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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 By MARK LANDLER, on May 16th, 2013 President Obama made an appeal for new funding on Thursday amid ongoing criticism from Republicans over the handling of last year’s attack in Libya.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A powerful suicide car bomb targeting a Nato military convoy in Kabul killed eight Afghan civilians including two children on Thursday in the first major attack in the capital for more than two months. Government officials said eight passers-by died in the explosion in the Shah Shaheed residential district in southeast Kabul, while the Nato coalition was unable to give details of any casualties. Hezb-i-Islami, an insurgent group that is independent from Taliban militant forces, claimed responsibility for the attack. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 
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 –> Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear arms programme, according to a confidential report by a UN panel of experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Lawmakers across the political spectrum said yesterday that no one stood to gain after an 11-day debate triggered by radical legislators’ filibustering came to an end. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia said on Tuesday it had caught an American red-handed as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA, a throwback to the cold war era that risks upsetting efforts to improve relations. The announcement came at an awkward time, just days after a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry during which Washington and Moscow agreed to try to bring the warring sides in Syria together for an international peace conference. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Vietnamese rubber firms bankrolled by an arm of the World Bank and Germany’s Deutsche Bank are driving a land-grabbing crisis in Southeast Asia, activists said on Monday. Indigenous ethnic minorities are bearing the brunt of the seizures, which have affected tens of thousands of villagers and led to the clearance of swathes of protected forests, according to campaign group Global Witness. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Independent Commission Against Corruption has long been one of Hong Kong’s most cherished institutions, credited with helping turn the city from one of Asia’s most corrupt into one of its cleanest. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Who watches over our graft watchdog, the ICAC?
By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest, should be expanded with the addition of a third and even a fourth runway, a cross-party panel of British lawmakers said. <!– 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 –>
Continue reading Pollsters in Hong Kong must deal with credibility gap
By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chancellor Angela Merkel made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Friday to shore up morale among Germany’s 4,200 troops as foreign forces withdraw after more than a decade of fighting. The war is increasingly unpopular in Germany, but Merkel told troops in Kunduz province that political and economic progress was being made and that their contribution was making a difference. “Progress is sometimes difficult, sometimes it is slower than we would like but it is essential that our military involvement is not seen in isolation and that it is a success,” she said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> One of the CIA’s highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency’s top spy job. The officer, who remains undercover, was a finalist for the job and would have become the first woman chief of clandestine operations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Some criticised the St Stephen’s plan as lacking in transparency, while others supported the initiative. Both groups have written to Secretary for Education Eddie Ng Hak-kim and permanent secretary Cherry Tse Ling Kit-ching. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Parents split over St Stephen’s plan to turn to Direct Subsidy Scheme
By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> About 1,500 academics, students and researchers – including a former US diplomat – have signed an online petition for more funds for the University of Hong Kong library, which they say is “going downhill very fast”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading More than a thousand petition to save renowned HKU library
By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fees for new students entering the English Schools Foundation from 2016 could be more than 20 per cent higher as the government phases out its decades-old subsidy for the foundation. The change is the result of drawn-out negotiations between the Education Bureau and the ESF, which officials have described as a “colonial legacy”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading ESF fees could rise 20pc as subsidy phases out
By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two Communist Party mouthpieces yesterday reported the controversy in Hong Kong over the HK$100 million donation to earthquake victims in Sichuan – pointing the finger at the Red Cross Society of China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Communist Party papers remark on Hong Kong quake donation row, quoting pan-dems
By , on May 5th, 2013 
Malaysians go to the polls in what is widely seen as the most closely contested general election in their country’s history.
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By , on May 5th, 2013 
Some patients with damaged and diseased livers may not need a transplant if their own organ is given enough time to recover, say doctors at King’s College Hospital in London.
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Professor Chan Ka-keung, the financial services and treasury secretary, stepped up his rhetoric against filibustering attempts over the bill as the Legislative Council’s meeting was adjourned in the morning, causing more delay and further piling pressure on Legco president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing to stop the filibustering. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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