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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thai authorities have arrested an Italian wanted over alleged links to a human trafficking ring which swindled around US$10 million from European taxpayers and banks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A woman who challenged knife-wielding assailants suspected of hacking to death a British soldier in London on Wednesday said she intervened because “it was better having them the weapons aimed on one person”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police forced their way into the home of horse-racing commentator Rita Chan Sze-ki in Sha Tin yesterday and used pepper spray to subdue a man who is known to her after she was illegally detained for about 12 hours. Police were alerted at 8.15pm on Tuesday when Chan, 33, called police on her mobile phone saying she was being locked up at her home in Sha Tin Centre Street. She told police that she was being illegally detained and had not left her apartment since 2pm that day. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The long-awaited criminal trial of Peter Chan Chun-chuen – fung shui guru to Asia’s richest woman at the time of her death – may begin as early as tomorrow following the jury selection. Chan yesterday pleaded not guilty before Mr Justice Andrew Macrae on one count of forgery and one count of using a false instrument. The 53-year-old is accused of forging a will in the name of the late Chinachem chairwoman Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum some time between October 15, 2006, and April 8, 2007. The will bore the date October 16, 2006. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Amy Wu is no Hollywood celebrity but she and Angelina Jolie share a few things in common: they are both 37 years old, have been affected by breast cancer and are now sharing their personal stories with the world. Wu, an American-born writer and journalism lecturer based in Hong Kong, was diagnosed with early stages of breast cancer earlier this month. “High-grade DCIS,” Wu’s doctor told her on May 8, referring to ductal carcinoma in-situ, a fast-growing cancerous lump. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> EU leaders tackle tax fraud said to cost a trillion euros a year at a summit on Wednesday in the hope that tightening up the rules will help restore faith in European integration and raise revenue. But Austria and Luxembourg are both reluctant to sign up and share information on bank accounts automatically for fear of undermining their important financial services sectors. The one-day summit also takes place as revelations about the tax practices of some of the world’s biggest companies in their own backyard make it easy for critics to pick holes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Convicted killer Jodi Arias pleaded with an Arizona jury on Tuesday to spare her the death penalty for the sake of her family and sentence her instead to life in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in June 2008. He had been stabbed 27 times, had his throat slashed and been shot in the face. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police in a Guangdong city said early on Wednesday that they had arrested a man accused of injuring six children and one woman with a butcher knife, ending a manhunt that gripped the province the evening before. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying had one of the darkest days in his trouble-plagued administration yesterday when he lost two of his most important aides. Executive councillor and Urban Renewal Authority chairman Barry Cheung Chun-yuen’s departure on leave after the Mercantile Exchange, which he chairs, came under police investigation, was seen as the heaviest blow to date. It coincided with news of the resignation of information co-ordinator June Teng Wai-kwan, Leung’s top media official, due to eye problems. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The city’s annual budget was passed in the Legislative Council last night by a safe margin after a month-long filibuster. The long-awaited legislative approval ends the prospect of the government running out of cash to operate. Since the financial year started in April, it has been functioning on an interim fund of HK$75.5 billion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s low birth rate has fallen further in the past five years, with the number of one-child families outpacing two-children households for the first time, a survey shows. Of 1,518 married or cohabitating women aged 15 to 49 surveyed by the Family Planning Association in its latest five-yearly study, 37.5 per cent had one child and 32 per cent had two children. The average number of children per household reached a record low of 1.12 last year, compared with 1.49 in 2007 and 1.6 in 2002. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Oscar Pistorius’ older brother cried tears of relief on Tuesday as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide and negligent driving for the death of a woman in a road accident. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Kevin Fallon, on May 21st, 2013 ‘Grown Woman,’ finally, is the first full song released of Queen B’s new album—and it’s worth the wait.
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has accused the British government of running scared from Beijing. Chen is in the UK to receive an award for exposing the plight of hundreds of thousands of Chinese women forced to undergo abortions and sterilisations as part of China’s strict one-child policy. But his request to meet with the Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague during his five-day visit has been snubbed because Downing Street fears “further punishment” from Beijing and that it will lose out on trade deals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pre-dawn emergency workers searched feverishly for survivors in the rubble of homes, primary schools and a hospital in an Oklahoma City suburb ravaged by a massive Monday afternoon tornado feared to have killed up to 91 people and injured well over 200 residents. The 3-km wide tornado tore through town of Moore outside Oklahoma City, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Venezuelan opposition has released what it says is an audio tape revealing intrigue within the ruling socialist party of the late Hugo Chavez and Cuban meddling in the country’s affairs. The opposition says the tape is of a conversation between well-known state media presenter Mario Silva and a Colonel Aramis Palacios, identified as a Cuban intelligence agent, about a rift among Venezuela’s top leadership. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Video: The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. See for yourself here. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The printer isn’t working, so come back next week to finalise your divorce: The excuses made by a Wuhan marriage registry clerk are credited with thwarting 500 divorces <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Vanessa Rosales, on May 21st, 2013 In the last few years, a growing community of hijab fashion bloggers has changed the idea of what it means to be a modern Muslim woman. By Vanessa Rosales.
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Italian arrested in Thailand over US$10m human trafficking ring fraud
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