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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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Blast at firecracker workshop kills three Chinese
An explosion at an unlicensed firecracker workshop in central China killed three people and left three others injured Sunday, officials said. The blast occurred around 9.50 a.m. in Yangzhai village in Henan province, Xinhua reported. Police suspect it was caused by illegally stored gunpowder. The workshop owner's wife and daughter and a neighbour were killed. The three injured include the ...
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Myanmar to pump oil and gas to 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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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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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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Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China
Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company. On April 27 and May 14, two workers employed at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, separately fell to their deaths, according to the Taiwanese manufacturing giant. On May 11, another worker from Foxconn's Chongqing facility was also found ...
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Danone hopes to crack China with new dairy deal
By Donny Kwok and Astrid Wendlandt HONG KONG/PARIS (Reuters) - France's Danone (DANO.PA) is aiming for a bigger slice of one of the world's fastest-growing dairy markets by investing 325 million euros ($417 million) in two deals with China ...
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1000-year-old African coins found in Australia
In 1944, during World War II, Australian soldier Maurie Isenberg found five copper coins on a beach in the Northern Territory, and marked the spot with an 'X' on a map. In 1979, he rediscovered the coins in a tin and sent them to a museum for identification, where they were proved to be 1000 years ...
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Why did North Korea launch 6 missiles in 3 days
South Korean men watch a TV news program reporting a missile launch conducted by North Korea, at a Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 20, ...
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3 leftist rebels nabbed in N. Philippines
Three members of the leftist rebel group New People's Army (NPA) were captured at their lair in Northern Philippine province of Quezon Sunday afternoon, military said later that day. Colonel Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), said that troops from the military's elite 1st Special Forces Battalion swooped down at a house in Ilayang ...
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China Resumes Cyber Attacks on US Firm Says
A U.S. computer security firm says the Chinese military has resumed cyber attacks on American companies after a hiatus. Mandiant, which accused China of cyber attacks in a February report, says a Chinese army unit recently broke into the computer systems of more than 100 companies to steal trade secrets. It says the attacks started again just days after Chinese officials told Secretary of ...
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Underground Lender Gets Death Sentence in China
BEIJING -- A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by ...
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China to remain competitive industrially blue book
China's industrial competitiveness will remain strong in 2013 despite it facing increasing production costs and competition from developing nations in labor-intensive sectors, according to a blue book released on Monday.The blue book, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think tank, says China's industrial competitiveness will keep rising, thanks to its ...
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China urges DPRK on detained Chinese fishermens treatment
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to safeguard the health and legitimate rights and interests of a number of Chinese fisherman reportedly detained in the country.According to media reports, private fishing boat "Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222" from Dalian City in northeast China's Liaoning Province was ...
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Pyongyang demands Seoul clarify stance on industrial zones future
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday urged South Korea to clarify its stance on the future of the suspended Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ).Seoul distorted the facts concerning the joint zone, the official KCNA news agency quoted a statement of the DPRK's General Bureau for the Special Zone Development Guidance as saying.Pyongyang would decide its action depending ...
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Thyroid gland diseases on sharp rise in China
/enpproperty--> One in five Chinese people are suffering thyroid nodules and roughly 10 percent of all thyroid nodule cases are actually thyroid cancer, medical experts said at a event to mark the International Thyroid Awareness Week (May 20 to May 29). Experts said that China has more than 200 million people suffering from various kinds of thyroid diseases on the mainland. The ...
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Fiji needs to focus more on needs of the poor
Fiji is facing a major problem with informal housing or ‘squatter colonies’, especially on the outskirts of major cities such as Savu, which draw people in with the promise of jobs and prosperity. An ongoing effort by government to provide affordable housing for low-income earners is hampered by mismanagement, a lack of funds and the reluctance to evict non-payers from their homes.
Fiji is one of the more developed countries of the South Pacific island nations, but a large proportion of the population remain in poverty and exist through subsistence means rather than through formal integration with the national economy. Read more
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