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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China and India agreed yesterday to launch a fresh round of talks to settle their long-running border disputes. They also pledged to draw up a roadmap to reach a “dynamic balance” in trade between the two emerging economic powers. We need to improve the border mechanisms…and make them more efficient Li Keqiang, Premier The announcements were made after Premier Li Keqiang held talks with officials including his counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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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 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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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesia’s foreign minister called on Thursday for a new treaty spanning across Asia to help build trust, warning of the potential for conflict in the fast-changing region if tensions fester. On a visit to Washington, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said that a new 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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By , on May 15th, 2013 
People who have been arrested should not normally be named until they are charged, Home Secretary Theresa May says in a letter to police.
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Real gross domestic product rose only 0.2 per cent on a seasonally adjusted quarter-to-quarter basis, down from 1.4 per cent in the last three months of 2012. Year on year, output in the first quarter rose 2.8 per cent, beating market estimates. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Less than a week after Malaysia’s opposition led by the charismatic Anwar Ibrahim posted its best election performance yet, dissent has broken out within his People’s Justice Party (PKR), worrying his coalition partners. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea said on Wednesday it was edging towards a deal with North Korea to ensure the return of the remaining workers at a joint industrial zone that has become a casualty of military tensions. The Kaesong industrial complex – built 10 kilometres north of the tense border in 2004 – was once a rare symbol of inter-Korean cooperation but now faces the possibility of permanent closure. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on April 25th, 2013 Ron Paul's new "Institute for Peace and Prosperity," reports Jamie Kirchick, features such luminaries as the suspected writer of the less than wholesome Ron Paul newsletters, an author who declared that a broad swath of the conservative movement holds a higher allegiance to Israel than the United States, and a scholar who wishes the South had won the Civil War. Read it now.
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Kim, a US physician and global health activist who became head of the Bank last July, announced two weeks ago the plan to eradicate extreme poverty – defined as living on less than US$1.25 a day – to 3 per cent or less of the world by 2030. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — After China reported quarterly economic growth of 7.7 percent this week — far above anemic U.S. and European performance — global markets reacted by falling, wiping billions of dollars off stock prices. The reason? Growth came in under the 8 percent expected by private sector forecasters who relied on Chinese trade and other data. The market plunge highlighted complaints about the possible inaccuracy of Beijing’s official data and the intense, possibly excessive importance traders attach to a handful of Chinese economic indicators. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Margaret Thatcher would have preferred not to have been British prime minister when the future of Hong Kong had to be decided, former governor David Wilson says. But as a “supreme realist”, she did her utmost to ensure that Hongkongers’ way of life would continue after 1997, he says. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Henan farmers have angrily refused to recognise a local government land requisition in which famers were offered compensation in crops after 65 years. Shuanglong villagers attempted to break into a Miaowanzu construction site on requisitioned land on Sunday, leading to conflict as villagers vowed to protect their farms from a government land grab, Henan provincial news portal dahe.cn said on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Winthrop Roosevelt, on April 2nd, 2013 North Dakota’s oil discovery has brought prosperity to the state. But Winthrop Roosevelt asks at what price.
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By , on March 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Most people interviewed by the South China Morning Post yesterday disagreed with the central government’s views on the conditions for universal suffrage, but most did not support the Occupy Central movement either. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Straw poll shows Hong Kong opposes limited suffrage and Occupy Central
By , on March 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The 69-year-old ex-dictator says he is prepared to risk any danger to stand for election on May 11, billed to mark the first democratic transition of power in the history of a nuclear-armed country dominated by periods of military rule. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> During their historic 1982 talks in Beijing, thrifty Margaret Thatcher fretted about banquet expenses, while Deng Xiaoping worried over moves that might undermine Hong Kong’s prosperity in the run-up to the 1997 handover. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> New Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s appointment of two top diplomats last week displays a desire to repair relations with long-time rival Japan after months of disruption, while keeping the United States and its strategic pivot to Asia at bay. Yang Jiechi, a hard-nosed former ambassador to Washington, has been named the state councillor in charge of the foreign ministry, its top post. A fluent English-speaker, he firmly believes the United States should stay out of regional Asian affairs such as the South China Sea dispute. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China’s new diplomats signal thaw with Japan, keeping US at bay
By , on March 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It has been more than six years since a bomb ripped away the eyes from Shams Karim, killed her mother and left the little girl, now seven, blind and disfigured for life. Psychiatric drugs help control her outbursts of crying and screaming. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Thein Sein on Monday became Myanmar’s first head of state to visit Australia since 1974, winning aid and defence concessions as he reaps new fruits of his liberalisation policies. As the once pariah country approaches the second anniversary of a quasi-civilian regime led by the ex-general taking power, Canberra said it was increasing its support to recognise the reforms. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Li Keqiang visits New Delhi and vows to end disputes on border with India
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China and India agreed yesterday to launch a fresh round of talks to settle their long-running border disputes. They also pledged to draw up a roadmap to reach a “dynamic balance” in trade between the two emerging economic powers. We need to improve the border mechanisms…and make them more efficient Li Keqiang, Premier The announcements were made after Premier Li Keqiang held talks with officials including his counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh in New Delhi. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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