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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying had one of the darkest days in his trouble-plagued administration yesterday when he lost two of his most important aides. Executive councillor and Urban Renewal Authority chairman Barry Cheung Chun-yuen’s departure on leave after the Mercantile Exchange, which he chairs, came under police investigation, was seen as the heaviest blow to date. It coincided with news of the resignation of information co-ordinator June Teng Wai-kwan, Leung’s top media official, due to eye problems. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 By FERNANDA SANTOS and REBEKAH ZEMANSKY, on May 21st, 2013 Migrant deaths remain high even as apprehensions have fallen, with tighter borders pushing people to take riskier routes from Mexico to the United States.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said on Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. “All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back,” China’s Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the shipowner. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US authorities brought criminal charges against three New York University researchers on Monday, alleging they conspired to take bribes from Chinese medical and research outfits for details about NYU research into magnetic resonance imaging technology. A criminal complaint filed in the US District Court in Manhattan charged Yudong Zhu, 44; Xing Yang, 31; and Ye Li, 31, with commercial bribery conspiracy in connection with NYU research financed by the US government. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Signing a contract to buy a property (a flat, an office block or whatever) marks a point of no return. You have passed from the zone of negotiations to that of binding commitment. At least that is the idea. Once you sign the contract it should be all over bar the shouting. In principle, it only remains for the seller to execute and deliver the deed conveying title to the property to the buyer, hand over the keys and collect the money. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Long-time petitioner Chen Fengqiang expected to be questioned or taken into custody when police entered his apartment in Zhuhai on the evening of April 28, but instead they brought him a disabled, mute boy. Chen had been fighting for custody of eight-year-old Chen Ya since he was released from prison last May, petitioning for the child’s release with the help of well-known human rights lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police in Changsha have detained a young gay rights activist after he organised a protest in the capital of Hunan province to mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. A 19-year-old man, identified only as Xiang, was arrested on Saturday and will be in administrative detention for 12 days for organising an “illegal protest”, police said, according to a report in the local Xiaoxiang Morning News, which has since been deleted online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Popular Vietnamese cable television provider VTV CAB has stopped providing foreign channels, including CNN and BBC, after a new media law that requires editing of programmes before broadcast came into effect on Wednesday last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said. Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters around 70 kilometres from North Korea’s western coast, reports and the boat’s owner Yu Xuejun said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines on Saturday rejected Taiwan’s allegations that its coastguards had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic spat. The 65-year-old fisherman was shot dead by Philippine coastguards who said his vessel intruded into Philippine waters. Chen Wen-chi, head of the Taiwan team investigating the May 9 incident, said most of the bullets had hit the fishing boat’s cockpit where its crew hid. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 , on May 18th, 2013 Recordings made over the last two years provide a glimpse into the shadowy, and illegal, world of high-stakes gambling in New York City.
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By Emily L. Hauser, on May 17th, 2013 Emily L. Hauser on Israel’s attempt to legalize settlements considered illegal even under Israeli law.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Student protesters who were forcibly removed from a Tseung Kwan O college by police on Thursday condemned officers for abusing their power. They also complained about how male officers handled females. One said she felt “uncomfortable and offended” when a policeman grabbed her from behind, touching her breasts. <!– 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 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippine envoy to Taiwan on Thursday advised thousands of Filipino workers there to eat at home and avoid the streets while emotions run high on the island over the shooting death of a fisherman by the Philippine coast guard. Philippine representative Amadeo Perez said after returning to Manila from Taipei that his government has verified at least one attack, in which a Filipino was beaten with a bat. “He was brought to a hospital and police are investigating. We are documenting the cases,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s premier will on Friday unveil the next stage of his plan to reboot the economy, reports said, as he seeks to capitalise on the feel-good mood of a booming stock market and a plunging yen. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce broadbrush outlines of the third of his “three arrows” of a plan dubbed “Abenomics”, which is intended to turn around years of deflation in the world’s third-largest economy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A businesswoman in Zhejing province has been sentenced to death for defrauding her clients of around US$70 million in an investment scam, state media reported on Friday as authorities crack down on illegal banking. Lin Haiyan, 39, from the eastern city of Wenzhou, a free-wheeling business hub, was condemned after illegally raising US$104 million from relatives, friends and other investors, the National Business Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Whites would lose their majority in the United States three years later than expected if immigration growth slows, according to census estimates. New numbers just released show that projections could vary from last year’s government prediction that white children would become a minority in 2018 and the overall white population would become a minority in 2043, based on what happens to the country’s economy and immigration policy. Immigration laws now face their first major overhaul in two decades. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Dark days as CY loses two of his top aides
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying had one of the darkest days in his trouble-plagued administration yesterday when he lost two of his most important aides. Executive councillor and Urban Renewal Authority chairman Barry Cheung Chun-yuen’s departure on leave after the Mercantile Exchange, which he chairs, came under police investigation, was seen as the heaviest blow to date. It coincided with news of the resignation of information co-ordinator June Teng Wai-kwan, Leung’s top media official, due to eye problems. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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