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By , on May 18th, 2013 
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city’s high levels of roadside pollution. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Huge demand and big profits are tempting smugglers to sneak high-end electronics gadgets across the border. The police netted 23 boxes of undeclared electronics products, including digital cameras, camera lenses and digital video recorders, just before they were loaded into high-powered speedboats moored at Sai Kung on Thursday night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US authorities in Idaho said they arrested an Uzbek national accused of conspiring with a terrorist group in his home country and helping plot to use a weapon of mass destruction. The US attorney’s office said Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested at an apartment in south Boise after a grand jury issued a three-count indictment as part of an investigation into his activities in Idaho and Utah. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
The Boston bombing suspect wrote a message in a boat where he hid, describing victims of the attack as “collateral damage”, US media report.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims “collateral damage” for US action in Afghanistan and Iraq, local media reported on Thursday. “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims,” Tsarnaev also scribbled on the inside wall of the boat where he hid from police during a massive manhunt in the days after the April 15 blasts, according to CBS News. The twin explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 260. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Chinese equivalent of “filibuster” is Libo, meaning “stretching the cloth”. This translation gives an image of fluff and flannel, not exactly the stuff of gravitas. Yet, nothing could be more serious than filibustering, which acts like a safety valve, allowing minority voices to be heard. Filibustering, like a political pulse, is often an outward sign of an inner malaise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new Sars-like virus after catching it from patients in their care – the first evidence of such transmission within a hospital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> All 710 amendments to the budget bill – mostly filed by four radical pan-democrats as part of a filibuster – were vetoed in the Legislative Council last night as the government edged away from the possibility of running out of cash by next month. After one of the legislature’s longest debates, the annual appropriation bill was expected to be passed by a safe margin early next week. Some 50 inclusion motions – reflecting the passage or rejection of amendments – and a third-reading vote are still pending. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., on May 16th, 2013 A note scrawled inside the boat where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding cited the killing of Muslims, an official said.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A nurse who was ordered to pay her ex-boyfriend almost HK$1 million in compensation for harassing him for six years failed to appear in court on Thursday and cannot be found. Joey Yip Lai-kuen, 34, failed to attend Thursday’s High Court hearing in which her ex-boyfriend Lau Tat-wai, 30, was seeking court orders for the disclosure and freezing of her assets so that he could be paid the HK$946,673 she was ordered in April to pay him. Her assets include the proceeds from the sale of her HK$2.8 million property in Tsang Kwan O, the court heard on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Internet users have been warned to be careful when seeking casual relationships online after a mainland businessman lost HK$300,000 in cash and valuables through such a liaison. The man, 34, got to know the woman through mobile messaging service WeChat and invited her to his room in the Sheraton Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui on Monday night. She told him she was visiting from Beijing for sightseeing and would return to the mainland today. Carrying a suitcase, the Putonghua-speaking woman in her 20s arrived at his room late on Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An incentive scheme for owners of old, polluting diesel vehicles to replace them will not be extended – even though a new, compulsory scheme is not expected to kick in until next year, lawmakers heard yesterday. This emerged as the government sought an extra HK$120 million for the scheme – which finishes at the end of next month – saying there had been more applications than expected. Lawmakers are still discussing the compulsory scheme aimed at phasing out 88,000 vehicles that do not meet Euro IV emission standards set in 2005. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s 170,000 civil servants may gain pay rises of less than 4 per cent – short of their expectations – following the government’s annual survey of private-sector pay trends, released yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s corruption watchdog has launched a criminal investigation of its former chief following complaints of excessive spending when giving tens of thousands of dollars in gifts to mainland Chinese and other officials. The Asian financial center’s anticorruption agency and Department of Justice said Tuesday there was “sufficient basis” to open an investigation into allegations of possible bribery and misconduct by Timothy Tong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hong Kong businessman awarded $70 million in Las Vegas Sands case. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Reuters in Boston British Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to the victims of the Boston marathon bombing on Tuesday in a visit to the site of the attack, saying Britain stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States against terrorism. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man was arrested at a US airport after federal agents said he lied about why he was travelling with a pressure cooker. Hussain al-Khawahir was held at Detroit airport on Saturday and was also alleged to have a missing page in his passport. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Lawmakers across the political spectrum said yesterday that no one stood to gain after an 11-day debate triggered by radical legislators’ filibustering came to an end. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The marathon debate on the budget bill finally ended after Legislative Council president Jasper Tsang Yok-sing cut off a filibuster on Tuesday afternoon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan with two crewmates on Tuesday, wrapping up a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. A Soyuz capsule under an orange parachute raised clouds of dust as it ignited an engine to cushion its landing some 150 kilometres southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan at 8.31am, Russian television showed in a live broadcast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Hong Kong launches first electric taxis
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets on Saturday in a step towards reducing the city’s high levels of roadside pollution. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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