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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines on Saturday rejected Taiwan’s allegations that its coastguards had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic spat. The 65-year-old fisherman was shot dead by Philippine coastguards who said his vessel intruded into Philippine waters. Chen Wen-chi, head of the Taiwan team investigating the May 9 incident, said most of the bullets had hit the fishing boat’s cockpit where its crew hid. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Time was running out for New Year celebrations in a darkened Kwun Tong housing development a few years ago. Electricity supply to Tsui Ping Estate had been cut shortly after 9pm when smoke was seen coming from switches in the ground-floor transformer room. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former ICAC chief Timothy Tong Hin-ming spent HK$100,000 of public money on a reception at The Peak in one of two lavish dinners he will face questions over in the Legislative Council today. The Independent Commission Against Corruption confirmed the details in a written reply to the Legislative Council’s Public Accounts Committee, before which Tong will testify today. It will be the former ICAC commissioner’s first public appearance since the scandal emerged last month over his spending on entertaining mainland officials during his tenure. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jewellery worth more than US$1 million due to be loaned to stars treading the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen in a pre-dawn heist on Friday but the coveted Palme d’Or trophy was safe, officials said. In a scenario itself worthy of a movie, thieves broke into the room of an American employee of Swiss bijoutier Chopard, ripped a safe off the wall and made off with the jewels, according to police reports. The robbery took place at around 5.00am at the Novotel hotel, 15 minutes from the festival venue, they said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A businesswoman in Zhejing province has been sentenced to death for defrauding her clients of around US$70 million in an investment scam, state media reported on Friday as authorities crack down on illegal banking. Lin Haiyan, 39, from the eastern city of Wenzhou, a free-wheeling business hub, was condemned after illegally raising US$104 million from relatives, friends and other investors, the National Business Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese authorities say rainstorms that battered southern China this week have killed 33 people and left 12 people missing. The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website says at least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday. It says Guangdong province has been hit the hardest with 19 deaths and 11 missing people. Guangdong’s weather service said some areas received more than 21 centimetres of rain in nine hours on Thursday. It forecasts more rain in the coming days and warns of mudslides. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cyclone Mahasen weakened late yesterday into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over coastal Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely. At least 18 deaths related to Mahasen were reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, but officials had prepared for a far greater storm. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Google has introduced a music service for smartphones and tablets powered by its free Android software, in a challenge to streaming radio firms such as Pandora and Spotify. The launch of Google Play All Access on Wednesday came at the start of a packed Google developers conference, which features a range of improvements to the internet giant’s products and saw a surprise appearance by chief executive Larry Page. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A couple stood trial together yesterday after the wife tried to take the blame for her husband’s driving that caused the death of a 79-year-old woman. Wong Cheuk-yee, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice in the District Court. Her husband, Yeung Shiu-lung, 29, admitted to the same charge and five driving-related charges. The accident – which took place in Lam Tin on September 22 last year – claimed the life of Chan Sau-kam, 79. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four suspects were arrested in Turkey late on Wednesday in connection with car bombings that killed 51 people in a town near the Syrian border at the weekend, state-run Anatolian news agency reported. The two bomb blasts in Reyhanli fanned fears that Syria’s civil war is dragging in neighbouring states. Damascus has denied Turkish allegations it was involved in the blasts. Turkish prosecutors sent eight suspects to a court in the southern city of Adana after questioning and the court released four, remanding the other four in custody, the agency said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new Sars-like virus after catching it from patients in their care – the first evidence of such transmission within a hospital, the World Health Organisation said. The new virus, known as novel coronavirus, or nCoV, is from the same family of viruses as those that cause common colds and the one that caused the deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) that emerged in Asia in 2003. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An angry President Barack Obama sacked the acting head of the US Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday over a fast moving scandal sparked when officials unfairly targeted conservative groups. Obama said Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had asked for and received the resignation of tax agency chief Steven Miller and promised a new system of checks and safeguards to make sure the episode was not repeated. “Given the controversy surrounding this audit, it’s important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward,” Obama said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US government claims it was only trying to protect American lives when it took the drastic step of seizing journalists’ phone records in a probe of what it calls a major security breach. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A drone the size of a fighter jet has taken off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time in a test flight that could open the way for the US to launch unmanned aircraft from almost anywhere in the world. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia yesterday accused the US of “crude and clumsy” spying on its territory after a suspected CIA agent was caught in Moscow seeking to recruit an agent while disguised in a blonde wig. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police have reclassified a case of wounding and assault in North Point as murder after the victim died in hospital. Construction worker Ng Chi-cheung, 42, was on his way home with two male friends, both aged 38, when the attack occurred at about 11.30pm on Saturday. Ng slipped into a vegetative state and was put on life support until hospital doctors declared him dead at 5.27pm on Tuesday, shortly after his wife and relatives arrived from the mainland. Anti-triad officers are hunting six men, thought to be aged 40 to 50 and 1.7 to 1.8 metres tall. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Scottish cardinal who resigned as archbishop after admitting to sexual misconduct will leave Scotland for months of prayer and atonement, the Vatican said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into deadly attacks in the border town of Reyhanli that Ankara has accused Damascus of masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday. “If the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth,” Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said. “The truth must be announced to the Syrian and Turkish people,” he was quoted as saying by state media. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BERLIN (AP) — Official data: German economy grew by 0.1 percent in 1st quarter, avoided recession. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Philippines rejects Taiwan ‘murder’ claims
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines on Saturday rejected Taiwan’s allegations that its coastguards had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic spat. The 65-year-old fisherman was shot dead by Philippine coastguards who said his vessel intruded into Philippine waters. Chen Wen-chi, head of the Taiwan team investigating the May 9 incident, said most of the bullets had hit the fishing boat’s cockpit where its crew hid. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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