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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong Customs said on Saturday it had foiled the largest smuggling attempt by a river trade vessel since 2008 – seizing HK$60 million worth of unmanifested goods including electronic products and endangered species. Customs officers intercepted a river trade vessel bound for Humen in Guangdong Province shortly after it set off from Black Point of Tuen Mun two days ago. Officers then escorted the vessel to the River Trade Terminal in Tuen Mun for closer examination. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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The actor Paul Shane, famous for starring in the 1980s BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, has died, his agent has confirmed.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The parents of a US high-tech researcher found hanged last year in Singapore accused local police on Wednesday of failing to preserve evidence and insisted their son was murdered. The inquest into the death last year of electronics engineer Shane Todd took an emotional turn on its third day after police staged a detailed re-enactment of his apparent suicide using an improvised noose in his own bedroom. “What we have been discovering is evidence that we cannot rely on. It has been moved, it has not been preserved,” his father Rick Todd, 58, an airline pilot, told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Christine Pelisek, on May 11th, 2013 An Ohio group is trying to link him to the brutal rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl 30 years ago.
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By Steve Miller, on May 10th, 2013 Doug Parker owns the home next to Cleveland suspect Ariel Castro.
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A US soldier who killed five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree at a combat stress centre in Iraq acted with the tactical precision of a trained soldier as he moved through the clinic, an Army crime scene expert testified on Thursday. US Army Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty last month to killing two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty in Baghdad in a 2009 shooting the military has said could have been triggered by combat stress. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Michael Daly, on May 8th, 2013 The Sowell case and this week’s kidnapping escape raise questions about the police, says Michael Daly.
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By Abby Haglage, on May 7th, 2013 In a matter of hours, a dishwasher in Cleveland went from a good neighbor to an international hero.
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By Michael Daly, on May 2nd, 2013 Michael Daly on 17-year-old Alphonza Bryant, killed by gun violence in the Bronx on April 22.
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By By REUTERS, on May 2nd, 2013 North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labor on Thursday for committing crimes against the North.
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two more Southeast Asian countries have signed up to the Beidou satellite navigation system, China’s alternative to the American GPS system. Laos and Brunei will be adopting the navigation system in an initial stage through research and co-operation agreements, China’s Ministry of Science and Technology said at the weekend. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Lloyd Grove, on April 28th, 2013 After a tell-all article and confessional TV interviews, Bernie Madoff’s secretary is still saying she’s sorry she didn’t suspect his crimes. Lloyd Grove on her new documentary.
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By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former ICAC commissioner Timothy Tong Hin-ming continues to lie low despite calls to explain extravagant spending on hospitality for mainland officials during his five-year tenure. Tong, who stepped down last year as the commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, has not responded since the scandal started making headlines last week. The ICAC confirmed that Tong hosted more than 20 lavish meals for top office-holders from the central government’s liaison office. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Miranda Green, on April 25th, 2013 Miranda Green on the killing of young North Carolina Democratic strategist Jamie Kirk Hahn.
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By Winston Ross, on April 25th, 2013 Winston Ross travels to Tupelo, Miss., to find what might have driven the latest suspect in the letters.
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By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — Liu Xia, under house arrest in China’s capital since her imprisoned husband Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, made a rare appearance Tuesday at a trial, yelling out a car window: “I’m not free.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Liu Xia, under house arrest in China’s capital since her imprisoned husband Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, made a rare appearance on Tuesday at a trial, yelling out a car window: “I’m not free”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> To those on the outside, the couple seemed content, spending time together on a quiet block in Brooklyn, in New York, working at solid city-paid jobs and delighting in their infant son. Almost certainly there was nothing so outwardly amiss between them that it could have foretold the crime that unfolded inside the woman’s apartment in the Flatlands neighbourhood. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Michael Daly, on April 15th, 2013 Eric Williams is under arrest after two Texas prosecutors’ slayings. Michael Daly reports.
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By Megan McArdle, on April 12th, 2013 Gosnell is accused of grisly crimes that I didn’t want to think about.
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Customs seize HK$60m worth of smuggled goods
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong Customs said on Saturday it had foiled the largest smuggling attempt by a river trade vessel since 2008 – seizing HK$60 million worth of unmanifested goods including electronic products and endangered species. Customs officers intercepted a river trade vessel bound for Humen in Guangdong Province shortly after it set off from Black Point of Tuen Mun two days ago. Officers then escorted the vessel to the River Trade Terminal in Tuen Mun for closer examination. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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