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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A car crashed into the entrance gate of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s home in Ho Man Tin in the early hours of Wednesday morning. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHARLIE SAVAGE and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, on June 19th, 2013 Critics say the fact that no agent in the past two decades has been disciplined for deliberately shooting someone raises questions about the bureau’s internal investigations.
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than US$180 million in revenue by running a “modern-day plantation system”, prosecutors in New York charged. The businesses were built on the unpaid labour of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers, they argued. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Customs insists the city has not become a transit hub for drugs despite a 127 per cent rise in the amount seized in the first five months of this year – and two major busts by officers since then. Some 174.5 kg of illegal drugs worth HK$158 million were discovered up until the end of May, compared with 77 kg, worth HK$61 million, uncovered in the same period last year. Andy Hui Wai-ming, head of the Customs and Excise Department’s drug investigation bureau, said the increase was the result of improved detection. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China rose during the first five months of this year, the government announced on Tuesday, paced by strong increases from the European Union and United States. Incoming FDI, which excludes financial sectors, rose 1.0 per cent to US$47.6 billion (HK$369.4 billion) from January through May, the Commerce Ministry announced. It was also up 0.3 per cent in May to US$9.26 billion (HK$71.9 billion) from the same month last year, the ministry said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JULIA WERDIGIER, on June 18th, 2013 David Green, the director of the Serious Fraud Office, plans to revive the agency’s reputation with a criminal investigation into the rigging of the Libor.
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON — Defiant and apparently unbowed by threats of prosecution, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed Monday to release more secrets about U.S. intelligence surveillance systems that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.” Snowden, who has been hiding in Hong Kong, said NSA analysts routinely obtain emails and other Internet communications of Americans as part of the cyberspying agency’s surveillance of global telecommunications and Internet traffic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON — Edward Snowden, the former U.S. government contractor who leaked secret details of official surveillance programs, pledged Monday to release more information about U.S. intelligence-gathering methods that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.” “All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,” Snowden wrote in an online chat hosted by Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Current and former top U.S. officials on Sunday defended the government’s collection of phone and Internet data following new revelations about the secret surveillance programs, saying the operations were essential in disrupting terrorist plots and did not infringe on Americans’ civil liberties. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bloomberg yesterday quoted a source as saying that following an attack on his company by Chinese hackers in 2010, Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, was provided with highly sensitive US government intelligence linking the attack to a specific unit of the People’s Liberation Army, China’s military. Brin was given a temporary classified clearance to sit on the briefing by US intelligence officials. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Europe has pressed the US for greater detail on the Prism surveillance programme and was told that data collection on Europeans was not conducted in “bulk” but only in cases of strong suspicion of individual or group involvement in terrorism, cybercrime or nuclear proliferation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 
A serving police officer and a woman are arrested as part of a probe into the “plebgate” row involving MP Andrew Mitchell.
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A massive database of private offshore banking entities that could be used for tax evasion was posted online for public use on Friday by the muckraking group that first reported the files. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists said anyone can now search the records of some 100,000 companies, trusts and funds located in leading tax havens to see who could be making use of them to skirt home-country taxes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Australia’s army chief yesterday told troops to quit if they could not respect women, warning he would ruthlessly rid the military of misogynist men after a new sex scandal exploded. Lieutenant-General David Morrison said no stone would be left unturned to weed out those who “exploit and demean” women recruits. The Australian newspaper reported yesterday that officers allegedly filmed themselves having sex with colleagues and civilians, then distributed the images to other military personnel. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gaining some “face” isn’t worth your job, your pension and a jail term. That’s the message the police force has sent to its members after the jailing of former Wan Chai divisional commander Titus Wong Koon-ho for receiving discounts and whisky from a restaurant. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden used a computer thumb drive – a device supposedly banned inside the spying agency – to smuggle highly classified documents out of an NSA facility in Hawaii, according to US officials. That accusation comes as two senior US lawmakers said terrorists were already changing the way they use the internet after the US’s data gathering programmes were made public. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> PCCW and i-Cable should quit the race for free-to-air television licences if they don’t want one now, Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) boss Ricky Wong Wai-kay says. “If you don’t want the licence, drop your application,” Wong told his rivals yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — US factory output up just 0.1 pct. in May after 2 months of declines, signaling more weakness. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Higher food and gas costs push up US wholesale prices 0.5 pct. in May; core inflation tame. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese-American author Ping Fu may soon be hit by international lawsuits for her controversial memoir Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, which has been debunked by Chinese academics and critics. Fu’s alma mater, Soochow University in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, said on Friday that anecdotes in her memoirs, in which she makes claims that during her time at the university she was arrested for her college research, were “falsehoods” and called on the author to participate in a public debate to clarify the details. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Car rams front gate of Apple Daily boss Jimmy Lai’s home
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