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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan has made it onto Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful women, a feat her predecessors have never achieved, but remains overshadowed by her entrepreneurial compatriots. Peng jumped from nil to No 54 in the rankings published on Wednesday after accompanying President Xi Jinping on his maiden trip as head of state through Africa in March. She was showered with praise as an unprecedentedly confident Chinese first lady. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese students and parents are demanding an apology from US Vice-President Joe Biden for “insensitive” comments, weeks after he referred to China as the nation that cannot “think different” or “breathe free” during a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania. <!– 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 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Commander Chris Hadfield leaves the International Space Station after five months with a fitting tribute <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s richest man, Zong Qinghou, may be known for his frugality, but he bailed on two free dinners in February, snubbing invitations from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister David Cameron. “The queen invited me for February 6; the prime minister invited me for the 12th. Lunar New Year was on the 9th,” the founder of China’s third-largest beverage maker Wahaha told China Entrepreneur Magazine in an interview published on Sunday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A funeral home director was scrambling to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, ignoring protesters gathered outside his business and saying everybody deserves a dignified burial service no matter the circumstances of his or her death. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to sex offences yesterday, the latest British TV star from the 1970s and 1980s to be embroiled in abuse allegations. Hall, 83, who was best known for hosting the family TV show It’s a Knockout and was still working for the BBC as a soccer radio commentator until recently, admitted 14 counts of indecent offences against young girls over two decades, with the youngest victim aged just nine. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Tenno heika banzai, or “long live the emperor”, was commonly chanted by Japanese soldiers in the second world war, said CCTV, adding that it is “extremely unusual” for a top government official to use it after the war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The government’s decision to cancel the National Day fireworks has alarmed some in the tourism trade while also sparking a debate over whether the display should ever take place again. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British advertising regulators have been accused of failing to protect children from aggressive marketing by food firms using internet games and online ads. The Children’s Food Campaign has called on ministers to introduce statutory regulation to close loopholes allowing ads banned from children’s television to be shown on manufacturers’ own child-friendly websites. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Moments after the start of his daily grind as a construction worker in northern China, Xia Donghai’s world came crashing down with news that a terrifying earthquake had struck his hometown almost a thousand miles away. With all communications down in Lushan county in the southwestern province of Sichuan, Xia’s only way of knowing if his family had survived was to set off on an epic journey that would deliver either relief or tragedy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Tian Yu’s little tree of fortune – a gift from friends in Shenzhen wishing her a speedy recovery after she leapt from the fourth floor of a Foxconn factory building three years ago – is withering. Paralysed from the waist down and restricted to a wheelchair, the 20-year-old desperately tries to avoid looking back at a painful past that will haunt her for the rest of her life. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cheng Naishan, widely considered an icon of Shanghainese literature and who had close ties to Hong Kong, has died after a long battle with leukaemia. Cheng, 67, was best known for the hai pai, or Shanghainese, style of literature, which is often related to the history, culture and legacy of the city, particularly from the 1930s when it was known as the “Paris of the Orient” for its strong business sector and well-diversified culture, and was on a par with New York, London and Paris. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cheng Naishan, widely considered an icon of Shanghai literature who enjoyed close personal ties with Hong Kong, died on Monday morning in hospital after a long battle with leukaemia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It is supposed to be a day of celebration. But last year, National Day turned to tragedy in Hong Kong when two ferries collided, claiming the lives of 39 people – including eight children. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of people armed with plastic water guns and buckets battled on the streets of a southwestern Chinese city on Monday, drenching each other as part of an annual Buddhist-inspired festival. A record of around 100,000 people were expected to take part in the event in Jinghong, a few hours drive from China’s border with Myanmar. Official celebrations began at noon, when the city’s designated water splashing square erupted into chaos as thousands scooped torrents high into the air and at each other. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Greece cleared a key hurdle in its drive to receive its next batch of bailout loans after international debt inspectors said on Monday they had reached an agreement over the country’s economic reforms, including the firing of thousands of civil servants. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The long-awaited video, released a day after the new single hit online stores worldwide, was posted on YouTube shortly after the concert which was streamed live on the video-sharing site. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gunmen opened fire and torched the office of the main Tamil newspaper in northern Sri Lanka yesterday, the latest in a string of attacks on the nation’s privately owned media. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bespectacled and clean shaven, 37-year-old Jomari Paraas could pass for a typical office employee in the Philippines, except he has six guns in his backpack that he will soon sell. The father-of-two is a prolific player in the country’s enormous and lucrative weapons black market, which has been under scrutiny following a spate of high-profile massacres and shoot-outs this year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Forbes lists China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan among world’s 100 most powerful women
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan has made it onto Forbes’ list of the world’s most powerful women, a feat her predecessors have never achieved, but remains overshadowed by her entrepreneurial compatriots. Peng jumped from nil to No 54 in the rankings published on Wednesday after accompanying President Xi Jinping on his maiden trip as head of state through Africa in March. She was showered with praise as an unprecedentedly confident Chinese first lady. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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