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Business
China’s Economy Faces Slowing Sharper Rate
China’s economy is slowing at a sharper rate than previously expected, according to a series of data out last Tuesday. Experts pointed out that figures for industrial production, retail sales and investment in the first two months of the year were all short of market expectations. It is speculated that…
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Business
China Cut Foreign Investment Restrictions after ‘Two Sessions’
In order to pursue a further open up the market, Chinese government decide to cut the number of industries in which it restricts foreign investment. During time of ‘two sessions’ a new Catalog for Guidance of Industries for Foreign Investment has passed by Chinese State Council, China’s cabinet. It will…
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Local Chinese Campaigners Call for Protect Traditional Villages and Resist Urbanization
Over the past 10 years, there were about 900,000 natural villages have disappeared in china. A famed writer Feng Jicai predicts “The situation is becoming more serious than anticipated” on Wednesday. Nowadays, many campaigners for the protection of villages same as Feng are concerned by their rapid decline having…
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Politics
Central African Republic: Security Council Visit
Use Occasion to Denounce Attacks on Civilians (Nairobi, March 9, 2015) – United Nations Security Council members on a first visit to the Central African Republic beginning March 9, 2015, should publicly denounce ongoing attacks against civilians, including Muslims trapped in enclaves, Human Rights Watch said today. The Security Council…
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South Asia
Pakistan-India Cricket Diplomacy
Batting for the Peace: Does it really work? Cricket, one of the widely played games in the world, is highly popular in most populous nations of South Asia like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh where the people hailing from all age groups are over-enthusiastic about it. Even the people, who had…
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East Asia
Kuwait & South Korea Relationship beyond Oil
A sincere and warm welcome was given to the South Korean President Park Geunhye, on her three-day official visit to Kuwait. The visit was on an invitation from His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah, who himself attended the Korean leader seen off ceremony at Kuwait international…
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British court imprisons Pakistani man for stabbing wife over learning English
Nazakat Ali, a Pakistani man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for stabbing his wife 15 times over her desire to take English lessons. According to the Daily Mail, Ali, 30, and his wife, Shahzana Kausar, 27, residents of Rochdale, England, got into a heated argument over her…
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East Asia
N Seoul Tower and the blues
Photojournalist Rahul Aijaz found himself in fading sunlight and looking for an interesting POV to capture the N Seoul Tower while walking in Naksan Park. Luckily, he found it just in time to capture the dying orange of dusk and the dominating blues of the night.
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South Asia
Luxury in jail for alleged Mumbai Attack mastermind
The alleged mastermind behind 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi lives a luxurious life in Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. While the case for the suspension of his detention is being fought in courts, Lakhvi and his six comrades enjoy all facilities in jail, due to lack of strict…
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World
Great Outcome of a Strange War
Before the American Civil War broke out in 1861, both the Union and the Confederacy were certain that they would win if a war was to be waged; however, both parties were also unprepared for war, as neither initially believed that they would have to face one. This problem was…
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