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By Sarah Begley, on May 20th, 2013 An Italian organization is bringing new meaning to the concept of rehabbing old materials. Barrique is turning used wine barrels into high-concept furniture—all for the benefit of a renowned substance abuse treatment facility.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In 13 months more than 500 kilos of crystal meth seized in Australia has come from Hong Kong. The haul is more than ten times that seized in the SAR over the past five years. A total of seven Hongkongers are now facing the Australian courts. Southern China is one of the world’s biggest producer of ephedrine – the main precursor chemical for ice. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An unusual Xinhua report has led to speculation that China’s state-run news agency has taken a subtle shot at the promotion of a son of one of China’s most powerful political figures. The cryptic report led to online debate on whether Wu Lei, a 37-year-old official soon to be promoted, could be the younger son of Wu Bangguo, the recently retired head of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A hawkish Chinese general has possibly opened a Pandora’s box on territorial disputes in East Asia by saying that the Ryukyu Islands including Okinawa do not belong to Japan. Luo Yuan, a People’s Liberation Army two-star general, has said that Japan could not rightfully claim sovereignty over the islands, because they had started paying tribute to China half a millenium before they had done so to Japan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> As demand for Burgundy wines heats up in China, the French region has opened a representative office in Hong Kong to step up exports and promote tourism. After six years in Singapore, the Regional Council of Burgundy has moved its only office in Asia to Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Perhaps the most memorable item of furniture in the world – the couch in Sigmund Freud’s consulting room, sagging under the weight of more than a century of recollected dreams, terrors, traumas and phobias – needs a facelift. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By PENELOPE GREEN, on May 1st, 2013 At Jack Sanders’s Heavy Metal camp, welding is the medium but adventure is the mode.
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Germany’s Greens, the country’s third-biggest political force, will hold a party congress this weekend, five months ahead of elections in which Chancellor Angela Merkel will seek a third term and the environmentalists could potentially play kingmaker. The Greens party, with its roots in the 1970s anti-nuclear and peace movements, are now mainstream and the preferred choice of well-off urbanites who shop organic and cycle to work. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Government minister says death toll in Bangladesh building collapse rises to 161. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Venezuela’s government-controlled parliament set up an inquiry on Wednesday into violence over a disputed election that authorities blame on opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Nine people died and dozens were injured after opposition protests against Nicolas Maduro’s narrow April 14 presidential poll win turned violent around the South American nation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of homes were destroyed and at least 47 people were injured after two earthquakes, at 4.8 and 4.2 magnitude, jolted Sichuan’s Yibin city on Thursday morning, said a government website. Yibin is about 300 kilometres from Yaan, where a 7-magnitude temblor on Saturday killed more than 190 people. The city has about 4.4 million residents, according to a 2010 census. Thursday’s twin quakes ocurred around 6am, according to a Sichuan government website. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite the gloom in the West and a slowing expansion of China’s economy, free-spending Chinese consumers and wealthy Hong Kong locals craving exclusivity have proven a blessing to retailers looking to buck global woes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Tibetans have died after setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in a western region where authorities have imposed a heavy security presence, exiled Buddhist monks and reports said on Thursday. More than 100 Tibetans have self-immolated since 2011 to protest Chinese policies in the region and call for the return of their beloved spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, from exile. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea summoned the Japanese ambassador in Seoul on Thursday in protest over visits by senior officials and lawmakers to a shrine seen by Japan’s neighbours as a symbol of wartime aggression, the Yonhap news agency reported. South Korea’s Yonhap said the South’s foreign ministry had called in Tokyo’s envoy in protest over the shrine visits and comments made by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. China and South Korea chastised Japan after more than 160 lawmakers visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese internet users exposed on Tuesday, that a noodle shop in Yingjing County had raised prices of their popular dandan noodles from an original five yuan per bowl, to 20 yuan per bowl. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan heightened surveillance of travellers from China on Thursday after authorities confirmed the island’s first case of a new deadly strain of bird flu. The 53-year-old man became ill with fever after returning from a visit to the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu on April 9, the Centres for Disease Control said. He twice tested negative for H7N9 but eventually tested positive on Wednesday after his condition deteriorated, CDC official Chang Feng-yi said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four-year-old Wang Yanxia was considered lucky and a gift to her family — for she was born in the wake of the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Wenchuan, Sichuan, in 2008. But now her family is struggling to face the harsh truth that their daughter was killed in the Yaan quake. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cheung Kong put up notices around the dock strike’s base in Central on Thursday, urging the workers to leave or risk being criminally prosecuted. The notices said that part of the area outside Cheung Kong Center is private property. The area can be used by the public for passage, it said, but they are not allowed to occupy, obstruct or “cause a nuisance by erecting structures or placing other articles” there. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea on Thursday offered North Korea formal talks to resolve the suspended operations at their joint Kaesong industrial zone, and warned of “grave action” if Pyongyang declines. “We officially propose talks between government authorities,” Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-Seok said, adding that Pyongyang should reply to the offer by Friday. “If North Korea rejects these proposed official talks, we would have to take grave action,” Kim said, without elaborating. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — SKorea warns of ‘grave measure’ if NKorea rejects talks on shuttered inter-Korean factory park. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Drug arrests of Hong Kong men prompt fears that city is trafficking hub
<!– google_ad_section_start –> In 13 months more than 500 kilos of crystal meth seized in Australia has come from Hong Kong. The haul is more than ten times that seized in the SAR over the past five years. A total of seven Hongkongers are now facing the Australian courts. Southern China is one of the world’s biggest producer of ephedrine – the main precursor chemical for ice. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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