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Brunei Hosts Meeting To Enhance Education Ties With Singapore (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan – Brunei Darussalam hosted the 2nd Joint Working Group Meeting between the ministries of education of Brunei Darussalam and Singapore yesterday. The talks took place at the Ministry of Education building in Berakas.

Brunei Needs Fresh Ideas For Entrepreneurial Minds (BruDirect.com)
Brunei-Muara – Brunei may be in the league of the richest nations in the region and Asia but its economy is not growing as fast as it should, said a Universiti Brunei Darussalam senior lecturer yesterday.

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Bahrain, Brunei sign pacts (MENAFN)
Bahrain, Brunei sign pacts

Bahrain signs economic agreements with Brunei (MENAFN)
Bahrain signs economic agreements with Brunei

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In Europe, Microsoft Again Faces Inquiries (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Europe s antitrust regulator has opened two new investigations into claims that Microsoft has abused its dominant market position.

Chertoff 'worried' over terror from Europe (UPI)
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said he is "increasingly worried" over terrorist threats to the United States originating from Europe.

Chertoff says Europe poses terrorism threat (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Wednesday that one of the biggest threats to U.S. security may now come from within Europe.

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MAN AG Expects `High' Order Backlog in 2008 on Eastern Europe (Bloomberg.com)
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — MAN AG, Europe's third-largest truckmaker, expects a “high'' order backlog this year amid rising demand in eastern Europe.

U.S. says Europe poses terrorism threat (Reuters.co.uk)
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Wednesday that one of the biggest threats to U.S. security may now come from within Europe.

CAF president warns Europe – the Cup's not for moving (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Hopes harboured by clubs in Europe that the African Nations Cup could be moved from its traditional January slot to suit their league calendars were firmly dashed on Tuesday.

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U.S. warns of 'serious concerns' about Philippine air safety (USA Today)
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has downgraded Philippine airline operations and put them under heightened scrutiny because of their inadequate safety standards, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday.

UPDATE: 5 Arrested Over Alleged Philippine Plot: Police -AFP (Nasdaq)
MANILA (AFP)–A soldier and four dismissed colleagues have been arrested over alleged plots to undermine the Philippine government, their lawyers and police said Wednesday.

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Philippine Senator Wants Probe Of Aviation Safety Downgrade (Nasdaq)
MANILA -(Dow Jones)- A Philippine senator on Wednesday called for a congressional investigation into the reasons that the country failed an aviation safety assessment by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-01-16 07:59 GMT: Philippine government's end-October debt down 3 percent (Interactive Investor)
MANILA (Thomson Financial) – The Philippine government's outstanding debt shrank 3 percent to 3.798 trillion pesos at the end of October from a year earlier, with a strong peso helping trim its foreign obligations, data showed on Wednesday.

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Singapore and Japan s Kagoshima prefecture to boost cooperation (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News)
SINGAPORE : Onsen (hot spring) and spa services in Japan s Kagoshima prefecture: these are among several initiatives discussed at the biennial Singapore Kagoshima conference.

SOXAL Develops Key Hydrogen Business In Singapore (ThomasNet)
Singapore is the world third-largest center of oil refining and, in the frame of Kyoto Protocol, has committed itself to contributing to the environment. Singapore Oxygen Air Liquide Pte Ltd (SOXAL), a fully owned subsidiary of Air Liquide, has signed a long term contract to supply hydrogen to Neste Oil's Renewable Diesel plant in Singapore. In order to meet Neste Oil's industrial gas …

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Singapore and Japan s Kagoshima prefecture to boost cooperation (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Singapore News)
SINGAPORE : Onsen (hot spring) and spa services in Japan s Kagoshima prefecture: these are among several initiatives discussed at the biennial Singapore Kagoshima conference.

Singapore's DBS to announce new CEO in Feb-sources (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
SINGAPORE, Jan 16 – Singapore's DBS Group will name its new chief executive next month, banking sources told Reuters, four months after its former CEO Jackson Tai announced his resignation.

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'Mommy cards' the new parenting trend (The Lincoln-Way Sun)
Despite their name, play dates can go from a well-intentioned gathering to a battle of the bossy faster than a 6-year-old can pull her bunny-ear shoelaces around the bend and over the hill.

Stress less: Parenting II (Norwalk Advocate)
Thanks for returning for Part II of this parenting series. In Part I, I discussed how you can keep the parenting train on track when dealing with young children. Now we're getting into the really tough stuff: the teen years. Books, movies and TV bombard us with stories about wayward teens. Developmentally, teenagers are experiencing the need to separate from us, and are beginning to establish …

Parenting TV shows 'may harm children' (Daily Telegraph)
The NSPCC is to set up a new body to protect children who appear on reality television shows because it is worried about "irresponsible" parenting programmes.

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Texas schools to teach children about parenting, paternity (USA Today)
High schools in Texas are adding a new topic to their curricula: Parenting skills. The Houston Chronicle says health teachers in the Lone Star State will be required to give students formal parenting advice in the coming school year. Officials…

Branson district offers parenting classes beginning Feb. 5 (The Springfield News-Leader)
The Branson School District will hold a spring series of Love and Logic parenting classes. The six-session workshop begins Feb. 5 and will be held in the Primary Gymnasium. The sessions are designed to help parents with the most important and difficult job they have being a parent and teaching responsibility to their children. All workshops are free of charge and open to all district parents, …

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Crucell refutes Cevec claim that PER.C6 patent restricted by EU Patent
Forbes – In 2006, Crucell settled a patent-infringement lawsuit concerning its PER.C6 cell line technology against Cevec. The ruling at that time meant that Cevec was forbidden from making use of any parts of the PER.C6 technology. Mike Croall; mike.croall

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Universal Detection Technology Received Purchase Order for
MSN MoneyCentral – Universal Detection Technology ( www.udetection.com ) (OTCBB: UDTT) (FRANKFURT: PO8), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism

Monkey's thoughts propel robot, a step that may help humans
International Herald Tribune – Richard Andersen, an expert on such systems at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who was not involved in the experiment, said that it was"an important advance to achieve locomotion with a brain machine interface."Another expert

Next Inning Technology Announces Investment Opinion: Publishes
MSN MoneyCentral – Next Inning Technology Research (http://www.nextinning.com), a subscription service focused on semiconductor and technology stocks, announced it has updated outlooks for Zoran ZRAN , National Semiconductor NSM , O2Micro International OIIM , Power

eFoodSafety Introduces Patented Nano-Encapsulation Technology to Its
Forbes – eFoodSafety.com, Inc. (OTCBB:EFSF, http://www.efoodsafety.com) has developed a novel patented technology that has the ability to nano-encapsulate active ingredients in nutraceutical and cosmeceutical products and utilizes a unique food grade compound

EFI Inks Licensing Agreement for Paid Inc.'s Patented Online Shipping
MSN MoneyCentral – EFI, the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, and Paid, Inc. PAYD announced today that the two companies have signed a license agreement that enables EFI to integrate Paid's real-time online shipping calculation technology

Technology Professional Services Grows Up
Forbes – LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio, and HILLSBOROUGH, Calif., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Effective pricing and discounting strategies are one of the key reasons why some technology professional service organizations succeed and others fail. According to the"The

Divx signs video technology licensing agreement with Advanced Micro
CNBC – SAN DIEGO – Video technology company Divx Inc. said Wednesday it signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD will use Divx video technology with AMD processors to power digital TVs. Divx said the two companies hope to

Tele2 Uses Software AG Technology to Reduce Costs and Streamline
Forbes – Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced that Tele2 has chosen the webMethods product suite to reduce costs and improve customer service. Tele2 has implemented the webMethods product suite from Software AG to

Marvell Technology Group lowering CEO, technology chief's salaries to
CNBC – NEW YORK – Marvell Technology Group Ltd., which makes integrated circuits, said Wednesday it will slash Chief Executive Sehat Sutardja and Chief Technology Officer Pantas Sutardja's annual salaries to $1 each at their request. CEO Sutardja's prior

Ready to wear technology
Reuters UK – Jan. 15 – Electronics company, Philips, are designing clothing and body adornment which incorporate technology. Dresses that blush and tattoos that change shape when skin is touched are all part of a Design probes project set up by Dutch based

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Jobs Announces Updates to iPhone and iPod (Tom's Hardware Guide)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced major software updates for its iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Skyhook Wireless Technology Used in Revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOSTON—-Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System , today announced Apple is using its technology for the new Wi-Fi location positioning feature in its Maps application on both iPhone and iPod touch.

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Gear Gallery: Hot Gaming Laptop, Wi-Fi SD Card, Dell-ectable Display (Addict 3D)
Browse this week's Wired News gadget reviews for Gateway's new laptop, a Wi-Fi SD card, a toaster oven that can roast a chicken and more of the latest tech.

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New gadgets can help transform kitchen, cooking (Macon Telegraph)
No matter how many gadgets or tools we have in our kitchen, there are always more – so many more that if we added them all to our kitchens, we'd have to rent space to actually do a little cooking.

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