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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its “courage” and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. <!– 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 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Hospitals treating nearly 60 injured, including more than a dozen kids, after Oklahoma tornado. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Several children pulled out of rubble alive at grade school in Oklahoma. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MOORE, Oklahoma (AP) — Police: Elementary school in Oklahoma City suburb takes direct hit from mile-wide tornado. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MOORE, Oklahoma (AP) — Footage shows fires, flattened buildings after tornado rips through area near Oklahoma City. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Asia’s flood-prone cities should fund major drainage, water recycling and waste reduction projects to stem deluges and secure clean supply for rising populations, experts said yesterday at a water security forum. Rapid urbanisation has heaped pressure on water resources and drainage systems across Asia, leaving low-lying areas exposed to massive floods such as those that paralysed Jakarta and Manila last year and central Thailand in 2011. <!– 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 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In sentencing yesterday, Deputy Judge Mr Justice Gareth Lugar-Mawson described the case – involving cocaine with a street value of more than HK$500 million – as an extremely bad example of international drug trafficking. Saying he believed most of the cocaine was bound for the mainland, Lugar-Mawson said the law had to ensure Hong Kong would not become a drug transit centre in Asia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Discovery Bay residents yesterday protested against a 9.5 per cent ferry fare increase approved by the Transport Department against their objections. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Mother’s Day – an occasion some families treat as a chance to show mum some thanks for all her hard work, but which others dismiss as just another commercial exploitation of human nature. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish NTV television quotes minister saying death toll in explosion in Turkey is around 40. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s former president Rafsanjani has registered candidacy for June presidential election. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Saturday to face a new trial for complicity in the murder of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising, as well as for corruption. The 85-year-old Mubarak, who was taken into court in a wheelchair dressed in white and wearing sunglasses, is on trial along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, and six security chiefs. He also faces corruption charges with his two sons, Alaa and Gamal. All defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges levelled against them. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish official: Death toll in explosion near Syrian border rises to 13. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Leading conservation groups have called on the government to take urgent action to save Hong Kong’s pink dolphin population from pollution and reclamation. WWF Hong Kong called for an interdepartmental task force to be set up to find ways to save the dolphin population and for steps taken to halt reclamation projects they fear could push the mammals to the brink of extinction in Hong Kong waters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> With radical lawmakers mounting a filibuster of the budget bill to press the case for a universal pension scheme, government ministers on Saturday said the public would be consulted soon on a retirement protection scheme. A public consultation was “inevitable” once a government study of options was completed early next year, both the treasury and welfare ministers said. People Power lawmaker Albert Chan Wai-yip, a driving force behind the filibuster, which is holding up passage of the bill, welcomed their message. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Official says at least 4 killed, 18 injured in explosions near Turkey’s border with Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish state TV says several injured in explosion at municipal building near Syrian border. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Saturday to oppose plans for a lithium battery factory, highlighting growing social tension over pollution. Police stood by as residents marched peacefully along a busy street in the Songjiang district of the city, gathering at an intersection near the site of a Carrefour hypermarket, chanting and holding signs saying “No factory here, we love Songjiang.” Many wore matching t-shirts with an image of a smoky factory enclosed by the red “no” symbol. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Exiled Islamist praises ‘brave’ killing of soldier in London
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its “courage” and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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