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Video: Ai Weiwei releases heavy metal song about his incarceration

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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Ai Weiwei, China’s most renowned dissident artist, has released a new heavy metal song as the first part of his The Divine Comedy music album on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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For the first time, one-child families are in the majority, survey shows

By , on May 21st, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s low birth rate has fallen further in the past five years, with the number of one-child families outpacing two-children households for the first time, a survey shows. Of 1,518 married or cohabitating women aged 15 to 49 surveyed by the Family Planning Association in its latest five-yearly study, 37.5 per cent had one child and 32 per cent had two children. The average number of children per household reached a record low of 1.12 last year, compared with 1.49 in 2007 and 1.6 in 2002. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Chinese look to Mars mission to fulfil dreams – and to escape

By , on May 21st, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Ma Qiang is angry that mainland media have dubbed his Mars dream a hoax. The 39-year old former policeman from Dujiangyan, Sichuan, signed up for the Mars One project in the Netherlands last month, becoming one of the first volunteers to be screened for a journey of no return scheduled in a decade. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Conservation official denies legal ivory trade to blame for poaching

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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Xi Jinping’s ‘emotional intelligence’ comments spark debate

By , on May 21st, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> It’s not your educational background, integrity, experience, or people you know that matters. What it takes to be a good communist leader is “emotional intelligence”, or EQ, says Chinese President Xi Jinping.  Xi enlightened his audience during a  recent visit to a job fair in Tianjin while talking to a local village official. “Intelligence quotient and emotional quotient – which is more important?,” he asked. After an official said “both”, Xi answered his own question, <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Drug trafficking charges for US Virgin Islands environment officer

By , on May 20th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the US Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol boat. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Big business, organisers joust over cost of Occupy Central to Hong Kong

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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Big business and the Occupy Central movement clashed yesterday over the price the city would pay if the pro-democracy movement brought the heart of Hong Kong to a halt. Four business groups warned that Occupy Central could cost the city billions. But Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a founder of Occupy Central, countered that the economic cost of failing to achieve universal suffrage in 2017 could be higher. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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No rule to follow to end filibusters in HK’s Legislative Council

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<!– google_ad_section_start –> The filibuster has been part of the Hong Kong political scene for more than a decade, but despite the stalling tactic being used three times in the past year, the Legislative Council’s rules of procedure show little sign of catching up. Last week, when attempts to filibuster the budget bill were effectively ended by Legco president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, he laid bare the fact that “there is no rule to follow” to end a filibuster when a bill is passing through the committee stage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Pupils ‘need early porn warnings’

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Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say.

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Briton facing child death charges

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A 48-year-old British man living in France is expected to be formally charged later with killing his two children, aged five and 10.

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UK astro Peake given station date

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UK astronaut Tim Peake is to fly to the International Space Station, launching on a Soyuz rocket in November or December 2015.

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Second body found after house blast

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A man and a woman are found dead at the scene of a suspected gas explosion at a Nottinghamshire house.

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Bird flu costs China industry US$65b: state media

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<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country’s poultry industry more than 400 billion yuan (HK$500 billion) as consumers shun chicken, government officials said according to state media Monday. The sector has been losing an average of one billion yuan a day since the end of March, the Beijing Times said, citing Li Xirong, head of the National Animal Husbandry Service. H7N9 avian influenza has infected 130 people in China, killing 35, since it was found in humans for the first time, according to latest official data. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Going out in style: Piano-themed coffins among attractions at Hong Kong cemetery expo

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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Piano-themed coffins, paper caskets and pet urns were all on display at Wan Chai Exhibition Centre last week as more than 2,500 undertakers from around the world descended on Hong Kong to exhibit their wares at the Asia Funeral and Cemetry Expo. Organisers called it “practical ideas on global trends regarding the management and operation of funeral facilities and service”. But for some it was a morbid interest in the odd array of caskets that brought them to the expo. Also on display were the latest methods of embalming and cremation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Major projects can counter flooding in Asian cities, experts say

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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Asia’s flood-prone cities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for rising populations, experts said yesterday at a water security forum. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that paralysed Jakarta and Manila last year and central Thailand in 2011. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Pakistani politician is shot dead

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Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan’s Movement for Justice party, has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.

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Sweden hosts Eurovision extravaganza

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Singer Bonnie Tyler is set to make her Eurovision debut on Saturday when she performs UK entry Believe In Me at the annual contest in Malmo, Sweden.

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Thousands rally to oppose Italy cuts

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Thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, rally in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.

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Saudi woman reaches Everest summit

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A 25-year-old Saudi woman makes history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.

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No 10 issues ‘loon slur’ denial

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No 10 denies that “anyone in Downing Street” made comments reported in several newspapers describing Tory activists as “mad, swivel-eyed loons”.

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