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Asia Markets Japan stocks end up after roller-coaster ride
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares ended modestly higher Friday after a roller-coaster ride that subjected the Nikkei Stock Average to a swing of more than 3% on both sides of the previous day's ...
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China U.S. reach deal on audit records WSJ
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- In a breakthrough to a long-running dispute, China has agreed to allow its accounting firms to give U.S. regulators access to relevant records, The Wall Street Journal reported early Friday, saying the deal was due to be announced later in the day. The agreement allows the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to see audit records and other documents held by ...
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Girl 5 killed by suicide jumper in South Korea police say
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a 5-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside the apartment building. A police official said the 39-year-old man died immediately after he jumped Wednesday from the 11th floor of the building in the southeastern port city of Busan. The girl died later from brain damage and ...
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Russian nurses pose with seriously ill patients
A nurse poses with a seriously ill patient.(Photo:Agencies) Work in a hospital is never easy. To withstand difficult days at work, nurses have to treat it differently, to pose around people so bad ill that can't move and then post it online. This is how these medical workers from the Perm region of Russia explained these photos which had appeared in social networks. ...
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Sleepwalker dies after fall from balcony
A college student in Qingyuan city, Guangdong province, plunged to death from a fifth-floor balcony of a dormitory building while he was sleepwalking, Hebei TV reports ...
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Japanese PM leaves for Myanmar on ties
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday left for Myanmar in an effort to promote bilateral ties and improve Japan's economic cooperation with the Southeast Asian country. During the three-day visit, the first trip made by a Japanese prime minister to Myanmar in 36 years, Abe is expected to hold talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein and other senior officials. "Japan will ...
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DPRK leader Kim Jong Un visits Turf Institute
These undated pictures released from Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency shows leader Kim Jong Un inspecting grass at a new Turf Institute in Pyongyang. The youthful Kim Jong Un made his first visit to the country's latest scientific facility - an institute dedicated to research into grass. The 29-year-old toured the Turf Institute of the Bioengineering Branch under the ...
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Major step for gas field in South China Sea
/enpproperty--> A major section of the Liwan 3-1 offshore gas field project in the South China Sea was completed, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. The topside portion of the central platform, the largest in Asia, was put in place. The connecting pipes, made, designed and installed by the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), were also put in place. The Liwan 3-1 ...
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Chinas cement industry to face tougher emission rules
China is mulling a tougher national standard on nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from cement factories amid public calls to clear up both air pollution and the sector's excess production ...
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Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East off Kamchatka
LONDON (Reuters) - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Russia's Far East in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicentre of the quake was located 244 miles west north west of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy at a depth of 385 miles, the USGS said. (Writing by John ...
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China shares post 4th weekly gain despite property weakness
HONG KONG | Fri May 24, 2013 3:08am EDT HONG KONG May 24 (Reuters) - China shares posted their fourth-straight weekly gain on Friday, despite weakness in property developers amid concerns that the Chinese economy may be slowing. The CSI300 of the leading Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listings rose 0.6 percent, while the Shanghai Composite Index also closed up 0.6 percent at 2,288.5 ...
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Eurozone crisis live Japan closes higher after wild day of trading
The Japanese market suffered another turbulent session after Thursday's dive - dropping as much as 3.5% in the afternoon - but stabilised to close 0.9% ...
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Scouts Australia open to gay members
OPENLY gay youths have always been welcome to join Scouts Australia, the organisation says, after its American counterpart overturned a decades-old ban. At its annual meeting in Texas on Thursday, the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America voted to end a ban barring openly homosexual members, but maintained a prohibition on gay adult leaders. Scouts Australia says its door has always been open to ...
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US Boy Scouts to allow gay members
gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors. Of the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council who cast ballots, 61 percent supported the proposal drafted by the governing Executive Committee. The policy change takes effect on January 1. "This has been a ...
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Chinese newspaper slams Bidens commencement speech
In a comment piece published today, Chinese newspaper Global Times criticized Biden's Penn commencement address, in which he said Chinese people can not think different, breathe freely. Here is the ...
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Japanese lawmaker fired over China trip
Japan's upper house passed a resolution Thursday dismissing Yoriko Kawaguchi, a senior lawmaker of the Liberal Democratic Party, as head of one of its standing committees over her recent trip to China, fueling tensions between the ruling and opposition camps ahead of this summer's national election. The resolution, backed by seven opposition parties, criticized Kawaguchi, a former ...
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DPRK spurns Seouls demand on Kaesong industrial park Yonhap
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday rejected a South Korean demand for a promise not to take any actions that may again disrupt the operations at a joint industrial complex in its territory, calling it "ridiculous", Yonhap News Agency reports on Thursday. The joint industrial complex in DPRK's border city of Kaesong remains shut down since early ...
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Australian shares dive to one-month low Japan uncertainty hits
Fri May 24, 2013 2:47am EDT (Adds details, comments) SYDNEY May 24 (Reuters) - Australian shares reversed early gains to fall 1.6 percent as faltering banks and market volatility hit investor sentiment on Friday, sending the benchmark index tumbling further from one-month lows touched a day earlier. Japan's Nikkei share average turned positive in a volatile session on Friday afternoon after ...
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Waiheke Island named in top 10 South Pacific islands list
Auckland's Waiheke Island has been ranked in the top 10 islands to visit in the South Pacific by an influential travel review website. The annual TripAdvisor Travelers Choice Destination awards honour top travel places worldwide, based on millions of reviews and opinions from travellers. Waiheke Island - described as a haven of beautiful beaches, gastronomical treasures and small wineries - ...
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Japans Nikkei rebounds after Thursday plunge
Pedestrians are reflected as they walk past an electric quotation board displaying the Nikkei key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in front of a securities company in Tokyo on May 10, 2013. The Nikkei regained some of the losses sustained on Thursday. (TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty ...
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5 climbers feared dead on worlds 3rd highest peak
KATMANDU, Nepal — A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain. The five disappeared Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching the base camp. Mountaineering Department official Dipendra Poudel said Friday the climbers were descending from the summit when they were ...
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2 former sex slaves cancel Japan mayor meeting
Two Korean former sex slaves have canceled a meeting with an outspoken Japanese mayor who last week said Japan's wartime practice of using many Asian women as prostitutes was necessary to maintain military ...
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Lis visit to elevate Chinas ties with Germany Europe
/enpproperty--> BERLIN - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming visit to Germany will further cooperation and strategic partnership between the two nations, according to China's ambassador in Berlin. The fact that Germany, the last stop of Li's maiden overseas tour as premier, is the only European Union (EU) member included on the itinerary evinces the great importance that ...
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FM Lis visit highlights China-Pakistan bond
/enpproperty--> ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is China's all-weather strategic cooperation partner, and the bilateral relationship is characterized by the blessing of good-neighborliness, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday. Wang made the remarks in comments on Premier Li Keqiang's just-concluded visit to the South Asian country, which he said bore rich fruit, charted a new course for ...
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Barack Obama seeks end to perpetual US war on terror
Barack Obama wants to pull the United States back from some of the most controversial aspects of its global fight against Islamist militants. In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama narrowed the scope of the targeted-killing drone campaign ...
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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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