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Immigrant Drama Shoots for Top Cannes Prize
CANNES -- America's immigration debate finds echoes in a period drama that premiered at the Cannes film festival on Friday about a Polish woman who arrives at Ellis Island and fights to survive in 1920s New York. "The Immigrant" features French Oscar winner Marion Cotillard as the immigrant Ewa, speaking English and Polish in the film, with Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner as ...
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Key step cleared to Swiss-China free trade deal
BERNE, Switzerland (AFP) - Switzerland and China cleared the final hurdle Friday towards a landmark free-trade agreement, as Beijing seeks to underscore its growing global ties via deals with European partners.As China's Premier Li Keqiang and Swiss President Ueli Maurer looked on, the two nations' economy ministers inked a memorandum of understanding which paves the way for the formal ...
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China Gains Ground among Customers of Venezuelan Oil
Caracas, May 24 (Prensa Latina) China has consolidated its position among international purchasers of Venezuelan oil, with an average volume that currently amounts to 626,000 barrels per day, industry sources said. Notably, reports from the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) show 350,000 barrels per day in 2012. However, the Minister of Petroleum and Mining and President of PDVSA, ...
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Americold Names Hogwarth as SVP of Asia-Pacific
has appointed Jeff Hogarth as senior vice president of Asia-Pacific.He will report to Jeffrey M. Gault, president and CEO of the company, which specializes in temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics for the food industry.Hogarth has worked for Americold and its predecessor companies for 23 years. During his tenure, he has held various leadership roles within the company and will now be ...
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Satellite data network reaches S. China Sea
/enpproperty--> SANYA - A satellite data receiving station was launched on Friday enabling China to now obtain observation information about the South China Sea. The station, in Sanya in south China's island province of Hainan, was launched by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. China will now be able to obtain satellite remote ...
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China US sign memo on audit files access
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - China and the United States have signed a cooperation memorandum agreeing to share audit and accounting records of concerned companies, marking an important step in cross-border coordination of such probes. In a statement, China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said they had signed an agreement with the US Public Company ...
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Radioactive Cesium Recorded at 10 Spots in Pacific Ocean
10 points in the Pacific Ocean, including a location as far as 1300 miles from the plant, less than a year after Fukushima nuclear disaster began, scientists revealed on ...
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China opposes EUs probes into solar telecom companies
Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday that China firmly opposes the European Union's probes into Chinese solar and telecom products, suggesting that once the results of the investigations are released, both sides will be harmed. Li said in a speech delivered at a luncheon with business and financial leaders during his trip to Switzerland that China is keeping a close eye on the EU's trade ...
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UK decides to bring back slain soldiers girlfriend from Afghanistan
ministry of defence saying Rigby was killed in a terrorist attack in Woolwich. The shattered family of Rigby recalled the soldier as being a doting father who would do "anything for anybody". The soldier, who was married and had a two-year-old son, was described as a "loving son, husband, father, brother and uncle, and a friend to many." In a statement, Rigby's family ...
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Pittsburgh on the Hudson Wrong city in New York City campaign logo
Anthony Weiner , the road to City Hall leads through Pittsburgh. Weiner, the candidate who infamously resigned from the US Congress two years ago in a sexting scandal, unveiled a video announcing his mayoral candidacy and a campaign logo on his website on Wednesday. The logo is written in blue and orange -- the colors of Weiner's beloved New York Mets baseball team. But the image of the ...
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Why Iran May Pose A Greater Cybersecurity Risk Than China
report from the Wall Street Journal about Iranian infiltration of U.S. energy firms shows why their cyber-assaults could pose a greater immediate threat to U.S. national security. While China pursues ...
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North Koreas nuclear program
Russia regards reports that North Korea is willing to return to six-party talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as a "positive development," a senior Russian diplomat said ...
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Top Bosnia court orders release of president charged with graft
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the president of the autonomous Muslim-Croat federation, charged with corruption, had been detained illegally, and ordered a lower court to release him ...
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Fitch Affirms Henderson China Opportunities Funds Satisfactory Rating
Macao Banks' Rapid China Growth Alters Risk Profiles Macao banks could see their risk profiles weaken as their exposure to China continues to climb.Fitch Ratingsexpects credit growth to accelerate to 30% in 2013 from 26% in 2012, primarily led by China-related trade financing. Generally Chinese exposures are driven by parent referrals and associated risk is adequately mitigated with ...
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Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary praises London killer Adebolajo
Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday in broad daylight. After committing the crime, Adebolajo made chilling rants on camera to passerbys watching in horror. He said, "Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers Tell them to bring our troops back so you can all live in peace". On Friday, radical preacher Choudary actually came out to praise Adebolajo's views. Choudary said he was ...
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After years of cajoling Japan inks global custody pact
child custody situations in which parents from the United States are forced to return home without the children that the other parent took to another country without permission or legal authority to do so. That has long been a common situation where Japan is concerned, with many Japanese mothers summarily taking children back to their home country and thereafter resisting all attempts of the ...
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US special envoy cancels trip to South Korea report
The US special envoy for North Korean human rights has canceled a five-day trip to South Korea on Sunday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. Robert King, who had been scheduled to visit South Korea from Sunday to Thursday next week, abruptly canceled the visit without giving a reason, the report said, quoting multiple diplomatic sources. King had been scheduled to meet with ...
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Devoy keeps clear of Peters China attack
New Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has refrained from joining critics of NZ First Leader Winston Peters' latest attack on China's growing influence in New Zealand, saying she doesn't want to get involved. But Ethnic Affairs Minister Judith Collins who appointed Dame Susan to the job two months ago labelled Mr Peters' comments "confrontational" and "insulting". In a speech to North ...
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Oil under pressure from China data
Global oil prices have closed little changed, recovering from sharper early losses after weak Chinese manufacturing data. New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate light crude for July, edged down US3c to settle on US$94.25 ($116.3) a barrel. WTI had hit an intraday low of US$92.21. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in July settled at US$102.44 a barrel, down US16c from ...
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Obama Sexual Assaults Threaten Military Strength
WHITE HOUSE -- President Barack Obama says he is determined to stop sexual assault in the U.S. military. Obama addressed the problem Friday in a commencement speech at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The president called on the graduating Midshipmen, soon to become Naval and Marine Corps officers, to show honor and moral courage in ending the plague of sexual assaults in the ...
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Sports scandal entertainment dominates the headlines in an India not that obsessed with China
East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI -- It's a toss-up what's of more concern to India's 1.2 billion people -- border disputes with China or the arrests on bribery charges of stars of India's most popular sport, the old British game of cricket. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh mingled firmness with smiles in a summit this week with China's Premier Li Keqiang that ...
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From Nixon’s historic opening to the new U.S.-China world order Now what
John J. Metzler NEW YORK -- Dr. Henry Kissinger called for the United States and China to collaborate on a new global order, and a groundbreaking new report, "U.S.- China Economic Relations in the Next Ten Years," underscored the deepening commercial engagement between the two Pacific powers. Indeed with President Barack Obama meeting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in California ...
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China and Switzerland to seal free-trade deal
Swiss President and Defence Minister Ueli Maurer shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during the second day of an official visit to Switzerland at the government's guesthouse Lohn in the village of Kehrsatz, near the Swiss capital of Bern, May 24, 2013. (RUBEN ...
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NKorean envoy delivers letter to Chinas president
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, greets North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae in Beijing Friday, May 24, 2013. The top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Xi on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for ...
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North Korea Expresses Peace Talks Willingness
Beijing, May 24 (Prensa Latina) The special envoy for North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told Chinese authorities that Pyongyang is willing to engage in talks for a peaceful resolution to the situation in the Korean peninsula, local press reported today. This gesture from the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was passed along by North Korea's People's ...
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Asia Pacific leads world in creating wealth
The Asia Pacific region houses a higher proportion of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) than any other region on earth.
The claim is part of the World Wealth Report prepared by Merrill Lynch which studied wealth effects in seventy one countries, which account for 98% of global gross income and 99% of world stock market capitalization. Read more
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