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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yuichiro Miura, who took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reached the top of the 8,848 metre mountain at about 9.00am local time, accompanied by three other Japanese climbers, including his son, and six Nepali sherpas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Convicted killer Jodi Arias pleaded with an Arizona jury on Tuesday to spare her the death penalty for the sake of her family and sentence her instead to life in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed 27 times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Senior marine staff would not be questioned as part of the internal investigation into the Lamma ferry tragedy unless new information came to light, the city’s transport chief insisted yesterday. His remarks came in the face of criticism about the limitations of the Marine Department investigating itself. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country’s transplant system said on Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population. Almost all donated organs in China used to come from executed prisoners. A growing proportion now come from ordinary people, but the government is seeking to eliminate prisoner donations altogether. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A system of donor cards indicating consent for organ transplants will not work in China as families will insist on having the final say, and many people see nothing wrong in using organs from executed prisoners, an official said on Friday. Nearly 1.5 million people in China need transplants every year, but only 10,000 can get organs, according to the Health Ministry. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Marine Department insisted yesterday that its director had already expressed his remorse for the Lamma ferry tragedy following criticism from relatives of some of the 39 people who died. It added that Director of Marine Francis Liu Hon-por remained saddened by the October 1 disaster – which a commission of inquiry found had been caused in part by his department’s “serious systematic failings”. Yesterday’s statement did little to appease Ryan Tsui Chi-shing, whose older brother Tsui Chi-wai and 10-year-old nephew Tsui Hoi-ying died in the crash. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A woman whose trial riveted viewers with details of sex and violence returns to court on Thursday, as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week in the death of her boyfriend now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death. Jurors on Wednesday took less than three hours to determine that Jodi Arias should be eligible for the death penalty in the killing of her one-time lover after prosecutors proved the murder was especially cruel and heinous. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Families of the victims in last October’s Lamma ferry tragedy made public a letter criticising Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and other officials for not taking their concerns seriously. The families said they did so because Leung had been “bureaucratic” in his reply to questions over government responsibility in the accident that killed 39 people on National Day. They had written to Leung and his justice minister Rimsky Yuen on May 8 asking them to give a “sincere, responsible and just” answer to calls for further action on the fatal accident. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Investigators believe about 20 young, ethnic Somali men left Minnesota from 2007 to 2009 to go to Somalia to fight for al Shabaab, which the United States designated a terrorist organisation. Three men who cooperated with investigators were each sentenced to three years and a fourth man was sentenced to 12 years in prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In sentencing yesterday, Deputy Judge Mr Justice Gareth Lugar-Mawson described the case – involving cocaine with a street value of more than HK$500 million – as an extremely bad example of international drug trafficking. Saying he believed most of the cocaine was bound for the mainland, Lugar-Mawson said the law had to ensure Hong Kong would not become a drug transit centre in Asia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The State Bureau for Letters and Calls that oversees petitioners has stopped compiling a controversial monthly ranking table that was originally intended as a measure of local officials’ performance but instead has been blamed for prompting acts of abuse and the illegal detention of people seeking redress from senior leaders. <!– 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 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Public opinion surveys are widely cited in city, but many doubt they give a fair picture in light of outdated methods and political polarisation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The death toll from last month’s collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose past 1,000 on Friday as piles of bodies were found in the ruins of a stairwell where victims had sought shelter. Brigadier General Siddiqul Alam Sikder, the army officer overseeing the operation on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, said that the death toll now stands at 1,035 after dozens more remains were discovered overnight. Alam said that many of the bodies were now little more than skeletons, 17 days on from the implosion of the nine-storey Rana Plaza compound in Savar. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Family members of a Utah soccer referee who died a week after a player punched him in the head called on athletes around the world to hold their tempers in check so another family doesn’t have to suffer. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines is aiming to speed up convictions in the country’s worst political massacre to ensure justice amid fears the trial could drag on for years, the country’s top justice official said. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said the government wants judgments against the Ampatuan Muslim clan, accused of being behind the murder of 58 people in 2009. “The marching orders of the president is that during his term up to 2016, there’s got to be convictions,” de Lima said in an interview. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three additional suspects have been taken into custody in the investigation of last month’s deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon, the Boston Police Department and a US law enforcement source said on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A People’s Liberation Army soldier-turned-”expert burglar” has been sentenced to seven years in jail, the maximum term in the District Court, for stealing millions of dollars worth of jewellery and cash from industrial buildings. His girlfriend – who used to live with him in luxury in the Mid-Levels and a co-defendant on a money-laundering charge – was sentenced to six years in prison, Judge Eddie Yip Chor-man said in his Tuesday ruling. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Concert promoters AEG Live ignored red flags when it hired Dr Conrad Murray to care for Michael Jackson, and should have been aware that the singer had addiction problems years before he agreed to perform a series of 2009 London comeback concerts, an attorney for Jackson’s family told a Los Angeles jury on Monday. Making his opening statement in what is expected to be an emotional, three-month long civil wrongful death trial, attorney Brian Panish said a combination of factors caused Jackson’s death in June 2009 from an overdose. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When the cracks in the building appeared early last Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s – a feared political operative who a neighbour says dropped out of school in seventh grade – quickly arrived at the scene in Savar, a crowded industrial suburb of Bangladesh’s capital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Japanese mountaineer, 80, overcomes four heart operations to scale Everest
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Yuichiro Miura, who took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reached the top of the 8,848 metre mountain at about 9.00am local time, accompanied by three other Japanese climbers, including his son, and six Nepali sherpas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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