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Radical Islamist Killed in Tunisia Street Protests
Tunisian authorities say a street battle between radical Islamists and police has killed one Islamist protester on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis. Authorities said the man, in his late 20s, died of injuries sustained in Sunday's fighting in the Etadhamen district. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police to protest a government ban on their annual ...
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North Korea Test-Fires 4th Short-Range Missile
North Korea fired its fourth short-range missile in the past two days into waters off its east coast on Sunday, despite calls for restraint from South Korea and other countries in the region, as well as the United Nations. The latest launch into the Sea of Japan, confirmed by South Korean Defense Ministry officials, follows three coastal launches on Saturday that rattled the ...
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Motorsports Team MRF deliver 1-2 finish
Team MRF achieved a 1-2 finish here Sunday with Esapekka Lappi and Gaurav Gill finishing in that order in the International Rally of Whangarei that also doubled up as the first round of the 2013 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship. Visiting New Zealand for their first time, 22-year-old Finn Esapekka Lappi (co-driver Janne Ferm) led from start-to-finish driving the Skoda Fabia S2000. Lappi ...
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Former Pakistani Ruler Musharraf Granted Bail
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March to contest a May 11 general election after nearly ...
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Myanmar to pump oil and gas to energy-hungry China
Workers prepare to launch the China section of the Myanmar-China oil and gas pipeline in Anning in southwest China's Yunnan province. Ren Dong / Color China Photo / AP ...
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Goldman exits China’s ICBC 7 years and billions later
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. launched the sale of about $1.1-billion (U.S.) worth of Hong Kong-traded shares in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on Monday, offering its entire remaining stake in the world's biggest bank by market value.The sale would be the final chapter in Goldman's investment alongside clients and employees in China's ICBC. Prior to its 2006 initial public ...
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India and China Stress Peace at Borders and Solid Relations
New Delhi, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The Prime Ministers of India and China, Manmohan Singh, and Li Keqiang respectively, agree that a peaceful coexistence and understanding must be established in bilateral relations and that these will guarantee peace and development in Asia. Singh held a meeting with Keqiang after his arrival in New Delhi, in an environment that diplomatic sources described as ...
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Tesco eyes China JV
Tesco, Britain's largest retailer, plans to establish a joint venture in China, a bid to control its capital expenditure in global expansion, the Financial Times reported Monday. The supermarket chain that came here in 2004 is seeking partners in China for the venture, the report said, citing three sources close to the matter. Analysts said China Resources Company is the most suitable ...
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Purchase intention expressed at Taiwan trade fair
/enpproperty--> SHIJIAZHUANG - A total of 1,236 buyers have expressed their intention to purchase products worth 103.44 million US dollars after attending the 2013 Taiwan Trade Fair, the event organizer said on Monday. The four-day fair, which ended on Sunday in Shijiazhuang in north China's Hebei province, attracted 125,000 participants, with spot trading exceeding 30 million yuan (4.8 ...
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China calls for implementation of DPRK resolutions
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday called for the full implementation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired missiles into the East Sea. The DPRK Monday fired two more short-range missiles into the East Sea, after launching one on Sunday and three on Saturday, according to Yonhap News ...
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Cannes Sci-Fi Horror Tale Human Race Sells for Germany Australia Japan
, KSM took German-speaking Europe, Anchor Bay picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand and IPA bought Japanese rights. "We are receiving offers every day" said ...
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India-China ink 3 MoUs including pharmaceuticals
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...
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Former Bank Executive in China Faces Bribe Accusations
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U.N.s Ban frustrated with North Korea
Ban Ki -moon said. Ban expressed concern over North Korea's actions, which came despite repeated calls for restraint from the international community. Ban, in a statement issued through his spokesman, said he was concerned about recent missile activity "particularly given the risks of miscalculation and dangerous escalation." The South Korean government confirmed Monday that ...
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Experts officials China has resumed hacking U.S. companies agencies
Computer security experts and U.S. officials say Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on companies and agencies they stole data from three months ago. A unit of China's People's Liberation Army had stopped computer intrusions in February after the administration of ...
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Preview of Wed-locked fake marriages in Australia
Fake marriage amongst young Arab-Australians who identify as gay or lesbian has gone unreported until now, and there’s good reason. In the Arab World almost all 22 states and territories punish homosexuality with imprisonment - six of those still enforce the death ...
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Eriksson in talks with China club
A Chinese football club is in talks to appoint Sven-Goran Eriksson as their next manager, a spokesman said Monday, despite reports linking the former England boss to the Cameroon national side."Eriksson is one of the candidates," said Chen Jie, a spokeswoman for Guangzhou R&F, based in the capital of the boom southern province of Guangdong."The club is currently in talks with ...
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Learning Statecraft from China
At the same event, he also underscored the importance of being more conversant with the Chinese thought process for improving Indo-China relations. His counsel becomes even more relevant in the light of the recent friction between India and China over difference in interpretation of the border, resulting, recently, in a 19-km incursion in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector of the Depsang Valley in ...
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UPDATE 2-China offers India a handshake across the Himalayas
Mon May 20, 2013 10:37am EDT * Visit to India comes after border standoff in Himalayas * Small breakthroughs on trade, no major agreements * Li also due to visit Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany By Frank Jack Daniel and Rajesh Kumar Singh NEW DELHI, May 20 (Reuters) - India and China will study new ways to ease tensions on their ill-defined border after an army standoff in the Himalayas, ...
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Philippine strategies make it overconfident in confronting China
Tensions over the recent killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard are still going on. Looking through the history of the Philippines confronting China on maritime disputes, we find that the Phillipines has always held an unscrupulous and reckless attitude. For example, the naval face-off at Huangyan Island last year was triggered by Philippine navy which had attempted to ...
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China India issue joint statement focusing on full-scale cooperation
China and India issued a joint statement Monday highlighting their commitment to expanding common ground in bilateral cooperation and coordination in various fields.The statement, released during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's ongoing visit here, said the two Asian giants "welcome each other's peaceful development and regard it as a mutually reinforcing ...
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China India establish principles of settling border issue PremierLi
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Monday that China and India have established principles of settling the border issue that is left over by history."Both sides believe that we need to improve the various border-related mechanisms that we have put into place and make them more efficient, and we need to appropriately manage and resolve our differences," Li added.Li made the ...
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DPRK strives to prevent spread of bird flu virus
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) was striving to prevent the spread of bird flu virus H5N1, the official KCNA news agency reported Monday.The virus found in ducks at the Tudan Duck Farm in Pyongyang was introduced by migratory birds, the Academy of Agricultural Science said on May 7.The KCNA said the DPRK had briefed UN agencies on the situation and culled as many as 160,000 ...
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Sohu Seeking Success in Complex Tie-Up With China Internet Search Leader Baidu
(Nasdaq: BIDU), starting with the strong possibility that this latest in a sudden string of rumors about Sogou may be true. Sogou's chief executive has already said publicly the unit was for sale, naming Baidu as one of the leading bidders. The only slight contradiction in the mix comes from comments by Charles Zhang in an interview late last week, which I'll return to shortly. But ...
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Saudi Saudi Arabia signs accord to protect Philippine maids
maids from being exploited in the Middle Eastern kingdom. The agreement guarantees Filipina maids benefits like a day off each week while preventing their hiring costs from being deducted from their salary among other safeguards, said labour secretary Rosalinda Baldoz in a statement. "We are very confident that cases of abuse will be less after this agreement takes effect because the ...
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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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