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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday announced a US$1.8-billion military upgrade to help defend his country’s maritime territory against “bullies”, amid an ever-worsening dispute with China. In thinly veiled comments referring to China, Aquino vowed during a speech to mark the navy’s 115th anniversary that the armed forces would be given the resources necessary to protect Philippine sovereignty. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Provincial Higher People’s Court said on Sunday that it would review plaintiff Tang Hui’s lawsuit against Yongzhou authorities after she was sent to a labour camp for 18 months. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Petition mother Tang Hui clears hurdle in court appeal over labour camp imprisonment
By Christopher Dickey, on May 17th, 2013 Christopher Dickey on why the CIA bears the main responsibility for the intelligence failures that lead to the Libyan atrocity last year.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In 13 months more than 500 kilos of crystal meth seized in Australia has come from Hong Kong. The haul is more than ten times that seized in the SAR over the past five years. A total of seven Hongkongers are now facing the Australian courts. Southern China is one of the world’s biggest producer of ephedrine – the main precursor chemical for ice. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras kicked off his four-day trip to China yesterday, hoping it will help his country’s ailing economy by attracting investment and promoting the export of Greek products. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the group calls itself, first announced on Monday that four of the eight Turkish citizens captured late last month after their helicopter made an emergency landing in Logar province had been released, with the other four to follow soon. The Taliban characterised the move as a “goodwill gesture”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Taliban prove adept on the public relations front
By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Speculation that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have to call an early election increased after two ministers embroiled in scandals quit. The furore paralysed Parliament, delaying economic reforms. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Disliked Indian PM’s woes escalate after two scandal-hit ministers resign
By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It’s long believed that China is “the country of copycats”. However, Chinese netizens are sometimes very creative, especially when using the website of the White House to make jokes about their own political system. A petition on the White House’s site has quickly become a new favourite pastime for mainland netizens. If you go to the site now you will see that among the latest five petitions, four since Sunday, were written by Chinese netizens. “Send troops to liberate the Chinese people,” reads one petition. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Make the official taste of tofu sweet: Chinese have fun with White House petition website
By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Kwai Tsing dock workers on Monday announced the end of their 40-day-long strike after they accepted a 9.8 per cent pay rise offered by four contractors. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Dockers’ strike over after vote to accept 9.8pc pay rise
By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Apple will not release a large-screened “phablet” phone to compete with arch-rival Samsung this year, according to analysts, as the odds narrow the technology group will release a cheaper iPhone to capture the pay-as-you-go market. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Apple may turn focus to more affordable iPhones, analysts predict
By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Greek parliament has approved a contentious plan to dismiss 15,000 civil servants by the end of next year as part of a package of measures the country must enforce to get crucial financing from foreign creditors. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Greece to cut 15,000 civil service jobs to get next tranche of bailout money
By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Seventy-five per cent of grassroots workers’ pay adjustments last year did not keep pace with inflation, according to a survey by the Confederation of Trade Unions released on Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Workers’ wages failing to keep pace with inflation, says CTU survey
By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France’s ruling Socialist party will remove strongly worded criticism of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from a draft text on Europe that revealed its level of hostility towards Berlin’s focus on austerity, its coordinator for Europe said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading French socialists drop Merkel criticism
By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two dockers were taken to hospital last night after a lump of iron fell on their heads at the strike-hit Kwai Tsing container port. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Dockers struck on heads by falling crane part
By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Overcrowding on farms around Shanghai was the underlying factor that led to 16,000 dead pigs floating down the Huangpu river into China’s affluent financial centre, according to an analysis of official documents and interviews with farmers in the region. The appearance last month of carcasses of rotting hogs in a river that supplies tap water to the eastern Chinese city was a morbid reminder of the pressures facing China’s mostly small-scale farmers as the country grapples with food safety scares, environmental pressures and, most recently, a bird flu outbreak. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Overcrowding on farms behind mystery of China’s floating pigs
By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was disappointment yesterday after lawmakers failed to vote on a proposal to donate HK$100 million to the Sichuan earthquake relief effort amid concerns the funds may be misused. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Lam regrets filibuster over quake donation
By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Officials have admitted to an “uneasy” start for the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, with ships making just 37 bookings for berthing between its official opening in June and April 2015. By comparison, Singapore’s Marina Bay Cruise Centre, which opened in October, is booked to handle 89 dockings between June and April next year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Cruise terminal set for rocky start
By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Horacio Cartes, a Paraguayan tobacco magnate, faced various challenges during his presidential bid. He was pressed to explain why anti-narcotics police officers seized a plane carrying cocaine and marijuana on his ranch in 2000; why he went to prison in 1989 on currency fraud charges; and why he had never voted in past general elections. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Tobacco tycoon Horacio Cartes elected president of Paraguay
By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Central Meteorological Observatory warned of the possibility for landslides or other “geological disasters” as a result of rain or aftershocks from the quake. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Landslides from rain and aftershocks will impede Sichuan quake rescue efforts
By , on April 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of fearful people in Longmen, a mountain town close to the epicentre of yesterday’s earthquake in Sichuan, spent last night out in the open. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Philippines boosts military to resist ‘bullies’
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday announced a US$1.8-billion military upgrade to help defend his country’s maritime territory against “bullies”, amid an ever-worsening dispute with China. In thinly veiled comments referring to China, Aquino vowed during a speech to mark the navy’s 115th anniversary that the armed forces would be given the resources necessary to protect Philippine sovereignty. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Philippines boosts military to resist ‘bullies’
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