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Asian mkts capped as Fed meeting jangles nerves
Asian shares were pressured despite an overnight rise in global markets, with investors on tenterhooks for news of the Fed's plans for its stimulus ...
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Tempers flare ahead of Asian World Cup qualifying
SINGAPORE (AFP) - An extraordinary row between South Korea and Iran highlights tensions in Asia's final World Cup qualifying group matches, with Australia also urging caution before trying to book their ticket to Brazil.South Korea's promise to "make life painful" for Iran and to force their captain to cry "tears of blood" have sharply raised the stakes before ...
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City weathers more rain in June agency says
The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency has predicted that Greater Jakarta, along with many other parts of Indonesia, would likely experience heavy showers from Monday to Wednesday due to increasing cloud cover across the country."Heavy showers will continue over the next three days," agency spokesman Harry Tirto Djatmiko said on Monday in Jakarta.The agency also warned that ...
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Roland Emmerich Raises Nearly $1 Million for Cambodian Childrens Fund
Roland Emmerich's 'White House Down' Will Hit Theaters November 2013 The occasion included dinner and auction that raised nearly $1 million to benefit former Fox and Sony ...
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Coca-Cola opens Burmese bottling plant
Coca-Cola began bottling its famous soft drink in Myanmar (Burma) as part of a planned five-year, $US200 million ($A205.8 million) investment after having no local production for more than 60 years. The company announced in a press release the ceremonial inauguration of its bottling plant in Hmawbi Township, a suburb of Yangon, the country's biggest city, with local partner Pinya ...
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Unions give lift to Turkish protest movement
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish labor groups fanned a wave of defiance against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's authority, leading rallies and a one-day strike to support activists whose two-week standoff with the government has shaken the country's secular ...
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John Denver Tribute Links Musicians from Various Genres Generations
Fifteen years after his death in a small plane crash and more than 40 years after his first hit, John Denver’s songs are getting a new lease on life. "The Music Is You," is a new tribute that brings musicians from various genres and generations together to re-imagine Denver’s biggest hits. The musicians include southern rockers My Morning Jacket, who cover "Leaving ...
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Slave labor boss ordered to pay workers
The Manpower Agency in Tangerang regency has demanded that Yuki Irawan, the owner of kitchen utensil factory Sinar Logam, pay his workers a total of Rp 2 billion (US$200,000) as compensation for their unpaid work.Agency head Hery Heryanto said on Monday that Yuki had illegally employed 32 factory workers for one-and-half years at his home in East Sepatan, Tangerang regency, neglecting to pay ...
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Andi Anas to be locked up soon
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Monday that it would soon detain two graft suspects, namely former youth and sports minister Andi Mallarangeng and former Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbanigrum.KPK spokesman Johan Budi said the two individuals would soon be following in the footsteps of Deddy Kusdinar, the first suspect in the Hambalang graft case to be locked up by the ...
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Rusli Zainal still in charge of Riau
Graft suspect Rusli Zainal remains the official head of Riau province and he could run the administration from behind bars, his deputy said.Riau Deputy Governor Mambang Mit said that Rusli remained in charge of the running of the province although he has been in Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) detention since late last week."Today, we took some officials documents to the detention ...
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Govt forced to cut rice price 10-20
Boonsong agrees to trim crop price to Bt12,000 from Bt15,000 a tonne; loss figure halved Though the government's controversial rice-pledging scheme has incurred higher losses than initially projected, it will continue with marginally lower prices - from Bt15,000 per tonne to between Bt13,500 and Bt12,000 for future crops, Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom said after a key meeting late ...
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Asia’s richest man to buy Dutch waste firm for $1.26 billion
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd, controlled by Asia’s richest man Li Ka-shing, said it will buy Dutch waste processing firm RAV Water Treatment I B.V. for 943.68 million euros ($1.26 billion), in an overseas expansion drive that has targeted infrastructure assets offering steady recurring income. Li’s business empire, which spans property, telecoms, ports and retailing, has been seeking ...
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German carmakers lose HK market share after tax break ends
German car brands are losing market share in Hong Kong as a weaker yen and a new emissions rule that has squeezed European cars out of a tax incentive scheme since April have made their Japanese rivals more competitive. The market share held by BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi fell to 11.2 per cent, 11.5 per cent, and 7.1 per cent, respectively, last month from 16 per cent, 14.4 per cent and 8.3 ...
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Yuan clearing beats volume in HK dollars
The average daily turnover of yuan interbank settlements handled by Hong Kong’s yuan clearing platform surpassed settlements in Hong Kong dollars last month, the head of the city’s de facto central bank said. Norman Chan Tak-lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, said in an interview in New York last week that the robust growth of yuan cleared by the Real Time ...
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HK tycoon’s firm razes Guangzhou home of opera legend
Tourism Board chief Peter Lam is chair of company that residents say illegally demolished Guangzhou mansions in the dead of night Hong Kong tycoon Peter Lam Kin-ngok has been pulled into a controversy over the alleged unauthorised demolition of two historic buildings in Guangzhou, one of which was the home of Sit Kok-sin, the late ';King of Cantonese Opera';. Residents in Yuexiu ...
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Britain plugs loophole in HK drivers’ licence agreement
More than 200 Hong Kong drivers have been barred from obtaining a British licence without taking a test, after Britain tightened requirements for a reciprocal arrangement that allows for direct exchange of licences. Under an agreement between Hong Kong and Britain, a driver who holds a licence in one place can normally obtain a licence from the other without further examination. But British ...
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Tighten law to prevent snooping HK legislators urge
Tighten law to prevent snooping, Hong Kong legislators urge Lawmakers call for action because the city’s surveillance ordinance regulates only activities conducted by law enforcement agencies Hong Kong needs to tighten its laws on invasion of privacy and covert surveillance because grey areas in the legislation fail to offer people proper protection against snooping, say lawmakers. ...
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Hardworking HK face more new challenges
Rees’ side aim to finish as top Asians in Moscow before heading to Colombia for World Games Jamie Hood returns to a Hong Kong team which will face the pressure of finishing as the top Asian side at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow, their final challenge in a long and gruelling season – but the break will be shortlived. The World Cup Sevens from June 28-30 at the Luzhniki ...
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HKers ‘don’t want Snowden extradited to US’
Half of Hong Kongers believe the city’s government should not extradite former US spy Edward Snowden, according to a poll published on Sunday a day after hundreds protested in his support. The poll in the Sunday Morning Post found 49.9 percent of respondents thought Snowden, who has dropped out of sight in the city after exposing vast US surveillance programmes, should not be sent back ...
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Snowden poses stress test for H.K.’s ties with China
Edward Snowden has exposed not only US cyber-espionage but also political fault lines in Hong Kong that are deepening as the territory, a proud bastion of free speech and protest, chafes under Chinese rule. In retreating to Hong Kong and vowing to fight any extradition attempt, the former CIA analyst is testing its civil liberties and will set a landmark on whether the city can govern itself ...
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HK consumers angry after being sold complex insurance product ILAS
In February last year, Leung Chung-yan, 27, had some potentially cancerous masses removed from her breasts. The kindergarten teacher did not have medical insurance to cover the operation and had to borrow money from her family to pay the bill. Worried that she would have to undergo more operations – her aunt was losing a long battle with breast cancer – she decided she better save ...
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Taiwan China to add another 13 cities to FIT list
Taiwan and China have reached an agreement to add another 13 Chinese cities to the free independent traveler (FIT) programme for Chinese tourists, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday. Currently, the programme only applies to Chinese travelling from Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Tianjin, Chongqing, Nanjin, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Jinan, Xian, Fuzhou and Shenzhen. The bureau said that under ...
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First book on Taiwan’s modern military history published
The book entitled The 50 Years’ Military History of Taiwan Region (1949-2006), a key military scientific research subject of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), was recently published by the PLA Publishing House. The book was completed by a research subject group led by Jiang Tingyu, an expert in military history, and composed of experts from the Military Museum of the ...
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Mainland to continue Taiwan policies top official
Top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng on Sunday promised that the Chinese mainland will continue ';correct policies'; to consolidate peaceful mainland-Taiwan ties, while welcoming former pro-independence Taiwanese to visit the mainland. Yu, chair of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, made the remarks in a keynote speech at the fifth ...
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US says N. Korea talks must be ‘real’
The United States on Sunday welcomed North Korea’s proposal for high-level negotiations but said it must first curb its nuclear programme and would not be able to talk its way out of global sanctions. White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said negotiations have always been the administration’s ';preferred outcome'; but that such talks would have to be ...
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Sri Lanka sees major tourism industry investment
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, especially the cruising scene, is getting back on its feet following the war, with significant interest being shown by major cruise lines wanting to schedule Sri Lankan ports on Indian Ocean Cruises, while the local yachting scene is seeing exciting growth and a local cruise industry may be emerging from infancy.
Sri Lanka, following the long and devastating civil war, which lasted around two and a half decades, is now making renewed attempts to redevelop its tourist industry. The industry is extremely import to the economy of Sri Lanka and is a vital part of the country’s access to foreign currency reserves, but saw marked declines in tourist arrivals during periods in which the ongoing civil war was perceived to be increasing in intensity and violence. Read more
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