Seoul trains N Korea ‘intellectual troops’
Saturday, June 25th, 2011South Korea trains defectors to rebuild North in the event of regime's collapse.
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Seoul trains N Korea 'intellectual troops'
Hornby opens archive to visitors
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Model-maker Hornby is opening its doors to the public with a visitor centre that will contain nearly a century of toys and models.
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Just adrenalin? (BBC News)
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Skiing, diving, caving - how do they win a war?
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Dreaming bricks (BBC News)
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Stunning models built by adult Lego fans
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Tech Know: The dreams that bricks are made of (BBC News)
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Lego is not just for children, many adult fans of the bricks are using them to produce stunning models.
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Tech Know: The dreams that bricks are made of (BBC News)
Top Gear star swaps cars for trains in world record bid (BBC News)
Monday, August 24th, 2009Top Gear presenter James May and hundreds of volunteers are attempting to build the world's longest model railway in Devon.
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US blogs on NHS (BBC News)
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009How the UK health service is the focus of US debate
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Art-lovers despair as lights go out for Vegas museum (AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Friday, April 17th, 2009Museums dedicated to neon, Liberace and pinball machines remain, but Las Vegas's more high-brow cultural scene has achieved a new nadir.
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Siemens wins Chinese train contract (AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Friday, March 20th, 2009The German group Siemens said Friday it had won another Chinese contract for 100 high-speed trains worth 750 million euros (one billion dollars).
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Japan auto sales plunge as young lose interest (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008To get around the city, Yutaka Makino hops on his skateboard or rides commuter trains. Does he dream of the day when he has his own car? Not a chance. Like many Japanese of his generation, the 28-year-old musician and part-time maintenance worker says owning a car is more trouble than it's worth, especially in a congested city where monthly parking runs as much as 30,000 yen ($330), ...
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