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1 hr ago | Jerusalem Post

Erekat throws his weight behind Kerry's bid to revive talks

The top Palestinian negotiator with Israel on Monday threw his weight behind US Secretary of State John Kerry's bid to revive stalled peace talks, while describing the situation in the West Bank as apartheid worse than that suffered in South Africa.

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5 hrs ago | News24

China asks N Korea to release fishing boat

Beijing - The Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang asked North Korea to release a private Chinese fishing boat and its crew soon after its owner reported the detention 10 days ago, state media said.

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8 hrs ago | Voice of America

China Trying to Manage Exposure of Corruption Online

But while the government tolerates such anti-corruption vigilantism, it is also extremely leery of the threat the Internet can pose to Communist Party rule.

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10 hrs ago | EDGE

Chinese Police Detain Gay Pride March Organizer

Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government's nervousness over a growing civil society movement and demands for stronger individual rights.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Gay/Lesbian, Transgender

10 hrs ago | International Business Times

Foxconn Workers Commit Suicide At Factory In China, Three Years After ...

Three workers at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, have committed suicide in the past three weeks, a French news agency , citing state media and a labor-rights group, reported Saturday.

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10 hrs ago | Automotive News

Magna opens body, chassis plant in China's Chongqing

Magna International Inc.'s Cosma unit has opened a plant in the southwest China municipality of Chongqing to supply body and chassis parts to automakers in the area.

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11 hrs ago | Iol.co.za

Death penalty for underground banker

A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by entrepreneurs.

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15 hrs ago | ABS-CBN News

How China-HK-Macau underground banking triangle works

ZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG - In an underground mall just a stone's throw from China's teeming border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical golden plaques does a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland Chinese visitors, many of them bound for the gambling hub.

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17 hrs ago | FiveThirtyEight

IHT Rendezvous: 'Cadmium Rice' Is China's Latest Food Scandal

"Cadmium rice," as it's dubbed, or rice laced with levels of the metal cadmium that exceed national safety standards, has become the latest food scare in China, sparking a health and P.R. scandal in a nation long used to - and deeply worried about - unsafe food.

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17 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

5 dead, 20 missing in China factory explosion

The official Xinhua News Agency said rescue work was continuing at the site of Monday morning's explosion in Shandong province's Caofan township.

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17 hrs ago | AlertNet

Habitat for Humanity China to rebuild homes in quake-hit Qionglai city in Sichuan

Bangkok, 20th May 2013 Habitat for Humanity China, part of international non-government housing organization Habitat for Humanity, today announced that it will support families in Qionglai city affected by the recent Sichuan earthquake.

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NewsOn6 Tulsa

China sentences underground bank operator to death

Experts say the officer who killed a Long Island college student and a home invasion suspect on Friday was confronted with a split-second choice.

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WATE-TV Knoxville

China sentences underground bank operator to death

Authorities say tornadoes have touched down in Wichita, Kan., and a suburb of Oklahoma City but there are no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.

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Salon

How Guantanamo affects China: Our human rights hypocrisies

In May 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner were poised to make a rare double visit to China for a high-level strategic and economic dialogue.

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Related Topix: Activism, World News, Asia, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

The Nation

EU, China to lose if trade war breaks out

The latest tit-for-tat EU-China trade disputes could signal worse to come but both sides have a lot to lose if things get out of hand and harm the much-needed economic growth they seek, analysts said.

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Fox News

Hon Hai Confirms Death of Two Employees in Zhengzhou, China

Two Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. workers have fallen to their deaths in Zhengzhou, China since late April, the company said on Monday.

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South China Morning Post

China media baron Thomas Shao launches two cultural titles

Mainland publisher is about to launch two high-profile publications that will help to raise the quality of cultural issues in the city Mainland media baron Thomas Shao is determined to raise the standards of cultural media in Hong Kong.

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Xinhuanet

Graffiti designed by two college graduates in China's Nanchang

Photo taken on May 19, 2013 shows a telegraph pole decorated with graffiti in Nanchang, capital of east China's Jiangxi Province.

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Evening Sun

Chinese boat owner says NKoreans detained his crew

Unidentified North Koreans have seized a Chinese fishing boat and its 16 crew members and have demanded a ransom, Chinese state media and the boat owner say.

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Xinhuanet

Bloomberg snooping scandal alerts China on data security

The recent snooping scandal involving global financial information and news provider Bloomberg LP has sounded an alarm for the Chinese financial industry and its heavy reliance on foreign data services.

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