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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Your daily e-mail from the BBC

Wednesday, 05 August, 2009, 19:00 GMT 24:00 +05:00:Asia/Karachi



ASIA-PACIFIC
Freed US reporters welcomed home
Two US reporters freed from months of detention in North Korea are reunited with their families in Los Angeles.
Commandos tackle S Korea strikers
S Korean police commandos drop from helicopters to try to end a factory sit-in by sacked workers demanding to keep their jobs.
China to roll out rural pensions
Chinese authorities say they are extending a scheme to provide a pension for hundreds of millions of rural workers.
TECHNOLOGY
Rehab staff 'killed web addict'
A Chinese teenager sent to an internet addiction rehabilitation camp has allegedly been beaten to death, according to reports.
US struggling to find cyber-tsar
The Obama administration has come under fire for dragging its feet in its search for a head of cyber security.
Google buys video technology firm
Google announces a deal to buy video compression company On2 Technologies to improve video quality on the web.
DON'T MISS
MI6: A Century in the Shadows
BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera explores MI6's role during the Cold War. Listen online now

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