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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country’s poultry industry more than 400 billion yuan (HK$500 billion) as consumers shun chicken, government officials said according to state media Monday. The sector has been losing an average of one billion yuan a day since the end of March, the Beijing Times said, citing Li Xirong, head of the National Animal Husbandry Service. H7N9 avian influenza has infected 130 people in China, killing 35, since it was found in humans for the first time, according to latest official data. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Is anything in China real? Study finds some silk on sale in Beijing do not contain any silk <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. A gauge of future economic activity issued Friday rose more than expected, a sign that the world’s biggest economy is improving. Consumer confidence also rose, offsetting several lackluster reports on slowing manufacturing and an increase in applications for unemployment benefits. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rescuers recovered four more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13, police said on Monday. Fifteen other workers were still missing and feared dead. The Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine collapsed last Tuesday when 38 workers were undergoing safety training. Ten injured miners were rescued. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By BEN PROTESS and PETER LATTMAN, on May 20th, 2013 Steven A. Cohen, rather than be subject to broad questions from prosecutors, is expected to assert his constitutional right against self-incrimination.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Piano-themed coffins, paper caskets and pet urns were all on display at Wan Chai Exhibition Centre last week as more than 2,500 undertakers from around the world descended on Hong Kong to exhibit their wares at the Asia Funeral and Cemetry Expo. Organisers called it “practical ideas on global trends regarding the management and operation of funeral facilities and service”. But for some it was a morbid interest in the odd array of caskets that brought them to the expo. Also on display were the latest methods of embalming and cremation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China has halted imports of New Zealand meat due to a certification dispute. Hundreds of tonnes of frozen mutton, lamb and beef from New Zealand have been stranded on Chinese docks after China halted imports from the country due to a certification dispute. China is New Zealand’s largest export market and its largest consumer of sheep meat. China has blocked all New Zealand beef and sheep meat that has arrived there in the past two or three weeks, said Dan Coup, trade and economic manager for the Meat Industry Association of New Zealand. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager – washing his clothes, bringing meals to his bed, and keeping him company – a routine he’ll keep up until he himself needs the type of care he is now giving. “Living here is better than staying at home alone. We help each other and have a common language,” said the spritely Zhang, an enthusiastic dancer. “We are very happy here.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian troops backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday entered Qusayr, a strategic rebel stronghold linking Damascus to the coast, a day after President Bashar al-Assad insisted he would not step aside. The advance came as Assad’s opponents warned his regime’s “barbaric and destructive” assault on Qusayr could torpedo US-Russian attempts to organise a conference on ending more than two years of bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police in Changsha have detained a young gay rights activist after he organised a protest in the capital of Hunan province to mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. A 19-year-old man, identified only as Xiang, was arrested on Saturday and will be in administrative detention for 12 days for organising an “illegal protest”, police said, according to a report in the local Xiaoxiang Morning News, which has since been deleted online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden wins gold medal at ice hockey world championships. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MANOHLA DARGIS, on May 19th, 2013 The Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which follows a New York folk musician, injected some levity into the Cannes Film Festival.
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By By BRIAN KNOWLTON, on May 19th, 2013 Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House adviser, appeared on five network talk shows to mount a defense against Republican lawmakers who accused the president of mismanagement.
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By By NICK BILTON, on May 19th, 2013 With a growing population of Americans over the age of 65, but a lack of trained home health care workers, more and more people could opt to hire robots to do the job.
Continue reading Disruptions: Disruptions: Robots as Home Health Care Aides for the Elderly
By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> T-shirts bearing images of President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It is a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became the first sitting United States president to set foot in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. A return trip to this former pariah state does not seem to be on Obama’s immediate itinerary. But US firms are on their way. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pakistani politician Imran Khan has blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi. The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice-president of the women’s wing of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the southern city of the May 11 election. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The march – to protest Beijing’s refusal to vindicate the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen movement – will be joined with another one arranged by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which ends at the government headquarters in Admiralty. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 21-year-old university student killed in a home invasion east of New York was mistakenly shot in the head by an officer who fired eight times at an armed suspect who was holding a gun to the student’s head and then pointed it at him. Seven of the bullets hit the man, who was also killed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Elsie Leung Oi-sie, deputy director of the Basic Law Committee that advises the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the Basic Law’s implementation, told the South China Morning Post it would not be suitable for her to take up such a role because she did not hold any portfolio on constitutional reform, official or otherwise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mainland scholar has suggested downsizing the ruling Communist Party by setting up an “exit mechanism” to cut at least 31 million members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Bird flu costs China industry US$65b: state media
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country’s poultry industry more than 400 billion yuan (HK$500 billion) as consumers shun chicken, government officials said according to state media Monday. The sector has been losing an average of one billion yuan a day since the end of March, the Beijing Times said, citing Li Xirong, head of the National Animal Husbandry Service. H7N9 avian influenza has infected 130 people in China, killing 35, since it was found in humans for the first time, according to latest official data. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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