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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police in a Guangdong city said early on Wednesday that they had arrested a man accused of injuring six children and one woman with a butcher knife, ending a manhunt that gripped the province the evening before. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Marine Department insisted yesterday that its director had already expressed his remorse for the Lamma ferry tragedy following criticism from relatives of some of the 39 people who died. It added that Director of Marine Francis Liu Hon-por remained saddened by the October 1 disaster – which a commission of inquiry found had been caused in part by his department’s “serious systematic failings”. Yesterday’s statement did little to appease Ryan Tsui Chi-shing, whose older brother Tsui Chi-wai and 10-year-old nephew Tsui Hoi-ying died in the crash. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Google chief executive Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally, but he says he remains fit enough to run the internet’s most influential company. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong customs officers have seized 113 ivory tusks worth about HK$3 million on the Chinese ivory market, officials said on Wednesday. The smuggled ivory was seized at the airport on Tuesday in a container marked “spare parts” from Burundi which was bound for Singapore, said an official statement. The total seizure, weighing 300kg, was worth an estimated HK$3 million. “Upon X-ray image analysis, the consignment was detected to contain ivory tusks instead of spare parts,” the statement said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rather than getting a headache deliberating over whether to donate HK$100 million to the Sichuan government, it appeared that Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying had been pondering a more pressing issue – whether to announce his next policy address in October or January. Former chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen followed colonial tradition and delivered all his policy speeches in October, but after Leung took office last year, he delayed his maiden policy address to January “to give the government time to build a partnership” with lawmakers returned in September. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The personal secretary of former Citic Pacific chairman Larry Yung Chi-kin has been charged in connection with the sale of a luxury flat which had been ex-chief secretary Rafael Hui Si-yan’s home. Agnes Tai Wai-kuen, 58, also a director and a shareholder of E-Sincere Holdings, appeared in the Eastern Court on Tuesday on three counts of wilfully making false statements in relation to the $7.6 million used to buy the flat at Leighton Hill, Happy Valley, in January 2001. The property was sold in October 2002. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – who died on Monday from a stroke at age 87 – retired from public engagements in 2002 following a series of small strokes, and was only occasionally seen in public since then. Here are memorable quotes from her public life. “There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. … No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.” October 10, 1968, Conservative Party conference. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday as momentum carried over from yet another record high on Wall Street. The Standard and Poor’s 500 index closed at its highest level ever Thursday, driven by more encouraging data on the U.S. economic recovery. The government said the economy grew at an annual rate of 0.4 percent in the October-December quarter, slightly better than previous estimates. The revision reflected stronger business investment and export sales. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday as momentum carried over from yet another record high on Wall Street. The Standard and Poor’s 500 index closed at a record Thursday, driven by more encouraging data on the U.S. economic recovery. The government said the economy grew at an annual rate of 0.4 percent in the October-December quarter, slightly better than previous estimates. The revision reflected stronger business investment and export sales. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Opposition leader Henrique Capriles on Sunday entered the race to succeed Hugo Chavez in the April 14 election, accusing the late Venezuelan leader’s chosen successor of using Chavez’s death for political ends. Capriles, who lost to Chavez in the October election, launched a broadside against acting President Nicolas Maduro, even suggesting that he lied about the day that Chavez died. “Nicolas, I won’t leave you an open path, mate. You are going to have to defeat me with votes,” said the telegenic 40-year-old Miranda state governor. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Lace-up life jackets, such as those available aboard the Lamma IV vessel involved in the National Day ferry disaster, did not comply with standards set by the International Maritime Organisation, according to a naval expert. The naval expert and architect Dr Neville Armstrong made the statement on Thursday while testifying to the commission of inquiry into the Lamma ferry disaster that killed 39 passengers on October 1 last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The saga over the video of a rich but lonely wife took another twist yesterday when her businessman husband demanded that the journalist who produced the show be sent to jail for contempt. In a High Court writ, David Chor Ki-Kwong asked for an order that Lorea Solabarrieta be “committed to prison” for contempt of court for failing to comply with a court order to remove The Life of a Hong Kong Tai Tai video from YouTube. But Solabarrieta, who had not yet received the writ yesterday, told the South China Morning Post that the video was taken offline last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The person who approves a ship’s drawing plans in the future should also be the one who inspects the ship, a naval expert testifying at the commission of inquiry into the Lamma ferry disaster said on Wednesday. Australian naval architect Dr Neville Armstrong said this requirement would prevent mistakes similar to those made when inspecting the Lamma IV, which collided with another vessel, the Sea Smooth, causing flooding and the death of 39 passengers on October 1 of last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death ends 14 years of tumultuous rule that made the socialist leader a hero for the poor but a hated figure to his opponents. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The coxswain of the Sea Smooth said on Wednesday that he would continue his testimony without legal representation to the commission of inquiry into the fatal Lamma ferry collision last October 1. The Sea Smooth was on a National Day fireworks viewing voyage when it collided with the ferry Lamma IV, leaving 31 adults and eight children aboard the ferry dead. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When pictures of the ferry collision off Lamma Island flashed on the TV screen on October 1, little Chen Yin-ho prayed to the Mercy Buddha that his 26-year-old auntie would be safe. Tragically Mani Lau Man-lai was among the 39 people who died in the October 1 disaster. But in an unexpected twist of fate, her death has led to improvements in her nephew’s life, after officials made follow-up visits to victims’ families to see what help they needed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Auntie’s Lamma IV collision death, helped her nephew, 6
By , on February 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The jobless rate for the November – January period increased from 3.3 per cent in the previous period between October and December, the Census and Statistics Department said on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An interpreter criticised this week for performing poorly at the Lamma ferry disaster inquiry removed herself from the hearing on Wednesday morning. The criticism appeared in the South China Morning Post on Wednesday, when a relative of two victims in the National Day tragedy said he was “stunned” by the woman’s inaccurate translations of witnesses’ accounts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Yemeni military aircraft ploughed into a building in a residential neighbourhood of Sanaa on Tuesday, killing the pilot and at least 11 civilians, medics and witnesses said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The coxswain of the ill-fated Lamma IV said he was the last person to abandon his ship after it collided with the ferry Sea Smooth, the commission of inquiry was told on Tuesday. Captain Chow Chi-wai said that when rescuers came to the wheelhouse, there were three women and a man with him. Only two of the women were wearing life jackets. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Guangdong manhunt ends with arrest of man suspected of chopping schoolchildren
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