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         <description>Wolters Kluwer Law &amp; Business announced today that it has acquired ftwilliam.com, a software as a service (SaaS) company providing third-party administrators (TPAs) and other retirement plan professionals integrated workflow solutions to automate</description>
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         <title>[16/03 06:41] S. Korea, Germany to launch maritime cooperation talks</title>
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         <title>US Homeland Security staffer flees S.Korea amid fraud probe</title>
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         <description>(AFP) - A US Department of Homeland Security official who fled his post in South Korea is wanted in California in connection with a 240,000-dollar wire fraud, according to a statement seen Monday. Dario Tomas, 51, was charged on Friday by a federal</description>
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         <title>United Nations To Hold Haiti Donor Meeting</title>
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         <description>A conference this month of those donating to Haiti's recovery will highlight the United Nations' effort toward donor solidarity, the organization says. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the March 31 international donors conference at U.N.</description>
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         <description>MODERATOR: I turn it over to you, Mr. Secretary. SEC. DONOVAN: Thank you. Thank you all for joining us today. As the head of the U.S. delegation to the World Urban Forum next week, I'm honored to join with the State Department and the White House Of</description>
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         <title>Lieberman to Ban: Israel seeks more objectivity from international communit</title>
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         <description>Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon overnight Monday and told him Israel expects a more objective and constructive approach from the international community. Ban is expected to meet with U.S.</description>
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         <description>ZERI AMBASSADOR MEETS NEWLY APPOINTED UKRAINIAN FMBaku, 16 March (AzerTAc). Azerbaijan Ambassador to Ukraine Talat Aliyev met with this country's newly appointed foreign minister Konstantin Grishenko. The sides praised dynamic development of</description>
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         <description>First person While attending a NASPA conference in Chicago recently, I found myself mesmerized as I listened to a chorus ranging from disappointment to downright hostility with President Barack Obamas leadership, or lack of it, during informal</description>
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         <description>March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Most Asian stocks rose, led by finance and consumer companies, amid speculation the Bank of Japan will take more steps to ease deflation in the worlds second-largest economy. Sony Financial Holdings Inc. surged 14 percent in T</description>
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         <description>European shares bounced back on Tuesday after slipping in the previous session, with financials advancing ahead of the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the session. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of top shares w</description>
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         <description>By , Colin Ng &amp; Leslie Shaffer HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian shares ended mixed on Tuesday ahead of crucial policy meetings this week at the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. Japanese exporter stocks retreated after a series of strong</description>
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         <description>TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares struggled to keep modest gains on Tuesday and the dollar gave ground as investors trimmed long positions ahead of a Federal Reserve policy meeting expected to repeat a pledge to keep rates low for a long time. In Europe</description>
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         <description>HONG KONG -- Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday as investors held back ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest assessment of the world's largest economy. European stocks gained in early trade. It marked Asia's third consecutive day of mediocre</description>
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         <description>The dollar was steady against the euro on Tuesday, hamstrung ahead of U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan policy meetings. The Federal Open Market Committee holds a one-day meeting on Tuesday where it is expected to reiterate its vow to keep inte</description>
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         <description>LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Royal Dutch Shell  , in its annual report, said proved oil and gas reserves rose to 14.13 billion barrels of oil equivalent from 10.9 billion in 2008. Shell said the 2009 volumes were established under new SEC rules on oil and</description>
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         <description>BRUSSELS -- European countries' pledge to help Greece with loans received a lukewarm welcome from markets on Tuesday as investors remained worried that the form and timing of the aid remains unclear. Stock markets rose but the euro traded in a narrow</description>
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         <description>MADRID (MarketWatch) -- Europe stocks opened higher with markets awaiting euro zone inflation and the German ZEW survey of investor confidence, along with a decision on interest rates from the Federal Reserve later. The Stoxx 600 was up 0.4% to 257.7</description>
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         <description>WASHINGTON -- Debate is heating up within the Federal Reserve over how and when to signal that the days of record-low interest rates are numbered. A rate hike isn't imminent. But at their meeting Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his</description>
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         <description>TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar fell against the yen and cut gains versus the euro on Tuesday with some traders trimming dollar long positions ahead of a Federal Reserve policy-setting meeting. The yen gained broadly after investors found no new reason</description>
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         <description>By , Colin Ng &amp; Leslie Shaffer HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian shares ended mixed on Tuesday ahead of crucial policy meetings this week at the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. Japanese exporter stocks retreated after a series of strong</description>
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         <description>But it already has a name - the European Monetary Fund (EMF). Actually, it is probably better not press the analogy too far. The prospective parents do want it, but they would be much happier if they did not need it. So if this 'baby' does see the li</description>
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         <description>Privately held Dutch insurer Eureko is switching it attention to Turkey as its next big growth market after pulling out of Poland, and said it may sell some of its weaker international operations. Eureko, partly owned by cooperative bank Rabobank, is</description>
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         <description>The world's shortest man, China's He Pingping has died at the age of 21 from apparent heart complications, the book said. Mr He suffered a form of primordial dwarfism and was just over 74cm (29 inches) tall. He was recognised as a world-record holder</description>
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         <description>European Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn and Euro Group President Jean-Claude Juncker at a news conference in Brussels on Monday Euro zone finance ministers on Monday evening pledged to help Greece should it become necessary. But they decline</description>
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         <description>Euro-zone finance ministers sealed agreement on a strategy to mobilize aid to financially beleaguered Greece - but only if absolutely necessary. Officials did not give full details of the deal, which would only be put into effect if European Union</description>
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         <description>Germany has played their part in the history of Wembley Stadium, most notably England's 4-2 victory over West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final. But a new ry has found that when the stadium was selected to host the Olympic Games in 1948, German PoW</description>
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         <description>Public sector told 'change working or run out of money' Welsh public services are facing cuts that will cause 'considerable pain', according to a report. The Auditor General for Wales Gillian Body said the NHS, councils and the police may need to cut</description>
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         <description>Car sales rose 3 per cent across the European Union in February, carmakers' association ACEA said, a smaller increase than in previous months as the effects of government subsidies started to peter out. Government incentives introduced to help strugg</description>
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         <description>French Connection sees its annual losses narrow Struggling fashion retailer French Connection is selling its Nicole Farhi subsidiary as it reported that its annual loss had narrowed. The company is also closing loss-making stores across the US. The</description>
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         <description>Zahid Hussain in Islamabad Sahil Saeed, the five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped from his family's home in Pakistan has been freed. Sahil, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was taken at gunpoint from his grandmother's house earlier this month a</description>
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         <description>Justice John Paul Stevens, 89, Leader of the Court's Liberals, says He'll Leave Within 3 Years</description>
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         <description>East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta says Indonesia still needs to apologise over its brutal occupation of the half-island even if relations between the neighbours have improved.'The only thing still missing is an apology... by those who were</description>
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         <description>Toyota has responded to the latest developments in last week's runaway Prius investigation in San Diego. Federal inspectors say they can't duplicate the acceleration problem the driver reported after his car raced down the freeway at more than 90 mil</description>
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         <description>Georgia, Tbilisi, March 16 / Trend News, N. Kirtskhalia / Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze paid a working visit to Japan March 10-13. During the visit he met with Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Yasutoshi Nishimura March 10,</description>
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         <description>DOHA, Qatar --Surging demand for shark fin soup among Asia's booming middle classes is driving many species of these big fish to the brink of extinction, a marine conservation group said Tuesday. Oceana, in a report released Tuesday at a U.N. endange</description>
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         <description>Celebrity actress Zhang Ziyi admits she lacked experience in handling charity donations during an exclusive interview with China Daily over the weekend in an undisclosed place in Liaoning province where she was shooting a movie.[Niall Phelan/For Chin</description>
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         <description>NEW YORK ' New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday. Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, said 'it</description>
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         <description>Japanese banks plan to introduce a mechanism in April to share data about antisocial forces such as companies linked to crime syndicates to help prevent such forces from raising funds, industry sources said Tuesday. Although banks have so far separat</description>
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         <description>(March 16, 2010) Singapore, Mar 16, 2010 - (ACN Newswire) - The rapid growth of the new media landscape, with its explosion of delivery fronts on the latest consumer technology, has opened limitless market opportunities in content production and</description>
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         <description>Supporters of Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister, in Bangkok Tuesday. BANGKOK - The Thai Parliament postponed a scheduled session Tuesday as protesters continued to occupy the streets of the main government district in Bangkok. But there w</description>
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         <description>A booming black market in African ivory linked to Asian crime syndicates may scupper efforts by Zambia and Tanzania to hold a one-off sale of tusks, experts and delegates at a UN wildlife trade meeting say. At its last gathering in 2007, the UN-backe</description>
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         <description>TOKYO, March 16 (KUNA) -- Japan's Finance Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday that the government will take appropriate measures if foreign exchange rates move abnormally, saying stable currency moves are desirable. Kan also said during a parliamentary</description>
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         <description>Thumbnail: Following an extensive network security review at the National Open University (NOU) of Taiwan, Datacraft was commissioned to implement a high performance security solution for the university. The Datacraft solution is customixed to the ca</description>
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         <description>SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea will offer gamers and other Internet addicts free software from next year to limit the time they spend on the web, the prime minister's office said on Tuesday. The government, which estimates the highly wired nation has abou</description>
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         <description>-- Ford Motor Company and SAE International are joining forces to provide a series of Ford's online training courses to automotive engineers worldwide. Ford has licensed SAE International's Professional Development unit to offer six popular online</description>
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         <description>Photo: AFP AFP/File South Korea will offer gamers and other Internet addicts free software from next year to limit the time they spend on the web, the prime minister's office said on Tuesday. The government, which estimates the highly wired nation ha</description>
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         <description>We all know about the 'matured market' of the west; they'd say  - do your startup here - this is where all the action is - this where money is - scaling is an issue in Asia and bla bla bla. No doubt, all this is very true but then its kind</description>
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         <title>Thai Protestors Prepare for Bloody Demo      (Time.com)</title>
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         <description>By ROBERT HORN / BANGKOK Robert Horn / Bangkok  - 1 hr 16 mins ago At noon, hundreds of protesters, known as the Red Shirts for the color they wear, were lining up at makeshift medical tents to donate 10 cc of blood each to be pooled and spilled</description>
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         <description>ELAINE EDWARDS It may never replace the rousing roar of ?sinne fianna fáil? at an All-Ireland hurling final, but Ireland has a new ?national anthem? that captures the modern mood in a way Amhrán na bhFiann doesn?t quite manage. An ?alternanthem?</description>
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         <description>(PRWeb.com via COMTEX) ----Tulane University's Freeman School of Business, the only nationally ranked business school in the Gulf South, announced today that it now recognizes Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) (http://www.pearsonpte.com</description>
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         <description>Wolters Kluwer Law &amp; Business announced today that it has acquired ftwilliam.com, a software as a service (SaaS) company providing third-party administrators (TPAs) and other retirement plan professionals integrated workflow solutions to automate</description>
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         <description>Wolters Kluwer Law &amp; Business announced today that it has acquired ftwilliam.com, a software as a service (SaaS) company providing third-party administrators (TPAs) and other retirement plan professionals integrated workflow solutions to automate</description>
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         <description>Hughes 9350 BGAN terminals are being used by National Police Agency of Japan GERMANTOWN, Md., March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, today announced tha</description>
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         <description>Company: China Now Inc (CINW) Berlin-based 88tc88 (http://88tc88.com/) launches today at the prestigious SXSW Interactive Conference (http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/7682) in Austin, Texas. The company will introduce an unprecedented and truly</description>
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         <description>CEBU, Philippines (AFP) - - From the moment teenager Egan Torrecampo and his fellow prisoners step out of their crowded cells, the maximum-security Philippine jailhouse rocks. Dressed in tangerine jump suits, the roughly 1,500 convicted murderers,</description>
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         <description>As a responsible corporate citizen performing its corporate and social obligations at the highest level, IndiaMART.com, the country's largest online B2B marketplace, is supporting the 'Meri Delhi Meri Yamuna' (MDMY) initiative - the largest public</description>
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