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Hong Kong doubles stamp duty to cool property market The city has unveiled its latest bid to calm an overheated property market which boasts some of the world's priciest apartments. Policymakers have also taken aim at a rising tide of speculation in shops and offices by introducing a reduced...

North Korea threatens nuclear attack on US bases in Japan North Korea has threatened to launch a nuclear attack on US bases in Japan and Guam after Washington used B-52 bombers in a joint military drill with the South...

Italy marines return to face India charges India has claimed a diplomatic victory after Italy overturned its earlier refusal to return two marines charged with the murder of two fishermen they mistook for pirates off the country’s Malabar coast last year. Italian marines Salvatore Girone...

Mother of rape accused in shock The mother of the man accused of leading the gang-rape and murder which provoked protests throughout India has spoken about the moment she was told two of her sons had committed one of the country’s most notorious crimes. The parents of Ram Singh grieve...

South Korean minister quits South Korea's new vice justice minister has resigned over an alleged sex-for-favours scandal just eight days after being appointed. South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye addresses the nation at the presidential Blue House in Seoul Photo: AFP/GETTY By Julian Ryall...

Court paves way for Musharraf return to Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former military ruler, has confirmed he will return from exile on Sunday after a court granted him pre-arrest bail in a series of cases. Pervez Musharraf Photo: PHILLIP HOLLIS By Rob Crilly, Islamabad 11:47AM GMT...

16 charged in connection with Brazil nightclub fire Sixteen people have been charged in connection with the nightclub fire in Brazil that killed 241 people. Firefighters, onlookers and police officers surround Kiss nightclub after the fire broke out Photo: EPA By Donna Bowater, Rio de...

Youtube tries to ban bull fighting Bullfighting aficionados are furious after the popular video sharing portal YouTube banned bloody images of bulls being killed in the ring labeling it "animal abuse". YouTube said 'bloody scenes with the picadors and sword' would be removed, but other...

Japanese breakthrough shows promise for breast cancer sufferers Women suffering from breast cancer face the prospect of being able to grow their own breast tissue in a procedure pioneered by Japanese scientists. MRI scan of a woman with breast cancer. As many as one in five women in the UK...

Chengguan Bludgeoned to Death with Hoe by Villager in Hubei by Fauna on Friday, March 22, 2013 From NetEase: City Management Official Struck in the Back of the Head with a Hoe During Enforcement Rendered Brain Dead March 16th, Hubei province, Yingshan county, while stopping illegal...

Beijing Wudaokou Housing Prices: 100k RMB Per Square Meter by Fauna on Thursday, March 21, 2013 From NetEase: Beijing Wudaokou housing prices 100,000yuan per square meter, netizens: [Must be the] center of the universe China Economic Net Beijing March 20 Report. Recently, netizen @AdRa1n...

Angry Shanghai Residents Dump Water on Noisy Foreigners by Li on Thursday, March 21, 2013 From Yahoo: Shanghai Residents Throw Water on Foreigners, Protesting Their Noise as Disturbing Residents According to a March 13th report by the UK’s Daily Telegraph, recently on Yongkang Road...

Father Who Beat and Threw Daughter Out of Taxi is Run Over by Allison Pan on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 From NetEase: 3-Year-Old Girl Beaten By Father and Thrown Out of Car, Father Dies in Car Accident Soon Afterwards Summary: March 12th, Gan X took a taxi with his daughter to go see her...

Chinese Heroine Gang Raped By Japanese Soldiers Uses Super Move by Cecilia Miao on Monday, March 18, 2013 The following viral video has over 5 million views and 30k comments on popular Chinese portal iFeng… From iFeng: War Against Japanese TV Series Once Again Has Stupefying Plot...

Deal likely to keep U.S. elite forces in key Afghan province: official By Hamid Shalizi KABUL | Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:26am EDT (Reuters) - Afghan and U.S. officials are working on a compromise deal to allow American special forces to stay in a strategically key province near the capital in...

Italy issues India travel warning over marines standoff ROME | Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:24am EDT (Reuters) - Italy warned its citizens to exercise caution when travelling in India following its decision not to send back to trial two Italian marines accused of killing Indian fishermen while on...

Ex-general Yaalon named as Israeli defense minister JERUSALEM | Sun Mar 17, 2013 9:01am EDT (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose Moshe Yaalon, a right-wing former armed forces chief, to be Israel's defense minister on Sunday, saying his experience was needed to tackle...

China's new premier pledges reform, sees risks By Benjamin Kang Lim and Nick Edwards BEIJING | Sun Mar 17, 2013 2:37am EDT (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday ensuring economic growth was the top priority for his government, pledging to fight graft, tackle vested interests...

From teenage graffiti to a country in ruins: Syria's two years of rebellion By Dominic Evans and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN | Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:49am EDT (Reuters) - On a cold winter's night in early 2011, some Syrian schoolboys drew a few slogans on a wall in a town the world had...