China's FDI inflow drops amid economic slowdown

China's FDI inflow drops amid economic slowdown

China's FDI inflow drops amid economic slowdown

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 12:10 AM PST

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China dropped in December for a seventh consecutive month amid the country's economic slowdown, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

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Nunchaku

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 12:03 AM PST

Christmas has been over for a few weeks now, but Lim Guan Eng's Christmas message now just begins to take its effects.

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Somali Islamist militants say French hostage sentenced to death

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:31 PM PST

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali militants linked to al Qaeda have sentenced a French agent to death several days after an attempt by French armed forces to rescue him failed, the al Shabaab rebel group said on Wednesday.

Japanese airlines ground Dreamliners after emergency landing

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:30 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest and most serious in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns over a plane many see as the future of commercial aviation.

Suicide bomber kills 10 in Iraq's Kirkuk - officials

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:23 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least ten people were killed in north Iraq on Wednesday when a suicide bomber in a truck detonated his explosives outside a Kurdish party office in Kirkuk, security officials said.

Spanish cuts widen Europe's north-south research divide

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 10:57 PM PST

MADRID (Reuters) - Amanda Bolanos, a young Spanish scientist, knows she will not be coming home.

New food magazine app comes with no recipes, lots of stories

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:52 PM PST

Award-winning blog Honest Cooking has released a new iPad app and culinary magazine void of recipes and heavy on food stories from around the world.

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Taiwan confiscates 435 dog penises at illegal abattoir

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:50 PM PST

Animal disease officials in Taiwan Wednesday said they had confiscated more than 400 dried dog penises, testicles and various internal organs in a raid on an illegal slaughterhouse.

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Money does not buy happiness in China: survey

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:48 PM PST

China's super-rich suffer because of the pressures brought about by their fortunes and are less happy than ordinary millionaires, according to a survey by a leading wealth magazine.

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Samsung puts plans for Microsoft Surface tablet on hold

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:41 PM PST

Samsung has canceled plans for a Windows RT tablet due to a belief the devices would be too expensive and that potential customers are still confused about the difference between the Windows RT and Windows 8 operating systems.

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Oracle patches dangerous Java holes

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:39 PM PST

Oracle on Monday was distributing a patch for Java software flaws deemed so dangerous that the US Department of Homeland Security said that people should stop using it.

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Strawberries, blueberries can boost a woman's heart health: study

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:36 PM PST

According to a new study published in Circulation, one delicious way women can reduce their risk of a heart attack is to eat blueberries and strawberries.

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VIDEO: Scores killed at Syria university

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 02:36 PM PST

More than 80 people have been killed by two blasts in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, activists and officials say.

VIDEO: Deaf twins end lives as sight fails

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:12 PM PST

A hospital in the Belgian capital Brussels has helped identical twin brothers to die by lethal injection, reopening the debate on euthanasia.

VIDEO: Protesters urge Pakistan leaders to go

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:32 PM PST

Crowds of Pakistani protesters have braved bitter cold conditions overnight in the capital, Islamabad, to demand the immediate resignation of the government they see as corrupt and inept.

VIDEO: Chavez deputy gives state address

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:38 PM PST

Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolas Maduro has given the annual state of the nation speech in place of Hugo Chavez, who is still recuperating in Cuba after cancer surgery.

Indian filmmaker accused of raping actress: police

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:29 PM PST

An Indian film producer was due to appear in court on Wednesday after his arrest for allegedly raping an aspiring actress whom he had promised a role in his next movie, police said.

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Black sheep

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:24 PM PST

After Guang Ming Daily deputy crime chief Ang Kean Siang was assaulted by Lim Ah Chye, a member of voluntary patrol unit (PPS) set up by the Penang state government, many people, like me, could not believe it as such an ugly incident actually involved a civil organisation set up to maintain law and order and to protect the people.

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Moderation best approach to counter terrorism

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:20 PM PST

Malaysia believes that the moderates must be the only dominant voice to occupy the mainstream as the voice of moderation will strongly contribute to eradicating terrorism.

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Indian police target single women, couples out after dark

Posted: 15 Jan 2013 11:17 PM PST

An anti-harassment police squad launched in a district near Mumbai is targeting single women and young couples out on the streets after dark, following a brutal gang-rape and murder in India last month.

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