Guan Gong on a motorbike?

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Learning while shopping

BAHAU (Negeri Sembilan): An English teacher of a tutorial centre recently brought her students out of their classroom to learn kitchen appliance terms in a shop.


'Uni' study probes why 'Aussies' shorten words

SYDNEY, Thursday 22 July 2010 (AFP) - An Aussie university is probing one of the most prominent features of Australian life: the national habit of shortening words.


Malaysian woman, 108, back with 38-year-old hubby

KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday 17 July 2010 (AFP) - A 108-year-old Malaysian woman has reunited with her husband, a man 70 years her junior, after a year-long separation as he completed drug treatment.


Indian police look to pyramid power to cut road accidents

MUMBAI, Tuesday 13 July 2010 (AFP) - They have been credited with supernatural or paranormal properties since the days of ancient Egypt. Now the putative power of pyramids is to be harnessed by Indian police to cut road accidents.


No sex please, we're astronauts: NASA commander

TOKYO, Monday 28 June 2010 (AFP) - There is no room for romance on board the cosy confines of the International Space Station, a NASA space shuttle commander said Monday when asked what would happen if astronauts had sex in space.


Bulgarians seal thoughts on the future in time capsule

SOFIA, Thursday 24 June 2010 (AFP) - Hundreds of Bulgarians have shared their views on what life will be like in 50 years' time and sealed them in a time capsule to be reopened on June 23, 2060, the national library hosting the project said Thursday.


Death is no escape from the Internet in Hong Kong

HONG KONG, Thursday 10 June 2010 (AFP) - Even Hong Kong's dead cannot escape the Internet after the government Thursday opened the electronic gates on a brand new virtual graveyard.


China farmer uses cannon to fight eviction

BEIJING, Wednesday 9 June 2010 (AFP) - A farmer in central China has turned his home into a fort equipped with a homemade cannon and fireworks to fight off government eviction in an ongoing land dispute, state media said Wednesday.


Beach 'creamers' to pamper French tourists

LES SABLES D'OLONNE, Tuesday 8 June 2010 (AFP) - Perched in a beach hut on the Atlantic shore and paid to dole out suntan lotion and the odd body rub, two French students on Tuesday clinched what was billed as the ultimate summer job.


Internet addicts stage uprising at China boot camp

BEIJING, Tuesday 8 June 2010 (AFP) - A group of young Chinese web addicts staged a mutiny at an Internet "boot camp", tying up their instructor and fleeing the facility over its tough military-like techniques, state media said Tuesday.


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