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<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city’s high levels of roadside pollution. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials: bomb strikes a Sunni area in Baghdad, raising overall daily death toll to 58. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan official says car bomb kills 9, wounds 70 inside elite housing complex. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two prominent Saudi princes are involved in a London-registered company that supposedly facilitated “money laundering” for Hezbollah in Lebanon and helped smuggle precious stones out of Congo, according to allegations in court documents. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mother whose four-year-old daughter had been abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, leading to his arrest, police said. The girl was playing in her yard in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at about 6.30pm on Wednesday when a group of teenagers saw the kidnapping and ran to alert the girl’s mother, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan may impose new sanctions on the Philippines after Manila toughened its stand over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by its coastguard last week. <!– 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 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave presidents to wage a war on terror after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Sichuan man, abducted and taken to Fujian province at the age of five, has finally found his way home after spending years trying to work out where he came from. And he says he could not have done it without the help of Google Maps, Fujian’s news portal nhaidu.com reports. Luo Gang, who was born in a small town in Guangan city, disappeared on his way to kindergarten 23 years ago, said his parents. Heartbroken, they did everything they could to find him, but to no avail. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Huge demand and big profits are tempting smugglers to sneak high-end electronics gadgets across the border. The police netted 23 boxes of undeclared electronics products, including digital cameras, camera lenses and digital video recorders, just before they were loaded into high-powered speedboats moored at Sai Kung on Thursday night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A float mocking the embattled former ICAC boss was the centrepiece of yesterday’s Cheung Chau Bun Festival parade. But the annual tradition of sending up political figures may have seen its last incarnation, with the island’s sole float-maker announcing his retirement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former ICAC chief Timothy Tong Hin-ming spent HK$100,000 of public money on a reception at The Peak in one of two lavish dinners he will face questions over in the Legislative Council today. The Independent Commission Against Corruption confirmed the details in a written reply to the Legislative Council’s Public Accounts Committee, before which Tong will testify today. It will be the former ICAC commissioner’s first public appearance since the scandal emerged last month over his spending on entertaining mainland officials during his tenure. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that President Bashar al-Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organise peace talks to end Syria’s bloody civil war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Well-respected Malaysian graft buster, Paul Low Seng Kwan, 67, has his work cut out for him. Low – the president of Transparency International Malaysia (TI), an NGO that monitors political and corporate corruption – was appointed to the cabinet of Prime Minister Najib Razak in a surprise move that was greeted with applause and scepticism. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US authorities in Idaho said they arrested an Uzbek national accused of conspiring with a terrorist group in his home country and helping plot to use a weapon of mass destruction. The US attorney’s office said Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested at an apartment in south Boise after a grand jury issued a three-count indictment as part of an investigation into his activities in Idaho and Utah. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> That Rubber Duck is at it again – after stealing the hearts of Hongkongers since sailing into the harbour, it is stealing the show at Cheung Chau’s Bun Festival. The 16.5-metre-tall artwork has got everyone duck crazy. And while the traditional buns stamped with the iconic “peace” logo continued to be a big hit, rubber ducks could be seen in the parade and on various products on sale. One stand was selling T-shirts featuring a rubber duck with a swimming cap stamped with the peace sign. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 –> Indonesia’s foreign minister is calling for a new treaty spanning Asia to help build trust, warning of the potential for conflict in the fast-changing region. On a visit to Washington, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said a treaty could help end “the all-too-familiar vicious cycle of tensions” in Asia and instead encourage confidence by bringing countries together in their goals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Hong Kong launches first electric taxis
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city’s high levels of roadside pollution. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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