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By Justin Green, on May 20th, 2013 Three senators are heroically attempting to reduce federal government price supports for America's sugar industry. Roll Call's Niels Lesniewski writes:
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Big business and the Occupy Central movement clashed yesterday over the price the city would pay if the pro-democracy movement brought the heart of Hong Kong to a halt. Four business groups warned that Occupy Central could cost the city billions. But Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a founder of Occupy Central, countered that the economic cost of failing to achieve universal suffrage in 2017 could be higher. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — Fans know her as the sweet schoolgirl in the 2011 blockbuster “You Are the Apple of My Eye.” Now, they can take a closer look at Michelle Chen through her first love: music. After she graduated from the University of Southern California and returned home to Taiwan, her initial attempts to break into the island’s music scene hit a brick wall. But trying acting at the advice of a talent manager, she landed a few film and television roles, then shot to stardom with “You Are the Apple of My Eye.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Armed with empty suitcases and same-day return tickets, an army of mainland Chinese is descending on suburban outlet shopping malls and international fashion chains in Hong Kong, turning cheap into the new chic as luxury falls out of favour. Wealthy Chinese used to stop over in Hong Kong for a few days to pick up a Louis Vuitton bag or a wristwatch for up to 40 per cent less than in Beijing or Shanghai. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Provincial Higher People’s Court said on Sunday that it would review plaintiff Tang Hui’s lawsuit against Yongzhou authorities after she was sent to a labour camp for 18 months. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Petition mother Tang Hui clears hurdle in court appeal over labour camp imprisonment
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 , 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 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Popular Vietnamese cable television provider VTV CAB has stopped providing foreign channels, including CNN and BBC, after a new media law that requires editing of programmes before broadcast came into effect on Wednesday last week. <!– 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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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A single winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery jackpot worth US$590.5 million was sold in Florida, organisers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought. The winning numbers from Saturday night’s drawing were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52, with a Powerball number of 11, and the odds of winning were put at one in 175 million. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 
Singer Bonnie Tyler is set to make her Eurovision debut on Saturday when she performs UK entry Believe In Me at the annual contest in Malmo, Sweden.
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By By JENNY ANDERSON, on May 18th, 2013 Beach nourishment projects will restore shorelines but require expensive upkeep and affect ecosystems; federal taxpayers will foot the bill.
Continue reading State of the Beaches: Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost?
By , on May 18th, 2013 
The education secretary is like a “fanatical personal trainer” who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers’ leader is to say.
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By By NATE SILVER, on May 17th, 2013 Some conservatives allege that the I.R.S. also targeted individual taxpayers, but a handful of anecdotal data points are not worth much in a country of 300 million.
Continue reading FiveThirtyEight: New Audit Allegations Show Flawed Statistical Thinking
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 –>
Continue reading The man you call when the lights go out
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The ousted head of the United States tax agency apologised to Congress yesteday for his agency’s tougher treatment of conservative as well as Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status, saying they resulted from a misguided effort to handle a flood of applications, not political bias. At a hearing that saw lawmakers from both parties harshly criticise his agency, former acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) head Steven Miller conceded that “foolish mistakes were made” by agency officials trying to handle a flood of groups seeking tax-exempt status. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Maybe you’ve heard this story before. Or dreamt it. Man cleans out old lottery tickets from cookie jar and, instead of throwing them away, takes them to the 7-Eleven to check them out. And finds one of them is worth millions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Family avoids eviction as cookie jar luck wins US$4.85m
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Eight Chinese and two Indian airlines face fines of up to several million euros for not paying for their greenhouse gas emissions during flights within the bloc, the European Commission said on Friday. It said member states could fine the firms, among them Chinese flag carrier Air China, under the terms of the EU’s Emissions Trading System, which is designed to cut the carbon dioxide pollution blamed for global warming. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A businesswoman in Zhejing province has been sentenced to death for defrauding her clients of around US$70 million in an investment scam, state media reported on Friday as authorities crack down on illegal banking. Lin Haiyan, 39, from the eastern city of Wenzhou, a free-wheeling business hub, was condemned after illegally raising US$104 million from relatives, friends and other investors, the National Business Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
The actor Paul Shane, famous for starring in the 1980s BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, has died, his agent has confirmed.
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Big business, organisers joust over cost of Occupy Central to Hong Kong
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Big business and the Occupy Central movement clashed yesterday over the price the city would pay if the pro-democracy movement brought the heart of Hong Kong to a halt. Four business groups warned that Occupy Central could cost the city billions. But Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, a founder of Occupy Central, countered that the economic cost of failing to achieve universal suffrage in 2017 could be higher. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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