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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country’s transplant system said on Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population. Almost all donated organs in China used to come from executed prisoners. A growing proportion now come from ordinary people, but the government is seeking to eliminate prisoner donations altogether. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By IAN AUSTEN, on May 18th, 2013 Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.
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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 –> 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 –> 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 –> 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 –> 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 –> 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 –> More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people on the mainland have heard colleagues use insulting language or tell offensive jokes about LGBT people, resulting in most choosing to stay in the closet, according to a report released in Beijing yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Fear of abuse keeps bulk of Chinese gays in closet in workplace
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some of its tourists are harming China’s image overseas, a top official said. Vice-Premier Wang Yang singled out “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and wilfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– 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 –>
Continue reading Hezbollah link in court dispute leaves Saudi princes red-faced
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A clan whose chiefs are on trial for the Philippines’ worst political massacre secured big wins in local elections this week, results showed on Friday, deepening fears that justice may never be served. Leaders of the Ampatuan family and their gunmen are accused of massacring 58 people, including 32 journalists, in the southern province of Maguindanao more than three years ago in a bid to quash a rival’s challenge to become governor. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pakistan on Friday said it would release 51 imprisoned Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds, hoping that New Delhi will reciprocate the goodwill gesture as relations between the two nations warm. The decision was taken at a high level meeting chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, according to a statement from his office. Khoso “decided to release 51 Indian fishermen on humanitarian grounds as a gesture of goodwill. These prisoners have already served their sentences,” the statement said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippine envoy to Taiwan on Thursday advised thousands of Filipino workers there to eat at home and avoid the streets while emotions run high on the island over the shooting death of a fisherman by the Philippine coast guard. Philippine representative Amadeo Perez said after returning to Manila from Taipei that his government has verified at least one attack, in which a Filipino was beaten with a bat. “He was brought to a hospital and police are investigating. We are documenting the cases,” he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Philippines fears for workers in Taiwan amid row
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A brutal murder case is gripping Beijing. On Thursday, a man’s headless, limbless body has been found in the Chinese capital, just one block south of the Tiananmen Square. The torso was found in the early morning hours of Thursday on the sidewalk at the intersection between Zhushi West Street and Meishi Street. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Police launch murder investigation after torso found on Beijing street
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s premier will on Friday unveil the next stage of his plan to reboot the economy, reports said, as he seeks to capitalise on the feel-good mood of a booming stock market and a plunging yen. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to announce broadbrush outlines of the third of his “three arrows” of a plan dubbed “Abenomics”, which is intended to turn around years of deflation in the world’s third-largest economy. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country’s image, said a top official who lamented their poor “quality and breeding”, according to state-run media. Wang Yang, one of China’s four vice premiers, singled out for condemnation “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and willfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the wake of its apparent aversion to virgins – as expressed in its recent article “Never Sleep With a Virgin”, China’s nationalist newspaper, the Global Times, seems enthusiastic about lesbians – at least when former US secretary Hillary Clinton is suspected of being one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In 13 months more than 500 kilos of crystal meth seized in Australia has come from Hong Kong. The haul is more than ten times that seized in the SAR over the past five years. A total of seven Hongkongers are now facing the Australian courts. Southern China is one of the world’s biggest producer of ephedrine – the main precursor chemical for ice. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Drug arrests of Hong Kong men prompt fears that city is trafficking hub
By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese Premier Li Keqiang embarks this weekend on his first foreign trip since taking office, heading to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany as Beijing seeks to address security and economic disputes. Li’s journey follows one by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russia and three African nations in March after the two men assumed their new positions, concluding China’s once-a-decade leadership transition. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Cultural attitudes impede organ donations in China
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country’s transplant system said on Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population. Almost all donated organs in China used to come from executed prisoners. A growing proportion now come from ordinary people, but the government is seeking to eliminate prisoner donations altogether. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Cultural attitudes impede organ donations in China
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