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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 –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten bedridden terminal cancer patients lie in the dimly lit, quiet hospice ward at the Jingan Temple Community Hospital in Shanghai. Most are cared for by auxiliary workers, who look after a few at a time. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Jennifer Vineyard, on June 7th, 2013 
In the near-future America of The Purge, one night a year is reserved for violent crime: For twelve hours, the state sanctions, and even encourages, otherwise illegal behavior, including murder, with no criminal consequences. The idea is that the rest of the year there would be less crime, though one … More »
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s worsening air pollution has had a surprising and unexpected consequence – fashionable face masks. A trend has sprung up among people who want to look good while trying to avoid the smog. Face masks are now an accessory and are matched according to the weather, sport or outdoor activity. When the air is bad, people who don’t wear masks are like ET They are so commonplace that it is unusual when someone is outside without the protection. “When the air is bad, people who don’t wear masks are like ET,” Chen Dawei said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The issue of whether or not there was an agreement in 1972 to shelve the Sino-Japanese territorial dispute over the Diaoyu Islands has split Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and is destined to complicate further the relationship between Beijing and Tokyo. The issue flared up on Monday when Hiromu Nonaka, a former Japanese cabinet secretary and ex-secretary-general of the LDP, contradicted Tokyo’s official stance during a visit of sitting and former lawmakers to Beijing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A landmark study shows mainland’s elderly still get significant support from their children, but the one-child policy could change that forever. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Organisers of the annual June 4 vigil in Hong Kong are mulling over withdrawing a slogan adopted for this year’s event following a war of words with a prominent “Tiananmen mother”, who criticised the slogan as “stupid”. Lee Cheuk-yan, lawmaker and chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, which organises the vigil, said on Friday the group’s leaders would rethink the slogan – “love the country and love the people; Hong Kong spirit”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Beijing-based business magazine raised eyebrows this week by running a full-page editorial urging the country’s leaders to pursue further political reforms to ensure future economic prosperity. In what many consider a rare and bold move, an editorial entitled “Let’s continue to care about politics,” criticised President Xi Jinping for lacking “wisdom and courage” in pushing forward necessary reforms. Without directly naming Xi, Zhao Li, the weekly’s editor-in-chief wrote, <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A group of families demanding justice for the victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has denounced new President Xi Jinping for failing to launch political reforms, saying he was taking China “backwards towards Maoist orthodoxy”. The Tiananmen mothers activist group has long urged the leadership to open a dialogue and provide a reassessment of the 1989 pro-democracy movement, bloodily suppressed on June 4 that year by the government which labeled it “counter-revolutionary”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese man pleaded guilty to trying to export weapons-grade carbon fibre to China from the United States, after getting caught in a cyber-sting and packing the material in a plain brown box that prosecutors said was labelled “clothing. Lisong Ma, 34, entered his plea on Thursday before US Magistrate Judge Vera Scanlon in Brooklyn, New York. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, and four to five years under recommended federal sentencing guidelines. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A non-profit group said on Friday it was launching a project to comb the catalogues of some of Japan’s biggest drug companies in the hunt for treatments for diseases that kill thousands of people every year. The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), set up by the Japanese government, Japanese pharmaceutical companies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said they were looking at a potential five-year commitment of more than US$100 million to support research and development into neglected diseases. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — Legendary Entertainment, the Hollywood studio behind “The Hangover” franchise, is teaming with state-owned China Film Group to make more global blockbusters as it advances a delayed expansion in the rapidly growing Chinese movie market. Their deal is the latest example of growing collaboration between entertainment companies in the world’s two biggest movie markets. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet with members of a Chinese delegation this weekend and likely talk about ongoing cyberthreats amid new reports that China used computer-based attacks to access data from dozens of Pentagon weapons programmes and other defence technologies. Speaking to reporters on his plane en route to Singapore on Thursday, Hagel said that the US must find ways to work with the Chinese and other countries to develop rules of the road and a better understanding among nations for the use of cyber. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment and state-owned China Film Group have signed a deal to make big-budget movies. It’s the latest example of growing collaboration between entertainment companies in the world’s two biggest movie markets. Legendary said its Chinese venture, Legendary East, signed an agreement with China Film on Thursday in Beijing. The deal calls for the companies to fund development and production of multiple films over three years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A giant panda made from 74 Louis Vuitton handbags and leather products by UK artist Billie Achilleos is on display at Wuhan International Plaza in Wuhan, in the central Province of Hubei. A total of 23 animals made from the designer products are displayed in a special exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of SLG Savoir Faire bag collection. It is open to the public until June 23. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a tour of Latin America and the Caribbean on Friday, he will see a region split between nations with trade bonds with Beijing and those that recognise Taiwan. Xi will begin his trip in the oil-rich Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago before heading to Costa Rica and Mexico. The last two nations were visited by US President Barack Obama in early May. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese newborn who was rescued from a sewer pipe has been released to his family and his mother is unlikely to face criminal charges because authorities concluded he fell into the toilet after his birth accidentally, local officials and media reports said. The baby was released from a hospital to his maternal grandparents late on Wednesday, while his 22-year-old mother remains under medical care, the state-run Jinhua Evening News reported, in an account confirmed Thursday by a local police official who declined to give his name. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles on Thursday denounced as “blackmail” a threat by Caracas to end support for Colombia’s peace process with leftist rebels. President Nicolas Maduro’s government threatened to withdraw its support from the peace talks after Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos met with Capriles on Wednesday at the presidential palace. A photograph of Santos and Capriles shaking hands triggered a swift and angry reaction from Caracas, which announced it was recalling its delegate to the peace talks in Havana. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Kenyan High Court has ordered police to reinvestigate complaints of rape by 11 girls in a landmark case brought by a children’s charity on behalf of more than 240 victims of child rape, some of them as young as three years old. Mercy Chidi, who runs the Ripples International children’s charity in Meru, Kenya, filed a petition on behalf of the girls, who came to the charity for help after being raped by fathers, grandfathers, uncles, police officers and neighbours. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio state government says it’ll appeal judge’s ruling to cancel Brazil vs. England friendly. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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In China, healing sexually abused children starts with fight against conservatism
<!– 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
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