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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google’s dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company’s website, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on Wednesday met officials at the foreign ministry after being summoned to explain the presence of an alleged CIA agent working undercover at the embassy who was detained this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died in Mexico City after a violent dispute in a bar, Mexican authorities said on Friday. He was 28. City prosecutors are investigating the attack that sent Shabazz to a nearby hospital where he died Thursday of blunt-force trauma injuries. United States officials confirmed that Shabazz was killed in Mexico City. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Languages spoken by billions of people across Europe and Asia are descended from an ancient tongue uttered in southern Europe at the end of the last ice age, according to research. The claim, by scientists in Britain, points to a common origin for vocabularies as varied as English and Urdu, Japanese and Itelmen, a language spoken along the northeastern edge of Russia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> About 1,500 academics, students and researchers – including a former US diplomat – have signed an online petition for more funds for the University of Hong Kong library, which they say is “going downhill very fast”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading More than a thousand petition to save renowned HKU library
By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fees for new students entering the English Schools Foundation from 2016 could be more than 20 per cent higher as the government phases out its decades-old subsidy for the foundation. The change is the result of drawn-out negotiations between the Education Bureau and the ESF, which officials have described as a “colonial legacy”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The music video features a “super mum” rapping about her day-to-day joys – and pains – of 21st century motherhood. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two Communist Party mouthpieces yesterday reported the controversy in Hong Kong over the HK$100 million donation to earthquake victims in Sichuan – pointing the finger at the Red Cross Society of China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Communist Party papers remark on Hong Kong quake donation row, quoting pan-dems
By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A group of 30 Malaysian students, most of whom were too young to vote, gathered on Monday at the Democracy Wall at Hong Kong University to vent their deep distrust of Malaysia’s election results that brought the governing coalition its 13th straight election win. The messages they posted on the wall included: “I am against Dirty Politics” “Unfair! Rigged!” “I want democracy, not magic” and “Democracy is dead”. The posters were written in Chinese, English and Malay. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading HKU’s Malaysian students question election results back home
By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson will have hip surgery this summer that could see him miss the start of next season. The English champions confirmed widespread reports in the British media on Saturday that Ferguson is booked in for an operation that will not interfere with the club’s three-week preseason tour of Thailand, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong ending July 30. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s ruling Conservatives were yesterday at risk of losing hundreds of seats in local polls amid a surge in popularity for the anti-European Union UK Independence Party (UKIP). The elections will go some way to measuring the threat UKIP will pose to the Conservatives’ hopes of re-election in 2015. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading British PM Cameron faces poll battering by anti-EU party UKIP
By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Archaeologists excavating a rubbish pit at the site of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, US, have found the first physical evidence of cannibalism among the desperate population, corroborating written accounts left behind by witnesses. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Early American settlers ate buried corpse of young girl
By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> His words drip with malice and evil genius; his moustache droops low and his eyebrows arch high. But while there seems little place for Dr Fu Manchu in a modern multicultural world, variations on the character have proved remarkably resilient, says Dr Jenny Clegg, a British Sinologist who has studied the stereotype. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading The racist curse of Fu Manchu
By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Settlers at Virginia’s Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the US Smithsonian Institution reported on Wednesday. This is the first direct evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in the Americas, according to the Washington-based museum and research complex. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Starving US settlers driven to cannibalism, say researchers
By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Peering at graphic pictures of supposed US biological warfare efforts during the 1950-53 Korean war, Zhang Ping tugs on the sleeve of a visiting foreign reporter to complain about the barbarism visited on his compatriots during the conflict. “Too terrible, those Americans,” he mutters, standing at a war museum on the Chinese side of the North Korean border, pointing out the pictures of infected animals and insects which China and North Korea say the United States dropped to poison their enemies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China’s emotional ties to North Korea run deep in border city
By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Joy Bwalya-Mwale, 16, had a baby tied to her back and an umbrella to protect her from the burning sun. The teenage mother had come for a check-up at the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, where her daughter, Natalia, was born eight months ago. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hospital in Lusaka symbol of China’s soft power in Zambia
By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Secrets are surfacing across campuses as Hong Kong students lay bare their lives on new university confession sites. Part love confessional, part gossip blog and complaints forum, the contents of the Facebook community pages have gone viral. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Confession sites all the rage on Hong Kong university campuses
By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Officiating at the 2012 News Awards prize presentation ceremony in which the South China Morning Post won 11 prizes, Lam said it was newspapers’ mission to unmask secrets. “Some of the award-winning scoops today may not be a delight to see, but … they are fulfilling the mission of the press,” she said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Negative news is the media ‘fulfilling its mission’: Carrie Lam
By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung Ka-sing insisted he made his fortune through legitimate stock trading as he pleaded not guilty to money-laundering charges in court on Monday at the long-delayed start of his trial. The former hairdresser-turned-football tycoon from Hong Kong was arrested and charged in June 2011 with five counts of knowingly dealing in ill-gotten gains worth tens of millions of dollars. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Birmingham owner Carson Yeung pleads not guilty to money-laundering charges
By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a week that has seen Britain discuss the very future of the pound sterling and the possible break-up of the United Kingdom, Hong Kong’s money changers have provided an unwitting boost to the Scottish independence movement by offering a separate – and more favourable – rate for Scottish pound notes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries
<!– google_ad_section_start –> HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google’s dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company’s website, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries
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