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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexico’s southeastern coast, brings heavy rain to area. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DAVID POGUE, on June 19th, 2013 Microsoft’s application falls short of duplicating the everyday functions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Some outside apps do it better.
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed sticks with bond purchases but offers slightly brighter outlook for the economy… <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A consultant advising the government on housing policy says that to meet growing demand it will need to build 221,800 public rental flats over the coming decade. That’s almost 25 per cent more than the current construction target. The consultant forecast demand for new private flats in the range of 128,700 to 191,000 over the same period. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, whose unflinching reporting ended the career of top US Army general Stanley McChrystal, died in a car accident in Los Angeles, his family said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong can learn from South Korea, where local industry has had a hand in developing its aspiring universities, says an editor of a new list ranking young universities worldwide. The annual list, inaugurated last year by London-based Times Higher Education magazine, ranks the world’s 100 best universities that are not yet 50 years old. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Under the watchful eye of stern-faced American advisers, hundreds of US-trained Jordanian commandos fanned across the dusty desert plain, holding war games that could eventually form the basis of an assault in Syria. With the recent deployment of Patriot missiles near the Syrian border, and the mock Syrian accents of those playing the enemy, the message was clear: there is fear of spillover from the Syrian war in this US-allied kingdom, and the potential for a Jordanian role in securing Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles should Bashar al-Assad’s regime lose control. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A young girl shocked her family when she broke her silence and told them she could no longer endure the beatings and abuse from a staff member at school. Murong was one of six schoolgirls aged around 11 who were sexually abused by a classroom adviser for two years in a remote village in the northeast mainland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading In China, healing sexually abused children starts with fight against conservatism
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the context of the war in Syria, the G8′s support for convening peace talks in Geneva “as soon as possible” and a pledge of US$1.5 billion in humanitarian aid are the diplomatic equivalent of motherhood and apple pie – a comforting reaffirmation of the decent and unobjectionable. But neither will do much to end the crisis any time soon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The top media aide at the Chief Secretary’s Office has become one of the most short-lived press secretaries in recent years, as Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor replaced Gilford Law Sun-on this week. Law made way for new press secretary Andy Lam Siu-hong after only 18 months in the job from November 2011, during Stephen Lam Sui-lung’s term as chief secretary. Government postings usually last for at least three years; Law’s predecessor Darryl Chan Wai-man stayed for more than four years from 2007. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> If you have just seen a play that you think is drivel, would you keep silent when everyone around you demands an encore? Possibly not, according to research published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Combining a psychological experiment and mathematical analysis, the research marked a scientific attempt to quantify the fuzzy notion of “social contagion” – how individual behaviour is influenced by group dynamics. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Research shows that peer pressure drives social behaviour
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jack Lew was the senior budget adviser to President Barack Obama and President Bill Clinton. He was Obama’s chief of staff. Now he is the US treasury secretary. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Canada, among the 10 least corrupt countries in the world the past six years, according to rankings by Transparency International, is mired in scandals. Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum was arrested by Quebec’s anti-corruption task force on Monday over fraud allegations, adding to controversies rocking political circles in Toronto and Ottawa that have taken the shine off Canada’s image as a squeaky-clean nation. Applebaum quit on Tuesday, saying he plans to focus on defending himself against the “unfounded” accusations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Only a handful of New Territories villagers have complied with demolition orders for illegal structures – despite 130 such orders being issued in a crackdown on unauthorised building work that began last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fashion design duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were yesterday each handed a suspended prison sentence of one year and eight months for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the tax authorities. The designers, who are nearly as famous as the stars they dress, were not present in court in Milan and denied the charges. Given the complexity and length of the appeals process, they are unlikely to spend any time in jail. Public prosecutor Gaetano Ruta had asked that they be jailed for two- and-a-half years. A spokesman for the company declined to comment immediately. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were forced to live in an Ohio basement with snakes and pitbulls and were treated like slaves for more than two years, US prosecutors said. The case came to light after the woman was caught stealing confectionery and told police she would rather go to jail than go home because her roommates “were mean to her”. Three of her tormentors were arrested on human trafficking charges. “We are yet again reminded that modern-day slavery exists all around us,” US attorney for the northern district of Ohio, Steven Dettelbach, said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A series of events celebrating Hong Kong’s comics and animation will be held this and next month to mark the opening of the city’s first site dedicated to the popular culture. But while fans will enjoy a feast of exhibitions and film screenings, the reality is not as rosy as it seems. While welcoming the opening of the Comix Home Base at the Green House in Wan Chai next month, local comics and animation veterans say the small domestic market has made their lives difficult. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Comics fest hides the grim reality of animation world
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama said Russian and US nuclear weapons should be slashed by up to a third, in a keynote speech in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate, where he called for a world of “peace and justice”. Obama used the once-divided city’s rebirth as a metaphor for progress, as he stood on the east side of the route of the Berlin Wall, and warned the “complacent” West that history did not stop with its cold war victory. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A grand jury has indicted a US man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy. The Orange County Register said Lonnie Kocontes, 55, did not enter a plea on Monday. He was indicted on Friday on a charge of murder for financial gain. He will try to have the case dismissed on June 26, arguing that Californian authorities lack jurisdiction. Kocontes and Micki Kanesaki, 52, were divorced but had lived together on and off. They were sharing a cabin on the cruise when she went overboard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The security chief was trying to placate a worried public following Snowden’s claims in the media that US agencies have carried out hundreds of cyberspying operations in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexico’s southeastern coast, brings heavy rain to area
<!– google_ad_section_start –> MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexico’s southeastern coast, brings heavy rain to area. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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