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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 –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The mayor of Kunming, Li Wenrong, has posted his first message on a Sina Weibo microblog in a move aimed at showing government transparency in the Yunnan provincial capital. Li had promised to open the account on Thursday, when he met with hundreds of protesters on Kunming’s streets. The angry crowd had ignored official intimidation to voice their opposition against a petrochemical project on the city’s outskirts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s founding in 1948. Every May 15, Palestinians commemorate the “nakba”, or “catastrophe” – the term they use to describe their displacement. Hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out during the fighting. The dispute over the fate of those Palestinians and that of their descendants, now numbering several million people, remains at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — US factory output falls 0.4 percent in April, largest drop in 6 months, on widespread weakness. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The parents of a US high-tech researcher found hanged last year in Singapore accused local police on Wednesday of failing to preserve evidence and insisted their son was murdered. The inquest into the death last year of electronics engineer Shane Todd took an emotional turn on its third day after police staged a detailed re-enactment of his apparent suicide using an improvised noose in his own bedroom. “What we have been discovering is evidence that we cannot rely on. It has been moved, it has not been preserved,” his father Rick Todd, 58, an airline pilot, told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — US wholesale prices fall 0.7 pct. in April, most in 3 years, driven lower by cheaper gas, food. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vatican: Cardinal O’Brien to leave Scotland to atone after admitting sexual misconduct. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery, a court said on Wednesday, the latest episode in the scandal that brought down Bo Xilai. Tang Jianhua was condemned to death with two years’ reprieve for taking bribes, a Chongqing court official said. Under Chinese law the punishment is normally commuted to life imprisonment. He was found to have “possessed huge amounts of money from unidentified sources”, said the official, who refused to be named, without elaborating. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Families of the victims in last October’s Lamma ferry tragedy made public a letter criticising Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and other officials for not taking their concerns seriously. The families said they did so because Leung had been “bureaucratic” in his reply to questions over government responsibility in the accident that killed 39 people on National Day. They had written to Leung and his justice minister Rimsky Yuen on May 8 asking them to give a “sincere, responsible and just” answer to calls for further action on the fatal accident. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Consumer Council warned Hongkongers on Wednesday to beware of the deceptive tactics used by some salespeople trying to entice them into buying or renewing hotel or dining club memberships. The consumer watchdog said that it had received 124 complaints dealing with club memberships last year, down from 132 in 2011. And despite fewer complaints, the watchdog said, the nature of the sales practices had worsened from merely misleading to bordering on deceptive. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country’s tallest hydroelectric dam despite acknowledging it will have an impact on plants and rare fish. The dam, with a height of 314 metres, will serve the hydropower project on the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province. To be built over 10 years by a subsidiary of state power firm Guodian Group, it is expected to cost 24.68 billion yuan (HK$31.17 billion) in investment. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Experts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan’s west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Mothballing the reactor at Japan’s oldest nuclear station would be the most stringent measure adopted in Japan since the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station north of Tokyo exposed failings in nuclear oversight. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered on Wednesday to move to safety as a cyclone barrelled towards low-lying coastal areas. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at risk from Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall on Thursday or Friday somewhere near the border between the two countries. Bangladesh told hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying areas to move to cyclone shelters, while Myanmar announced plans to move roughly 166,000 people at risk on its northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Free Syrian Army pledged on Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and apparently eating the organs of a regime soldier emerged online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Enthusiasm on Wall Street sparked by another positive report on the U.S. economy helped push most Asian stock markets higher Wednesday. But lower-than-expected German economic growth disappointed investors elsewhere. The German economy narrowly avoided recession in the first quarter of 2013, with 0.1 percent growth for the quarter. However, analysts were expecting a 0.3 percent quarterly rise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Singapore opened a long-anticipated corruption trial on Wednesday of six church leaders accused of embezzling more than S$40 million (HK$249.44) to fund the pop music career of the wife of their evangelical movement’s founder. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies. That’s not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit which believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market and also contend with a jittery, authoritarian government seeking to clamp down on freedom of expression online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on Wednesday met officials at the foreign ministry after being summoned to explain the presence of an alleged CIA agent working undercover at the embassy who was detained this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — Macau casino operator SJM Holdings has received official approval to build a new resort in the world’s biggest gambling center. SJM said its contract for land in the Cotai district was published Wednesday in the official government gazette. The company is racing to catch up with rivals like Wynn Resorts and MGM. The new projects are centered on the Cotai Strip, a patch of former swampland intended to be Asia’s version of the Las Vegas Strip. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An unusual Xinhua report has led to speculation that China’s state-run news agency has taken a subtle shot at the promotion of a son of one of China’s most powerful political figures. The cryptic report led to online debate on whether Wu Lei, a 37-year-old official soon to be promoted, could be the younger son of Wu Bangguo, the recently retired head of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Police launch murder investigation after torso found on Beijing street
<!– 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 –>
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