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Breaking News Tue, 16 Mar 2010
Banana - Fruit - Organic
Bananas   Export   Market   Photos   Sarawak
 The Star 
Sarawak set to supply the export market with bananas
Tue 16 Mar 2010
philiphii@thestar.com.my SARAWAK is poised to become the largest banana-producing state in Malaysia. Over the past few years, several players in the state's private sector have been cultivating the... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Malaysia Airlines MD-11 takeoff
Airlines   Malaysia   Photos   Transport   Travel
 The Times of India 
TCS gets Malaysia Airlines contract
Mon 15 Mar 2010
MUMBAI: India’s largest software vendor Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed a five-year contract with Malaysia Airlines, the companies said in a statement. The partnership is the part of... (photo: Creative Commons / contri)
Commodities - wheat grains in packets in a grocery shop, Pune, India  The Guardian  Tue 16 Mar 2010
Russian wheat faces slog to satisfy Asian tastes
* Not easy for Russia to achieve Asian wheat market ambition * Transport hurdles, reluctance for new-origin to slow plans * Moscow threatens U.S., Australian wheat market share * Russia may target... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Asia   Market   Photos   Russia   Wheat
In this photo provided by the Aspen Writers Foundation, author Salman Rushdie talks about writer's block at the Aspen Writer's Foundation on Sunday, June 22, 2008 in Aspen, Co  The Examiner  Tue 16 Mar 2010
Magical realism ascribed to Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’
Albuquerque Contemporary Literature Examiner rates this:... (photo: AP / Aspen Writer's Foundation, Ed Kosmicki)
Author   Celebrity   Entertainment   Photos   Star
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Dry Soil in a farm - Hot Weather - Farming m&c Mon 15 Mar 2010
East, South-East Asia left high and dry this hot season
   Great swaths of South-East and East Asia are suffering from their worst dry-season drought in decades, and the monsoon is still months away. Worse... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Asia   Climate   Drought   Photos   Weather
Pepper Plantation  -  Hot Pepper  -  Food Spices  -  Food Appetizer  -  Crop  -  Man The Star Mon 15 Mar 2010
Malaysia consumption of pepper up 30%
jackwong@thestar.com.my KUCHING: Malaysia's domestic pepper consumption surged by more than 30% to about 6,000 tonnes last year, boosted largely by the increased usage of... (photo: WN / Trigedia)
Business   Food   Malaysia   Photos   Restaurants
Passengers deplaning from an Air Asia plane in KLIA LCCT The Examiner Sun 14 Mar 2010
Review: Air Asia's online booking system has problems: Some American credit cards cannot be used
... (photo: GFDL / Vmenkov)
Air   Asia   Finance   Photos   USA
Carlos Gongora of Ecuador, left, fights Vijender Kumar of India during a men's light middleweight 75 kilogram quarterfinal boxing match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Newstrack India Sun 14 Mar 2010
Vijender Singh beats Malaysia's Mohammad Harun in Commonwealth meet
New Delhi, Mar 14 (ANI): Olympic bronze medalist, boxer Vijender Singh beat Malaysia's rising boxer Mohammad Farhan Harun at the opening of the 5th Commonwealth Boxing... (photo: AP / Rick Bowmer)
Boxing   Delhi   Malaysia   Olympic   Photos
 A worker sprays anti-mosquito gas at a garden next to an apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005. Malaysia and Singapore have introduced tough measures to combat an explosion of dengue fever, fining companies and homeowners who fail The Star Sun 14 Mar 2010
Dengue control plan begins to show sting
PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry's five-year strategic plan to control dengue has begun to show sting. Although the plan was launched less than a year ago, there has been a... (photo: AP/Andy Wong)
Dengue   Disease   Health   Photos   Society
Abu Dhabi , A Public Park in the City The Star Sun 14 Mar 2010
Abu Dhabi wants three million tourists this year
KUALA LUMPUR: Abu Dhabi targets to draw three million tourists this year, 22% of them from Malaysia, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) International Promotions Manager... (photo: Creative Commons / LoverOfDubai)
Business   Industry   Malaysia   Photos   Tourism


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