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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 –> Angelina Jolie recently revealed that due to her defective gene BRCA1, she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer from 87 per cent to 5 per cent. In Hong Kong, breast cancer is the most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Here we look at some facts, figures and fixes on breast cancer and its effect on the female population. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing. The ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order – more even than on its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country for two years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported but about 50 to 60 people are injured. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It is a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women’s sports are severely restricted, her proud father said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Denmark, widely tipped to win the annual music competition, garnered 281 points at a glittering ceremony watched by millions of viewers, beating runner ups Azerbaijan (234 points) and Ukraine (214 points.) <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> French actor and newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu yesterday compared President Vladimir Putin with the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent was what Russia needed as a leader. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest wins Eurovision song contest . <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BALTIMORE (AP) — Oxbow has won the Preakness Stakes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> DAMASCUS, Virginia (AP) — Emergency official: 50 to 60 injured in US parade crash, 3 flown by helicopter; no fatalities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A “squeezed generation” of middle-aged Europeans are convinced they are going to be poorer in retirement than their parents, according to a global survey that found the Chinese the most confident about their future and the French, Germans and Spanish the most pessimistic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a continuing effort to address concerns that reporters at Bloomberg News looked at terminal subscribers’ data, parent company Bloomberg appointed Samuel Palmisano, a former chairman and chief executive of IBM, to review its privacy and data standards. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in China in the past three weeks, a labour rights group said on Saturday. All three jumped to their deaths at a plant in the central city of Zhengzhou run by the Taiwanese electronics giant. A 30-year-old married man killed himself on Tuesday following the similar deaths of a 23-year-old woman on April 27 and a 24-year-old man three days earlier, media reports said. “The reasons for these building jumpings are unclear,” the New York-based China Labor Watch rights group said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people on the mainland have heard colleagues use insulting language or tell offensive jokes about LGBT people, resulting in most choosing to stay in the closet, according to a report released in Beijing yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Almost two-thirds of Europe’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and most feel discriminated against, an EU report said on Friday, the International Day Against Homophobia. “Fear, isolation and discrimination are everyday phenomena for the LGBT community in Europe,” the director of the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Morten Kjaerum, wrote in the report. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013
A quarter of gay people surveyed in a major EU poll say they have been subjected to attacks or violent threats in the past five years.
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> While the transsexual identified only as W can look forward at last to a “magical” wedding to her boyfriend, she says much more needs to be done to protect sexual minorities in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gigi Chao and her father may have different opinions about how she lives her life, but that did not deter them from enjoying a night at the theatre under the same roof last night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Ilana Glazer, on April 17th, 2013 Since the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed their ban on LGBT scouts and Scoutmasters, some parents have made the decision to pull their boys from the group and find an alternative program that does not have discriminative policies.
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Gay rights activist arrested after protest in Changsha
<!– 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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