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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s small traditional trade in carving uses ivory acquired through legal auctions and in no way encourages or worsens the problem of elephant poaching in Africa, a senior Chinese official said on Tuesday. Demand for ivory as an ornamental item is soaring in Asia and especially in China, driven by the rising purchasing power of the region’s newly affluent classes as well as growing Chinese investment in Africa and demand for its resources. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It’s not your educational background, integrity, experience, or people you know that matters. What it takes to be a good communist leader is “emotional intelligence”, or EQ, says Chinese President Xi Jinping. Xi enlightened his audience during a recent visit to a job fair in Tianjin while talking to a local village official. “Intelligence quotient and emotional quotient – which is more important?,” he asked. After an official said “both”, Xi answered his own question, <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the US Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol boat. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Big business and the Occupy Central movement clashed yesterday over the price the city would pay if the pro-democracy movement brought the heart of Hong Kong to a halt. Four business groups warned that Occupy Central could cost the city billions. But Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a founder of Occupy Central, countered that the economic cost of failing to achieve universal suffrage in 2017 could be higher. <!– 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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By , on May 20th, 2013
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
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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By , on May 20th, 2013
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 –> Piano-themed coffins, paper caskets and pet urns were all on display at Wan Chai Exhibition Centre last week as more than 2,500 undertakers from around the world descended on Hong Kong to exhibit their wares at the Asia Funeral and Cemetry Expo. Organisers called it “practical ideas on global trends regarding the management and operation of funeral facilities and service”. But for some it was a morbid interest in the odd array of caskets that brought them to the expo. Also on display were the latest methods of embalming and cremation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 18th, 2013
Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
Singer Bonnie Tyler is set to make her Eurovision debut on Saturday when she performs UK entry Believe In Me at the annual contest in Malmo, Sweden.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
Thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, rally in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
A 25-year-old Saudi woman makes history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
No 10 denies that “anyone in Downing Street” made comments reported in several newspapers describing Tory activists as “mad, swivel-eyed loons”.
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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city’s high levels of roadside pollution. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013
The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko calls for the inquest into his death to be abandoned and replaced with a public inquiry.
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By , on May 18th, 2013
The education secretary is like a “fanatical personal trainer” who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers’ leader is to say.
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By By IAN AUSTEN, on May 18th, 2013 Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.
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By , on May 17th, 2013
The inquest into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko could be replaced by a form of public inquiry to allow evidence about Russia’s alleged role in the killing to be heard in secret.
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Conservation official denies legal ivory trade to blame for poaching
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s small traditional trade in carving uses ivory acquired through legal auctions and in no way encourages or worsens the problem of elephant poaching in Africa, a senior Chinese official said on Tuesday. Demand for ivory as an ornamental item is soaring in Asia and especially in China, driven by the rising purchasing power of the region’s newly affluent classes as well as growing Chinese investment in Africa and demand for its resources. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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