Category: Society
Dior hits Shanghai for haute couture show
Famed French luxury brand Christian Dior is set to re-stage its Spring 2013 haute couture show for buyers and press in Shanghai, China on March 30. Chinese haute couture [...]
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Countries with the most – and least – vacation time
Russians enjoy twice as much vacation time as Americans and nearly quadruple the time off taken by Mexicans, reveals a newly released survey ranking countries with the most [...]
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Philippines turns trash into clean energy windfall
Teresita Mabignay does her ironing using free electricity on the slope of a garbage dump, an unlikely beneficiary of efforts to turn the Philippines’ growing rubbish [...]
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Strong quake kills one, injures 86 in Taiwan
A strong earthquake killed one person and injured at least 86 others in Taiwan on Wednesday as violent shock waves damaged buildings and triggered two blazes, emergency [...]
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China jails 20 in restive Xinjiang region
China has sentenced 20 men to terms of up to life imprisonment for involvement in terrorism and “inciting secession” in the country’s ethnically-divided [...]
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Malaysian court upholds death sentence for Japanese drug smuggler
On Wednesday, a Malaysian court of appeals ruled to uphold a death sentence given to a Japanese woman last August after she was convicted of drug smuggling. 38 year old [...]
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Indian stars call for dry Holi festival amid drought
Bollywood stars have joined calls for Mumbai to temper celebrations and reduce water wastage during a riotous Hindu festival this week, as millions of Indians face their [...]
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Rising drug trade threatens Burma’s aspirations
Deep in the lawless mountains of the Golden Triangle, sloping fields of illegal poppies have just been scraped dry for opium. This is the peak season for producing drugs [...]
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Cambodia shuts orphanage after reported abuse
Cambodian authorities said Monday they had shut a foreign-run orphanage that is suspected of beating its children and carrying out human trafficking. Officials and a rights [...]
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Singapore mystery death stokes speculation
It has been a death that continues to arouse suspicion nine months later, besides spawning tensions across oceans between the United States and Singapore. Authorities in [...]
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Chinese fishmonger discovers live bomb inside a squid
A fishmonger in southern China was certainly left shellshocked as he gutted a squid on his market stall only to discover a live bomb inside. The device, which was eight [...]
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N Korean leader Kim sings military’s praises, oungum-style
Forget “Hail to the Chief”. In North Korea, the army sing their leader’s praises with a chorus of “We Will Defend General Kim Jong-un at the Cost of [...]
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Chinese pandas get warm welcome in Toronto
Canada welcomed two cute and furry ambassadors on Monday – giant pandas on loan from China for 10 years to mark a warming of Sino-Canadian ties. Er Shun and Da Mao [...]
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Korean student molested in India: police
Three men chased and allegedly molested a South Korean student on a bus in eastern India, police said Monday, in the latest incident to raise fears over women’s safety [...]
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Thieves alert cops to sleeping girl
Three car thieves were believed to have alerted police after realising there was a six-year-old girl sleeping in the vehicle that they attempted to steal, reported Harian [...]
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