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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China and the United States are hoping for a new chance to set the course for smoother relations through a secluded desert summit as the Asian power’s leader Xi Jinping projects a more confident style. Xi and Barack Obama will meet June 7-8 at the tony Sunnylands resort in Rancho Mirage, California, their first encounter since the Chinese president took power and three months ahead of their first scheduled run-in at the Group of 20 summit in Russia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JANE PERLEZ, on May 23rd, 2013 The North Korean envoy, Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, said the North would “accept the proposal” by China, its biggest benefactor which it has strained relations with.
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Gunmen wearing North Korean military uniforms assaulted the captain of a Chinese fishing boat and stole the vessel’s fuel, the boat’s owner, who had been held for two weeks, said after being released. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held talks with top officials in Beijing yesterday, in the first such encounter since China joined the United States and other nations in imposing sanctions on Pyongyang over its ambitious nuclear weapons programme. The visit by Vice-Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, a senior member of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, comes at a politically sensitive time, just weeks before Sino-US and Sino-South Korean summits. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Follow @SCMP_News Japan’s parliament on Wednesday approved an international treaty on child abductions after decades of pressure from the United States and other Western nations. Japan is the only member of the Group of Eight major industrialised nations that has not ratified the 1980 Hague Convention, which requires nations to return snatched children to the countries where they usually reside. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MATT FLEGENHEIMER, on May 21st, 2013 Limited Metro-North service began on Tuesday and full Metro-North and Amtrak service is expected on Wednesday morning, restoring a schedule interrupted by a collision last week.
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By By MATT FLEGENHEIMER, on May 20th, 2013 As investigators try to determine the cause of last week’s train derailment, the transit authority said riders were experiencing much longer commutes than usual.
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By By ROD NORDLAND, on May 20th, 2013 A suicide bomber killed 14 people Monday in Baghlan Province, including Rasul Mohseni, who was widely seen as the most powerful man in the province.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 
Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea fired another short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Monday, the latest in a series of missile drills that have been condemned by South Korea and UN chief Ban Ki-moon. The latest firing – the fifth in three days – was confirmed by a spokesman for the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said it was unclear if the North was testing guided missiles or rockets from multiple launchers. “We are still checking on the precise nature of these tests,” the spokesman said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHOE SANG-HUN, on May 19th, 2013 North Korea launched a short-range projectile into waters off its east coast as South Korea condemned the provocations and urged the North to accept a proposal for talks.
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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 –> In the wake of its apparent aversion to virgins – as expressed in its recent article “Never Sleep With a Virgin”, China’s nationalist newspaper, the Global Times, seems enthusiastic about lesbians – at least when former US secretary Hillary Clinton is suspected of being one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesia’s foreign minister called on Thursday for a new treaty spanning across Asia to help build trust, warning of the potential for conflict in the fast-changing region if tensions fester. On a visit to Washington, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said that a new treaty could help end “the all-too-familiar vicious cycle of tensions” in Asia and instead encourage confidence by bringing countries together in their goals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten tornadoes tore through the US state of Texas overnight, killing at least six people as they levelled homes, local authorities said on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The organisation that represents North Korean residents of Japan accused the Japanese government of blocking the sale of its headquarters in Tokyo to a priest who wanted to permit the Chongryon group to remain in the building. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JAMES GLANZ, on May 13th, 2013 Bland New Jersey buildings are commanding rents four times as high as Class A high-rises in Manhattan, but it isn’t the space that attracts. It’s the electrical capacity.
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korean President Park Geun-hye personally apologised on Monday for an “unsavoury” incident during her US summit visit that led to the dismissal of her chief spokesman. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KIRK JOHNSON, on May 13th, 2013 A wave of proposed and completed mergers between secular and Roman Catholic hospitals prompt concerns in the left-leaning Pacific Northwest.
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China, US to try new tone in desert outing
<!– google_ad_section_start –> China and the United States are hoping for a new chance to set the course for smoother relations through a secluded desert summit as the Asian power’s leader Xi Jinping projects a more confident style. Xi and Barack Obama will meet June 7-8 at the tony Sunnylands resort in Rancho Mirage, California, their first encounter since the Chinese president took power and three months ahead of their first scheduled run-in at the Group of 20 summit in Russia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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