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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yuichiro Miura, who took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reached the top of the 8,848 metre mountain at about 9.00am local time, accompanied by three other Japanese climbers, including his son, and six Nepali sherpas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Shinzo Abe arrives in Myanmar today for a three-day visit intended to boost trade between the countries, the first time a Japanese leader will have visited the country in more than 35 years. With China’s influence over the democratic Myanmese government slipping, Japan is hoping to develop economic and security ties. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — US new home sales rise 2.3 percent in April while median home prices hit record high. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The death toll from a blast at an explosives plant in eastern China earlier this week rose to 33 on Thursday as 20 missing people were declared dead, state media reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four nights of rioting that has spread across Stockholm immigrant districts has raised fears that decades of integration efforts have gone dangerously awry. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Saudi Arabia has announced another death from the Sars-like novel coronavirus (nCoV) in its central al-Qassim region, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 17. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid falls by 23,000 to 340,000 last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LONDON (AP) — UK police: Man killed in Woolwich attack was serving soldier. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Premier Li Keqiang has rejected an urbanisation proposal drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China warned blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng on Thursday to mind his language ahead of his trip next month to political rival Taiwan, on a visit which could infuriate Beijing if, as expected, Chen uses it to criticise Chinese rights abuses. China has been largely silent on the issue of Chen since he fled from house arrest and took refuge in the US embassy in Beijing last year, straining Sino-US relations, before he was allowed to leave for New York for study. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines vowed on Thursday to “defend what is ours” as part of a stand-off over a Chinese warship circling a South China Sea reef which is occupied by Filipino marines. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — The price of oil fell below $93 per barrel Thursday after a survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is fading. Benchmark oil for July delivery was down $1.37 to $92.91 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract declined $1.90 to close at $94.28 a barrel on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Doctors diagnosed him as having a severe infection of the lungs, most likely contracted from the bacteria-infested river. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and three others, including two opposition politicians, were arrested on the same charge in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite earning a civil servant’s salary for three decades, Taib Mahmud, the powerful chief minister of Malaysia’s Sarawak state, is reputed by critics to be one of Asia’s richest men. Taib, 77, and his family are accused of massive corruption and running Malaysia’s largest state like a family business, controlling its biggest companies with stakes in hundreds of corporations in Malaysia and abroad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thai authorities have arrested an Italian wanted over alleged links to a human trafficking ring which swindled around US$10 million from European taxpayers and banks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A roadside bomb killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region’s natural gas and other resources. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — The price of oil fell below $94 per barrel Thursday after a private survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is fading. Benchmark oil for July delivery was down 81 cents to $93.47 per barrel at midafternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract declined $1.90 to close at $94.28 a barrel on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese businessman who was accused of killing a man 16 years ago and went on the run, setting up a new life as a university professor, has been held after the victim’s brother found him, reports said on Thursday. Ren Yuefeng was running a restaurant in the southern province of Yunnan when he had Yang Shunxiang beaten to death in a dispute over counterfeit cigarette trading, the state-run Global Times said. It cited the victim’s younger brother Yang Shunming, who was working for Ren at the time. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Japanese mountaineer, 80, overcomes four heart operations to scale Everest
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Yuichiro Miura, who took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reached the top of the 8,848 metre mountain at about 9.00am local time, accompanied by three other Japanese climbers, including his son, and six Nepali sherpas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Japanese mountaineer, 80, overcomes four heart operations to scale Everest
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