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By , on June 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) set up its Cat Colony Care Programme in 2000. The method behind its attempts to stabilise and reduce the number of stray and feral cats involves three steps: trap, neuter and release. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Six people were killed and 14 were injured on Wednesday when a four-storey building under demolition collapsed in downtown Philadelphia, burying a neighbouring thrift store in concrete and debris, officials said. Search and rescue efforts continued into the night for more victims of the collapse, which occurred at around 10:45 am, and Mayor Michael Nutter suggested at a late night news conference that the number of casualties could rise. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s worsening air pollution has had a surprising and unexpected consequence – fashionable face masks. A trend has sprung up among people who want to look good while trying to avoid the smog. Face masks are now an accessory and are matched according to the weather, sport or outdoor activity. When the air is bad, people who don’t wear masks are like ET They are so commonplace that it is unusual when someone is outside without the protection. “When the air is bad, people who don’t wear masks are like ET,” Chen Dawei said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Taiwanese president, Ma Ying-jeou, is seeking re-election as chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party, in what pundits view as a move to keep him from losing political authority before his current presidential term ends in 2016. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An American tourist was raped by a truck driver and two other men after hitching a ride in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, police said yesterday. The incident follows the alleged rape of a 21-year-old Irish charity worker in Calcutta at the weekend and comes as the country attempts to tackle widespread sex crime with tougher rape laws. “The 30-year-old was raped by men in a truck on Monday night,” police inspector Abhimanyu Kumar said from Manali, a tourist destination in the foothills of the Himalayas. “They offered her a lift and she accepted it.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A member of the jury hearing the trial of Peter Chan Chun-chuen, a self-styled fung shui master of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, has been discharged for health reasons. The number of jurors hearing the case is now eight, following Mr Justice Andrew Macrae’s decision to allow one to be discharged yesterday, the seventh day of a trial that began on May 24. The reduced size of the jury will not affect the number of jurors’ findings required to reach a verdict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The government has been using fewer workers provided by employment agencies but it still hires many directly on non-civil-service contracts, official figures show. Unionists have criticised the government’s use of these two means of recruitment, which do not accord the employees the benefits and wages that full-time civil servants get. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> India has become the leading source of permanent migrants to Australia for the first time, ahead of China, a government report showed yesterday. Reflecting the growing prominence of Asia to Australia, seven of the top 10 source countries during 2011-2012 were from the region, Australia’s Migration Trends study showed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By The Daily Beast, on May 31st, 2013 What does the number one women’s singles tennis player in the world do in her spare time? For Serena Williams, paint.
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — Legendary Entertainment, the Hollywood studio behind “The Hangover” franchise, is teaming with state-owned China Film Group to make more global blockbusters as it advances a delayed expansion in the rapidly growing Chinese movie market. Their deal is the latest example of growing collaboration between entertainment companies in the world’s two biggest movie markets. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A war of words has erupted between a prominent “Tiananmen mother”, whose 17-year-old son was killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, and a Hong Kong group pushing for a reversal of Beijing’s stance on the pro-democracy movement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A new-born boy was released from hospital five days after his mother accidentally dropped him down a toilet pipe while giving birth to him, state media said on Thursday. The baby from Jinhua in the eastern province of Zhejiang “left the hospital on Wednesday evening in the care of his relatives”, the official Xinhua news agency reported. His mother, grandparents and purported father will take care of him it cited local officials as saying, adding that the father plans to test his paternity. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A new expiry on licence plates means Guangzhou car owners will have to scrap their vehicles within a decade. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The research challenges the common theory that early hominins – members of the broad human family – were forced onto two feet because climate change reduced the number of trees they could live in. According to the new hypothesis, it is not why they left the forests, but where they went, that explains the evolution. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The founding chancellor of New York University Shanghai, Yu Lizhong, likens the joint venture between New York University and East China Normal University to a couple expecting a child. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong health officials on Thursday warned against drinking a batch of slim milk imported from Australia after the amount of bacteria found in a sample vastly exceeded the legal limit. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ma Qiang is angry that mainland media have dubbed his Mars dream a hoax. The 39-year old former policeman from Dujiangyan, Sichuan, signed up for the Mars One project in the Netherlands last month, becoming one of the first volunteers to be screened for a journey of no return scheduled in a decade. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s unemployment rate in April was 3.5 per cent – same as the level in March, government figures released on Monday showed. Increases in the unemployment rate in April were mainly observed in retail, manufacturing, and accommodation and food services sectors, the Census and Statistics Department said, while decreases were mainly seen in the insurance, wholesale and construction sectors. The city’s jobless has largely remained stable so far this year. The figures for January and February were 3.4 per cent. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A wave of car bombings across Baghdad’s Shiite neighbourhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens on Monday, Iraqi officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country’s transplant system said on Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population. Almost all donated organs in China used to come from executed prisoners. A growing proportion now come from ordinary people, but the government is seeking to eliminate prisoner donations altogether. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Snip for strays helps win feral cat fight
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) set up its Cat Colony Care Programme in 2000. The method behind its attempts to stabilise and reduce the number of stray and feral cats involves three steps: trap, neuter and release. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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