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Dongguan, sex capital of China, tightens grip over entertainment industry Districts should crack down often and hand big cases to outside police, city says PUBLISHED : Friday, 19 September, 2014, 3:55am UPDATED : Friday, 19 September, 2014, 10:58am Mimi Lau in Guangzhou [email protected]...

Teenager attempts suicide in detention Date September 19, 2014 - 12:15AM Eryk Bagshaw Journalist Souri,* a 15-year-old Iranian teenager travelled 10,623 kilometres over the Persian gulf, through Java and across the Timor sea to seek asylum in Australia. Last month she became the latest...

Hunan police seize 90kg of heroin 'smuggled in from Myanmar' Criminal gangs operating near border suspected in one of the year's biggest drug busts PUBLISHED : Thursday, 18 September, 2014, 3:18pm UPDATED : Thursday, 18 September, 2014, 3:28pm James Griffiths [email protected] More...

China's pollution data too hazy to know if leaders' war on smog is working Many polluters are ignoring an edict to publish emissions details online, and numbers that are released are often incomplete, official study shows PUBLISHED : Thursday, 18 September, 2014, 4:16am UPDATED : Thursday, 18...

Chinese parents clash with striking Canadian teachers as school year fails to start Websites linked to masked protesters disappear in wake of ugly scenes in Vancouver, as school year in British Columbia enters third week without classes PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 16 September, 2014, 3:26pm...

Chinese parents clash with striking Canadian teachers as school year fails to start Websites linked to masked protesters disappear in wake of ugly scenes in Vancouver, as school year in British Columbia enters third week without classes PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 16 September, 2014, 3:26pm...

Fifa admits to receiving luxury watch gifts from CBF Sep 15, 2014 09:26:21 The world football governing body has revealed it was given expensive watches by the Brazil FA, and its ethics committee is looking into the matter By Kris Voakes Fifa has revealed that it did indeed receive...

Re: I can see and smell the haze (14 Sep 2014) Singapore air pollution soars due to Indonesian forest fires PUBLISHED : Monday, 15 September, 2014, 12:58pm UPDATED : Monday, 15 September, 2014, 1:00pm Agence France-Presse in Singapore Singapore's financial district was covered in smog on...

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Singapore air pollution soars due to Indonesian forest fires PUBLISHED : Monday, 15 September, 2014, 12:58pm UPDATED : Monday, 15 September, 2014, 1:00pm Agence France-Presse in Singapore Singapore's financial district was covered in smog on Monday. Photo: AFP Air pollution in Singapore...

American with 'ambition to experience North Korea prison' given six years' hard labour PUBLISHED : Sunday, 14 September, 2014, 5:34pm UPDATED : Monday, 15 September, 2014, 9:31am Associated Press in Pyongyang Matthew Miller was sentenced to six years' hard labour. Photo: AP North Korea's...

Hong Kong trio detained for fraud in gutter oil investigation Three people arrested in investigation into firm that supplied Taiwan with lard oil as authorities consider system to track buyers of used oil PUBLISHED : Saturday, 13 September, 2014, 4:20am UPDATED : Saturday, 13 September, 2014...

Chief of 'gutter oil' firm detained in Taiwan on fraud charges Police deemed Yeh Wen-hsiang a flight risk and fear he could 'destroy evidence' PUBLISHED : Saturday, 13 September, 2014, 1:01pm UPDATED : Saturday, 13 September, 2014, 4:30pm Agence France-Presse in Taipei Yeh Wen-hsiang's...

Austrian arms trader Bruno Mueller seen with Chinese business partners in a photo taken in 1924 by his wife Lucy. Mueller secretly sold Austrian arms to Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin in the early 1920s at a time when Austria was banned from exporting arms under its first world war peace treaty...

Coolies seen eating dinner in Beijing, in this undated photo by Von Perckhammer A woman's feet disfigured by foot-binding, an ancient practice in which women's feet were tied together to reduce their size. Undated photo by Von Perckhammer Women demand the right to vote in this protest...

Roadside foodstalls outside the since torn down city walls. Undated photo by Von Rosthorn Undated photo by Von Perckhammer of farmers taking a rest A ritual dance described as Tibetan Buddhist, likely photographed at the Yellow Temple near the since demolished Anding Gate in northern...

An undated photo taken by Von Rosthorn during her time in Beijing as the wife of the Austro-Hungarian envoy A tea house in Beijing. Photo by August Srebocan, an Austro-Hungarian marine who served as a guard at an area of Tianjin controlled by Vienna between 1914 until 1917. He was...