If you think you can save the most money by buying cars from second bank car garage sales, think again. There are a lot of available ways to buy cheap cars that are still in relatively good condition. Today, there are a lot of web sites which could give you the most affordable and lowest prices of automobiles, some of them are almost new and some car models which you could even buy at to price off compared to its current market price. What we are talking about are those cheap repo and seized cars for sale. What are…

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Two car-bomb blasts killed at least 16 people in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, evidence militants still have power to strike despite the death of a top Talibancommander last month.A suicide bomber sitting in an explosives-laden car threw a hand-grenade toward a crowd of people in the main northwestern city of Peshawar before detonating about 100 kg of explosives in the vehicle.”Ten people have been killed and 71 wounded, five of them critically,” Sahibzada Anis, the top government administrator of the city told Reuters.The attack took place in the carpark of a commercial building close to a…

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South Koreans will soon join the millions of others worldwide as its government on Wednesday approved the sale of the iPhone there.(Credit: Apple)For years, the Korea Communications Commission used technical rules to stifle competition, allowing homegrown companies like Samsung and LG to take over the market, according to a Wall Street Journal report.With an estimated 93 percent of South Korea’s population subscribing to a mobile service, Apple should be able to overcome one of the biggest barriers to smartphone success in South Korea–applications. Apple has been able to entice developers worldwide to build apps for the iPhone, with 75,000 apps…

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Wellington, Sept 22 NZPA – Changes that would have seen students paying off their student loan in their holidays have been scrapped. Currently people with student loans have to make repayments if they earn over $19,084 a year. The changes would have switched the threshold to weekly, fortnightly or monthly, in line with an individual’s pay period. The total yearly threshold will remain unchanged, however students who work full time during the holidays may have found themselves over the $367 weekly threshold and having to make payments while they save for the year ahead. Revenue Minister Peter Dunne said the…

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A project presented by mining firm Minera de los Andes y el Pacífico (Mapsa) to build a specialized mineral terminal in San Juan de Marcona port in Peru’s Ica region has been approved by the national port authority (APN), government news agency Andina reported. The total US$2.2bn budget also includes the construction of a rail line from Andahuaylas in Apurímac region to the port where the mining firm can export minerals. Mapsa has around 330,000ha of iron ore properties in Apurímac. The company will spend US$450mn to improve the port area, APN president Frank Boyle said. While investments will start…

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Dili’s gleaming new Presidential Palace and Foreign Ministry, gifts from China, stand in stark contrast to nearby burnt-out buildings and are symbols of how the energy-hungry superpower is growing closer to tiny, oil-rich East Timor.In the 10 years since the independence vote that led to a split from Indonesia, China has spent more than $53 million in aid to East Timor, also known as Timor Leste.While that is just a fraction of the $760 million in Australian government aid, China has raised its profile in dusty Dili in several other ways.It is building big and showing generosity such as its…

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The government has asked mobile operators to comply with national security norms by not carrying calls from fake mobile equipment identification numbers (IMEI) embedded handsets latest by November 30.As cases of false and no IMEI number embeded handsets pile up, an worried Department of Telecom in a directive has asked all mobile operators to reject calls coming from those handsets with IMEI numbers which are not on the database of the Global Systems for Mobile Communications Association.The GSMA maintains a worldwide database of genuine IMEI numbers. This is activated and updated every 15 days in the Equipment Indentity Register of…

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IBM and the Indian School of Business (ISB) on Monday said they have established a research “collaboratory” at the ISB campus for furthering research in service science. IBM and ISB have been working closely on service science research for last few years. This collaboratory marks the beginning of a new phase of an expanded relationship between the two organisations. An IBM collaboratory is a laboratory where IBM researchers co-locate with a university, the government, or commercial partner to share skills, assets, and resources to achieve a common research goal. The new collaboratory will initially have a team of 10 full-time…

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