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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A businesswoman in Zhejing province has been sentenced to death for defrauding her clients of around US$70 million in an investment scam, state media reported on Friday as authorities crack down on illegal banking. Lin Haiyan, 39, from the eastern city of Wenzhou, a free-wheeling business hub, was condemned after illegally raising US$104 million from relatives, friends and other investors, the National Business Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A schoolmaster and a government official in Hainan province have been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of six primary school girls, local authorities said yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The bureau chief of The New York Times in Pakistan was expelled from the country early yesterday after being ordered to leave for unspecified “undesirable activities”. Declan Walsh, who was hired by the newspaper last year after covering Pakistan for British newspaper The Guardian since 2004, was handed an expulsion order at his home at 12:30am, according to the Times. “Here I go. Hard to believe this is happening,” Walsh, 39, tweeted after filing his last report on Pakistan’s landmark general elections. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jacques Chirac once stormed out of an EU summit because a French business leader was speaking it, Nicolas Sarkozy lamented his lack of it and Francois Hollande makes small talk in it but is conscious of his accent. The global spread of the English language has long been a sore point in Paris politics. Now a new battleground has appeared in the linguistic war. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China on Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake that killed more than 80,000, as some said questions remained over the thousands of children who died as their schools collapsed. The magnitude-8 earthquake struck the southwestern province of Sichuan on the afternoon of May 12, 2008, with its epicentre at Wenchuan county. About 4.45 million were hurt in China’s worst quake in more than three decades. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A prosecutor’s office says a French judge has placed under investigation the photographer and publishing company behind unauthorised topless photos of Prince William’s wife, Kate, that appeared in Closer magazine in France last September. Caroline Chassain, spokeswoman for the Nanterre prosecutor, said on Thursday that a photographer, the newspaper La Provence – the photographer’s employer – and Mondadori Magazines France were placed under investigation this month over possible criminal exploitation of images. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man accused of plotting with al-Qaeda members in Iran to derail a train in Canada gave a rambling statement in a Toronto court yesterday and appeared to be saying he does not recognising its jurisdiction. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Indian government is to provide the country’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, head of energy giant Reliance Industries, with full-time security from armed commandos. India’s home ministry approved the move two months after a letter threatening to harm Ambani was hand-delivered to his office in Mumbai. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea’s foreign minister has cancelled a trip to Japan after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an offering to a shrine seen as a symbol of Japan’s former militarism, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported on Monday. Abe, an outspoken nationalist, on Sunday made a ritual offering of a pine tree to the Yasukuni shrine where 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honoured, along with other war dead. He did not visit the shrine but two Japanese ministers and a deputy chief cabinet secretary did visit it on the weekend. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The People’s Liberation Army Daily has revealed what China’s first carrier, the Liaoning, looks like on the inside. Western naval and shipbuilding experts say the hull’s design is totally different from that of the ship from which it was adapted, the Soviet Kuznetsov-class carrier Varyag. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper’s report that Chinese President Xi Jinping took a mystery cab ride last month prompted an unusual denial from China’s official Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, although the origins of the strange tale remain murky. The Ta Kung Pao newspaper reported Thursday that Xi took the 26-minute, 8.2-kilometer (5-mile) ride on the evening of March 1 as claimed by taxi driver Guo Lixin. The report said Xi was accompanied by another passenger who rode in the front passenger seat, but who wasn’t further identified. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chatty taxi driver Guo Lixin was in mid-conversation with a passenger – about the smog in the capital, of course – when it dawned on him that he was driving no ordinary Beijing resident. It took a minute, but Guo soon recognised the man as Xi Jinping. Xi got into Guo’s taxi on March 1, two weeks before the Communist Party leader would officially be named China’s president. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Xinglong village party secretary Huang Kangsheng is now under investigation accused of organising an overseas holiday on public expenses, Xiashan district authority told the newspaper on Wednesday, one day after Huang denied the online accusations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Guangdong official suspended after ‘ladyboys’ photos circulate online
By , on April 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Residents of China’s so-called richest village, Huaxi, where everyone is a shareholder, have been asked to stay at its luxury five-star hotel to “drive consumption” as the town/corporation in Jiangsu has been posting losses, Chinese media reported on Monday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> France intends to set up a currency-swap line to make Paris a major offshore yuan-trading hub in Europe, competing against London, China Daily yesterday cited Bank of France governor Christian Noyer as saying. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Zhang Jinlai, who played the Monkey King in Journey to the West, has called on the government to wade in on a proposed project to demolish a part of Xingjiao Temple where a revered Tang Dynasty monk is buried. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading ‘Monkey King’ actor hopes to save historic Buddhist temple in Xian
By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Activity in North Korea appears to show it is preparing for a fourth nuclear test, with movement at its atomic test site similar to events preceding earlier blasts, a newspaper reported on Monday, quoting a senior South Korean government official. North Korea has intensified warnings in recent weeks, declaring it had entered a state of war with Seoul, threatening to strike US targets and blocking access to a border factory complex jointly run with the South. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Whether someone who is regarded as “confronting” Beijing could be Hong Kong’s future chief executive has been the subject of much debate recently. But it still came as a surprise to many that the overseas edition of the People’s Daily ran a piece quoting criticism by pan-democrats of Beijing’s latest stand. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> For centuries the library has kept a copy of every book, pamphlet, magazine and newspaper published in Britain. Starting today, it will also be bound to record every British website, e-book, online newsletter and blog in an attempt to preserve the nation’s “digital memory”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The former in-house censor of China’s leading liberal newspaper Southern Weekly died on Wednesday – just three days into his retirement. Zeng Li had become a prominent figure during the weekly’s protest against censorship in January. His farewell letter has been shared on Weibo thousands of times on Thursday and caused widespread soul-searching about the state of the media in China. “Looking back on the last four years, I made mistakes,” Zeng wrote in his farewell letter, dated March 28. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Wenzhou businesswoman sentenced to death over US$70m investment scam
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A businesswoman in Zhejing province has been sentenced to death for defrauding her clients of around US$70 million in an investment scam, state media reported on Friday as authorities crack down on illegal banking. Lin Haiyan, 39, from the eastern city of Wenzhou, a free-wheeling business hub, was condemned after illegally raising US$104 million from relatives, friends and other investors, the National Business Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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