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The Appellate Division on Thursday cleared the way for the trial court to continue the proceedings of an extortion case against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, filed by businessman Azam J Chowdhury.

In a verdict, the appeals court overturned an order by the High Court that had scrapped the case. The government had appealed the HC verdict.

REUTERS, JAKARTA -- Microsoft has no plans to make another approach for Yahoo Inc after it pulled its $47.5 billion bid earlier this month, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie said on Thursday.

"The market may wish that the Yahoo deal may come back together, but Microsoft at least at this point assumes it's over," Mundie told Reuters in an interview in the Indonesian capital.

"We know what we thought it's economic limits were and that didn't come together, so we've moved on and we will go back and implement plan B that we've been on in any case," he added, referring to the company's online strategy.

REUTERS, Beijing - A prominent Chinese doctor said China's deadly hand, foot and mouth outbreak will not become another epidemic on the scale of the SARS virus, even as the numbers of reported cases mounted on Wednesday.

Hand, foot and mouth is a common childhood illness, but the current outbreak has led to some 27 fatalities, mostly when linked with enterovirus 71 (EV71), which can cause a severe form of the disease, characterized by high fever, paralysis and meningitis.