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By By REUTERS, on May 22nd, 2013 Iran is pressing ahead with the construction of a research reactor that could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb, a U.N. report showed on Wednesday.
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Torrential rain pounded the city for more than five hours early yesterday, causing landslides, flooding, traffic chaos and business disruptions. No injuries were reported, but more than 300 flights were delayed. A plane was struck by lightning but landed safely at Chek Lap Kok airport carrying 100 passengers and crew members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Five people died when a 10 metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen local authorities said on Tuesday. The Shenzhen Longgang district government said on its verified page on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, five people had died and added that it was investigating the incident. The sinkhole formed just outside the Huamao Industrial Park in Shenzhen on Monday evening, at a time when many factory workers would have been changing shifts, according to the website of Beijing-based newspaper the Guangming Daily. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iran’s June 14 presidential election steps up a gear on Tuesday when the Guardians Council releases the approved list of candidates who have passed muster under the vetting process. The unelected council, controlled by religious conservatives appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, must ensure that all candidates meet certain conditions before being allowed to stand. These conditions include being faithful to the principles of the Islamic republic and its official religion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s first disaster management institute has been set up in Sichuan after two deadly earthquakes struck the province in five years. The Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction was jointly established this month by Polytechnic University and Sichuan University to support the province’s reconstruction and development. It is now enrolling its first batch of students in its four masters courses – in disaster nursing, prosthetics and orthotics, physiotherapy and occupational therapy – which start in September. <!– 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 –> A public outcry against missing donations by the Red Cross Society of China has morphed into subdued scepticism after the Ministry of Civil Affairs reviewed figures at the weekend that indicated considerable amount of funds had disappeared. On Friday, the ministry, which is charged with supervising charity organisations, had published how much charities nationwide had collected for rescue and reconstruction efforts in Sichuan province after the April 20 earthquake. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHARLES V. BAGLI, on May 19th, 2013 A tower being built on Park Avenue is part of Manhattan’s booming ultraluxury construction business, a trend that is warping the real-estate market and driving up overall costs.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
A facial reconstruction based on the skull of Richard III goes on display in Leicester on the first stop of a national tour.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed in holiday-thinned trading Friday as investors digested a slew of disappointing economic data and corporate results from the U.S. Applications for unemployment benefits jumped to their highest level in six weeks, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday, while manufacturing slowed in the mid-Atlantic region. The bright spot was applications for new construction, which reached a five-year peak, reinforcing “the patchy nature of the US economic recovery,” Michael Hewson of CMC Markets said in a commentary. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The mayor of Kunming, Li Wenrong, has posted his first message on a Sina Weibo microblog in a move aimed at showing government transparency in the Yunnan provincial capital. Li had promised to open the account on Thursday, when he met with hundreds of protesters on Kunming’s streets. The angry crowd had ignored official intimidation to voice their opposition against a petrochemical project on the city’s outskirts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A ceiling collapse at a factory making Asics trainers in Cambodia killed two workers yesterday, fuelling concerns about workplace safety following last month’s industrial disaster in Bangladesh. Local rescue teams, helped by soldiers, scrambled to search through the rubble of the fallen structure, which appeared to have been on a mezzanine level laden with crates of trainers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Excavation work at a To Kwa Wan railway construction site has been suspended after more than 50 residents were evacuated because of reports that nearby buildings were shaking. The residents of four blocks in Maidstone Road were allowed to return two hours later after their homes were declared safe. But work on the MTR’s Ma Tau Wai station remained suspended. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday that the government wants to give retroactive approval to four West Bank settlement outposts it had previously pledged to at least partially demolish. In a written response to a petition Peace Now submitted to Israel’s Supreme Court against the outposts, the state attorney’s office said that settlers had now purchased the private Palestinian land on which they built, paving the way for the government to give its blessing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China downplayed border tensions with India on Thursday, days before the new Chinese premier visits the neighbouring country on his first foreign visit since taking office in March. Disagreements over the Himalayan frontier can be handled under existing mechanisms and should not affect overall relations, Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao told reporters at a briefing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — Global economic malaise has knocked the stuffing out of Luo Yan’s business making toy animals. Sales of Hello Kitty dolls and plush rabbits have fallen 30 percent over the past six months, according to Luo, owner of Tongle Toy Enterprise, which employs 100 people in the southern city of Foshan, near Hong Kong. Orders from the United States and debt-crippled Europe are down 80 percent. “We don’t talk about profits anymore,” said Luo. <!– 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 , 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 –> Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s founding in 1948. Every May 15, Palestinians commemorate the “nakba”, or “catastrophe” – the term they use to describe their displacement. Hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out during the fighting. The dispute over the fate of those Palestinians and that of their descendants, now numbering several million people, remains at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 15th, 2013 A 2,300 year old temple in Belize is being destroyed so its limestone bricks can be used for raw material in road construction, reports CNN:
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Heavens open in first ‘black’ storm since 2010
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Torrential rain pounded the city for more than five hours early yesterday, causing landslides, flooding, traffic chaos and business disruptions. No injuries were reported, but more than 300 flights were delayed. A plane was struck by lightning but landed safely at Chek Lap Kok airport carrying 100 passengers and crew members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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