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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden wins gold medal at ice hockey world championships. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> T-shirts bearing images of President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It is a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting United States president to set foot in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. A return trip to this former pariah state does not seem to be on Obama’s immediate itinerary. But US firms are on their way. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pakistani politician Imran Khan has blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi. The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice-president of the women’s wing of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the southern city of the May 11 election. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Imran Khan blames exiled Altaf Hussain for killing Zohra Hussain
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The march – to protest Beijing’s refusal to vindicate the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen movement – will be joined with another one arranged by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which ends at the government headquarters in Admiralty. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Scholarism to bypass police nod in protest over June 4 crackdown
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 21-year-old university student killed in a home invasion east of New York was mistakenly shot in the head by an officer who fired eight times at an armed suspect who was holding a gun to the student’s head and then pointed it at him. Seven of the bullets hit the man, who was also killed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Elsie Leung Oi-sie, deputy director of the Basic Law Committee that advises the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the Basic Law’s implementation, told the South China Morning Post it would not be suitable for her to take up such a role because she did not hold any portfolio on constitutional reform, official or otherwise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Rule me out of forging consensus on political reform: Elsie Leung
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> You can stop one protest for a time, but you can’t stop another one from starting up if you don’t deal with the problem, says an eminent Buddhist monk. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hongkonger just want to be heard, says eminent Buddhist monk
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a gigantic stadium, an audience of 150,000 enjoys a 120-minute spectacle, with tickets costing as much as €300 (HK$3,000). The show itself, boiled down from 250-million man hours of gymnastic effort, features spectacular scenes of seamlessly choreographed human mosaics followed by a grand fireworks display as the finale. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Images of spectacular mass games captured in secretive North Korea
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Asia’s flood-prone cities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for rising populations, experts said yesterday at a water security forum. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that paralysed Jakarta and Manila last year and central Thailand in 2011. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Popular Vietnamese cable television provider VTV CAB has stopped providing foreign channels, including CNN and BBC, after a new media law that requires editing of programmes before broadcast came into effect on Wednesday last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan on Sunday repeated calls for a joint investigation into the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coastguards, an incident which has ignited a major diplomatic dispute. A team of Taiwanese investigators returned to the island Saturday, accusing the Philippine government of failing to honour its agreement to conduct a joint probe. “The decision to send the investigators to Manila came only after the Philippine government had agreed to let us to do so,” deputy justice minister Chen Ming-tang told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea on Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the UN chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) on Sunday afternoon, a defence ministry spokesman said without elaborating. On Saturday the North fired three short-range missiles off its east coast, apparently as part of a military drill. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By The Daily Beast Video, on May 19th, 2013 Three of the late-night sketch-comedy show’s biggest stars might soon be departing. See clips of their best moments and debate the future of the show without them
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A single winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery jackpot worth US$590.5 million was sold in Florida, organisers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought. The winning numbers from Saturday night’s drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11, and the odds of winning were put at one in 175 million. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea on Sunday condemned North Korea’s latest short-range missile launches as “provocative” and again urged it to hold talks about a suspended jointly run industrial park. The North on Saturday launched three short-range guided missiles off its east coast, apparently as part of a military drill, at a time when cross-border relations remain icy after months of simmering tension. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said. Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters around 70 kilometres from North Korea’s western coast, reports and the boat’s owner Yu Xuejun said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery official: 1 winning ticket sold in US for record Powerball jackpot of more than $590M. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Angelina Jolie recently revealed that due to her defective gene BRCA1, she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer from 87 per cent to 5 per cent. In Hong Kong, breast cancer is the most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Here we look at some facts, figures and fixes on breast cancer and its effect on the female population. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Infographic: Breast cancer in Hong Kong
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing. The ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order – more even than on its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China earmarks billions for internal security, ‘stability maintenance’
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Sweden wins gold medal at ice hockey world championships
<!– google_ad_section_start –> STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden wins gold medal at ice hockey world championships. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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