Fugitive Armed Robber Who Kills Nine Shot Dead In South Western China CHONGQING, (Bernama) — A fugitive gunman who is suspected of killing nine and wounding several others in armed robberies since 2004 was shot dead in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality Tuesday, China’s Xinhua news agency reported quoting local police as saying. Zhou was...
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Fugitive Armed Robber Who Kills Nine Shot Dead In South Western China
No Taiwanese boat departing for Tiaoyutais: Foreign Ministry
Taipei, (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday that it has not received any information regarding reports that Taiwanese activists will sail to the Tiaoyutai Islands to defend the country’s claim over the island chain. “We have no information on this as of now,” ministry spokesman Steve Hsia said at a routine press...
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Taiwan 2012 GDP growth to fall below 2%: economist
Taipei, (CNA) Taiwan’s economic growth for 2012 will finish below 2 percent due to declining exports and deepening concerns over the global economic slowdown, a Taiwanese economist said Tuesday. “Not being able to maintain at least 2 percent growth is an inevitable outcome,” said National Central University economics professor Chiou Jiunn-rong at a seminar on...
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Hong Kong court approves ‘Occupy’ eviction
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court on Monday approved the eviction of protesters camped outside the HSBC bank headquarters in the city, in a major blow to the last outpost of the “Occupy” movement in Asia. “The defendants can’t provide sufficient reason to continue to live on the property so the court has...
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Taiwan considering health insurance coverage for Chinese students
Taipei, (CNA) Taiwan is considering including mainland Chinese students pursuing a degree in the country under its compulsory national health insurance program, an official said Monday as lawmakers called for equal rights for all international students. Kao Charng, deputy head of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), said an initial consensus had been reached at...
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Asian Beer and Food Festival to Take Place in Macau 8-16 September 2012
Held at East Square in Macau between 8 and 16 September 2012, the Asian Beer and Food Festival brings together Asia’s best known beer brands and the region’s favorite foods for more than a week of great festival fun. Over nine days, guests visiting the Asian Beer and Food Festival can sample the unique...
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Heavy-duty pontoon bridge equipment debuts on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
The fastest record, 28 minutes, for building a heavy pontoon bridge on the plateau was created at the height of summer by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) across the Yarlung Zangbo River, also known as the “Milky-way River”, on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. This was the debut of the heavy-duty pontoon bridge equipment on...
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Hong Kong Exchanges Denies Report of Hacking Attack
Hong Kong Exchanges Clearing Ltd. (BNWEXCH), the second-largest bourse operator by market value, said errors at a printer, not hackers, were behind the erroneous filing of three documents under the wrong companies’ tickers on Sunday. Lijun International Pharmaceutical Holding Ltd. (2005) and Natural Dairy N.Z. Holdings Ltd. remained suspended today after the error, which...
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What to Watch at Hong Kong’s Summer International Film Festival
By Dean Napolitano Hong Kong’s Summer International Film Festival kicks off Tuesday with a new Taiwanese film that strikes a recognizable chord: A nostalgic coming-of-age story of young love and lost innocence. Director Yang Ya-che’s “GF*BF” is set against the backdrop of 1980s Taiwan, when the island was ruled under martial law, and follows...
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Two Tibetans Burn in Ngaba
Two Tibetans set themselves on fire Monday in protest against Chinese rule in Ngaba county in Sichuan province, triggering clashes between local Tibetans and police that resulted in a Tibetan beaten to death, sources said. Amid the rising tensions, some sources said there was a third self-immolation in the county, located in the Ngaba...
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