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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country’s poultry industry more than 400 billion yuan (HK$500 billion) as consumers shun chicken, government officials said according to state media Monday. The sector has been losing an average of one billion yuan a day since the end of March, the Beijing Times said, citing Li Xirong, head of the National Animal Husbandry Service. H7N9 avian influenza has infected 130 people in China, killing 35, since it was found in humans for the first time, according to latest official data. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By HARVEY ARATON, on May 19th, 2013 For a team that was built to win now, the question of what’s next is daunting with the dictatorial reign of James Dolan.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Time was running out for New Year celebrations in a darkened Kwun Tong housing development a few years ago. Electricity supply to Tsui Ping Estate had been cut shortly after 9pm when smoke was seen coming from switches in the ground-floor transformer room. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Christopher Dickey, on May 17th, 2013 Christopher Dickey on why the CIA bears the main responsibility for the intelligence failures that lead to the Libyan atrocity last year.
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Time-lapse imaging which takes thousands of pictures of developing embryos can boost the success rate of IVF, according to British research.
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Graduates on a new fast-track scheme for trainee social workers will co-handle caseloads after just five weeks of intensive initial training.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> American scientists have finally succeeded in using cloning to create human embryonic stem cells, a step towards developing replacement tissue to treat diseases but one that might also hasten the day when it will be possible to create cloned humans. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DENNIS OVERBYE, on May 15th, 2013 If engineers cannot restore a mechanism that keeps the Kepler spacecraft’s telescope pointed, one of the most romantic and successful of NASA’s projects could end.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Air India flight to Bangalore was diverted to another city after the pilot returned from a toilet break and found the door to the cockpit jammed shut, the state-run carrier said on Tuesday. The flight left Delhi for Bangalore on Monday but the plane had to be diverted to Bhopal in central India when the pilot realised he could not get back to the controls. Air India said “all efforts to open the door, even from inside by the co-pilot, failed”. The co-pilot was forced to divert the flight to Bhopal where the door was repaired by ground maintenance engineers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JONATHAN WEISMAN, on May 15th, 2013 An inspector general’s report blamed management in the failure to stop the singling out of conservative groups as Congressional aides sought to determine if knowledge of the effort went beyond the agency.
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former bodyguard and ex-premier Boyko Borisov’s conservative GERB party is expected to win the most votes, even though the biggest demonstrations in 16 years forced his government to resign only three months ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The conduct of Freemasons in Hong Kong has come under renewed scrutiny after senior legal figures questioned the handling of alleged indecent assaults by a member at their Zetland Hall headquarters in Mid-Levels. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s Prince Charles has criticised “corporate lobbyists” and climate change sceptics for turning the earth into a “dying patient”, in his most outspoken attack yet on the world’s failure to tackle global warming. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted of interfering with national security when they broke into the primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium in the US It took the jury about 2 1/2 hours to find the three protesters guilty on Wednesday on a charge of interfering with national security and a second charge of damaging federal property. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least eight people were feared dead after a container ship smashed into a control tower in Italy’s busiest port in Genoa. The 50-metre high, glass-topped tower was destroyed when the Jolly Nero ploughed into the dock during the night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France’s health ministry on Wednesday reported the country’s first case of a Sars-like virus that has killed 18 people so far, mostly in Saudi Arabia. An unidentified person who came back to France from a trip to the United Arab Emirates was diagnosed with the deadly novel coronavirus, the ministry said. “This is the first and only confirmed case in France to date,” it added. The patient is currently in intensive care in hospital and has been placed in isolation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least three people were killed and six injured when a container ship rammed a control tower in the northern Italian port city of Genoa late on Tuesday, harbour officials quoted on local television said. “It is a terrible tragedy,” the head of the Genoa Port Authority Luigi Merlo told local Genoa television station Primocanale. “At the moment there is no explanation for the accident.” Two of the dead were harbour officials and the third was one of the pilots, local Primocanale quoted officials as saying. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pilot error or mechanical failure were the most likely causes of a 2010 plane crash in New Zealand in which nine people died, a coroner found yesterday. The Fletcher FU24 crashed and burst into flames shortly after take-off on September 4, 2010, near the Fox Glacier on the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island, in the nation’s worst air accident since 1993. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Farmers in Weifang city have been using the highly toxic pesticide aldicarb “three to six times” above the recommended level, according to a CCTV expose. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Bird flu costs China industry US$65b: state media
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country’s poultry industry more than 400 billion yuan (HK$500 billion) as consumers shun chicken, government officials said according to state media Monday. The sector has been losing an average of one billion yuan a day since the end of March, the Beijing Times said, citing Li Xirong, head of the National Animal Husbandry Service. H7N9 avian influenza has infected 130 people in China, killing 35, since it was found in humans for the first time, according to latest official data. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Bird flu costs China industry US$65b: state media
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