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Subsidised medicines to be available to Chinese
August 22, 2009Original source: The Chinese government has issued a list of more than 300 commonly used drugs that will be sold at controlled prices from next month as part of reforms aimed at making health care more...
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Kim Dae-jung mourned as Korea peacemaker
August 21, 2009Kim Dae-jung, the first South Korean president to meet with North Korea's leaders, is being mourned as a peacemaker. Kim died Aug. 18 at the age of 85. “I was saddened at the passing of former...
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WORLDNOTES: Spain, Japan, Pakistan, Venezuela, Niger, Cuba
August 19, 2009Spain: ‘The future in flames’:Such was the title of a recently-released Greenpeace report attributing “a new generation of fires with unknown social and economic consequences” to climate change (greenpeace.org espana). High temperatures and strong winds spread...
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British National Health ervice – The Truth!
August 19, 2009Opponents to President Obama’s healthcare reform plan have circulated a number of serious lies and gross distortions about the UK’s National Health Service to defend their own interests and scupper plans that will help the 47...
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Facebook to compete with Google?
August 18, 2009The most used social network by worldwide monthly active users Facebook.com may become the next super computer operating system for communications, according to news reports on Monday.
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