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Mapping trajectory of global capital flows

[2014-12-08 06:57]

Economists are viewing China's monetary policy in 2015 as the next beacon in directing global capital flows, as the US dollar strengthens and the Japanese yen weakens.

Highlighting the best in nip and tuck by app

[2014-12-08 06:57]

In an age when China's Internet sector is already being dominated by multi-million dollar giants such as e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, it is becoming increasingly difficult for entrepreneurs to start something from scratch and build it into the next industry heavyweight.

Coal tax reform to ease burden on producers and environment

[2014-12-08 06:57]

China, the world's leading coal producer and consumer, has begun to levy resource tax on coal based on sales prices instead of production from Dec 1, in a move to shore up the industry and improve the deteriorating environment.

Many refugees killed as they flee crisis-hit Greece

[2014-12-06 08:10]

Strapped to the underside of a train, 23-year-old Ali Arzin from Afghanistan had hoped to cross the border of crisis-hit Greece into Macedonia and eventually reach another EU country.

Theater group finds selling porn beats sales tax rise

[2014-12-06 08:10]

An all-women theater group has found an ingenious way around a sales tax increase that is crippling Spanish theaters - by selling pornography.

Former drug capital gets new image

[2014-12-06 08:10]

Medellin for Christmas vacation? Si, si!

Australia spurns UN's climate fund

[2014-12-06 08:10]

Australia will continue to pay for climate change adaptation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations out of its own foreign aid budget rather than donate to the United Nations' Green Climate Fund, which was designed for the same purpose, the country's foreign minister said on Friday ahead of climate talks in Peru.

Andean countries losing quality water sources

[2014-12-06 08:10]

The melting of glaciers in the Andes mountain range is a threat to the population of countries including Bolivia and Peru, said Nilda Rojas, head of the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu, on Thursday.

Tens of thousands flee homes as typhoon threatens Philippines

[2014-12-06 08:10]

Tens of thousands of people fled coastal villages and landslide-prone areas in the central Philippines on Friday, as Typhoon Hagupit bore down on eastern coasts of the island nation, where thousands were killed in a devastating storm last year.

Gunfight kills 17 in Kashmir

[2014-12-06 08:10]

Militants in disputed Kashmir attacked an Indian army camp on Friday, triggering a fierce gunbattle that left 11 Indian troops and six suspected assailants dead, officials said.

Abused women face lonely struggle

[2014-12-06 08:10]

When Ruqayya Parveen's husband dumped a jug of acid on her and her children as they slept, she awoke to a life of pain and disfigurement - one that many in conservative Pakistan believe she brought upon herself.

Immigration tightened, but more refugees allowed

[2014-12-06 08:10]

Australia on Friday further tightened its immigration laws, introducing controversial temporary visas for refugees that offer no rights to permanent settlement.

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