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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A school principal and a government official accused of sexually assaulting six primary school girls in Hainan province will soon be charged with rape, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday, citing sources with the city’s prosecutors. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A freelance designer who created the VIP passes for the Hong Kong Sevens for the past 10 years has accused the organisers of using her artwork without her permission in a bid to save money. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Two Korean former sex slaves demanded the resignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor and canceled a meeting with him Friday for justifying Japan’s wartime practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into prostitution for its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prosecutors will grill IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday as they investigate whether she should be charged in connection with a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as French finance minister. Lagarde has downplayed the investigation, but the stakes of the probe are huge for both her and the International Monetary Fund. Criminal charges against Lagarde, 57, would mark the second scandal in a row for an IMF chief, after her predecessor Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also from France, resigned in disgrace over an alleged assault on a New York hotel maid. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Faced with external and internal problems, Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou cancelled a long-planned event on Monday, marking the first anniversary of his second inauguration. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hunan’s high court agreed to hear an appeal by Tang Hui, the mother of a teenage girl who was raped and forced into prostitution by local officials. A lower court had dismissed her compensation claim last month against local authorities who sent her to a labour camp for protesting inappropriately. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The high court in Zhejiang province has ruled that two men wrongfully convicted of murder should each receive about 1.1 million yuan (HK$1.25 million) in compensation after serving 10 years in jail. In an online statement posted yesterday, the court said Zhang Gaoping his nephew, Zhang Hui , would each be awarded 656,000 yuan for loss of personal freedom, and 450,000 yuan for mental damage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Provincial Higher People’s Court said on Sunday that it would review plaintiff Tang Hui’s lawsuit against Yongzhou authorities after she was sent to a labour camp for 18 months. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JAMES DAO, on May 19th, 2013 The secretary, Eric Shinseki, is being held accountable for his overwhelmed agency’s problems dealing with claims for disability compensation.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippine envoy to Taiwan on Thursday advised thousands of Filipino workers there to eat at home and avoid the streets while emotions run high on the island over the shooting death of a fisherman by the Philippine coast guard. Philippine representative Amadeo Perez said after returning to Manila from Taipei that his government has verified at least one attack, in which a Filipino was beaten with a bat. “He was brought to a hospital and police are investigating. We are documenting the cases,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013
The actor Paul Shane, famous for starring in the 1980s BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, has died, his agent has confirmed.
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By , on May 17th, 2013
The Boston bombing suspect wrote a message in a boat where he hid, describing victims of the attack as “collateral damage”, US media report.
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By , on May 16th, 2013
BP appeals to Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene over the escalating compensation costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A nurse who was ordered to pay her ex-boyfriend almost HK$1 million in compensation for harassing him for six years failed to appear in court on Thursday and cannot be found. Joey Yip Lai-kuen, 34, failed to attend Thursday’s High Court hearing in which her ex-boyfriend Lau Tat-wai, 30, was seeking court orders for the disclosure and freezing of her assets so that he could be paid the HK$946,673 she was ordered in April to pay him. Her assets include the proceeds from the sale of her HK$2.8 million property in Tsang Kwan O, the court heard on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013
The HS2 rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap and the benefits for the economy are “unclear”, the National Audit Office says.
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By By JOHN SCHWARTZ, on May 15th, 2013 Kenneth R. Feinberg, a lawyer with a thriving mediation practice, has become the go-to man for running the compensation funds for victims of catastrophes.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A jury on Tuesday dealt another defeat to casino mogul Sheldon Adelson in his nine-year fight with a Hong Kong businessman, awarding the former consultant US$70 million for helping Las Vegas Sands secure a lucrative gambling licence in Macau. But Las Vegas Sands says it won’t be paying up anytime soon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury on Tuesday awarded a Hong Kong businessman a $70 million judgment against Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino giant run by billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Richard Suen claimed he was owed up to $328 million for helping the Las Vegas-based company secure a lucrative gambling license in Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is legal. Las Vegas Sands attorneys argued Suen was owed nothing because he didn’t make good on a promise to aid company executives. The case was a retrial; a jury’s 2008 finding for Suen was thrown out on appeal. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The highest-ranking international military commander in Afghanistan has categorically denied any US or Nato responsibility for the deaths of at least 17 women and children after nearly seven hours of intensive airstrikes near their compound in eastern Afghanistan, in a new twist to a case that has greatly raised tensions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Manila will send a senior envoy to Taiwan to apologise for the death of a fisherman killed by the Philippine coastguard, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister David Lin said last night at a briefing attended by Antonio Basilio, the Philippines’ representative in Taipei. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Hainan school principal, official reportedly to be charged with rapes of schoolgirls
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A school principal and a government official accused of sexually assaulting six primary school girls in Hainan province will soon be charged with rape, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday, citing sources with the city’s prosecutors. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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