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Free surgery to fix smilesMae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand - More than 300 mainly Burmese villagers living near the border in Mae Sot district had their smiles fixed yesterday. |
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Saved by trivia text serviceKoh Phangan, Thailand - Brit holidaymakers Ian Lawler and girlfriend Ranelle Chapman got lost in a Thai jungle -- and were rescued after sending an SOS to a London text service 6,000 miles away. |
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Rare Sandpipers Found in MyanmarCoast of Myanmar - Eighty-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered in a coastal stretch of Myanmar (Burma), offering hope for the endangered birds, a conservation group said Thursday. |
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Virgin unveils spaceship designsEngland - Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space. |
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Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the SkyGrenoble, France - Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from falling raindrops into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other electronics devices. |
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Lawsuits Force Listing of Six Rare Birds as EndangeredWashington, D.C., USA - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed six rare birds from around the world as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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UN agency confirms N. Korea reactor shutdownSeoul, North Korea - The UN's nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that North Korea has shut the reactor which produces bomb-making plutonium ... |
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Farm Workers to Get Nearly $1.9 MillionYakima, Washington, USA - A judge has ordered one of the nation's largest labor contractors and two growers in central Washington's Yakima Valley to pay more than 600 farm workers nearly $1.9 million in damages for federal labor law violations. |
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Making the world safe for big catsBangkok, Thailand - Alan Rabinowitz was on a routine mission deep inside a Burmese jungle when news reached him about the attack. |
news from Southeast Asia
- Giant clams make come back in Philippines thanks to science
- Free surgery to fix smiles
- Audits could curb illegal logging
- Locals Volunteer Overseas With Operation Smile
- Rare leatherback turtles return to Malaysia
- Popular UN-backed Internet word game feeds Myanmar’s cyclone victims
- UN agency to resume aid flights into Myanmar
- Endangered bears find refuge in new Vietnam center
- First Lungless Frog Found
- Rare water birds recovering in Cambodia
