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UN concerned over North Korea missile test
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles. He urged North Korea to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers. Mr Ban, who spoke to Russian state news agency RIA Novosti during a visit to Moscow, called North Korea's launch of three short-range missiles from its east coast yesterday a ...
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Support rate for Japans Abe down to 70.9 pct
Support rate for the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has edged down almost 2 percent to 70.9 percent, compared with 72.1 percent in the previous poll last month, according to a Kyodo News survey showed on Sunday.It was the fourth time that the Cabinet approval rating has surpassed 70 percent in the monthly surveys since Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) took power in ...
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Analysis of DPRKs missile launch
Although the DPRK has not launched the mid-range Musudan missile, which was believed to be capable of reaching Guam, the three short-range guided missiles still shocked many. As the tension in the Korean peninsula has eased recently, the timing of the DPRK's launch provoked heated discussion. One South Korean national defense expert said the DPRK was staging a low-level protest against the ...
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Belgium probes into counterfeit euros originating in China
Belgian authorities have launched an investigation after the seizure of tons of fake euro coins which came from China. Customs at Brussels airport have been confiscating the counterfeit coins over the past few months. Germany’s Bundesbank mistakenly accepted fake money from China worth six million euros in ...
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China investigates N Korea boat hijack
CHINESE authorities are investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official says. Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters around 70 kilometres from North Korea's western coast, reports and the boat's owner Yu ...
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North Korea missiles provocative South
SOUTH Korea has condemned North Korea's latest short-range missile launches as "provocative" and again urged it to hold talks about a suspended jointly-run industrial park. The North on Saturday launched three short-range guided missiles off its east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a time when cross-border relations remain icy after months of simmering tension. The ...
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Cooper overlooked for Australia
Code-hopper Israel Folau was one of three uncapped players named in Australia's preliminary 25-man squad to face the British and Irish Lions, with in-form Reds playmaker Quade Cooper the most notable omission. Folau's selection caps a remarkable rise for the former rugby league international after just 12 Super 15 appearances for the Waratahs since switching from AFL at the start of ...
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Filipinos in Taiwan told to limit movement
Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – As violence against Filipinos escalated, Philippine officials have advised the thousands of workers to ';limit their movement'' in Taiwan amid the backlash over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard in Philippine waters. Antonio Basilio, resident representative ...
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China Tourism Day and 3rd Western China Tourism Industry Expo open in Chongqing
Dancers perform for the opening of the China Tourism Day and the 3rd Western China Tourism Industry Expo, in Chongqing, Southwest China, May 19, 2013. Chongqing is the main venue for the 2013 China Tourism Day. (Xinhua/Li ...
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Japans elderly not acting their age
SAITAMA, Japan: When amateur actress Etsuko Shigemoto walks out in front of a Paris audience in an all-Japanese production this month she will forget about being 87 years old."I have weak hearing and poor sight. I have problems all over my body," she said. "But I am still young in spirit."Shigemoto is one of a troupe of elderly actors -- average age 74 -- under the tutelage ...
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29 killed in South Sudan cattle raid Report
JUBA: At least 29 people were killed when cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state, a local official said Sunday. The gunmen crept into Tolleri village in Ulang county in the early hours of Saturday morning and sprayed it with bullets, killing 23 people instantly, said Dak Tap Chuol, commissioner for the ...
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Philippines waiting for Taiwan anger to cool
Amadeo Perez, chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Center) AFP FILE PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is waiting for tempers in Taiwan to cool before settling the dispute over a shot Taiwanese fisherman, the head of an office in charge of relations said Sunday. Issues like Manila’s ';one-China'; policy and comments by Taiwanese investigators ...
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China police billions spell profit opportunity
View Photo Two Chinese paramilitary police test a telescopic sight fitted on a gun model at the China International Exhibition and Symposium on Police Equipment and Anti-Terrorism Technology and Equipment in Beijing on May 15, ...
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Imran Khan blames MQM for his party leaders killing
Imran Khan has held the chief of Mutthaida Qaumi Movement (MQM) directly responsible for the killing of a senior leader of his party in the city. "I ...
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Take gradual initiatives Kayani tells Nawaz on ties with India
The report said Kayani called on Sharif to congratulate him on the PML-N's success in the general election and informally talked "about all national security ...
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JK Rowlings personal copy of Harry Potter to go on sale
Harry Potter book , complete with handwritten notes which reveal the author invented the fictional sport of Quidditch after a row with her then-boyfriend, is going up for sale. Rowling will auction a hand signed, annotated ...
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Japanese ministers criticize Hashimoto for remarks on comfort women
Japanese ministers denounced Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto on Tuesday, a day after he said sexual servitude by women was "necessary" for Japan's soldiers during World War II to maintain discipline in the military, Kyodo News reports. But Shintaro Ishihara, an opposition lawmaker who co-heads the Japan Restoration Party with Hashimoto, defended the outspoken mayor, saying that ...
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Japan pulls back on denials of WWII sex slaves
Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II. A parliamentary statement signed Tuesday by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged the government had a set of documents produced by a postwar international military tribunal containing ...
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Japan protests to China over Okinawa claim
Japan has lodged a diplomatic protest with China over an article in a state-run publication that challenged the ownership of Okinawa, home to major US bases, officials said Thursday. The People's Daily on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan's sovereignty over Okinawa, suggesting that Beijing may be the rightful owner. The call came as the two countries are already at ...
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Japan defends PM aides surprise N.Korea trip
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese minister on Sunday defended a surprise visit to North Korea by one of the prime minister's aides which Washington and Seoul said could not help efforts to forge a united front against Pyongyang.Akira Amari, state minister of economic revitalisation, said the four-day trip by Isao Iijima reflected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resolve to have North Korea come ...
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Fijian leader looks to Russia and China
FIJI'S military ruler says he will meet Beijing's leaders in China this month, a week after unveiling an official trip to Russia, as he looks beyond strained regional ties in the South Pacific. Frank Bainimarama has been banned from Australia and New Zealand since seizing control in a 2006 coup. His announcement that he would hold talks with Premier Li Keqiang and President Xi Jinping ...
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5 policemen wounded in clash with leftist rebels in S. Philippines
Five Philippine policemen were wounded following a clash with leftist rebels in southern Philippines on Saturday, officials said on Sunday.Police commandos from the 11th Special Action Force were conducting combat patrol in Sta. Cruz village, Tagbina town, in Mindanao's Surigao del Sur province when they encountered some 30 New People's Army guerrillas at 10:30 a.m., according to ...
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S. Korea holds press conference on DPRKs missile launch
South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-suk speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, May 18, 2013. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea's defense ministry. ...
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Blooming azalea attracts visitors in NE China
A visitor takes photo of azalea in a national forest park in Huinan County, Northeast China's Jilin Province, May 18, 2013. The blooming azalea in the park attracted many visitors and photographers. (Xinhua/Zhang ...
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Courtyards under protective reconstruction in C China
Photo taken on May 18, 2013 shows a renovated sunken courtyard in Qucun Village of Zhangbian Township in Shaanxian County, Central China's Henan Province. The sunken courtyard, a kind of traditional residential construction in west Henan, has a high value in the study of local histroy, architecture, geology and sociology. The Qucun Village has 115 sunken courtyards, most of which are under ...
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Macau economy punches way above its weight
Macau’s economy is set for a continued period of rapid growth over the next decade as Asia tops the charts in terms of revenue gained through gaming industries, but there is more to our little city-state than just casinos and hotels.
Macau is the Monaco of Asia. Although legally part of the Peoples Republic of China, this small little territory, just 29 kilometers squared and one of the most densely populated in the world, exists under the ‘one country, two systems’ policy of the Chinese government and therefore has its own internal legal system and political makeup. It is this which has enabled Macau, a tiny city-state with no natural resources, to develop one of the highest GDPs per capita in Asia, after Singapore. Read more
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