Far East far-fetched?
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Major League Baseball chief operating officer Bob DuPuy said yesterday in Beijing there is "an excellent chance" MLB will stage games in China next spring. But even though Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino is among a group of officials looking at the facilities that will be used at the Olympics next year, chairman Tom Werner said the club has reservations ...
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By Christopher Hirst  With heaven on display at King's Cross and the heavens in Greenwich, London is pretty well stocked with the celestial at present. Let's start our extraterrestrial explorations on the Euston Road, not a milieu customarily thought of as Elysian.
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A maverick prospector plans to scoop gold and silver from the bottom of the sea. Is it an environmental improvement or the beginning of a disaster? Plus: Nautilus Minerals' video calling card and a podcast with writer Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.
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The odds aren't as long as you might think.
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CHONGQING, China  - If you build it, they will come -- except perhaps to China's vast, untapped western frontier.
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How many gilded fairy tales do you want? There was the Magnificent 7 in Atlanta in 1996 and the Fantastic 5 in Anaheim last summer. Was anyone really counting on dethroning the Romanians at an overseas Olympics?
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Wild monkeys and Buddhist shrines outnumber any signs of industry, and rampaging elephants are not uncommon. The closest port lies seven hours away, down a rutted road.
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First, London. Then, Scotland. Is there a concerted conspiracy going on  -  and who might be involved?
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- Strange objects in faraway space known to astronomers only as Giant Galactic Blobs have, upon close inspection, become a lot&nbsp;weirder.
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Australia&#39;s plans to create a maritime surveillance zone reaching into Indonesian waters is an example of its insensitivity to Asia and will bolster the view of Australia
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There's a lot of uncertainty surrounding the Chinese cell-phone powerhouse.
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Asians tend not to be very straightforward. They avoid precise questions and exact answers, even on matters of paramount importance - like money.
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Two local logistics operators last week announced plans to expand their activities in countries further east - moves that come in line with predictions and decisions by other industry players.
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SLINGERLANDS, New York  - Gently extolling the  virtues of "learning and laughter," an elderly upstate New York  man has become a unlikely advice guru in China, a land he's  never even visited.
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Upcoming events around the world.
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MACAU, China -- Glittery Las Vegas-style gambling has arrived in seedy Macau, promising new charms for China's inveterate players, and this former Portuguese colony may never be the same.
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The weather predictions for Asia in 2050 read like a script from a doomsday movie.