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The May 26 news program reported the low-income family could not afford to send their child to hospital for treatment and had never received financial or medical aid from the government or charity organizations.
Recently, UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre released a report called “Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries” in [...]

DUBAI, April 8 (Reuters) - Dubai family owned Al-Futtaim
Group said it will probably end up paying about 1.5 billion
dirhams ($408.5 million) for Singapore department store operator
Robinson %26amp; Co (RBSS.SI: Quote, Profile, Research).
Al-Futtaim may buy as much as 95 percent of Robinson and
delist the firm from the Singapore exchange, James [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 24-year-old Chinese man who died of bird flu in December passed the virus directly to his father in a rare case of human-to-human transmission of the virus, doctors reported on Monday.
Chinese officials had already said they believed the younger man infected [...]

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - A 24-year-old Chinese man who died of bird flu in December passed the virus directly to his father in a rare case of human-to-human transmission of the virus, doctors reported on Monday. Chinese officials had already said they [...]

Over the past 50 years, the London literary world has been split along similar lines. For a reclusive literary ascetic with patrician attitudes and a Miltonic sense of destiny, Naipaul has maintained a consistently high gossip quotient, trading public provocation and personal insults, pursuing and pursued to this day by private vendettas vigorously conducted in [...]

Indonesia’s Vice President Jusuf Kalla has arrived at the hospital treating Suharto and was expected to address a news conference. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is currently in Malaysia.Mr. Suharto, 86, was taken to Jakarta’s Pertamina hospital a week ago suffering from anaemia and low blood pressure due to heart, lung and kidney problems. His health [...]

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By Rob Taylor CANBERRA, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Australian surgeons carried out a further operation on Wednesday on East Timor’s president, who remains seriously ill from triple gunshot wounds suffered in an assassination attempt, a senior doctor said. Rebel soldiers shot Jose Ramos-Horta outside his home in Dili on Monday. [...]

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to set aside an additional 700 billion rupiah ($77 million) to compensate thousands more people whose homes are threatened by a mud volcano in East Java province, a minister said on Wednesday.
Thousands of homes and factories have already been submerged by the hot mud since it [...]

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A $1.5 billion civil suit against former Indonesian President Suharto for graft must now be defended by one of his six children following his death last month, a Jakarta district court said on Tuesday.
Suharto’s family accumulated extensive business interests during the former strongman’s three decades in power, including [...]