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Philippine Police Search For US Suspect

Philippine Police Search For American Suspected Of Killing Presidential Staffer's Son (AP) MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine police searched for an American who escaped after allegedly killing a government official's son in...

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Gas Prices Fall To Begin Busy Travel Week

Retail Gas Prices Fall Overnight As Thanksgiving Travelers Prepare To Hit The Road (AP) Retail gasoline prices headed downward to begin one of the country's busiest travel weeks, with more than 33 million people expected to hit...

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Sumatran orangutan fights extinction

Peter Pratje says orangutans in Sumatra are threatened by pulp and paper companies Sumatra, Indonesia (CNN) -- A loud crack echoes throughout the canopy as two young orangutans come tumbling down, grasping at branches along the...

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Total finds oil in Vietnam

COURBEVOIE, France, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- French supermajor Total announced a new discovery of light crude oil off the coast of Vung Tau in the south of Vietnam in the Mekong delta region. Total, through its Total E&P Vietnam...

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Indonesia rejects "world's third-largest emitter" tag

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A World Bank study that cited Indonesia as the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases was wrong, an Indonesian report sent to the United Nations on Monday said, although it did not provide its own...

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Macarthurcook REIT shareholders approve rescue by AMP

SINGAPORE, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Shareholders of Macarthurcook Industrial Trust approved a rescue package that means a group of investors led by Australia's AMP will buy new shares in the firm at a heavy discount, said a source...

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Indonesia:worried about asset bubbles but no such risk now

JAKARTA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Indonesia's domestic asset prices are not yet overvalued, the head of the capital markets watchdog, Bapepam, said on Monday. Fuad Rahmany, however, also told reporters that while the authorities are...

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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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Thai Economy Improves

BY PIYARAT SETTHASIRIPHAIBOON AND ORANAN PAWEEWUN BANGKOK—Thailand's economy showed a modest growth in the third quarter as economic conditions at home and overseas slowly recovered, stoking enough confidence for the government...

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More Money: $65 waffles?!?

Personal finance from around the Web on Friday: Fixed-income king Bill Gross doesn't like earning 0.01% on his cash. But he does like utilities. [PIMCO] You may end up owing taxes next April because a little tax credit ended up...

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