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By By ANNIE LOWREY, on May 17th, 2013 The plan includes limiting the deductions and exclusions high-income families can claim, increasing taxes on tobacco products and adopting a new minimum tax on income over $1 million.
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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 –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Time was running out for New Year celebrations in a darkened Kwun Tong housing development a few years ago. Electricity supply to Tsui Ping Estate had been cut shortly after 9pm when smoke was seen coming from switches in the ground-floor transformer room. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A clan whose chiefs are on trial for the Philippines’ worst political massacre secured big wins in local elections this week, results showed on Friday, deepening fears that justice may never be served. Leaders of the Ampatuan family and their gunmen are accused of massacring 58 people, including 32 journalists, in the southern province of Maguindanao more than three years ago in a bid to quash a rival’s challenge to become governor. <!– 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 –> Jewellery worth more than US$1 million due to be loaned to stars treading the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen in a pre-dawn heist on Friday but the coveted Palme d’Or trophy was safe, officials said. In a scenario itself worthy of a movie, thieves broke into the room of an American employee of Swiss bijoutier Chopard, ripped a safe off the wall and made off with the jewels, according to police reports. The robbery took place at around 5.00am at the Novotel hotel, 15 minutes from the festival venue, they said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — World stock markets were mixed Friday as investors digested a slew of disappointing data from the U.S. ahead of the release of a key measurement of the country’s economic outlook. Investors were looking ahead to the Conference Board’s index of leading indicators for April, to be released later Friday. The index is designed to anticipate economic conditions three to six months out. Analysts hope the figures will balance out several discouraging economic reports released Thursday, including a jump in unemployment aid applications to their highest level in six weeks. <!– 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 facial reconstruction based on the skull of Richard III goes on display in Leicester on the first stop of a national tour.
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Graduates on a new fast-track scheme for trainee social workers will co-handle caseloads after just five weeks of intensive initial training.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A US soldier convicted of killing five of his colleagues in Iraq in May 2009 was sentenced to life behind bars on Thursday and dishonourably discharged. Army Sergeant John Russell was convicted earlier this week over the murders at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war-related stress at Camp Liberty, the largest US base in Iraq. Russell, who previously denied responsibility, admitted the killings last month in a plea deal to escape a death sentence, worked out by his lawyers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), in the northwestern US state of Washington. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The mayor of Kunming, Li Wenrong, has posted his first message on a Sina Weibo microblog in a move aimed at showing government transparency in the Yunnan provincial capital. Li had promised to open the account on Thursday, when he met with hundreds of protesters on Kunming’s streets. The angry crowd had ignored official intimidation to voice their opposition against a petrochemical project on the city’s outskirts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT, on May 17th, 2013 Antiship cruise missiles could make it more difficult for the United States and its allies to impose a naval embargo, establish a no-fly zone or carry out airstrikes in support of Syria’s rebels.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds defied police orders and took to the streets of Yunnan’s provincial capital Kunming yesterday to protest against an oil refinery project. Ignoring warnings that any gathering would be illegal, they started congregating near the provincial government headquarters at about 10am despite a heavy police presence. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Labour umbrella groups Industrial Global Union and UNI Global Union yesterday praised top retailers for joining their drive to make Bangladesh’s garment factories safer, after 1,127 people died in a factory collapse last month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Marine Department insisted yesterday that its director had already expressed his remorse for the Lamma ferry tragedy following criticism from relatives of some of the 39 people who died. It added that Director of Marine Francis Liu Hon-por remained saddened by the October 1 disaster – which a commission of inquiry found had been caused in part by his department’s “serious systematic failings”. Yesterday’s statement did little to appease Ryan Tsui Chi-shing, whose older brother Tsui Chi-wai and 10-year-old nephew Tsui Hoi-ying died in the crash. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten rights lawyers petitioned a key National People’s Congress commission yesterday, calling for legitimising same-sex marriage on the mainland, ahead of today’s annual International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. The lawyers, from law firms across the mainland, signed a joint letter calling for the law committee of the NPC to study the legalisation of gay marriage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Authorities have arrested the suspect wanted in a Mother’s Day parade shooting that wounded 19 people in New Orleans, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A woman whose trial riveted viewers with details of sex and violence returns to court on Thursday, as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week in the death of her boyfriend now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death. Jurors on Wednesday took less than three hours to determine that Jodi Arias should be eligible for the death penalty in the killing of her one-time lover after prosecutors proved the murder was especially cruel and heinous. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Fear of abuse keeps bulk of Chinese gays in closet in workplace
<!– 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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