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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 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> India and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday in his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just weeks after a military stand-off between the Asian giants in the Himalayas. The number two in the Chinese leadership offered New Delhi a “handshake across the Himalayas” and said the world’s most populous nations could become a new engine for the global economy if they could avoid such irritants. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say car bomb in Shiite area of Baghdad kills at least 13 civilians. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A collapsing structure injured 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for a top Western brand, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. At least 23 workers were injured at a Cambodian factory that produced garments for a top Western brand on Monday, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about industrial safety in the region. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion; to remain separately run. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s unemployment rate in April was 3.5 per cent – same as the level in March, government figures released on Monday showed. Increases in the unemployment rate in April were mainly observed in retail, manufacturing, and accommodation and food services sectors, the Census and Statistics Department said, while decreases were mainly seen in the insurance, wholesale and construction sectors. The city’s jobless has largely remained stable so far this year. The figures for January and February were 3.4 per cent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Long-time petitioner Chen Fengqiang expected to be questioned or taken into custody when police entered his apartment in Zhuhai on the evening of April 28, but instead they brought him a disabled, mute boy. Chen had been fighting for custody of eight-year-old Chen Ya since he was released from prison last May, petitioning for the child’s release with the help of well-known human rights lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in part of Pakistan’s restive tribal regions on Monday, killing a policeman who was providing security, officials said. The attackers opened fire as the team was going to administer polio drops in Kalam town in Bajaur district, one of the seven tribal areas along the Afghan border, local administration official Suhail Ahmed Khan said. “One tribal police official, who had been escorting the team, died in the attack,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 14 people including a senior local politician, officials said. Emergency services rushed to the scene and took the wounded to hospital after the bomber, who was wearing a police uniform, blew himself up in the centre of Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province. “I collected information from different hospitals and the death toll is 14. Another nine people are wounded,” said Zubair Akbary, the provincial public health director. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say.
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A 48-year-old British man living in France is expected to be formally charged later with killing his two children, aged five and 10.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push world stock markets higher Monday. A gauge of future economic activity issued Friday rose more than expected, a sign that the world’s biggest economy is improving. Consumer confidence also rose, offsetting several lackluster reports on slowing manufacturing and an increase in applications for unemployment benefits. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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UK astronaut Tim Peake is to fly to the International Space Station, launching on a Soyuz rocket in November or December 2015.
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A man and a woman are found dead at the scene of a suspected gas explosion at a Nottinghamshire house.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said women forced to provide sex during the second world war were a military necessity, polls issued on Monday said. Up to 200,000 “comfort women” from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into brothels catering to the Japanese military during the second world war, mainstream historians say. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A wave of car bombings across Baghdad’s Shiite neighbourhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens on Monday, Iraqi officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Legislators on Monday cast doubts on the securities regulator’s decision to allow the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange to surrender its licence, instead of immediately suspending it, after it emerged that the firm had insufficient capital. The HKMEx, a commodity trader, chaired by Executive Councillor Barry Cheung Chun-yuen, last week handed back its trading licence and suspended operations after it became clear it could no longer meet the requirement that it have sufficient cash to cover nine months of operations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — Fans know her as the sweet schoolgirl in the 2011 blockbuster “You Are the Apple of My Eye.” Now, they can take a closer look at Michelle Chen through her first love: music. After she graduated from the University of Southern California and returned home to Taiwan, her initial attempts to break into the island’s music scene hit a brick wall. But trying acting at the advice of a talent manager, she landed a few film and television roles, then shot to stardom with “You Are the Apple of My Eye.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — A Macau lawyer assaulted in broad daylight in the Chinese gambling haven says the attack was an attempt to intimidate him. The two assailants used bricks to bash the lawyer, Jorge Menezes, on the head before fleeing in last week’s attack. The former Portuguese colony has largely shed its reputation for triad violence. Menezes said Monday he believed the attack was intended to intimidate him over his work but he wouldn’t say who he thought was behind it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — The King of K-pop says reigning on a solo tour is a challenge but one he wouldn’t want to miss. G Dragon says he tries to separate his solo performances from how Big Bang performs. The band works as a team, and G Dragon says the concept is of artists collaborating. But “when I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet,” He says he asks a lot of himself, which causes stress, but “now I’m getting used to it and able to enjoy myself. I think many people see me in that way, too.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Cyclone Mahasen a ‘dress rehearsal’ for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims
<!– 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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