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FEAR gripped financial markets yesterday as Asia and Europe absorbed a double whammy of devastating news.
PENNILESS, jobless and hungry. That is the plight of a group of about 50 Indian workers who have made the streets and open spaces in Little India their home - some for as long as a year.
HOUSTON - TRACY McGrady had carried the Houston Rockets through their winning streak since All-Star Chinese centre Yao Ming went down with a foot injury.
TEHERAN - PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared victory in Iran's parliamentary elections, which showed conservatives holding their majority.
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IT WAS another day of panic and plunging share markets across Asia yesterday as shock waves from the Bear Stearns fire sale in the United States crashed home.
BEIJING - BEIJING gave its version of the Lhasa riots for the first time yesterday, blaming 'aggressive' ethnic Tibetans and monks for the explosive confrontations while insisting that security forces had exercised 'utmost restraint'.
THE World of Music, Arts & Dance (Womad) festival is taking a two-year break, due in part to financial issues. Organisers say it will return in 2010 at a new venue.
SOME bedrock truths about Tibet get mangled anew as Chinese troops try to bring order to the Himalayan province after a week of street riots. The foremost one is that the Dalai Lama, who really is a stranger to his consecrated land after a half century of exile, seeks independence.
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