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A 24-year-old former drug addict mother who was refused a second liver transplant in Australia has undergone potentially life-saving surgery in Singapore.
Perth woman Claire Murray underwent a 12-hour operation in Singapore last night.
She received part of a liver from her aunt, who is reported to be doing well.
Doctors say it will be 48 hours before [...]

A 25-year-old West Australian woman with a history of drug addiction will undergo a live liver transplant in Singapore tomorrow.
The State Government has loaned Claire Murray’s family $250,000 to pay for the operation.
Ms Murray has already had one liver transplant but it failed last year when she resumed her drug habit.
Her aunt has been found [...]

Immigration officials have detained more illegal workers near Mildura, in north-west Victoria, after swooping on properties yesterday.
Officers visited a caravan park and house at Irymple, detaining 14 people working in agriculture. They were found only five weeks after immigration officials detained 10 other illegal workers in the region.
Ten of those detained yesterday were unlawful non-citizens [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Sep 19 (ANI): Beyonce Knowles is all set to perform in Kuala Lumpur next month, two years after cancelling her Malaysian concert.

Kuala Lumpur is one of her destinations in the ‘I Am…’ world tour which spans North America, Europe and Asia.

The ‘Baby boy’ singer is scheduled to stage her first concert in Malaysia [...]

Guwahati, Sep 5(ANI): With numerous cases of swine flu being detected in different parts of northeast, a local football club in Assam’s Guwahati city has taken up an initiative to create mass awareness about the deadly H1N1 virus through a football [...]

Kathmandu, Sept 4 (ANI): Nepal’s former Crown Prince Paras Shah has refuted the Indian media reports that suggest that he is involved in a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racket.

In a press statement, Paras, who was in Singapore recently, has condemned the reports as’ false and malicious.’ [...]

New Delhi, Sep 2 (ANI/Business Wire India): BMW India announced the opening of the new showroom and workshop facility by Deutsche Motoren in West Delhi.

Located at Shivaji Marg, Moti Nagar, West Delhi, this is the second facility in New Delhi from Deutsche Motoren. The showroom and workshop [...]

Washington, Sept 1 (ANI): Singapore scientists have developed a new ultrasensitive electronic sensor that would speed up DNA testing for disease diagnosis and biological research.

The novel electronic sensor array would be rapid, accurate and cost-efficient.

According to lead researcher Dr Zhiqiang Gao, from Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the Nanogap Sensor Array has [...]

Moscow/Islamabad, Sep.1 (ANI): Investigations into the hijacking of a Russian warship in April by Somali pirates show that Pakistani nationals played an important role in the hijack.

Twelve Pakistanis had been apprehended along with the Somali pirates. Pakistan has so far not launched a probe into the Russian allegations and claimed that 12 men were [...]

New Delhi, Aug. 31 (ANI): Nepali nationals caught by the Madhya Pradesh ATS in connection with fake currency racket have revealed Nepal’s former prince Paras’s link to India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.

Paras is the son of the former Nepal king Gyanendra, who has [...]

Udham Singh Nagar (Uttarakhand), Aug 31 (ANI): Forest authorities here are transplanting trees, which were supposed to be cut in a road-broadening project.

Such an effort has been undertaken in countries like China and Singapore to save forests.

Inspired by their success ratio, forest authorities decided to adopt this in Udham Singh Nagar.

“We are trying [...]

London, Aug 26 (ANI/Business Wire India): Experimentus (www.experimentus.com), the software quality management consulting firm, announced that they have partnered with Edista Testing Institute (www.edistatesting.com), a 100 per cent subsidiary of QAI Global (www.qaiglobal.com) to implement TMMi (Test Maturity Model integrated) all across the Asia Pacific region.

TMMi is the de facto standard that organisations can [...]

Adelaide, August 26 (ANI): A team of international researchers has found that the world’s last remaining “pristine” forest, namely the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries, is under increasing threat.

The researchers were from the University of Adelaide in Australia, Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada and the National University [...]

Indonesia, Aug 24 (ANI/Business Wire India): Pressmart Media Ltd, (www.pressmart.com), a global leader in the digital publishing and delivery solutions, today announced the launch of “Pressmart-Indonesia Print Media Awards (IPMA)” in a bid to recognize the best publishing houses in Indonesia over the calendar year 2009, just after associating with the magazine publishers in Singapore, [...]

Washington, August 21 (ANI): You may soon get to enjoy facilities like flexible high-resolution home theatre displays, wearable health monitors, and biomedical imaging devices because scientists are working on a novel process for creating new classes of lighting and display systems.

John Rogers, the Flory-Founder Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University [...]

Kolkata, Aug 19 (ANI): People in Kolkata are taking precautions against swine flu or H1N1 influenza as the number of cases is on rise in the country.

Residents are wearing facemasks or covering their faces, especially at crowded places like airports, taxi stands and hospitals as a precautionary measure.

“I am wearing this mask as a [...]

MUMBAI: Actress Aishwarya Rai is down with a “chest infection” and “flu like symptoms”, leaving her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan worried.
The 35-year-old actress who was shooting with husband Abhishek Bachchan in Ooty for the upcoming Mani Ratnam film ‘Ravana’ is down with the illness, Bachchan who is in Singapore tending to politician Amar Singh wrote in [...]

New Delhi, July 13 (ANI): Union Minister for Urban Development Jaipal Reddy on Monday refuted accusations that the metro rail mishap was a result of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) pushing to complete the rail project ahead of the Commonwealth Games 2010 deadline. [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Jul 13 (ANI): Pictures of a couple having sex at a park in Singapore are said to be making their rounds on the Internet.

According to the Sin Chew Daily, though no details have been given about the nine pictures, the couple are said to be Singaporeans, reports the Star Online.

In the initial pictures, [...]

New Delhi, July 10 (ANI): The next mini Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention titled “PBD Europe” will be organized at the historic World Forum in The Hague on September 19.

It is being organized in partnership with the Municipality of The Hague and the Embassy of India at The Hague.

The Pravasi Bhartiya Divas [...]