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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 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China will likely use its growing power to try to force its way with Japan but it is doubtful that Beijing will enter a Cold War-style confrontation with the United States, a study said on Thursday. The report by the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace aims to be the most comprehensive unclassified assessment of China’s rise and its impact on the US-Japan alliance in the years ahead. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 1994 Sino-British deal suggests only that a military berth that splits the newly reclaimed Central harbourfront should be used by – not handed over to – the People’s Liberation Army, a legal scholar says. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> High-rollers get lavish treatment and hefty credit lines at Singapore’s two casinos, like any other gaming house in the world. But here, more of them skip town without paying their debt, a matter of increasing concern for investors. Three years after Singapore allowed casinos to open, Genting Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa and Las Vegas Sands’ Marina Bay Sands have become the world’s most profitable. Chinese nationals account for around half of the VIP gaming volume at their tables. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> All new reclamations should include typhoon shelters and piers for marine users to enjoy Hong Kong’s beautiful waters, Designing Hong Kong proposes. Paul Zimmerman, chief executive of the non-government organisation, said officials had made no mention of any marine facilities in most of the sites proposed for reclamation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Comedian Cleo Rocos tells in her book The Power of Positive Drinking how she, Mercury and fellow comedian Kenny Everett dressed Diana in an army jacket, cap and sunglasses for a night out at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, south London, in the late 1980s. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of patients queued up on Saturday, a day after letters began going out to 7,000 patients who had seen Dr Scott Harrington during the past six years, warning them that poor hygiene at his clinics created a public health hazard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prospects for a sweeping US law to create a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants have brightened after major business and labour groups reached an agreement on a guest-worker programme. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Deal on migrant labour lifts barrier to US immigration talks
By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into Paris’ Museum of Natural History and using a chainsaw to cut off a tusk from a centuries-old elephant skeleton. Police said a neighbour of the Left Bank museum alerted authorities after hearing the sawing sound in the early hours at the weekend. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In January, Kaufman county assistant district attorney Mark Hasse, 57, was gunned down outside a courthouse in a small Texan town. He had reportedly been investigating the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Mike McLelland is second prosecutor for Texas’ Kaufman county to be killed
By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It is the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world’s fastest supercomputer. The US$121 million supercomputer, housed at one of the premier United States nuclear weapons research laboratories in northern New Mexico, was being decommissioned yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It has charted the world’s highest peaks, the ocean floor, the Amazon rainforest and even provided a glimpse into the hermit state of North Korea. But Google’s mission to map the world has steered clear of the inhospitable Arctic. Now, however, the search-engine firm is embarking on what might be the most significant update to centuries of polar cartography – and one it hopes will foster a better understanding of life on the permafrost for millions of internet users. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Google team maps Arctic town with Inuit expert’s help
By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pope Francis sent a special video message to the event in Turin’s cathedral but made no claim that the image on the shroud of a man with wounds similar to those suffered by Christ was really that of Jesus. He called the cloth an “icon”, not a relic – an important distinction. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nelson Mandela stayed in hospital for a fourth day yesterday after South African officials said he was making steady progress following treatment for a recurrence of pneumonia. The frail 94-year-old, one of the towering figures of modern history, was admitted on Wednesday for his third hospitalisation in four months. Doctors drained a build-up of fluid, known as a pleural effusion or “water on the lungs”, that had developed from Mandela’s lung infection. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Associated Press (AP) has become the first global news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two years ago and began easing restrictions on the media for the first time in decades. The opening paves the way for AP to expand its coverage of the unfolding transition in Myanmar, which is still emerging from nearly 50 years of military rule. Six multi-format journalists will staff the new AP bureau. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Basic Law interpretation from Beijing would be necessary as a last resort if Hong Kong had difficulties in finalising universal suffrage arrangements for the 2017 chief executive election, a veteran Basic Law Committee member said on Sunday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Basic Law interpretation a last resort to settle universal suffrage debate, says Tam
By , on March 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Beijing has warned Hong Kong’s pan-democrats that using mass protests to confront the central government would be a “misjudgment”. The strongly worded remarks came as the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s latest report on Hong Kong expressed concern about “the lack of a clear plan to institute universal suffrage and to ensure the right of all persons to vote and to stand for election without unreasonable limitations”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Myanmar President Thein Sein on Thursday vowed a tough response to religious extremists after a wave of deadly Buddhist-Muslim violence in the former army-ruled nation. At least 40 people have been killed and mosques burned in several towns in central Myanmar since fresh sectarian strife erupted on March 20, prompting the government to impose emergency rule and curfews in some areas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> One of the organisers of the Occupy Central movement warned on Thursday that a denial of “genuine universal suffrage” in Hong Kong could force people to emigrate or resort to violent tactics. Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, made the remarks on a Commercial Radio programme on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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‘Fanatical’ Gove attacked by union
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.
Continue reading ‘Fanatical’ Gove attacked by union
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