Indonesia’s middle class hard hit by rising fuel costs
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Before Indonesia effectively shut down for the Eid ul-Fitr earlier this month, Ibu Tarmi sold a kilogram of potatoes for about 6,000 rupiah. Now that price has...
View ArticleChina news round-up: Bo Xilai’s trial begins in Jinan
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View ArticleLive coverage: Bo Xilai’s graft trial begins in Jinan
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New sex offences guidance published
Sex offenders found to have abused their position of power could face longer jail terms under new guidelines in England and Wales. More here: New sex offences guidance published The post New sex...
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Sex Trafficking in the Sinai
In Egypt’s increasingly lawless peninsula, criminal gangs are kidnapping African migrants and subjecting them to horrific abuse for steep ransoms. A new report exposes the terror. Read the original...
View ArticleHong Kong’s elite pay their respects to banker Lee Quo-wei
<!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 1,000 people, including Hong Kong’s rich and powerful, bade farewell to banker Lee Quo-wei at his funeral vigil in North Point yesterday. <!–...
View ArticleShenzhen temple at centre of latest rooftop scandal
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Authorities are trying to learn who allowed a temple to be built atop a 21-storey residential building in Shenzhen, mainland media have reported. Surrounded by...
View ArticleMerkel criticised for Dachau camp visit on campaign trail
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Angela Merkel has become the first German chancellor to visit the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, but critics slammed her decision to include the stop on...
View ArticleSchool issues formal penalty to rude teacher
<!– google_ad_section_start –> And the Education Bureau has already met and issued Alpais Lam Wai-sze with an official penalty notice. The school refused to reveal the details of the penalty,...
View ArticleLife has never been the same since the bullet on bus
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Yik Siu-ling has never told her young son what happened to her three years ago, or why she was going in and out of the hospital so often. <!–...
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