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Kids smuggle food along war border

Hundreds of kids carry or smuggle items over the Afghan-Pakistan border That border has seen two suicide blasts in three months A group trying to educate the children has been threatened by the Taliban The children are used for...

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Asian Stocks: Hang Seng Up 1.4%

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Chinese banks in Hong Kong jumped after a researcher under China's State Council reportedly said the Chinese economy was likely to expand more than...

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UPDATE 1-China's Haitong Sec to buy 53 pct of HK's Taifook

Haitong to buy 53 pct of Taifook for $235 mln * To offer HK$4.88 for remaining shares in Taifook * Offer is 21 pct premium to price before news of sale (Adds details, background) SHANGHAI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - China's Haitong...

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Groups see red over South Korea's green river plan

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea launched an ambitious and costly project this week to overhaul its four major rivers in a way the government says will be a model for green growth but conservationists say will do far more harm...

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Commodities Lift European Stocks

European stocks opened higher, finding support from climbing commodity prices, which drove mining, energy and raw material stocks higher in Asia overnight, despite some concerns about a lack of catalysts to stimulate the market...

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China's Guangqi Honda at 95 pct of 2009 sales target

GUANGZHOU, Nov 23 (Reuters) - China's Guangqi Honda Automobile has reached 95 percent of its sales target for this year, with 310,000 vehicles sold in 2009 to date, the company's president said on Monday.

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GM sees China sales rising 50 pct in 2009

GUANGZHOU, Nov 23 (Reuters) - General Motors expects its China sales to rise 50 percent in 2009 and increase 10 to 15 percent in 2010, a company executive said on Monday. The company sold 1.5 million vehicles in China so far...

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UPDATE 1-TowerJazz gets $130 mln Asian contract, shares jump

Signs deal with Asian entity for $130 mln * To provide know-how, training, manufacturing solutions * Shares surge 8.5 percent (Adds details, CEO quote, background) TEL AVIV, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Israeli chip maker TowerJazz said...

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Taiwan stocks open up, techs rise on recovery hopes

TAIPEI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan stocks opened 0.16 percent higher on Monday as expectations of improving economic growth buoyed major firms such as Quanta . The main TAIEX share index opened 11.93 points up at 7,694.90,...

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LME copper hits fresh 14-mth peak on weak dollar

SINGAPORE, Nov 23 (Reuters) - London Metal Exchange copper prices rallied more than 2 percent to above $7,000 a tonne on Monday, shrugging off a 40 percent fall in China's refined copper imports in October as a weaker dollar...

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