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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Having your name in lights inside a nightclub is perhaps not the best idea when your party is openly cracking down on the extravagent lifestyles of its members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China has offered to contribute troops to the new UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, where Islamist jihadists controlled the country’s north until French-led troops launched an offensive in January to oust them, a UN official said on Thursday. Andre-Michel Essoungou, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping department, said that it “has received pledges and offers of contributions from a number of countries from around the world, including China.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By John Garth, on May 23rd, 2013 Tossed aside for decades, Tolkien’s abandoned poem about King Arthur is finally released. Biographer John Garth reads the epic.
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Malaysian court on Thursday charged a student activist with sedition and three others, including two opposition politicians, were arrested on the same charge in what critics decried as a crackdown on dissent. <!– 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 –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets slid Thursday, pulled down by a contraction in China’s manufacturing that adds to signs that the shaky recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is slowing. HSBC Corp. said its preliminary Purchasing Managers Index fell to a seven-month low of 49.6 in May from April’s 50.4. Numbers below 50 indicate that activity is contracting. Analysts had expected a slight decline to 50.3 for the most recent month
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> On the day free-to-air television station TVB announced it would continue a fight to block the issuance of more free-TV licences, the other free-TV station ATV sent out a press statement that was equally eye-catching. The statement starts with this: “Over the past three years, everyone can see the change in ATV. It is held in high regard among the audience and our enemies.” Apparently it said “enemies” instead of “rivals”, a term used with extreme caution. (Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was accused of calling pan-democrats his enemy, but he denied the claims.) <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> After four years of development, Microsoft has staked a claim to the internet age living room with an eagerly awaited new generation Xbox One console touted as a home entertainment hub that goes far beyond games. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> This is a major anniversary year for pianist-conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, the 75-year-old maestro who conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra tomorrow and on Saturday. First of all, it marks the 50th anniversary of his debut recording with Decca. In March 1963, he recorded Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under conductor Anatole Fistoulari. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gunmen wearing North Korean military uniforms assaulted the captain of a Chinese fishing boat and stole the vessel’s fuel, the boat’s owner, who had been held for two weeks, said after being released. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An FBI agent on Wednesday fatally shot a Florida man who allegedly had ties to one of the Boston bombings suspects, US media reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, on May 22nd, 2013 President Mohamed Morsi said seven Egyptian security officers who were abducted nearly a week ago had been freed, ending increasing anxiety over the government’s grip on security in the region.
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group is urging rebels to come from around the country to reinforce Qusair, a western town under attack by Syrian troops and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. George Sabra, the acting chief of the Syrian National Coalition, says in a statement that “forces from outside Syria” aim to destroy Qusair and that rebels should “rescue” it. Government troops were trying for a fourth day Wednesday to wrest control of Qusair from rebels. The town lies near the Lebanese border on land corridor linking the capital Damascus with the Mediterranean coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Rebecca Benhamou, on May 22nd, 2013 Ubiquitous Parisian party girl Cléo Le-Tan releases a book about her family (which features a representation of fashion-designer sister, Olympia) thinly veiled as a novel. She talks to Rebecca Benhamou.
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Members of the Hong Kong government’s Pay Trend Survey Committee met on Wednesday afternoon to discuss whether or not to recognise a survey released last week that recommends civil servants get a pay rise below the inflation. All members of the committee are civil servants. Before entered the meeting venue, one member said that some of them were “very dissatisfied” with the the survey’s recommended pay rise and might sign off on it. The last time members of the committee refused to agree to survey’s pay recommendation was in 2009. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he would take up the ban of his close aide from the June 14 presidential election with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media reported. Iran’s electoral watchdog on Tuesday disqualified Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad’s former chief of staff, and moderate ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in the vote, eliminating two powerful and potentially disruptive candidates and leaving the field dominated by hardliners loyal to Khamenei. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A sweeping overhaul of the US immigration system took a major step toward viability on Tuesday when a Senate panel gave bipartisan approval to a landmark bill offering a path to citizenship for millions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TOKYO (AP) — A steady decline in the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota and has won solid support from Japan’s main trading partners, who are betting the impact on their own currencies will be offset by gains from a recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. It’s not such good news for entrepreneurs like Thamonwan Thawornthaweewong, whose Angry Bird fish balls, squid rings and other products now cost more to sell in Japan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Around 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in Britain, the government revealed on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The accused man, identified by Taiwanese media as Li Pingshan, deputy secretary for Guangdong city’s Longgang district, was said to have molested a male waiter at a Taipei hotel. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Nightclub’s superstar ‘welcome’ lands Henan official in trouble
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