves along the Mekong River at the site of the proposed Xayaburi Dam in Laos. If built, the dam would resettle over 2,100 people and affect the livelihoods of more than 200,000 people, an expert says. The [...]
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April 11, 2011
A family prays as they remember disaster victims nearby the site of their home which was destroyed in the recent tsunami. Japan fell silent at 2:46 pm Monday as people across the country remembered the thousands killed by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11 and the monster tsunami it created. In the devastated city [...]
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March 20, 2011
A woman is screened for radiation at a screening centre in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture on March 20, 2011 Japan restored power to a crippled nuclear reactor on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a plant wrecked by an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000 people in one [...]
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March 20, 2011
A police officer stands at an area destroyed in Kesennuma city, Miyagi Prefecture, March 18, 2011. One of six tsunami-crippled nuclear reactors appeared to stabilize on Saturday as Japan raced to restore power to the stricken power plant to cool it and prevent a greater catastrophe. Engineers reported some rare success after fire trucks sprayed [...]
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