2008 COMPUTEX Taipei: Three awards, One target

1 April, 2023

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Monday, June 23, 2008 Taiwan Design Gallery, designed to promote excellent “Made In Taiwan” products.Image: Rico Shen. 2008 COMPUTEX Taipei, the largest trade fair since its inception in 1982, featured several seminars and forums, expansions on show spaces to TWTC Nangang, great transformations for theme pavilions, and WiMAX Taipei Expo, mainly promoted by Taipei Computer […]

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Early morning fire kills four New York group home residents

30 March, 2023

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Sunday, March 22, 2009 Hamilton County, New York. Wells is located in this county. After an early morning fire began, four out of the nine people living at the Riverview Individual Residential Alternative group home located in Wells, New York were killed by the blaze. The Sunmount Developmental Disabilities Services Office, which supervises the home, […]

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China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

29 March, 2023

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 […]

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Category:Science and technology

28 March, 2023

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This is the category for science and technology. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 19 March 2023: Study: floods, droughts more intense in past 20 years due to higher global temperatures 9 March 2023: Netherlands set to further restrict semiconductor technology exports 15 February 2023: Saudi Arabia announces astronaut to be nation’s first […]

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South Australia enters week-long lockdown to contain COVID-19 Delta variant spread

28 March, 2023

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Friday, July 23, 2021 Modbury Hospital, where the first case in South Australia’s COVID-19 cluster presented.Image: User:AussieHero. With five active cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, South Australia begun a one-week lockdown on Monday. Announcing the lockdown, state Premier Steven Marshall declared “we have no alternative but to impose some fairly heavy and immediate […]

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NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet

27 March, 2023

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Sunday, April 24, 2005 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced last Wednesday that it has agreed definitively to merge with Chicago-based Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and form a new publicly traded, for-profit company known as NYSE Group. This announcement was followed two days later by NASDAQ, which independently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Instinet Group. […]

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One dead after motorcycle and car collision in Guernsey, Channel Islands

26 March, 2023

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Map highlighting the location of Guernsey in the Channel Islands with a black circle. A man has died as the result of a collision involving a motorcycle and another car on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. On Monday, at approximately 2130 BST (2030 UTC), 22-year-old Ryan Thomson, who […]

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NRA meets in Houston–Beleaguered Tom DeLay will speak

26 March, 2023

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Saturday, April 16, 2005 When the curtains were drawn and the anthem began, confusion flickered over the faces in the large hall which welcomed the NRA (National Rifle Association) to Houston. It was the sounds of rocker Ted Nugent’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. People didn’t know whether to put their hands over their […]

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