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One-Two-Go Airlines cease operating over fuel costs as legal action begins over September air disaster

Monday, July 21, 2008 Thai low-cost air carrier One-Two-Go Airlines has announced that it will be grounding all 16 of its aircraft immediately until September 15. The news comes as legal action against the airline and associated companies begins over the September crash of Flight 269, which killed 90 people, mostly foreigners. Udom Tantiprasongchai, founder […]

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New Zealand runs low on 20 cent coins

Tuesday, December 5, 2006 The Reserve Bank of New Zealand wrote to retails banks warning them that there will be a shortage on 20 cent coins (NZ$0.20) leading up to Christmas. They have now announced that they have distributed 4.75 million new twenty cent coins in the past week alone “…close to the number issued […]

Fitness Equipment

How Resistance Bands Can Give You A Flat Stomach}

Click Here To Know More About: Power Rack How Resistance Bands can Give You a Flat Stomach by Kathy Joyce Resistance bands are an effective workout tool and great for stomach exercising and lots of different exercises can be done using them. There are 2 types of resistance bands, regular and tubular. The regular bands […]

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The Next Consortium of ITRI launches ‘RoboScooter’

Sunday, May 11, 2008 At the Pavilion of Taiwan Automotive Research Consortium during the AutoTronics Taipei 2008, in Taipei Time, the Next Consortium of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) unveiled a brand-new environmental-concept vehicle named “RoboScooter”. It was jointly designed by the Creativity Lab of ITRI, SYM Motors, and the Media Lab of Massachusetts Institute […]

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Australia hits new Telstra privatization hurdles

Sunday, September 4, 2005 The Australian Government‘s plan for the full privatization of Telstra, Australia’s dominant telecommunications company, received criticism leveled at the government and company by executives. The government owns 51.8%, with the remaining 48.2% of Telstra stock held by shareholders, having been partially floated in the 1990s. Phil Burgess, senior executive, made comments […]

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Payday Advance Loans: Manages Your Issues}

Payday Advance Loans: Manages Your Issues by Harry Stride For receiving advanced help and monetary assistance you can opt for the payday advance loans when days for your payday are left. These loans will help you in doing all those things that you would feel to be accomplished. So, no more you will have to […]

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U.S. anti-war mom calls it quits

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 War protestor Cindy Sheehan, the mother of fallen soldier Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq 3 years ago, wrote on what has been published by the Daily Kos as a personal web journal on Monday morning, a day in observance of Memorial Day in the United States, that “This is […]

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US announces revised limits on use of nuclear weapons

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 US President Barack Obama today announced a revamp of a policy that dictates the conditions under which nuclear weapons would be used by the United States. The Nuclear Posture Review, which was published on Tuesday, now completely rules out the use of nuclear weapons by the US in response to an […]

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Atlas V rocket launches with Inmarsat satellite

Friday, March 11, 2005 A Lockheed-Martin built Atlas V launch vehicle, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 21:42 UTC (4:42 p.m. EST). It placed the Inmarsat 4 F-1 communications satellite into orbit. This was Lockheed-Martin’s second try to launch the satellite. Yesterday’s attempt ended in a scrub when the flight control computer passed a […]