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| Free rear seat belts for locally-made cars | | 2008-06-02 04:20:00 | | malaysianinsider - [...] The government and local car manufacturers have struck a deal to provide and install rear seat belts for free to locally-made cars soon.Transport Minister Datuk Ong Tee Keat said an agreement had been worked out and that a memorandum of understanding between the government and manufacturers is expected to be inked in the next few days."We have deliberated this | | By: No2umnO | | |
| | February, the calendar's shortest month, was hardly devoid of interesting news locally | | 2008-05-13 06:00:00 | | IT MAY HAVE ONLY BEEN 29 days this year, but February certainly saw its share of hard-hitting news that you've come to expect from The Hudson Line. Here's a look back.Like many Mets' fans, we were introduced to perhaps the best pitcher in all of baseball in a Mets uniform, Johan Santana, in early February. Santana is the best pitcher to wear a Mets jersey since Dwight Gooden, who last pitched for the Metsies in 1994.Thus far, Santana has pitched to a 4-2 record, and could easily be 6-2 were it not for a few rough bullpen outings.February was home to Super Tuesday, and New Jersey participated in the day for the first time ever. Normally, Jerseyans voted in presidential primaries in June.Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each won numerous states, with Clinton taking Jersey by a sizable margin. On the GOP side, John McCain emerged as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.Here, residents came out in droves, leading to the most votes cast in a Presidential Primary since 1940, accord | | By: The Hudson Line Blog | | |
| | Locally-made laptops flutter | | 2008-05-09 05:05:00 | | Vietnamese producers hoped to have no international rivals for their low-cost laptops but their dream hasn’t become true.
There is fierce competition among big names like HP, Acer, Dell and Toshiba in the market segment for laptop models of $500-600/unit so locally-assembled laptops can’t compete in terms of price.
In August 2005 when GCC, the distributor of Seagate hard disk drives in Vietnam, | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| View Google Maps Locally With Maps Offline 0.1 | | 2008-04-13 13:13:14 | | Once in a while an app comes along that is so incredibly useful that just about everybody should have it. This is one of those apps.
Created by a 16-year-old coder who calls himself Nambrot, Maps Offline is a Javescript-based app (Jiggy Runtime required) capable of grabbing whatever is currently in your Google Maps cache and [...] | | By: Touch Podium | | |
| | Living Locally | | 2007-05-10 01:15:49 | | Did you know that food products in most American homes have travelled an average of 1500 miles to get there?
Did you know that 17% of energy use in the U.S. is directly related to food production, processing, and transportation?
Did you know that if every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week of locally grown and produced foodstuffs, we would save 1.1 million barrels of oil every week?
Did you know that it takes an average of 127 calories to process, package, and ship 1 calorie’s worth of lettuce from the farm to your grocery store?
These are things that Cliff and I are spending more and more time thinking about. We’re worried about the environment. We’re worried about our kids. We’re worried about out waistlines!
This is the first year we’ve been able to put in a garden, and while it’s slow-going at the moment, we hope to reap a nice little crop of home-grown veggies this summer and fall. Until our plot starts producing, and to supplement (cuz w | | By: Smoochmonkey | | |
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