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Rockets Land in Hezbollah Stronghold in Beirut
Reports say the rockets landed in the southern part of the Lebanese capital Sunday, wounding at least three people. It was not clear who was responsible for firing them. The rocket attacks came a day after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked. Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday that ...
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Australia to end live betting odds during sports PM
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia will ban the broadcast of betting odds during live sports matches under new rules unveiled Sunday, designed to keep the watching of sport separate from the promotion of gambling.Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the government had ordered broadcasters to amend their codes to ensure a reduction in the promotion and advertising of gambling during sport."All promotion ...
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Gas pipeline explosion injures two in East China
A section of China's second West-to-East natural gas pipeline in East China's Jiangxi Province exploded on Sunday, injuring at least two people. The explosion occurred at an industrial zone in Shangli county, 300 meters away from a highway service station. The heat wave of the explosion downed several people hundreds of meters away. Local officials told Xinhua that following the ...
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Australian defence minister goes to U.S.
CANBERRA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith announced he wound visit the United States starting Thursday. Also on Thursday he exchanged diplomatic notes to bring the Australia - U.S. Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty into force with the U.S. Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich. It will be Smith's fifth visit to the United States as Minister for Defence and the ...
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DPRK urges U.S. to drop hostility
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday blamed the United States for tensions on the Korean Peninsula and urged it to stop hostility against Pyongyang. The U.S. claim that all its military actions are defensive while all DPRK actions are provocative is nothing but sheer sophism with rhetoric, the official KCNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying. ...
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Japan PM holds talks with Myanmars Thein
JAPAN'S premier has met Myanmar's President Thein Sein for talks at which he is expected to unveil huge aid and investment deals as he promotes trade with the fast-changing nation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has pledged "all possible assistance" to kick-start Myanmar's long-neglected economy, went into talks with Thein Sein after touching down in Naypyidaw earlier on ...
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Swiss-China trade deal a symbol amid spats with EU
BERNE, Switzerland (AFP) - Applauded by Switzerland's business sector, the country's free-trade deal with China is heavy with symbolism, coming as Beijing locks horns with the European Union in a raft of commercial disputes.The staunchly non-EU Swiss inked a preliminary accord Friday during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's first visit to Europe since taking the helm in March's ...
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Canada opens rugby’s Pacific Nations Cup with win over U.S.
Canada, wearing red, comes out of a scrum against the United States during the opening game of the Pacific Nations Cup at the Ellerslie Rugby Park on May 25, ...
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China premier warns EU over solar telecom probes
solar power and telecommunications equipment that he warned will hurt both sides. In a speech in Swizerland, Li said the action will hurt European consumers and might encourage trade protectionism, the ...
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Russia and China Will Attend Syria Conclave in Tehran
Tehran, May 26 (PL) Russia and China will attend the international conference on the Syrian crisis on Wednesday here, meeting convened by the Persian authorities preceding the so called Geneva II, agreed by Russia and the United States, confirmed an official source here. Countries with different positions (on the conflict in Syria) have been invited to the meeting, including Turkey, Qatar and ...
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Duma speaker starts visit to China
The speaker of the Russian parliament's lower house will also participate in the work of the sixth meeting of the Russian-Chinese parliamentary commission on cooperation between the State Duma and the ...
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Landslide in Northwest China Kills 7 People Injures 12
MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Seven people were killed and 12 injured in a landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported citing local authorities. The landslide occurred at around 10:00 a.m. local time as it descended on a two-storey dormitory, owned by a local coal mining company, completely destroying the building. Rescuers finished the relief ...
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Some Okinawans studying the possibility of independence from Japan
Five Okinawans formed a group to study the possibility on May 15, the 41st anniversary of the island prefecture's reversion to Japanese sovereignty, Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported. While only a minority of Okinawans are calling for independence, a growing distrust among islanders toward those on the mainland, who have left the southern prefecture burdened with U.S military bases, ...
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Three Chinese arrested for burglary in Japan
By Zhang Yujie, Sina English Three Chinese men were arrested by Tokyo Metropolitan Police for suspected burglary and illegal home invasion on Monday. According to the police investigation, Lin Kanglei, a junior college student aged 24 who lives in Shinjuku of Japan, confessed with two other accomplices that they have committed the same crime for about 100 times in many counties since October ...
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N. Korean leader inspects military unit after missile firing
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a military unit, an official media outlet said Tuesday following three successive days of short-range projectile launches from the country's east coast, Yonhap News Agency reports. The North has fired a total of six short-range projectiles into the East Sea since Saturday, aggravating inter-Korean tensions. Seoul presumed the projectiles to be ...
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S.Korean media slam Abes 731 jet photo
A screenshot of Korean media's article Major South Korean newspapers splashed a photo of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a military trainer jet on their front pages Wednesday, saying it was a reminder of Japan's colonial-era atrocities. The picture in question showed a smiling Abe giving a thumbs-up while sitting in the cockpit of an air force T-4 training jet emblazoned with ...
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Nearly 70000 evacuated in Myanmar western state amid storm threat
YANGON, May 16 (Xinhua) -- A total of 69,789 local people in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have been evacuated to safer places as of Wednesday to avoid possible danger of cyclone " Mahasen", official media reported Thursday. The local people are from Sittway, Kyaukphyu, Maungtaw, Myebon, Pauktaw, Yathedaung, Kyauktaw, Mrauk U , Minbya, Ponnagyun, Budhidaung, Taunggup and ...
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Floods Hit San Antonio Texas
Nearly 40 centimeters of rain has fallen in some parts of the city since early Saturday. Rescuers have spent much of the past several hours pulling more than 200 people from their flooded cars and homes. San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro is imploring people to stay off the ...
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Spotlight grows on Chinas harsh labor camps
WASHINGTON (AFP) - When she refused to sign a form renouncing her faith, Wang Chunying said she was handcuffed between two bunkbeds for 16 hours, deprived of food, water and sleep as she felt her wrists bleeding."The police would kick the beds apart to the point that my body couldn't stretch any further," she recalled of the time in a Chinese labor prison in late 2007."The ...
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World Bank to help develop village tracts in southern Myanmar
The World Bank (WB) will provide assistance worth of 27,000 US dollars annually for the development of village tracts in Kyunsu township, Myanmar's southern Tanintharyi Region, local daily reported Sunday.An initial assistance for three years worth of 81,000 dollars will be spent for education, health and social affairs for the township, said the 7-Day Daily.In February this year, the ...
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Lavender flowers attract tourists in Chinas Wuxi
Tourists take photos in a lavender field in Xuelangshan forest park in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 25, 2013. Over 100,000 lavender plants here attracted numbers of tourists. (Xinhua/Luo ...
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Move Over Japanese Yen Make Way For Chinas Yuan
By 2015 the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB), will be one of the three most traded currencies in the world, on par with the euro and the dollar, HSBC said on Friday. "The RMB is increasingly part of normal day-to-day business for anyone trading or investing in China," said Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC Holdings at the Annual General Meeting in London yesterday. "Every ...
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Sino-Swiss FTA deal a springboard for China
Switzerland will be China's springboard to enter the European market, said Ding Yifan, economist of China's State Council's Development Research Center, Saturday in ...
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Landslide kills 7 in NW China
Seven people died and 12 others were injured after a landslide buried a dormitory building in Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Saturday morning. [Xinhua] ...
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In Afghan Transition U.S. Forces Take a Step Back
The Third Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division has been training Afghanistan's security forces in an effort to help them become ...
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Chinese shipping industry is not the only one causing environmental incidents
The recent highly publicized grounding of a Chinese bulk carrier on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia attracted the scrutiny of the world on the Chinese shipping industry with some commentators saying that the accident was indicative of a dysfunctional health and safety record throughout the industry in China.
China’s shipping industry is primarily made up of the state-owned and run COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company), and it is this company to whom the Shen Neng 1 belongs. The Shen Neng 1 is not the only COSCO ship to be involved in a notable maritime accident. Read more
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