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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Elsie Leung Oi-sie, deputy director of the Basic Law Committee that advises the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the Basic Law’s implementation, told the South China Morning Post it would not be suitable for her to take up such a role because she did not hold any portfolio on constitutional reform, official or otherwise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese authorities were on Sunday investigating claims that unidentified North Koreans hijacked a Chinese fishing boat, kidnapping 16 sailors and demanding a ransom, local media and an official said. Armed North Koreans on May 6 hijacked the boat and escorted it towards North Korea while it was sailing in waters around 70 kilometres from North Korea’s western coast, reports and the boat’s owner Yu Xuejun said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An aide to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned home from a trip to North Korea on Saturday but declined to shed any light on the reason for his mysterious visit. Isao Iijima, a senior adviser to Abe, was tightlipped when confronted by reporters in Beijing on his way home. “I won’t accept any interview on this issue,” he told reporters, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK. Abe said on Saturday that Iijima would report back to chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s top government spokesman, on the visit. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some of its tourists are harming China’s image overseas, a top official said. Vice-Premier Wang Yang singled out “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and wilfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Student protesters who were forcibly removed from a Tseung Kwan O college by police on Thursday condemned officers for abusing their power. They also complained about how male officers handled females. One said she felt “uncomfortable and offended” when a policeman grabbed her from behind, touching her breasts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people on the mainland have heard colleagues use insulting language or tell offensive jokes about LGBT people, resulting in most choosing to stay in the closet, according to a report released in Beijing yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A ceiling collapse at a factory making Asics trainers in Cambodia killed two workers yesterday, fuelling concerns about workplace safety following last month’s industrial disaster in Bangladesh. Local rescue teams, helped by soldiers, scrambled to search through the rubble of the fallen structure, which appeared to have been on a mezzanine level laden with crates of trainers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> About 20 students and political activists staged a noisy protest against Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying on Thursday morning when he attended a seminar in Tseung Kwan O. The protesters – members of the Hong Kong Federation of Students and the League of Social Democrats – surrounded Leung’s car as he left the seminar venue at Caritas Bianchi College of Careers. They called for the chief executive to introduce “genuine” universal suffrage and a universal pension scheme. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An angry President Barack Obama sacked the acting head of the US Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday over a fast moving scandal sparked when officials unfairly targeted conservative groups. Obama said Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had asked for and received the resignation of tax agency chief Steven Miller and promised a new system of checks and safeguards to make sure the episode was not repeated. “Given the controversy surrounding this audit, it’s important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward,” Obama said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Google chief executive Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally, but he says he remains fit enough to run the internet’s most influential company. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cancer campaigners have applauded actress Angelina Jolie for going public about her double mastectomy, but warned women against rushing out to be tested for the gene mutation that threatened her life. <!– 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 –> The former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery, a court said on Wednesday, the latest episode in the scandal that brought down Bo Xilai. Tang Jianhua was condemned to death with two years’ reprieve for taking bribes, a Chongqing court official said. Under Chinese law the punishment is normally commuted to life imprisonment. He was found to have “possessed huge amounts of money from unidentified sources”, said the official, who refused to be named, without elaborating. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered on Wednesday to move to safety as a cyclone barrelled towards low-lying coastal areas. The United Nations has warned that more than eight million people could be at risk from Cyclone Mahasen, which is expected to make landfall on Thursday or Friday somewhere near the border between the two countries. Bangladesh told hundreds of thousands of people living in low-lying areas to move to cyclone shelters, while Myanmar announced plans to move roughly 166,000 people at risk on its northwest coast. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Free Syrian Army pledged on Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and apparently eating the organs of a regime soldier emerged online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Enthusiasm on Wall Street sparked by another positive report on the U.S. economy helped push most Asian stock markets higher Wednesday. But lower-than-expected German economic growth disappointed investors elsewhere. The German economy narrowly avoided recession in the first quarter of 2013, with 0.1 percent growth for the quarter. However, analysts were expecting a 0.3 percent quarterly rise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies. That’s not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit which believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market and also contend with a jittery, authoritarian government seeking to clamp down on freedom of expression online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The death toll from an accident at a US-owned mine in remote eastern Indonesia rose to four on Wednesday, as rescuers struggled to reach 23 workers still trapped underground in a collapsed tunnel. Ten people have been rescued alive following the accident early on Tuesday at Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg, one of the world’s biggest gold and copper mines that is high in the mountains of rugged Papua province. It was the latest problem for the mine, which was hit by a major strike in 2011 that crippled production. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HSBC said on Wednesday that the bank would target an additional US$2 billion to US$3 billion (HK$15.5 billion to HK$23.3 billion) in cost savings between next year and 2016, as the bank axes jobs and sells noncore businesses with less than a year left in the first phase of its restructuring plan. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Rule me out of forging consensus on political reform: Elsie Leung
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Elsie Leung Oi-sie, deputy director of the Basic Law Committee that advises the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the Basic Law’s implementation, told the South China Morning Post it would not be suitable for her to take up such a role because she did not hold any portfolio on constitutional reform, official or otherwise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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