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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite earning a civil servant’s salary for three decades, Taib Mahmud, the powerful chief minister of Malaysia’s Sarawak state, is reputed by critics to be one of Asia’s richest men. Taib, 77, and his family are accused of massive corruption and running Malaysia’s largest state like a family business, controlling its biggest companies with stakes in hundreds of corporations in Malaysia and abroad. <!– 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 –> Chinese students and parents are demanding an apology from US Vice-President Joe Biden for “insensitive” comments, weeks after he referred to China as the nation that cannot “think different” or “breathe free” during a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Moscow reacted angrily on Tuesday as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted that its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding “nul points” to Russia’s song appeared to have been falsified. The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries’ foreign ministers in Moscow, as Azerbaijan’s top diplomat admitted that the votes submitted for Russia via mobile phone had somehow been omitted from the final tally. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mainland scholar has suggested downsizing the ruling Communist Party by setting up an “exit mechanism” to cut at least 31 million members. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Popular Vietnamese cable television provider VTV CAB has stopped providing foreign channels, including CNN and BBC, after a new media law that requires editing of programmes before broadcast came into effect on Wednesday last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Well-respected Malaysian graft buster, Paul Low Seng Kwan, 67, has his work cut out for him. Low – the president of Transparency International Malaysia (TI), an NGO that monitors political and corporate corruption – was appointed to the cabinet of Prime Minister Najib Razak in a surprise move that was greeted with applause and scepticism. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a “dirty war” dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Thein Sein’s historic invitation to the White House is an endorsement of “Myanmar’s Spring” and a further sign that the former pariah’s reforms are irreversible, a senior Myanmar official said. Washington will welcome the former general on Monday in a hugely symbolic reward for sweeping changes since he took power two years ago. He will be the first leader of the former military-ruled nation to visit since 1966. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google’s dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company’s website, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was proclaimed the new mayor of Manila yesterday, his first elected post since he was ousted in an anti-corruption revolt 12 years ago. Estrada, 76, capitalised on his movie-star popularity, particularly among the poor, and promised to reverse urban decay of the historic city along Manila Bay. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was leading in the vote-count for mayor of Manila on Tuesday in what could be his first elected post since he was ousted in a 2001 revolt on corruption charges. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The scandal shaking up South Korea’s main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone on the internet could pull off. And the target was not Seoul’s opaque rival to the north, but the country’s own people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When the dust settles from today’s violent and raucous midterm elections, President Benigno Aquino is expected to emerge politically stronger, thanks to unlikely alliances he’s forged. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The sanctuary, run by a nonprofit organisation, has won international acclaim for its work, and volunteers come from around the world to help care for the hundreds of animals there. But the sanctuary’s mission has hit a nerve with local authorities: Its owner is now on trial for illegal possession of endangered species, charges he says show the political clout of poachers and others who profit from the lucrative trade on exotic wildlife. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A 29-year-old deputy county head of Jieyang in Guangdong has been demoted to the rank of clerk after internet users questioned whether his father, who held the post before him, had a hand in his son’s fast-track promotion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Italian court on Wednesday upheld a tax fraud conviction for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, confirming his sentence of one year in prison and a five-year ban from public office. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By KIM SEVERSON, on May 8th, 2013 Mark Sanford, as the newly elected congressman from South Carolina’s First District, has become a symbol of political rehabilitation few thought could happen.
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Legislative Council has launched another inquiry into claims that former ICAC chief Timothy Tong Hin-ming overspent on meals and gifts for mainland officials. A select committee will be set up to look at Tong’s conduct during his tenure as the head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Twenty-five pan-democrat lawmakers rose from their seats, more than the minimum necessary, to support a petition for the inquiry. The Beijing loyalist DAB party was opposed to holding an inquiry on the matter. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s richest people are stepping up investment in US real estate and other foreign assets as they try to preserve their fortunes in the face of a fast-changing economy, a report said on Tuesday. The report by China Merchants Bank and the consulting firm Bain & Company in China reflects uncertainties about abrupt shifts in an economy in which growth slowed last year to 7.8 per cent from the past decade’s double-digit rates. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Outrage grows over scandal-tainted Malaysian leader
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Despite earning a civil servant’s salary for three decades, Taib Mahmud, the powerful chief minister of Malaysia’s Sarawak state, is reputed by critics to be one of Asia’s richest men. Taib, 77, and his family are accused of massive corruption and running Malaysia’s largest state like a family business, controlling its biggest companies with stakes in hundreds of corporations in Malaysia and abroad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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