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Motorsports Team MRF deliver 1-2 finish
Team MRF achieved a 1-2 finish here Sunday with Esapekka Lappi and Gaurav Gill finishing in that order in the International Rally of Whangarei that also doubled up as the first round of the 2013 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship. Visiting New Zealand for their first time, 22-year-old Finn Esapekka Lappi (co-driver Janne Ferm) led from start-to-finish driving the Skoda Fabia S2000. Lappi ...
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Blast at firecracker workshop kills three Chinese
An explosion at an unlicensed firecracker workshop in central China killed three people and left three others injured Sunday, officials said. The blast occurred around 9.50 a.m. in Yangzhai village in Henan province, Xinhua reported. Police suspect it was caused by illegally stored gunpowder. The workshop owner's wife and daughter and a neighbour were killed. The three injured include the ...
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China Resumes Cyber Attacks on US Firm Says
A U.S. computer security firm says the Chinese military has resumed cyber attacks on American companies after a hiatus. Mandiant, which accused China of cyber attacks in a February report, says a Chinese army unit recently broke into the computer systems of more than 100 companies to steal trade secrets. It says the attacks started again just days after Chinese officials told Secretary of ...
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China to remain competitive industrially blue book
China's industrial competitiveness will remain strong in 2013 despite it facing increasing production costs and competition from developing nations in labor-intensive sectors, according to a blue book released on Monday.The blue book, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think tank, says China's industrial competitiveness will keep rising, thanks to its ...
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China urges DPRK on detained Chinese fishermens treatment
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to safeguard the health and legitimate rights and interests of a number of Chinese fisherman reportedly detained in the country.According to media reports, private fishing boat "Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222" from Dalian City in northeast China's Liaoning Province was ...
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Pyongyang demands Seoul clarify stance on industrial zones future
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday urged South Korea to clarify its stance on the future of the suspended Kaesong Industrial Zone (KIZ).Seoul distorted the facts concerning the joint zone, the official KCNA news agency quoted a statement of the DPRK's General Bureau for the Special Zone Development Guidance as saying.Pyongyang would decide its action depending ...
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Thyroid gland diseases on sharp rise in China
/enpproperty--> One in five Chinese people are suffering thyroid nodules and roughly 10 percent of all thyroid nodule cases are actually thyroid cancer, medical experts said at a event to mark the International Thyroid Awareness Week (May 20 to May 29). Experts said that China has more than 200 million people suffering from various kinds of thyroid diseases on the mainland. The ...
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India Ink India and China Sign Deals on Economic and Cultural Cooperation
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang before a meeting in New Delhi on Monday. The prime ministers of India and China on Monday emphasized the need for economic cooperation between the two fast-growing developing nations, saying that ...
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Jeff Reevess Strength in Numbers China’s weak economy will hit these stocks hardest
If that's not enough for you, feel free to surf around for more troubling macro data. But rather than just spit out the figures,I'll focus on specific stocks and sectors that are at risk to help you protect your ...
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Bicyclist killed was MIT researcher from Japan
The Back Bay bicyclist struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver yesterday afternoon near Beacon Street and Charlesgate West has been identified by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as 36-year-old Kanako Miura, a native of Japan and researcher of humanoid robots, who has been working at the school’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since fall."Our hearts ...
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Goldman selling all stock in Chinas ICBC
Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) stake, worth around $1.1 billion, in a move to exit an investment it made into the bank seven years ago. Goldman is selling the shares of China's largest commercial banking group in the range of $0.70 to $0.71, a discount of 2.5 per cent to 3.0 per cent compared to today's closing price. The firm sold $1 billion worth ...
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India China to address trade imbalance
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the ...
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New Report on RD Trend Forecast of Alumina Market in China
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Research and Development Trend Forecast of Alumina Market in China, 2013-2017" report to their ...
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Word love is said and written six-times more than the word hate
LONDON: English speaking youngsters across the globe, who are 18 or under, use the word 'like' in conversation over five times as often as speakers who are over 70; 'because' is the most misspelled English word globally; the word 'love' is said and written over six times more frequently than the word 'hate'. These are the findings of a first-of-its-kind ...
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Israel rejects French TV claim on Palestinian boys death
A September 30, 2000, file combo of TV grabs from France 2 footage taken during Israeli-Palestinian clashes in Netzarim in the Gaza Strip shows Jamal al-Dura and his son Mohammed, 12, hiding behind a barrel from Israeli-Palestinian cross fire. (via ...
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Bangladesh workers see possible survivor in rubble after 17 days
Rescuers work at the site of the eight-story Rana Plaza building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Thursday, May 9, 2013.(Photo:Agencies) Rescue workers in Bangladesh say they may have found a survivor buried amid the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed 17 days ago. Workers at the site had been clearing the rubble since the collapse April 24. More than 2,500 people were ...
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Philippine military on high alert for midterm election violence
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) declared on Friday the highest state of alert throughout the country to make smooth operation of coming Monday's national and local elections. "The red alert status is to ensure that all units in the AFP are prepared and are ready for the election this coming Monday," AFP spokesman Domingo Tutaan told a press briefing in Camp Aguinaldo on ...
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S.KoreaU.S. end massive joint military exercise amid tensions on Korean Peninsula
South Korea and the United States wrapped up Tuesday their joint military drills which was denounced by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK)as "an irresponsible and dangerous action." The two-month Foal Eagle exercises, launched on March 1, were aimed to improve the readiness of U.S.-South Korea alliance to defend South Korea, with 10,000 U.S.troops and 200,000 South ...
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Death toll in Bangladshs worst industrial tragedy nears 600 search continues
Hundreds of rescuers on Sunday continued to remove huge concrete slabs and chunks of debris of the collapsed building on the outskirts of capital Dhaka, in a grim search for more bodies 12 days into the country's worst industrial tragedy that killed nearly 600 people. In search for their missing loved ones, many were seen around the scene of the collapsed building and making trips to ...
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Yahoo Japan Hackers stole 22 million user IDs
Yahoo Japan reports hackers hit their site for the second time in less than a month, this time stealing 22 million user IDs. Yahoo Japan is telling its 200 million users to change their passwords, after hackers apparently stole 22 million user IDs in an online raid last week. It doesnt appear the hackers were able to steal passwords or password information, nor that the raid affected users ...
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UPDATE 1-JA Solar posts smaller loss as Japan sales climb
Mon May 20, 2013 8:57am EDT * Gross margins turns positive for first time in three qtrs * Co says still evaluating options to boost cash position * Shares jump 13 pct in trading before the bell May 20 (Reuters) - Chinese solar products maker JA Solar Holdings Co Ltd halved its quarterly operating loss as it sold more panels in Japan, a high-margin market, and it expanded into emerging ...
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The Latest Images from Syria
This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens shows Syrian rebels preparing to repel an attack by government forces, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria, May 19, ...
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Rebels Army Clash in Eastern DRC
Fresh fighting has erupted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the army and rebel group M23 -- the first clash between the sides in nearly six ...
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India China Pledge to Overcome Border Tensions
NEW DELHI -- The leaders of Asian giants India and China say they will take steps to build greater mutual trust a month after a tense dispute over their shared border. With words like friendship, peace and consensus, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart, Li Keqiang, meeting in New Delhi, set out to move past the standoff that dominated headlines just weeks ago. ...
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Op-Ed Contributor Chinas Entrenched Gender Gap
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Australia the energy superpower?
A new boom in the extraction of Australia's natural gas reserves will have immense economic benefits for the country and especially the state of Western Australia, but conservationists warn of an environmental impact.
Australia is a country rich in natural resources, because of this its economy is an export driven one, and coal, iron ore, wool, meat, gold, and wheat are some of its main exports. It was in the 1920’s that Australia’s economic potential was underpinned by the gold rush that saw its population triple in size in just ten years. Read more
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