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Nine North Koreans Seek to Defect in Vietnam
SEOUL, South Korea — Nine North Koreans, including a 19-year-old girl who traveled through China to join her mother and brother who had already defected to South Korea, entered the Danish Embassy in Hanoi on Thursday seeking political asylum and passage to Seoul, South Korean activists said. The group, which also included a 42-year-old doctor and his wife, as well as a 38-year-old woman and her daughter, entered Vietnam from China in recent weeks through smuggling routes, said Kim Sang-hun, a leader of the International Network of North Korean Human Rights Activists who assisted in the North Koreans’…
Vietnam Finds Itself Vulnerable if Sea Rises
CAI RANG, Vietnam — For centuries, as monsoon…
Hong Kong: The World’s Most Expensive Real Estate? (Time.com)
By 7KLnewsbot on September 24, 2009
Time.com - China’s economic rebound is driving record prices for the city’s luxury apartments
Australian military objects to China investment
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia is set to reject a Chinese investment in an outback mining venture after defence officials on Thursday said the project threatened national security, potentially upsetting testy ties with Beijing. The proposed project is a joint venture between Wugang Australia Resources, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese state-owned Wuhan Iron and Steel, and Australia’s Western Plains Resources
EXCLUSIVE - U.S. invokes jurisdiction in CIA kidnap case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has moved to formally shield from conviction one of the 26 Americans on trial in Italy on charges he helped the CIA kidnap a terrorism suspect in 2003, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Big surge in air traffic forecast in next two decades
By 7KLnewsbot on September 24, 2009
Despite the global downturn, the ˑN1 flu epidemic and a fast-developing high-speed rail network, China’s domestic airline traffic is expected to expand fast, with an annual growth rate of 8.2 percent in the next 20 years, the Aviation Industry…
State Council passes plan to boost central region development
By admin on September 24, 2009
Central China provinces should achieve remarkable economic progress by 2015, according to a plan passed by the State Council Wednesday. The central areas involve Shanxi,…
Dream HK debut for Sinopharm
By 7KLnewsbot on September 24, 2009
Sinopharm Group Co, China’s biggest drug distributor, jumped 16 percent on its first day of trading in Hong Kong. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell by 0.5 percent.
Pork imports must be H1N1 free
By admin on September 24, 2009
New measures for countries importing pork into China are not trade protectionism but merely providing assurances that the ˑ̍ virus will not be brought into China through food, said a top official.
China denies imposing restrictions on EU pork imports
By 7KLnewsbot on September 24, 2009
China has never placed any restriction on pork imports from the European Union (EU), and its demand for health certificate from the EU imported pork was needed to prevent the spread of A/H1N1…
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Bill Clinton speaks of vast, right-wing conspiracy (AP)
September 28, 2009
AP - Bill Clinton says a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Barack Obama.
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Gucci: Tashkent Training Chic (Fashion Wire Daily)
September 28, 2009
Fashion Wire Daily - Uzbekistan, perhaps not everyone’s first thought when it comes to inspiration for a hip Italian fashion brand, underpinned a powerful Spring 2010 collection from Gucci that, at its kernel, was all about combining sexy athleticism with the brand’s unique hardware.
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Last-gasp Adailton denies Juventus top spot, Milan jeered (AFP)
September 28, 2009
AFP - Bologna’s veteran Brazilian forward Adailton scored an equaliser deep into injury time to deny Juventus a return to the top of the Serie A table following a 1-1 draw in Turin.
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Oil falls below $66 ahead of US economic reports (AP)
September 28, 2009
AP - Oil prices fell below $66 a barrel Monday as stock markets sank and investors eyed a slew of economic data this week that will help shed light on the health of the U.S. economy
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Cypress Gardens theme park in Fla. closes doors (AP)
September 24, 2009
AP - Cypress Gardens, which reigned as Florida’s grandest theme park in the days before Disney, has shut down while its owners try to sell the attraction.
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Merkel vows quick deal on German coalition (AP)
September 28, 2009
AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to press ahead quickly with forming a new center-right German government following her election victory.