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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong Customs said on Saturday it had foiled the largest smuggling attempt by a river trade vessel since 2008 – seizing HK$60 million worth of unmanifested goods including electronic products and endangered species. Customs officers intercepted a river trade vessel bound for Humen in Guangdong Province shortly after it set off from Black Point of Tuen Mun two days ago. Officers then escorted the vessel to the River Trade Terminal in Tuen Mun for closer examination. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The MTR Corporation could be fined as much as HK$15 million over the derailment of a light-rail train in Yuen Long on Friday that landed 77 passengers in hospital, the transport chief said. The MTR apologised on Saturday for the accident – the most serious derailment in the light-rail network’s 25-year history. A recently revised fare-adjustment mechanism that penalises any suspension of services lasting more than eight hours made such a fine possible, Secretary for Transport and Housing Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung said at the site of the crash. <!– 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 –> Huge demand and big profits are tempting smugglers to sneak high-end electronics gadgets across the border. The police netted 23 boxes of undeclared electronics products, including digital cameras, camera lenses and digital video recorders, just before they were loaded into high-powered speedboats moored at Sai Kung on Thursday night. <!– 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 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed on Friday for 45 years for the “horrifying” murder. Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a 24-year-old accounting student who lived in an adjoining room at his Sydney boarding house, the Supreme Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China. The sentences, handed down yesterday by a court in the southern province of Long An, were the latest in an intensified crackdown against dissent in the one-party, authoritarian state. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. The eye of the storm was expected to reach land Thursday evening, but at least 18 deaths related to Mahasen already have been reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A powerful suicide car bomb targeting a Nato military convoy in Kabul killed eight Afghan civilians including two children on Thursday in the first major attack in the capital for more than two months. Government officials said eight passers-by died in the explosion in the Shah Shaheed residential district in southeast Kabul, while the Nato coalition was unable to give details of any casualties. Hezb-i-Islami, an insurgent group that is independent from Taliban militant forces, claimed responsibility for the attack. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Enthusiasm on Wall Street sparked by another positive report on the U.S. economy helped push most Asian stock markets higher Wednesday. But lower-than-expected German economic growth disappointed investors elsewhere. The German economy narrowly avoided recession in the first quarter of 2013, with 0.1 percent growth for the quarter. However, analysts were expecting a 0.3 percent quarterly rise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Enthusiasm on Wall Street sparked by another positive report on the U.S. economy helped push most Asian stock markets higher Wednesday. The National Federation of Independent Business reported a slight improvement in confidence among small business owners in the U.S. in April. That helped boost the Dow Jones industrial average to close at a record high Tuesday. “A combination of further improvement of economic performance and low inflation in the US should keep risk appetite buoyant,” said analysts at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong in an email commentary.
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police surveillance footage said to show a young migrant worker moments before she fell to her death has sparked accusations of a cover-up after she appeared to be wearing different clothing to that photographed by witnesses at the scene. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Throughout Chinese history, the expression ya nei originally meant palace guards but later referred generally to children of government officials. In traditional Chinese opera and drama, they are immortalised as the worst of the worst – vile, violent and corrupt. Dressed in silk and drooped in gold, ya nei roamed the streets, beating people for no particular reason or kidnapping young girls and forcing them to become concubines. They usually escape punishment thanks to their powerful fathers and relatives. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading The Son also Rises: nepotism doesn’t disappear in China, it just gets a promotion
By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A shortage of human cadavers for the city’s medical schools has been eased by an unusual offer – free scattering of your ashes when you die if you agree to donate your body for study. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt’s conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala’s oppressed indigenous communities their first chance to be heard, human rights activists said. Relatives of those killed and activists celebrated the 80-year sentence handed down by a tribunal to Rios Montt on Friday, a sweet moment in their long struggle to punish the former dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest chapters of a war that killed some 200,000 people, mainly indigenous Mayans. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted of interfering with national security when they broke into the primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium in the US It took the jury about 2 1/2 hours to find the three protesters guilty on Wednesday on a charge of interfering with national security and a second charge of damaging federal property. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Amazon Indians on Friday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralysed work on the world’s third largest hydroelectric dam for two days. Some 200 people from various indigenous groups occupied one of three construction sites of the controversial Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River on Thursday, halting work by 3,000 of the 22,000 workers on the project. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Young Mexican women were driven to rural New Jersey and forced to have sex with 25 farmworkers a day, US authorities have revealed. They were also confined to brothels in the New York area and paid very little or nothing at all. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three university friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been accused of trying to protect him by going into his dorm room and getting rid of a backpack filled with hollowed-out fireworks three days after the attack. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Migrant workers and dockers came out in force in Hong Kong on Wednesday to protest against poor wages and working conditions. They used the annual Labour Day holiday to make their dissatisfaction known, congregating in Central to chant and wave banners. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Customs seize HK$60m worth of smuggled goods
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong Customs said on Saturday it had foiled the largest smuggling attempt by a river trade vessel since 2008 – seizing HK$60 million worth of unmanifested goods including electronic products and endangered species. Customs officers intercepted a river trade vessel bound for Humen in Guangdong Province shortly after it set off from Black Point of Tuen Mun two days ago. Officers then escorted the vessel to the River Trade Terminal in Tuen Mun for closer examination. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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