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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some of its tourists are harming China’s image overseas, a top official said. Vice-Premier Wang Yang singled out “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and wilfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s premier will on Friday unveil the next stage of his plan to reboot the economy, reports said, as he seeks to capitalise on the feel-good mood of a booming stock market and a plunging yen. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce broadbrush outlines of the third of his “three arrows” of a plan dubbed “Abenomics”, which is intended to turn around years of deflation in the world’s third-largest economy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country’s image, said a top official who lamented their poor “quality and breeding”, according to state-run media. Wang Yang, one of China’s four vice premiers, singled out for condemnation “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and willfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– 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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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 –> BANGKOK (AP) — Enthusiasm on Wall Street sparked by another positive report on the U.S. economy helped push most Asian stock markets higher Wednesday. But lower-than-expected German economic growth disappointed investors elsewhere. The German economy narrowly avoided recession in the first quarter of 2013, with 0.1 percent growth for the quarter. However, analysts were expecting a 0.3 percent quarterly rise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines held elections on Monday seen as crucial for President Benigno Aquino’s bold reform agenda, as deadly violence and graft-tainted candidates underlined the nation’s deep-rooted problems. Aquino has called for the mid-term polls, in which thousands of local leaders plus national legislators will be elected, to be a referendum on his efforts to transform a corrupt political system and an underperforming economy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Mark Blyth, on May 12th, 2013 In the midst of slow economic growth, governments in the U.S. and Europe are slashing spending and raising taxes – with disastrous results. But instead of blaming American Republicans or British Tories, the author of a new book on the history of austerity says the intellectual culprits lie in 18th century Scotland.
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s former president Rafsanjani has registered candidacy for June presidential election. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Saturday to face a new trial for complicity in the murder of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising, as well as for corruption. The 85-year-old Mubarak, who was taken into court in a wheelchair dressed in white and wearing sunglasses, is on trial along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and six security chiefs. He also faces corruption charges with his two sons, Alaa and Gamal. All defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges levelled against them. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish official: Death toll in explosion near Syrian border rises to 13. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Leading conservation groups have called on the government to take urgent action to save Hong Kong’s pink dolphin population from pollution and reclamation. WWF Hong Kong called for an interdepartmental task force to be set up to find ways to save the dolphin population and for steps taken to halt reclamation projects they fear could push the mammals to the brink of extinction in Hong Kong waters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> With radical lawmakers mounting a filibuster of the budget bill to press the case for a universal pension scheme, government ministers on Saturday said the public would be consulted soon on a retirement protection scheme. A public consultation was “inevitable” once a government study of options was completed early next year, both the treasury and welfare ministers said. People Power lawmaker Albert Chan Wai-yip, a driving force behind the filibuster, which is holding up passage of the bill, welcomed their message. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Official says at least 4 killed, 18 injured in explosions near Turkey’s border with Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish state TV says several injured in explosion at municipal building near Syrian border. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Saturday to oppose plans for a lithium battery factory, highlighting growing social tension over pollution. Police stood by as residents marched peacefully along a busy street in the Songjiang district of the city, gathering at an intersection near the site of a Carrefour hypermarket, chanting and holding signs saying “No factory here, we love Songjiang.” Many wore matching t-shirts with an image of a smoky factory enclosed by the red “no” symbol. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Relatives of the Cleveland man who allegedly held three women captive for nearly a decade recounted claims of his unnerving paranoia and violent outbursts as DNA testing confirmed he is the father of a 6-year-old girl who also escaped from the house. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said on Friday. He was 28. City prosecutors are investigating the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital where he died Thursday of blunt-force trauma injuries. United States officials confirmed that Shabazz was killed in Mexico City. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Ma Ying-jeou said on Saturday Taiwan would consider sanctions against the Philippines amid widespread public outrage at Manila over the shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman. “We will definitely seek justice for our fisherman. We will not rule out the possibility of taking any kind of sanctions” against the Philippines, Ma said while inspecting a coastguard drill in central Taiwan. “The Philippines shot an unarmed fishing boat. This is very brutal and cold-blooded,” he said, reiterating Taipei’s demand for Manila to apologise, apprehend the killer and compensate. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan was holding historic elections on Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation. Polls opened on Saturday morning across the nation in what is a closely watched race to determine the fate of this nuclear-armed country crucial to stability in the region. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Vice-premier bemoans bad manners of Chinese tourists abroad
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some of its tourists are harming China’s image overseas, a top official said. Vice-Premier Wang Yang singled out “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and wilfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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