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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Amnesty International said on Thursday millions of people who have fled conflict or persecution, and migrants who have left home in search of work, have suffered abuses at the hands of state authorities or employers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Low-cost European airline Ryanair is looking at introducing flights between Israel and Poland to cater for Israeli schoolchildren visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. “It seems that every Israeli child has to go to Poland to go and see Auschwitz. We can help them with that,” said the carrier’s deputy chief executive, Howard Millar. Although Ryanair is based in Dublin, it has expanded across Europe and has in the last 12 months become Poland’s number-one airline, according to a results statement published on Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has accused the British government of running scared from Beijing. Chen is in the UK to receive an award for exposing the plight of hundreds of thousands of Chinese women forced to undergo abortions and sterilisations as part of China’s strict one-child policy. But his request to meet with the Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague during his five-day visit has been snubbed because Downing Street fears “further punishment” from Beijing and that it will lose out on trade deals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar’s victims of sectarian strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon season weeks away. Myanmar’s Rakhine state is pockmarked with makeshift settlements for up to 140,000 people – mainly Rohingya Muslims – displaced by sectarian unrest last year that claimed about 200 lives and saw whole villages razed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. The eye of the storm was expected to reach land Thursday evening, but at least 18 deaths related to Mahasen already have been reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: Many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living in the camps have refused to leave, distrustful of Myanmar authorities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered on Wednesday to move to safety as a cyclone barrelled towards low-lying coastal areas. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at risk from Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall on Thursday or Friday somewhere near the border between the two countries. Bangladesh told hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying areas to move to cyclone shelters, while Myanmar announced plans to move roughly 166,000 people at risk on its northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Investigators believe about 20 young, ethnic Somali men left Minnesota from 2007 to 2009 to go to Somalia to fight for al Shabaab, which the United States designated a terrorist organisation. Three men who cooperated with investigators were each sentenced to three years and a fourth man was sentenced to 12 years in prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Several overcrowded boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims capsized off the coast of western Myanmar while trying to escape an approaching cyclone, and only 42 were known to have survived, the United Nations said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> On the day when a Hong Kong transsexual won the right to marry as a woman, New Zealand had already become the first Asia-Pacific country to legalise same-sex marriage. While there is no sign of any Asian government following this precedent any time soon, the emerging faces of China’s sexual minorities epitomise a growing challenge facing a traditional society in the fast lane of modernisation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar started moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees. About 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in flimsy tents or makeshift housing are seen as particularly vulnerable to Cyclone Mahasen, which was gathering strength in the Bay of Bengal. The cyclone is expected to make landfall near the Myanmese-Bangladeshi border on Thursday morning, according to Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — The poisoning of a college student 18 years ago recently re-emerged as a hot topic in China, but censors soon squelched the politically sensitive online discussions over whether the culprit may have eluded punishment because of Communist Party connections. Chinese looking for justice found another way to keep the issue alive. They took it to Washington. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THOMAS FULLER, on May 11th, 2013 United Nations officials are worried about a “looming catastrophe” at refugee camps housing tens of thousands of people displaced by violence in Myanmar.
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It was supposed to be one of the highlights of Richard Wagner anniversary celebrations, but a controversial Nazi-themed production of his Tannhäuser has been cancelled after it caused some audience members to seek medical help and prompted others to walk out in anger. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid began a two-day trip to China on Thursday, as the Asian giants seek to repair the damage from a border flare-up that highlighted long-rumbling tensions. The world’s two most populous countries have in recent years seen relations improve and trade boom, and both sides had sought to stay low-key over the latest row, which lasted several weeks. Two-way trade totalled US$69 billion last year, dominated by US$54 billion of Chinese exports to India, figures from Beijing’s commerce ministry show. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Before March 28, they were just a bunch of contract dockers at the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals who were dissatisfied with their wages and conditions but had never made their voices heard. That day they told themselves they had had enough and walked out on strike – not realising the industrial action would last for 40 days. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 93-year-old man who was deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 93-year-old man deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities yesterday over allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> India and China simultaneously withdrew troops from camps a few metres apart in a Himalayan desert on Sunday, apparently ending a three-week stand-off on a freezing plateau where the border is disputed and the Asian giants fought a war 50 years ago. The two sides stood down after reaching an agreement during a meeting between border commanders, an Indian army official said, after the tension threatened to overshadow a planned visit by India’s foreign minister to Beijing on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> India’s foreign minister has hinted he could cancel a planned trip to Beijing if no progress is made in resolving a row over an alleged incursion by Chinese troops deep inside Indian-claimed territory. The reported Chinese infiltration across the disputed Himalayan border has strained ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours whose relations have long been chequered by mutual suspicion – a legacy of a 1962 border war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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