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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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Light shines on renewable energy in the Pacific
A Canterbury researcher is investigating renewable energy options for Pacific island nations in a bid to cut reliance on expensive diesel generators. Many households, businesses and schools that use the expensive generators struggle to pay their power bills, University of Canterbury Pacific Studies PhD student Emily Laing said. At the Pacific Energy Summit in March, New Zealand pledged $65 ...
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Abe defends controversial war shrine visit
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended in an interview on Friday the right of Japan's leaders to visit a controversial shrine to war dead but hit back at critics who accuse him of revisionism. Amid the latest flare-up with China and South Korea over history, Abe quoted a U.S. scholar as comparing Yasukuni Shrine to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, which has a section for ...
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Japanese PM says he may meet with DPRK leader
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday he may meet Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) if it could help resolve the long-pending issue of Pyongyang's kidnapping of Japanese citizens. "If a summit meeting is deemed as an important means in considering ways to resolve the abduction issue, we must take it into consideration as a ...
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U.S.-South Korea trade deal produces weak first-year results
More than a year after it took effect, a highly touted trade deal with South Korea has failed to produce as expected for the United States. Exports are down, imports are up and the trade deficit with the Asian economic powerhouse has ...
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JX Nippon KUFPEC and Santos begin oil output in Australia
(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration Corp., a unit of Japan's top refiner, said Friday it started commercial oil production from the Finucane South field, off Western Australia, on May 16. The project is jointly owned by a local unit of state-owned Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) and Australian upstream group Santos. Production began ...
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Japans central bank chief upbeat on monetary easing
(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Bank of Japan (BOJ) new Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Friday expressed confidence with effects of the central bank's drastic monetary easing to end the country's deflation that has lasted for nearly 15 years."What's most important is that the effect of our monetary easing creates a positive cycle of output, income and spending in the ...
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China is now worlds second largest moviegoing country
May 25--Related: Mayor Villaraigosa off to China to promote business Movies are bigger than ever. At least, they are in China. The nation of 1.35 billion became the second largest filmgoing market on the planet last year, its box office receipts of $2.7 billion muscling out Japan from that spot. That was a whopping 36 percent higher than the 2011 ticket sales in the People's Republic, and ...
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South Korea's tool for northern diplomacy
A 66 square kilometre industrial complex just over the border is an important part of reconciliatory efforts between South Korea and the North. It is important to the economy as well, but its diplomatic significance runs far deeper.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex is the only industrial special administrative region that still exists as a joint agreement between North and South Korea. Following the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan, relations between the two countries deteriorated significantly, with South Korea accusing the North of the attack and the North subsequently denying involvement. Read more
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