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  • Thousands of Portuguese strike against govt austerity policy

    Thousands of Portuguese held a rally Saturday in capital city of Lisbon against government's tough austerity measures, the third of its kind held in Lisbon within this ...

  • Landslide kills 7 in China

    A landslide near a coal mine in northwest China killed seven people Saturday, government officials said. The landslide struck at 10 a.m. and buried a two-story dormitory housing workers at a coal mine in Cangcun Township, Shaanxi province, the Huangling County publicity bureau said. Twelve others were injured and rescue workers completed their search of the building by 10 p.m. The injured were ...

  • China Switzerland sign free-trade pact

    Switzerland and China have signed a free-trade agreement leaders of both nations called a historic achievement. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, in Switzerland to sign the accord, said the trade pact "has huge meaning for global free-trade." "This free-trade deal is the first between China and a continental European economy, and the first with one of the 20 leading economies of the ...

  • China S.Korea in Sudirman Cup badminton final

    KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Eight-time champions China reached their 10th consecutive Sudirman Cup badminton final on Saturday, seeing off Denmark in Kuala Lumpur and setting up a clash for the title with South Korea.Three-time champs South Korea reached their seventh Cup final when they defeated a spirited Thailand 3-1 in the other semi-final earlier in the day.Sunday's final will be the fourth ...

  • First ETF launched on Portuguese market

    Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) provider SPA ETF has signed an agreement with NYSE Euronext and Portuguese bank Caixa – Banco de Investimento (CaixaBI) to list and distribute the first ever ETF in Portugal. The SPA ETF PSI-20 will be listed on the NYSE Euronext in Portugal, tracking the PSI-20, which is the Portuguese Stock Index, and opening the Portuguese ETF market to retail and ...

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Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (Special Edition)

Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (Special Edition)

As the final chapter in the Star Wars Trilogy, "Return of the Jedi" is the least of the three, but it is still a magnificent experience in its own right. Its main problem is that it tends to lean too much on the slick commercialism generated by the first two installments. "Jedi" is forced to be the wrap-up of all the problems created in the first two films, so in that way it has no choice but to p ... ...

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  • Hong Kong June CPI climbs to 5.6 pct on rising rents and pork prices

    Hong Kong's Consumer Price Index (CPI) in June climbed to 5.6 percent from a year ago, higher than the 5.2 percent rise in May, mainly due to the enlarged increases in private housing rentals, as well as the charges for household services and the prices of pork, the city's statistics department said here on Thursday. Netting out the effects of all the one-off relief measures from the ...

  • Hong Kongs liquefied petroleum gas prices to fall in August

    Hong Kong's liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) ceiling prices at LPG stations will range from 4.44 HK dollars (0.57 U.S. dollars) to 4.86 HK dollars per liter in August, down 25 to 26 cents per liter, the city's Electrical and Mechanical Services Department said here on Thursday. It said the adjustment reflects the movement of the international LPG price in ...

  • Rioting hits Stockholm after police shoot Portuguese immigrant

    Rioting has occurred nightly in the suburbs of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, since last Sunday. As of Friday night, police had arrested 29 people and were calling in reinforcements from Gothenburg and Malm, the second- and third-largest cities in Sweden, respectively. The riots were touched off by the police killing of a 69-year-old Portuguese immigrant, who moved to Sweden over 30 years ago ...

  • Chinas satellite data network reaches South China Sea

    A satellite data receiving station was launched on Friday enabling China to now obtain observation information about the South China Sea. The station, in Sanya in south China's island province of Hainan, was launched by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. China will now be able to obtain satellite remote sensing data of the ...

  • Macao records 73 days of acid rain in 2012

    Macao recorded 73 days where the pH value of rainwater was lower than 5.6 (classified as acid rain) in 2012, according to data from the city's Statistics and Census Service. In 2012, Macao's mean air temperature (22.3) registered a 0.4 rise year on year. Precipitation totaled 1,556 millimetres, up by 14.1 percent year on year. There were 73 days where the pH value of rainwater was ...

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