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By , on April 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It’s 3pm on Saturday on the front line of a conflict some experts believe might explode into a third world war. Young couples stroll and children play in the white sand and surf of an idyllic, palm-fringed tropical beach. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China has become the world’s fifth-largest arms exporter, a respected Sweden-based think tank said on Monday, its highest ranking since the cold war, with Pakistan the main recipient. China’s volume of weapons exports between 2008 and last year rose 162 per cent compared to the previous five year period, with its share of the global arms trade rising from 2 per cent to 5 per cent, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.2 per cent last month from a year ago, pushed up by higher food prices during the Lunar New Year festival, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday. Consumer prices in February were 1.1 per cent higher than January. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.2 per cent last month from a year ago, pushed up by higher food prices during the Lunar New Year festival, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday. Consumer prices in February were 1.1 per cent higher than January. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese couples are flocking to divorce to evade a new tax on home sales after the government cracked down on property speculation, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported on Wednesday. China’s central government last Friday issued rules to rein in house prices, including a nationwide capital gains tax of 20 per cent on profits owners make from selling residential property. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TOKYO (AP) — Toyota taps outsiders for board for first time under sprawling management changes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea warned on Wednesday that it would retaliate against any provocation from North Korea, a day after the North threatened to tear up the armistice that ended the Korean war in 1953. “If North Korea carries out provocations that threaten the lives and safety of South Koreans, our military will carry out strong and resolute retaliations,” Army General Kim Yong-hyun told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong saw a record number of new HIV infection in 2012, the Department of Health said on Wednesday. 513 new infections of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) were reported last year, a 17 per cent increase from the previous high of 438 cases recorded in 2011. The new cases take the cumulative total of HIV infections reported in Hong Kong to 5,783 since the first case in 1984. Dr Wong Ka-hing, a consultant with the Centre for Health Protection, said at a press conference that sexual contact was the major mode of transmission last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong saw a record number of new HIV infection in 2012, the Department of Health said on Wednesday. A total of 513 new infections of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) were reported last year, a 17 per cent increase from the previous high of 438 cases recorded in 2011. The new cases take the cumulative total of HIV infections reported in Hong Kong to 5,783 since the first case in 1984. Dr Wong Ka-hing, a consultant with the Centre for Health Protection, said at a press conference that sexual contact was the major mode of transmission last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Australia on Wednesday admitted for the first time that a man found hanged in a Tel Aviv jail worked for the Israeli government, but stopped short of confirming he was a Mossad spy. Dual Australian-Israeli citizen Ben Zygier, known as “Prisoner X”, died in 2010 in an allegedly suicide-proof cell with Israel going to extreme lengths to cover it up, sparking claims by Australian media that he worked for Mossad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BERLIN (AP) — UN agency: Number of Syrians fleeing their country, seeking assistance hits 1 million. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The tropical waters of the South China Sea are among the most contested on earth, but Chinese fishermen who sail in them shrug off the dangers of navigating between multiple competing claimants. “It’s a little risky… but in Chinese regions we’re not afraid, we’re in sea which belongs to us, how could we be arrested?” asked Liang Min, 29, as he stood in his ship’s dank engine room, wearing yellow plastic shoes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Chinese fishermen on front line of marine dispute in South China Sea
By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Shao Zhanwei, China’s NPC deputy and mayor of Hangzhou, died of a heart attack on Wednesday morning during the annual parliamentary session in Beijing, reported Xinhua state news agency. Shao was born in 1956 and became the mayor of Hangzhou in February 2011, according to Hangzhou’s official website. The news shocked many netizens, who posted condolence messages on China’s social media sites. “He’s a good official with a good reputation – it’s a shame,” commented one netizen. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hangzhou mayor Shao Zhanwei dies during NPC session
By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> One of the top dancers at Russia’s famed Bolshoi Theatre has confessed to plotting an acid attack that nearly blinded his artistic director Sergei Filin earlier this year, police were quoted as saying on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite the 11 failures China’s outgoing premier Wen Jiabao openly acknowledged in his last work report on Tuesday, sources say he omitted another important one: failing to stop his children doing business in China. Wen confessed his regrets during an inner-party discussion group in January, local reports said . <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ko Wing-man has responded to questions regarding the controversial two-tin cap on infant formula exports in an interview with the Beijing News published on Wednesday, <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Formula curbs not aimed at mainland tourists, says food chief
By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has marked the 60th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death, with the nation divided on whether he was a tyrant who slaughtered millions or a saviour who created a superpower after World War II. Hundreds of people on Tuesday laid red carnations at the Red Square grave of the Soviet ruler, where his body was buried in 1961 after being displayed for several years alongside Lenin in Moscow’s Mausoleum. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Riot police in Zimbabwe blocked an address on Tuesday by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, whose uneasy unity rule with President Robert Mugabe is set to end within months at the ballot box. “Riot police have just disrupted a community meeting I was due to address,” Tsvangirai tweeted on Tuesday night. “Their actions today show that the leopard has not changed colours.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> “A National People’s Congress member has brought the proposal to the parliament meeting, but only as a ‘suggestion’,” Li Yinhe said. On multiple occassions since 2003, she has entrusted NPC members to submit her proposal on gay marriage on her behalf. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Activist’s plan to legalise gay marriage submitted to NPC
By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Twenty-six Chinese nationals joined Forbes magazine’s recently published Global Rich List this year, bringing the country’s total number of billionaires on the list to 122. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Residents on US-armed Guam laugh off threat from North Korea
<!– google_ad_section_start –> It’s 3pm on Saturday on the front line of a conflict some experts believe might explode into a third world war. Young couples stroll and children play in the white sand and surf of an idyllic, palm-fringed tropical beach. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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