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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Research by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has surprised even the study’s author, who last polled political attitudes in the wake of the Tiananmen uprising in 1989. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The total value of transactions in the city last month hit 1.54 million square metres (16.5m sq f), according to real estate services company E-House China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Legislating standard working hours will not result in a rise in business costs in the long run as companies will look for ways to rearrange work flow in a more efficient manner, an expert with International Labour Organisation has said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Twenty minutes’ drive from Shanghai’s glitzy financial district, dozens of migrant workers are preparing to abandon homes in old shipping containers, as one of the more unusual solutions to China’s housing shortage faces the wrecking ball. Cheap but crowded neighbourhoods are being cleared across China as part of a stepped-up “urbanisation” campaign by China’s new leaders. The country aims to spend an estimated US$6 trillion (HK$46.58 trillion) on infrastructure, including housing, as a projected 400 million people become urban residents over the next decade. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The New York Times reported that, although some media sources had said he was 72, public records and his family confirmed that Ramone was 79. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The acceleration in legal action targeting protesters, activists and critics comes against a backdrop of continued unrest in the country. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> PARIS (AP) — France: Al-Qaida-linked warlord Abou Zeid killed in combat with French troops in February. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the southern Philippines on Saturday released an emaciated-looking Australian man near a coastal town where they kidnapped him for ransom 15 months ago. Warren Richard Rodwell was brought to police by residents of Pagadian city who saw him walking before dawn near the fishing port, where his abductors dropped him off, said local police chief Julius Munez. Rodwell “looked OK, just tired. But he looked like he lost a lot of weight,” Munez said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taking on the role of tourist, President Barack Obama walked through the winding, narrow pathways of Jordan’s fabled ancient city of Petra on Saturday, gazed up at soaring cliffs of reddish rock and described the landscape with a single word: “Amazing. “This is pretty spectacular,” he said, craning his neck to gaze up at the rock faces as he emerged from a narrow pathway into a sun-splashed plaza in front of the grand Treasury. The soaring facade is considered the masterpiece of the ancient city carved into the rose-red stone by the Nabataeans more than 2,000 years ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pope Francis prepared to go face to face with his predecessor Benedict XVI on Saturday in a historic meeting between two men with very different styles but important core similarities. The Argentine pope was expected to take a helicopter from the Vatican landing at around later on Saturday at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo near Rome where the “pope emeritus” has been living since his resignation last month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian opposition leaders are to address an annual summit of the Arab League for the first time in Qatar on Tuesday, but the bloc’s members remain divided over whether to give them Damascus’s vacant seat. The Qatari hosts are vocal champions of the rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and said leaders of the armed opposition would definitely be joining Arab heads of state in Doha. But they did not specify whether the Syrian National Coalition would be given Syria’s seat which has been vacant since its suspension from the 22-member bloc in November 2011. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A group of well-trained gunmen stormed an Indonesian jail on the main island of Java early on Saturday and executed four detainees accused of murdering a special forces soldier. At least 17 masked gunmen angry over the killing of a member of Indonesia’s elite military unit, known as Kopassus, allegedly by the four men detained in Yogyakarta’s Cebongan prison, broke into the jail, said local police chief Brigadier-General Sabar Rahardjo. The attackers tortured several guards and forced them to open the jail cell just after midnight Saturday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s new leader Xi Jinping said on Saturday his first foreign trip as president to Russia had exceeded his expectations and hailed the strong partnership between the two countries after signing numerous energy deals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Australia’s embattled Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Saturday said she would announce a cabinet shake-up within days after losing four ministers who backed a failed Labor Party coup against her. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, Tertiary Education Minister Chris Bowen and Human Services Minister Kim Carr quit on Friday after backing a return of former leader Kevin Rudd to save the party from defeat in September polls. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China is trying to punish ally North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests, stepping up inspections of North Korean-bound cargo in a calibrated effort to send a message of Chinese pique without further provoking a testy Pyongyang government. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Social media sites are buzzing with reports of a flash of light that streaked across the sky along the US East Coast. Bill Cooke of Nasa’s Meteoroid Environmental Office said Friday that the flash appeared to be “a single meteor event.” He says it “looks to be a fireball that moved roughly toward the southeast, going on visual reports.” He says the meteor was widely seen, with more than 350 reports on the website of the American Meteor Society alone. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Immigration Department is looking into claims that some mainland women were treated inappropriately at a Hong Kong checkpoint and were asked to prove they were not pregnant. The story has apparently gone “viral” on a mainland microblogging site. Immigration officers at Lok Ma Chau spur line checkpoint ordered several women to tap and press their stomachs, including one who said she was in her 50s, mainland resident Su Jia wrote on the Sina weibo, saying he witnessed the incidents. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Friday urged Asian nations at odds over disputed islands in the South China and East China seas to find a way to draw up resource-sharing pacts. Australia has remained neutral amid tensions between China and its regional neighbours, including Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines. But Carr told a Washington think-tank that “60 or 70 per cent of our merchandise trade goes through the South China Sea and therefore we have interest in the peaceful resolution of these disputes.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A lawyer for a US defence contractor accused of giving military secrets to his Chinese girlfriend said there’s no evidence that classified information was given to any foreign country. Benjamin Bishop, 59, was in love with the 27-year-old student, his attorney Birney Bervar said. “It’s not an espionage case, it’s a case about love,” Bervar told reporters after a detention hearing on Friday. The Army Reserve lieutenant colonel was working at the US Pacific Command as a contractor when he was arrested a week ago. Officials haven’t disclosed the name of the contractor. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> This warning posted on a sign board at a marriage registration office in Shanghai was stark: “Beware the risks arising from the housing market. Have second thoughts before deciding to get divorced.” The message that appeared in southwestern Minhang district has become the talk of the town as hundreds of couples filed for “divorce” to beat a new capital gains tax on second homes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Five times more conservatives than liberals in China, says survey
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