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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The decisions of two district councils to use their HK$100 million government grants on community projects of their choice have renewed a debate over whether taxpayers’ money is going into advancing the people’s interest or that of politicians. The 18 district councils each have a one-off grant of HK$100 million from Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to improve neighbourhood facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A landmark study shows mainland’s elderly still get significant support from their children, but the one-child policy could change that forever. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Leftist Philippine rebels are raking in millions of dollars extorting money from candidates in next month’s elections and will likely use this to buy guns, a senior military official said on Sunday. Each candidate illegally pays between 50,000 and US$1,210-121,000 to buy protection from the New People’s Army (NPA), said Major-General Jose Mabanta, commander of one of the country’s army divisions. “My estimate is that half of all political contenders are paying, half in my area. That is also true in other areas,” he told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A passenger ferry collided with a barge as it approached Cheung Chau on Friday night amid thick fog, leaving 31 injured, eyewitnesses and ambulance crews said. At least three passengers on board the New World vessel from Central to Cheung Chau were seriously injured, the ferry company told Cable TV. One of them nearly was barely conscious, a member of the ferry crew said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By jbecker, on April 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A passenger ferry collided with a barge as it approached Cheung Chau on Friday night amid thick fog, leaving 30 people injured, eyewitnesses and ambulance crews said. At least three passengers on board the New World vessel from Central to Cheung Chau were seriously injured, the ferry company told Cable TV. One of them nearly was barely conscious, a member of the ferry crew said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The trial of a Vietnamese fish farmer who became a folk hero after using homemade shotguns to resist eviction began on Tuesday, with scores of people defying a heavy police presence to show their support. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 80 per cent of the rural students left behind by city-bound parents have never used the internet, a study of differences in rural and urban pupils’ access to basic school resources has found. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of mourners gathered on Friday for a funeral ceremony at the rural stronghold of Khmer Rouge co-founder Ieng Sary who died while on trial for genocide and war crimes. The 87-year-old died on Thursday, cheating Cambodians of a verdict over his role in the regime and handing another blow to the UN-backed court which has been blighted by delays and cash shortages. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> “We must pay attention to the problems triggered by curbs on milk powder transportation and respond to people’s concerns on the issue.” Yu Zhengsheng, Standing Committee member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, on milk powder issue. “The situation in Xinjiang is still ‘severe’, but generally speaking, I believe it is becoming more stable.” Zhang Chunxian, party secretary of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, on ethnic relations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s new leaders are planning a system of national residence permits to replace the household registration or ‘hukou’ regime, a government source said, a vital reform that will boost its urbanisation campaign and drive consumption-led growth. The hukou system, which dates to 1958, has split China’s 1.3 billion people along urban-rural lines, preventing many of the roughly 800 million Chinese who are registered as rural residents from settling in cities and enjoying basic urban welfare and services. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The bare light bulbs, unheated rooms and elderly residents of the whitewashed village of Yangwang in eastern China make it seem an unlikely place for an experiment in cutting-edge satellite technology. This tiny village in Anhui province was home to a pilot project that for the first time mapped farmers’ land holdings, putting it on the front line of China’s efforts to build a modern agricultural sector that can underpin the country’s food security – a policy priority for the Communist Party. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China’s big step in rural reform: mapping farmland
By , on February 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65 – a decorated Vietnam-era veteran known as Jimmy to neighbours – gunned down a school bus driver and then abducted a five-year-old boy from the bus last Tuesday, taking him to an underground bunker on his rural property. The driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland, who was shot trying to protect children on his bus, was buried on Sunday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Details emerge of loner holding boy in bunker
By , on February 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> With an impending graft crackdown hot on their heels, increasing numbers of Chinese officials are being caught in possession of “multiple identities”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Multiple identities: a recurring theme in Chinese corruption
By , on February 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The mainland is going to spend 18 billion yuan (HK$22.4 billion) identifying and registering the contractual rights of farmland in the countryside over the next five years amid concern too much arable land is being appropriated as an increasing number of farmers move to towns and cities. Local governments should finish clarifying land tenure in rural areas and issue certificates to farmers within five years, the central government said in its first policy document of the year, published on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Beijing to spend 18b yuan to protect farmers’ land rights
By , on January 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s soaring imports of agricultural products remain a sensitive topic for the ruling Communist Party, which has traditionally put self-sufficiency and food security at the top of its agenda. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Food self-sufficiency no longer option for China
By , on January 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Wildfires raged across southern Australia on Friday, killing one man and destroying several homes as sweltering temperatures brought fresh misery for firefighters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 13th, 2013 
An eight-year-old British girl is shot dead, and three other people are injured, when a man opens fire inside a store in a rural part of Jamaica.
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By , on January 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Temperatures cooled from record highs across much of southern Australia on Wednesday, reducing the danger from scores of wildfires that have blazed for days. Australia recorded its hottest day on record on Monday with a nationwide average of 40.33 degrees Celsius, narrowly breaking a 1972 record of 40.17C . The Bureau of Meteorology will calculate later Wednesday whether Tuesday’s average was even hotter. With Wednesday’s cool-down, the national capital, Canberra, dropped from a high of 36C on Tuesday to 28C and Sydney dropped from 43C to 23C. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Milder temperatures ease Australian wildfire fears
By , on January 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Firefighters battled scores of wildfires raging across southeast Australia on Tuesday with officials evacuating national parks and warning that blistering temperatures and high winds had led to “catastrophic” fire conditions in some areas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Wildfires rage across Australia amid searing heat
By , on December 26th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A dozen officials in rural eastern China have been suspended while authorities investigate the crash of an overloaded school van that killed 11 kindergartners. A deputy mayor for Guixi city, where the crash occurred on Monday, and the heads of the local education and transportation bureaus are among those who have been suspended, the official party newspaper People’s Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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HK$100m grants to district councils spark debate on public interest
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The decisions of two district councils to use their HK$100 million government grants on community projects of their choice have renewed a debate over whether taxpayers’ money is going into advancing the people’s interest or that of politicians. The 18 district councils each have a one-off grant of HK$100 million from Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to improve neighbourhood facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading HK$100m grants to district councils spark debate on public interest
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