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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea has sent a top military official to China as a special envoy of leader Kim Jong-un, at a time of strained relations between Pyongyang and its allies in Beijing, state media reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> German software giant SAP said it intended to employ hundreds of people globally with autism as software testers and programmers over the next seven years. The company, which has already launched pilot projects in India and Ireland, said the move aimed to find workers “who think differently”, leading to innovation. By 2020, one per cent of SAP’s currently 65,000-strong workforce is expected to be affected by autism, a company spokesman told AFP. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s low birth rate has fallen further in the past five years, with the number of one-child families outpacing two-children households for the first time, a survey shows. Of 1,518 married or cohabitating women aged 15 to 49 surveyed by the Family Planning Association in its latest five-yearly study, 37.5 per cent had one child and 32 per cent had two children. The average number of children per household reached a record low of 1.12 last year, compared with 1.49 in 2007 and 1.6 in 2002. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police evacuated Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral yesterday after a well-known far-right former activist committed suicide by shooting himself through his mouth in front of its main altar, a police source said. Dominique Venner, 78, a historian known in France for his political essays, was carrying a letter but did not say anything before he shot himself dead in the mid-afternoon, the source said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s relationship with Beijing was set to chill further last night when the British Parliament gave a human rights award to blind activist Chen Guangcheng . Chen – who escaped extra-legal house arrest in Shandong last year before seeking refuge at the US embassy in Beijing and finally making it to New York – was handed the Westminster Award for his contribution to “human rights, human life and human dignity”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police in Changsha have detained a young gay rights activist after he organised a protest in the capital of Hunan province to mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. A 19-year-old man, identified only as Xiang, was arrested on Saturday and will be in administrative detention for 12 days for organising an “illegal protest”, police said, according to a report in the local Xiaoxiang Morning News, which has since been deleted online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pakistani politician Imran Khan has blamed a rival political leader for the killing of a senior member of his party, who was gunned down outside her home in the violence-plagued city of Karachi. The killing of Zohra Hussain, 59, vice-president of the women’s wing of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh province, came on the eve of a partial re-run in the southern city of the May 11 election. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> French actor and newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu yesterday compared President Vladimir Putin with the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent was what Russia needed as a leader. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> People who struggle with maths fare better after a course of gentle electric shocks to the brain, British scientists have claimed. Psychologists at Oxford University found that students scored higher on mental arithmetic tasks after a five-day course of brain stimulation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some of its tourists are harming China’s image overseas, a top official said. Vice-Premier Wang Yang singled out “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and wilfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two bombs near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad killed 38 people and wounded 55 on Friday, police and a doctor said, after two days of attacks targeting Iraqi Shiites in which dozens died. One bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba while a second detonated after people gathered at the scene of the first blast, the sources said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese Premier Li Keqiang embarks this weekend on his first foreign trip since taking office, heading to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany as Beijing seeks to address security and economic disputes. Li’s journey follows one by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russia and three African nations in March after the two men assumed their new positions, concluding China’s once-a-decade leadership transition. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> All 710 amendments to the budget bill – mostly filed by four radical pan-democrats as part of a filibuster – were vetoed in the Legislative Council last night as the government edged away from the possibility of running out of cash by next month. After one of the legislature’s longest debates, the annual appropriation bill was expected to be passed by a safe margin early next week. Some 50 inclusion motions – reflecting the passage or rejection of amendments – and a third-reading vote are still pending. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten rights lawyers petitioned a key National People’s Congress commission yesterday, calling for legitimising same-sex marriage on the mainland, ahead of today’s annual International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. The lawyers, from law firms across the mainland, signed a joint letter calling for the law committee of the NPC to study the legalisation of gay marriage. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met with Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Thursday, before the two leaders witnessed the signing of agreements in fields including shipping and telecommunications. Samaras is in China seeking investment and trade deals to help revive his country’s recession-battered economy. His visit comes little over a week after the European Commission agreed to impose average import duties of 47 per cent on solar panels from China, a move it says is to guard against the dumping of cheap goods in Europe. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US researchers have reported a breakthrough in stem cell research, describing how they have turned human skin cells into embryonic stem cells for the first time. The method described on Wednesday by Oregon State University scientists in the journal Cell, would not likely be able to create human clones, said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, senior scientist at the Oregon National Primate Research Centre. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hainan police and medical experts said on Thursday that a medical examination found the girls’ hymens still “intact”, the China Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Italian centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi has been questioned by Rome prosecutors for three hours over allegations the former prime minister paid €750,000 (HK$7.5 million) to buy the silence of people over claims that he used prostitutes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: Many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living in the camps have refused to leave, distrustful of Myanmar authorities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s founding in 1948. Every May 15, Palestinians commemorate the “nakba”, or “catastrophe” – the term they use to describe their displacement. Hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out during the fighting. The dispute over the fate of those Palestinians and that of their descendants, now numbering several million people, remains at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Top North Korean military leader visits China
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