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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed on Friday for 45 years for the “horrifying” murder. Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a 24-year-old accounting student who lived in an adjoining room at his Sydney boarding house, the Supreme Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwanese eatery Din Tai Fung, which is famed for its dumplings, was crowned Asia’s best restaurant, while restaurants in Beijing claimed the lion’s share of spots in the top 10 of a new survey of the food-obsessed region’s best dining. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — Global economic malaise has knocked the stuffing out of Luo Yan’s business making toy animals. Sales of Hello Kitty dolls and plush rabbits have fallen 30 percent over the past six months, according to Luo, owner of Tongle Toy Enterprise, which employs 100 people in the southern city of Foshan, near Hong Kong. Orders from the United States and debt-crippled Europe are down 80 percent. “We don’t talk about profits anymore,” said Luo. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Commander Chris Hadfield leaves the International Space Station after five months with a fitting tribute <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Many on business trips or holidays have said they were unable to get their hands on their cash from ATM machines. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Indonesian court jailed an Australian and a Pakistani for six years each after the men were caught organising an asylum-seeker boat to Australia, their lawyer said on Wednesday. Ali Qaseem, a 57-year-old from Sydney described by prosecutors as part of an “international people-smuggling network”, and Pakistani Sadaat Ali were also fined 500 million rupiah (HK$400,000) each. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A former policeman on trial for murder in the Philippines escaped from jail on Thursday, then embarrassed authorities further by speaking to media outlets over the phone. Ex-police superintendent Cezar Mancao, charged with murder over the 2000 killings of a well-known publicist and his driver, casually walked out of a detention centre in Manila with the help of prison wardens, authorities said. “His escape is a big slap to the bureau’s face,” National Bureau of Investigation director Nonnatus Rojas told reporters after confirming the escape. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pinned her government’s re-election hopes on a new welfare scheme for the disabled, proposing on Tuesday a new tax to better fund care for Australians with severe physical and mental disabilities. The tax would not be paid until July 1, next year. Gillard said legislation to create the tax would not be considered by Parliament before general elections on September 14. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on April 24th, 2013 Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday.
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nearly 150,000 passengers were affected as Germany’s largest airline Lufthansa suspended almost its entire service for a full day because of a pay strike. The airline grounded a total of 1,755 flights yesterday, with those to European and domestic destinations the hardest hit. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An international team of flu experts will go to China within a week to help with investigations into the deadly H7N9 virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. The new strain of avian flu has killed 14 among 63 people known to have been infected, but no human-to-human spread of the virus has been confirmed. China confirmed on Saturday a seven-year-old child had been infected by the virus in the capital Beijing, the first case outside the Yangtze river delta region in eastern China where the new strain emerged last month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf commanders, including one on the FBI’s list of most-wanted terrorists, survived a Philippine military offensive that killed eight militants and led to the seizure of their jungle lair and bomb materials in the southern Philippines, the military said on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 2,000 global political figures, celebrities and even a couple of Margaret Thatcher’s old foes have been invited to her funeral in London on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Friday as investors turned cautious and took profits from recent rallies in spite of evidence pointing to an improving U.S. employment picture. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index retreated 0.6 percent to 13,463.66, a slip from the day before when the Tokyo benchmark closed above 13,500 for the first time since August 2008. The Nikkei has been riding high on the Bank of Japan’s aggressive new approach to jolting the world’s third-largest economy out of a prolonged slump. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bespectacled and clean shaven, 37-year-old Jomari Paraas could pass for a typical office employee in the Philippines, except he has six guns in his backpack that he will soon sell. The father-of-two is a prolific player in the country’s enormous and lucrative weapons black market, which has been under scrutiny following a spate of high-profile massacres and shoot-outs this year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday that Asia faced “new challenges” to its stability and warned no one could be allowed to throw the region into chaos as tensions mounted over North Korea. Xi, delivering a speech at an annual international forum on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, did not mention the crisis on the Korean Peninsula or China’s territorial disputes with Japan and Southeast Asian nations. But he said there should be no tolerance for those who foster “chaos for selfish gains”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks unveiled plans on Saturday to field candidates in at least three states in Australia’s elections and said it would be “embarrassing” if Julian Assange won but couldn’t take his seat. Assange, Australian-born founder of the controversial WikiLeaks site, announced that he would run for the Senate last year and is pushing ahead with the plan despite being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mutated bird flu virus that has killed six people in China displays worrying traits that warrant high vigilance, experts say, though the true extent of the threat is unclear. Most concerning is the virus’ wide geographical spread, and the fact that it seems to be spreading unseen among its host animals, possibly chickens or ducks. “I am cautiously worried,” virologist John Oxford of the Queen Mary University of London said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian former research analyst brought to New York from Hong Kong to face trial in an insider trading case has pleaded not guilty. Bail was set at $250,000 for Trent Martin during his appearance Friday in federal court in Manhattan. He arrived Thursday in the United States after his extradition from Hong Kong, where he was arrested in December. The 33-year-old Australian citizen is charged with conspiracy and securities fraud. He is accused of trading illegally ahead of the public announcement of IBM’s 2009 acquisition of a software company. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian former research analyst has been brought to New York to face trial in an insider trading case. Trent Martin was scheduled to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Friday afternoon. He arrived Thursday in the United States after his extradition from Hong Kong, where he was arrested in December. The 33-year-old Australian citizen is charged with conspiracy and securities fraud. He is accused of trading illegally ahead of the public announcement of IBM’s 2009 acquisition of a software company, SPSS Inc. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Australian gets 45 years for Indian student’s murder
<!– google_ad_section_start –> An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed on Friday for 45 years for the “horrifying” murder. Daniel Stani-Reginald, 21, had plotted to rape and murder a woman for years before choosing Tosha Thakkar, a 24-year-old accounting student who lived in an adjoining room at his Sydney boarding house, the Supreme Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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