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China Pakistan to be good partners brothers forever
China and Pakistan will always be good partners and brothers that are reliable and sincere to each other, visiting Premier Li Keqiang said ...
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Banyan Tree opens the first spa in northern China.
Banyan Tree Spa, the award-winning Asian spa operator marked its inaugural presence in Northern China with the launch of the Spa at Banyan Tree Tianjin ...
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Ford Australia poised for important announcement amid shutdown speculation
Australia Ford Australia says it is poised to make an "important business announcement", amid speculation that the car-maker will confirm an end to all Australian manufacturing.Ford executives have called a press conference at the company's Melbourne headquarters for 10:45am.There are reports the car-maker will announce that it is shutting its Broadmeadows and Geelong plants ...
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European banks stop sending money to North Korea aid groups
BEIJING (Reuters) - European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution short of hand-carrying cash into the impoverished ...
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Girl paid to have sex with schoolmast...
Staff member of the local public security bureau watching the hotel's monitoring video(Photo:Agencies) By Jia Xiaoguang, Sina English More details of the outrageous molestation case in Hainan's Wanning have surfaced yesterday, as one of the victims gave an account of her previous acquaintance with the suspected headmaster who had tried to tempt her into a sex trade in the hotel where ...
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Australia shares to weaken after Wall St decline
SYDNEY | Wed May 22, 2013 7:16pm EDT SYDNEY May 23 (Reuters) - Australian shares are seen easing on Thursday after falls on Wall Street over worries that the U.S. Federal Reserve may consider winding back its economic stimulus programme. * Local share price index futures fell 0.4 percent, a 14.4-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index close. The benchmark closed 0.3 percent ...
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US Officially Acknowledges Drone Strike Killings
The U.S. Justice Department has formally acknowledged that the United States has killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan since ...
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Italian Judge Orders Criminal Trial for Costa Concordia Captain
An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia to stand trial for the deaths of 32 passengers. Captain Francesco Schettino has been charged with manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning ship before all the passengers were safe. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The Costa Concordia struck rocks and capsized off the coast of ...
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In China food scares put Mao’s self-sufficiency goal at risk
A worker displays a handful of rice at a market in Hefei, Anhui province in this 2009 file photo. The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food chain, possibly at the expense of Mao Zedong's cherished goal of self-sufficiency. (JIANAN ...
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Australia ‘going backwards’ on asylum policy
Australia%u2019s controversial asylum seeker policies have been slammed by a new Amnesty International report into the global state of human rights. ...
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Ford Australia to shut Broadmeadows car factory Geelong engine plant
FORD Australia is set to drop a bombshell on the car industry this morning. It is expected to announce the closure of its Broadmeadows car factory and its Geelong engine plant. The struggling car-maker has sent out a media alert about an impending announcement later this morning, believed to be 10.45am. Ford was due to release its financial results today but News Limited has been told the media ...
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France seeks to brand Hezbollah as terrorist group
Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday. "Because of the decisions that have been taken by Hezbollah and the fact that they are fighting very harshly the Syrian population, we have decided to ask that the military branch of the Hezbollah would be considered as a terrorist organisation," Fabius told reporters in English. The United States has long designated the Lebanon-based militant group, ...
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Chinas Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals
By Lee Chyen Yee and Umesh DesaiHONG KONG (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades.Lenovo, a sliver away from unseating Hewlett-Packard Co as the world's top PC maker by shipments, is expected on ...
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Philippine vote seen as referendum on Aquino
The Philippines goes to the polls Monday to choose thousands of local leaders plus national legislators in what is seen as a referendum on the presidency of Benigno Aquino. Police and the military have been placed on heightened alert for expected poll-related violence that has already claimed about 60 lives since campaigning began in February. "The president is asking voters to put their ...
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Iraqi Police Gunmen Kill at Least 12 in Baghdad Brothel
Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, ...
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Opposition Groups Call for Swaziland Election Boycott
King of Swaziland Mswati III (Front) and one of his 13 wives disembark from a plane after arriving at Katunayake International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 13, 2012. ...
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Transitional Justice Elusive in Arab Spring Nations
Egyptian riot police take up positions outside the building where former president Hosni Mubarak is being tried in connection with the killing of Arab Spring ...
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President Mujica Begins Tour to China Spain Italy and Vatican
Montevideo, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, on Saturday will begin a four-day official visit to the Republic of China. Accompanied by a government and a business delegation, the president, who left here at 14:00 hours (local time) to Paris, where he will make a stop over for Beijing, he will Sunday travel by train to the city of Tianjin to hold meetings with Chinese ...
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4-nation Pacific Alliance trade bloc forges ahead
President Barack Obama’s vow in his State of the Union address to seek free trade deals with Asia and Europe has raised a thorny question south of the U.S. border: Will Latin America find a place in the new global economy of giant trade ...
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China reassured about EU-US trade pact
/enpproperty--> EU trade chief: Deal could increase each side's GDP by half of 1 percentage point each year China has "no reason" to worry about an ambitious free-trade pact being negotiated by the United States and the European Union, because the two are already its biggest trading partners, the EU's trade chief said. Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht was asked ...
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China Galaxy shares in hot demand on debut in HK
/enpproperty--> New shares in China Galaxy Securities Co Ltd were in hot demand on Wednesday, after it raised $1.1 billion in a much-anticipated Hong Kong IPO. The shares rose 11.3 percent at one point, before ending the day up six percent on its trading debut. The city's IPO drought has been broken by the new listing, along with that of Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co Ltd last ...
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Pope urges Friday prayers for Church in China
On May 22, Pope Francis reminded his weekly public audience that the coming Friday, May 24, would be the feast of Our Lady of Sheshan, the day set aside by Pope Benedict XVI for prayer for the Church in China. Chinese Catholics traditionally make a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Sheshan, near Shanghai, on the feast day. Pope Francis urged Catholics throughout the world to join in prayer, to ...
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At least 91 dead as massive tornado s...
A powerful tornado swept through an Oklahoma City suburb yesterday, tearing down blocks of homes, two schools and leaving at least 91 people dead, including 20 children, local officials said. The state medical examiner's office released the latest death toll but the number was climbing rapidly, as emergency crews combed through smashed homes and the collapsed remains of an elementary ...
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Indian girl invents device that can c...
The charging device has been dubbed a 'supercapacitor' by Esha Khare of Saratoga, California. An 18-year-old Indian-origin girl in the US has developed a potentially revolutionary device that can charge a mobile phone in just 20 seconds, a media report said. The charging device has been dubbed a 'supercapacitor' by Esha Khare of Saratoga, California, the Daily Mail reported. ...
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Man dies after passing out unheeded o...
(Photo:Agencies) By Jia Xiaoguang, Sina English A middled-aged man lost his life over 50 minutes after he passed out on an urban bridge with nobody tending to him in Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong Province on May 20. In his fifties, the unnamed man suddenly went faint when he was crossing a bridge on his bicycle yesterday afternoon. Lying helplessly for over 50 minutes, he had ...
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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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