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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The black rainstorm warning did not hamper art collectors’ enthusiasm as sales were made the minute Art Basel Hong Kong opened its doors for the first time. Some galleries exhibiting at the first Hong Kong edition of the Swiss-owned modern and contemporary art fair reported encouraging sales results during the VIP preview, which took place immediately after Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying cut the ribbon at around noon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Thais’ deep affection for ghost stories and laughter has brought a new phenomenon to movie theaters — comic touches added to an oft-told tragedy of true love, which have made the latest adaptation of the Mae Nak legend into the all-time highest-grossing Thai film. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Relatives of the Cleveland man who allegedly held three women captive for nearly a decade recounted claims of his unnerving paranoia and violent outbursts as DNA testing confirmed he is the father of a 6-year-old girl who also escaped from the house. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea summoned the Japanese ambassador in Seoul on Thursday in protest over visits by senior officials and lawmakers to a shrine seen by Japan’s neighbours as a symbol of wartime aggression, the Yonhap news agency reported. South Korea’s Yonhap said the South’s foreign ministry had called in Tokyo’s envoy in protest over the shrine visits and comments made by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. China and South Korea chastised Japan after more than 160 lawmakers visited Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a ritual offering of a pine tree to a shrine seen as a symbol of Japan’s former militarism on Sunday, a gesture likely to upset Asian victims of Japan’s war-time aggression, including China and South Korea. Abe, an outspoken nationalist, offered the tree to the Yasukuni Shrine, where 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honoured along with other war dead. Abe did not visit the shrine. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan’s ailing former president Chen Shui-bian has been transferred to a prison hospital to continue serving his 20-year jail term for corruption, the justice ministry said on Friday. Chen was taken to a hospital for inmates in central Taiwan early on Friday from a public hospital in Taipei, where he had spent several months being treated for depression and other health problems, it said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Yunnan authorities said a private agency which accurately predicted the 5.0 magnitude earthquake in the region on Wednesday “broke the law”. Zhang Junwei, a spokesman for Yunnan Earthquake Administration, said any earthquake predictions by private parties or agencies were violating the law. “All earthquake forecasts must comply with relevant laws,” he said on Thursday. Zhang was responding to a successful private prediction of a 5.0 magnitude earthquake which hit Yunnan’s Dali district on Wednesday night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police arrested former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf overnight at his home in the capital, where he had holed up following a dramatic escape from court to avoid being detained, officials said on Friday. Musharraf fled Islamabad High Court in a speeding vehicle on Thursday morning after a judge rejected his bail and ordered his arrest in connection with a case involving his decision to fire senior judges while in power. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A gunman shot dead a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in an eruption of gunfire at the prestigious US university late on Thursday, authorities said. The university warned students to stay indoors, and a major hunt was launched for the gunman. Police with rifles were in the streets, and search helicopters flew above the university. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 45-year-old man suspected of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and a US senator has been charged with threatening the life of the president, authorities said on Thursday. Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested Wednesday by the FBI at his home in Corinth, Mississippi, and was due to appear in court on Thursday. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison and US$50,000 in fines, prosecutors said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nicolas Maduro steamrolled toward inauguration as Venezuela’s president on Thursday despite days of flaring tensions over opposition demands for a recount in elections to replace Hugo Chavez. The late Chavez’s political heir, Maduro appeared to have regained control of the situation after post-election protests turned violent in parts of the country, leaving eight people dead and more than 60 injured. “We have defeated the coup d’etat,” Maduro has declared, while accusing his rival Henrique Capriles of “sowing violence.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The top US military officer, General Martin Dempsey, is adding a South Korea stop to his previously announced trip to China to meet face to face with his South Korean counterpart on the North Korea situation. Dempsey and his counterpart, General Jung Seung-jo, held a video teleconference on Thursday and reaffirmed their nation’s security alliance. On his South Korea visit Sunday, Dempsey also will meet with the senior US commander there, General James Thurman. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Zhang Lin, a long-time activist in Anhui, has given in and ended a campaign against a local government decision barring his 10-year-old daughter from attending school because of his political background. “We have given up all hope of getting her back to school in Hupo,” he said. “It’s very sad, but we need to give in so the people who are still detained are released.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rescuers in Texas on Thursday combed through rubble in a painstaking search for survivors after a massive blast at a fertiliser factory killed as many as 15 people and destroyed dozens of homes. With the country already on edge after the deadly Boston Marathon attacks, the factory exploded on Wednesday with the force of a 2.1-magnitude earthquake, devastating much of the small town of West and sending up a toxic cloud. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Chinese student killed in the Boston Marathon blasts grew up in an intellectual family in a northeastern Chinese city with gritty, industrial roots, and graduated from a highly competitive high school that routinely sends students abroad. In Boston, where 23-year-old Lu Lingzi enrolled in graduate-level study in statistics, friends and teachers remembered her as an exceptional student and an exuberant personality who delighted in spring blossoms and culinary treats. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Chinese student killed in the Boston Marathon blasts grew up in an intellectual family in a northeastern Chinese city with gritty, industrial roots, and graduated from a highly competitive high school that routinely sends students abroad. In Boston, where 23-year-old Lu Lingzi enrolled in graduate-level study in statistics, friends and teachers remembered her as an exceptional student and an exuberant personality who delighted in spring blossoms and culinary treats. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syrian families have been burned in their homes, people bombed waiting for bread, children tortured, raped and murdered and cities reduced to rubble in Syria’s two-year-old war that has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe, the United Nations said on Thursday. The bleak assessment by top UN humanitarian officials motivated the Security Council, which has been deadlocked over how to deal with the crisis since it began, to reach agreement on a non-binding statement demanding an end to the escalating violence and condemning human rights abuses by all sides. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — FBI affidavit: Pilot Flying J employee says Browns owner Jimmy Haslam knew about rebate fraud. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BOSTON (AP) — FBI releases photos of 2 suspects in Boston Marathon bombings, seeks public’s help to ID them. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Rainstorms fail to dampen spirits at Art Basel opening
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The black rainstorm warning did not hamper art collectors’ enthusiasm as sales were made the minute Art Basel Hong Kong opened its doors for the first time. Some galleries exhibiting at the first Hong Kong edition of the Swiss-owned modern and contemporary art fair reported encouraging sales results during the VIP preview, which took place immediately after Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying cut the ribbon at around noon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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