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Outraged by kidnapping Egyptian police block Gaza crossing
Palestinian travellers , witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the abductions. Gunmen demanding the release of jailed Islamist militants had seized seven policemen and soldiers on a road between the Sinai towns of el-Arish and Rafah. Three of those abducted had worked at ...
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9 most popular USA brands sold in China
By 2030, roughly two-thirds of the world's middle class will be in the Asia Pacific region, largely in China, according to a report by Ernst & Young. Currently at around 150 million people, the Chinese ...
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Warners Twitter fight Cricket Australia to launch probe
Cricket Australia says it is attempting to contact test opener David Warner over reported comments he made on Twitter in terse and often angry exchanges with two ...
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North Korea
>Are you from South or North Korea? Send us your experiences.(CNN) -- North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap ...
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North Korea
>Are you from South or North Korea? Send us your experiences.(CNN) -- North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap ...
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Bangladesh plans to raise minimum wage for garment workers
A Bangladeshi woman reacts holding her son's daughter after her son's body was found after the April 24 garment factory building collapse in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, May 12, 2013. (Photo:Agencies) Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused ...
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DPRK must rescind give assurance not to repeat unjust Kaesong action ROK
South Korea's unification minister said Wednesday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) must rescind all actions that led to the temporary shutdown of a joint industrial park on its soil and give assurances that a similar problem would not recur. In a meeting with senior ruling Saenuri Party lawmakers at the National Assembly, Ryoo Kihl-jae said DPRK needs to clearly ...
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S. Korean president to visit U.S. leading largest economic delegation
South Korean President Park Geun-hye will head a large economic delegation to visit the United States on Sunday as her first overseas trip since taking office, the Yonhap News Agency reported Friday. The 51-member economic delegation, largest in history, include the heads of South Korea's five largest business organizations, such as Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee, Hyundai Motor ...
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DPRK preparing for large-scale air land exercise along Yellow Sea coast ROK
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is preparing to conduct a large-scale air, land combined forces exercise along its Yellow Sea coast, as it lets loose a steady barrage of verbal attacks against South Korea and the United States for conducting joint military drills. South Korea said intelligence picked up signs that the country may conduct an exercise around Nampho that ...
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DPRK Kaesongs fate at critical point
The DPRK says the fate of the Kaesong industrial complex is at a critical point, but has not given any more details about what it plans for the future. The spokesman says his country is watching closely whether South Korea's latest move is confrontational behavior, for which it will pay a heavy price. He says the DPRK attaches much importance to the complex. But he says it is South Korea ...
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36 killed in floods in southern China
At least 36 people have died and ten others have been reported missing in downpours that have swept south China's Guangdong Province since Wednesday. Rainstorms battered five cities, including the provincial capital Guangzhou, on Wednesday and Thursday, triggering heavy flooding in some areas. The flood water levels of some rivers in Guangdong have surpassed warning lines and the Beijiang ...
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Chengdu key for China on economic integration says Spanish
Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of global strategy at the IESE Business School, believes that the Chinese southwestern city of Chengdu will play a very important role in China's integration in the global economy.Chengdu, the capital city of China's Sichuan Province, "will carry out a very important role in not only assuring that China is increasingly integrated in the global economy, ...
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Japan confirms DPRKs missile launches
Japanese government confirmed the DPRK's missile launches on Saturday, saying none of the missiles have landed in Japan's territorial waters, Kyodo news agency reported.South Korea's Yonhap News Agency earlier reported that the DPRK launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday, citing the country's defense ministry.It is reported that the ...
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9th China Intl Garden Expo opens
Singer Liu Yuanyuan performs during the opening ceremony of the 9th China (Beijing) International Garden Expo in Beijing, capital of China, May 18, 2013. The expo opened in southwestern Fengtai district in Beijing on Saturday and will last till Nov. 18, 2013. Garden designs from 69 Chinese cities and 29 countries will be presented. (Xinhua/Li ...
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Northeast Japan Jolted by Earthquake
two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture further north also detected no irregularities, operator Tohoku Electric Power Co said. In Miyagi prefecture, where the shaking was the strongest, there were no information on injuries, Kyodo added. The United States Geological Survey recorded the ...
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Tamils want to live in one country Rajapaksa
LTTE . Rajapaksa said that Tamils now want to live peacefully in a single country. His government had faced various machinations by way of human rights accusations. "The hidden idea was to crush us, how to make us kneel before them," he said. Rajapaksa, paying tribute to his troops in a colourful military parade, said he would not allow the separation of the land that troops had ...
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5.9 earthquake strikes Japan off Fukushima coast
Tsunami An earthquake with a magnitude measured at 5.9 by Japan's Meteorological Agency has struck the northeast of the country. The epicenter was close to the Fukushima coast and only 200km from Tokyo, causing buildings in the capital to shake. The quake struck at 2:48 pm (05:48 GMT) in the Pacific Ocean, approximately 50km (31 miles) from land. The United States Geological Survey ...
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North Korea Fires Three More Missiles
North Korea has fired three short-range missiles from its east coast, according to the South's defence ministry. Launches by Pyongyang of such missiles are not uncommon, but the ministry would not speculate whether these latest ones were part of a test or training exercise. It comes during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing tensions between the two countries. ...
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China April housing inflation quickens to two year high
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in April in two years, driven by a jump in prices in Beijing and Shanghai, complicating the task of policymakers trying to cool the property sector while supporting economic ...
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Chinese held in PoK over Quran abuse
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: A Chinese man working on an energy project in PoK was held on Saturday after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Quran, officials said. Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by co-Pakistani workers of throwing ...
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Pentagon report sees DPRK as U.S. security threat in NE Asia
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) poses one of the most critical U.S. security challenges in Northeast Asia as it is pursuing nuclear capabilities and developing long-range ballistic missiles, the Pentagon said Thursday. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered the first report on the DPRK's military development to Congress, as required by the National Defense ...
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Afghan Police Chief Assassinated
Officials say Police Chief Abdul Ghani was near his home late Friday when gunmen shot him. No one has been detained in the case. The Associated Press quotes a local official as saying Ghani had led a crackdown on insurgents in his district of Khaki Safad that resulted in the killing and capture of several Taliban leaders. The spokesman said that made him a target for Taliban ...
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Airline bomb hoax suspect caught in E China
A man who allegedly made false bomb threats that affected flights in five Chinese cities was caught on Friday afternoon in Yancheng City of east China's Jiangsu Province, the municipal police said on Saturday.From 5:22 pm to 5:25 pm on Friday, police in the cities of Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou received phone calls claiming there were bombs on airplanes bound for ...
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DPRK launches 3 short-range missiles report
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday launched three short-range guided missiles into the Sea of Japan, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing South Korea's defense ministry.It is reported that the defense ministry detected two missiles launched in the morning and the last one was in the afternoon.The defense ministry said the launching might be a training or a test ...
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Afghanistan turns to Australia for mining expertise
Afghanistan Australia could help Afghanistan develop its fledgling mining industry and tap into mineral and energy reserves estimated to be worth trillions of dollars. The country is eager to find a new source of revenue when international aid starts to decline and foreign forces withdraw next year. Afghan mining minister Wahidullah Shahrani, has already met with various Australian Government ...
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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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