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By , on June 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s scouts have distanced themselves from the former practices of the Boy Scouts of America and announced that they do not discriminate against gay people. The “Scout Association of Hong Kong is open to all persons who are interested in scouting”, the organisation said in a statement issued to the South China Morning Post on Wednesday. “Anybody who accepts the aim, mission and method of the association honours the Scout promise and keeps the Scout law is welcome to join.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings, whose unflinching reporting ended the career of top US Army general Stanley McChrystal, died in a car accident in Los Angeles, his family said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A young girl shocked her family when she broke her silence and told them she could no longer endure the beatings and abuse from a staff member at school. Murong was one of six schoolgirls aged around 11 who were sexually abused by a classroom adviser for two years in a remote village in the northeast mainland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Global stock markets were mostly lower Wednesday as investors waited for an update on the U.S. economy from the Federal Reserve. Investors were waiting to see if the Fed, which wraps up a two-day policy meeting later in the day in Washington, will make changes to its strategy of super-low interest rates and easy money that is helping to shore up the U.S. economy. Any change is likely to ripple through stock markets. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Noah Charney, on June 19th, 2013 Why does Sheila Heti put books she doesn’t like on her bottom shelf? Why shouldn’t young writers listen to advice? She answers those questions and more.
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Superman visited China on Wednesday as actor Henry Cavill arrived in Shanghai for the mainland premiere of Man of Steel, the new reboot of Warner Bros’ long-running film franchise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By The Fashion Beast Team, on June 18th, 2013
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — The price of U.S. benchmark oil rose slightly Tuesday, a day after briefly touching a nine-month high, as traders awaited the start of a Federal Reserve policy meeting. Benchmark oil for July delivery rose 5 cents to $97.82 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Monday, the contract fell slightly after it climbed to $98.74, its highest level since mid-September, as stock and commodity markets wait for Fed policymakers to meet this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former soccer player David Beckham has more than 400,000 followers only a day after making his official Sina Weibo debut. “Hi I am David! Welcome to the OFFICIAL David Beckham Sina Page! Talk to you soon!” the Englishman wrote in his first post, which has been shared by more than 50,000 people. “Thank you for coming to Sina!
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> TOKYO (AP) — Jitters over a possible change in U.S. stimulus efforts by the Federal Reserve helped pull share prices mostly lower in early Asian trading Tuesday. Asia’s biggest benchmark, Japan’s Nikkei stock average, shed early gains to fall 0.6 percent by mid-morning in choppy trading, to 12,956.78. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index dropped 0.7 percent to 21,075.01, while South Korea’s KOSPI index rose 0.1 percent to 1,885.77. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON — Defiant and apparently unbowed by threats of prosecution, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed Monday to release more secrets about U.S. intelligence surveillance systems that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.” Snowden, who has been hiding in Hong Kong, said NSA analysts routinely obtain emails and other Internet communications of Americans as part of the cyberspying agency’s surveillance of global telecommunications and Internet traffic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A man loudly ranted about national security, the CIA and international spying while on a flight from Hong Kong to the U.S. on Monday, causing passengers to tackle him and bind his hands and feet. Passengers said the FBI met United Airlines Flight 116 as it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the major airports serving New York City, and escorted the man away. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, defended his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian and attacked U.S. officials for calling him a traitor. “The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,” he said. He added the government “immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home,” by labeling him a traitor, and indicated he would not return to the U.S. voluntarily. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A flight from Hong Kong on which a man claimed everyone was poisoned landed safely Monday at Newark Liberty Airport, and the man was taken off the plane under a heavy police presence. The man stood up during the flight to make the claim but there was no indication that any passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 116 were actually poisoned, an FBI spokesman said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, is defending his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian and attacking U.S. officials for calling him a traitor. “The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,” he said. He added the government “immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of a fair trial at home,” by labeling him a traitor, and indicated he would not return to the U.S. voluntarily. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The highly publicised divorce between News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng, has divided the online community, especially after a BBC correspondent familiar with the matter revealed on Twitter that Murdoch’s reasons for divorce were “jaw dropping”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Seth Lerer, on June 16th, 2013 Writer Seth Lerer’s father loved the theater, and would take on any role he can, no matter how small. He was only preparing for his biggest role yet.
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> FORT MEADE, Maryland (AP) — In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and Washington, residents long joked that the government spy shop next door was so ultra-secretive its initials stood for “No Such Agency.” But when Edward Snowden grew up here, the National Security Agency’s looming presence was both a very visible and accepted part of everyday life. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Karl Taro Greenfeld, on June 15th, 2013 Writer Karl Taro Greenfeld found himself in his mid-thirties happily married with two daughters but no real friends. Why do men have such a harder time making friends? What could he do?
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Hong Kong scouts say they do not discriminate against gay people
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s scouts have distanced themselves from the former practices of the Boy Scouts of America and announced that they do not discriminate against gay people. The “Scout Association of Hong Kong is open to all persons who are interested in scouting”, the organisation said in a statement issued to the South China Morning Post on Wednesday. “Anybody who accepts the aim, mission and method of the association honours the Scout promise and keeps the Scout law is welcome to join.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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