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• Last ditch plea from family to save condemned Briton

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Two cousins of a British man facing execution in China have flown to the country to plead for his life just 48 hours before he is due to be executed for heroin smuggling.
  4 hours ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  3 days ago

• Family Plead for Life of Mentally Ill Briton Facing Execution in China

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 540
  Briton Akmal Shaikh is scheduled to be executed next week in China for heroin smuggling. The case is controversial, given his family’s claims that Shaikh has a mental illness and had been manipulated by a gang into smuggling the drugs. From the Guardian : Akmal Shaikh is due to be executed on 29 December after ...
  3 days ago

• China to execute mentally-ill Briton next week

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  The daughter of British man sentenced to death in China has pleaded with the authorities to spare his life.
  4 days ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  5 days ago

• UNHCR condemns Cambodia’s return of Chinese Uighurs

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 587
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) has denounced Cambodia’s forced return to China of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers before their claims were heard. The Geneva-based organization said it was “deeply distressed” at the news and concerned that “a disturbing ...
  6 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  1 week ago

• Ryan Pyle Blog: The Unpredictable Xinjiang Winter

  
  Ryan Pyle - Documentary Photographer — Authority: 109
  Hello. A few weeks back I was heading to Kashgar for a very special event in the Muslim religious calendar. It was a moment that I felt would compliment my continued documentation of Chinese Turkistan, or the region of Xinjiang, China. So I planned my trip and decided that even though the festival lasted only one ...
  1 week ago

• Exploring China’s Wild West

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 137
  The Jakarta Globe There is a smell of goats, fresh bread and melons. A cacophony of bleating animals rises, mixed with conversations full of hard-edged Turkic gutturals. A small boy clambers deftly onto the back of an unbroken, barrel-bellied pony, and reining it back sharply he somehow stays in place as it ...
  1 week ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  1 week ago

• China sentences five to death for riots

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 587
  Five more people were sentenced to death in Urumqi, in the far western province of Xinjiang Thursday 3 December. The men were accused of murdering a police officer and killing bystanders during the worst ethnic riots in China in July. The riots erupted when ethnic Uighurs rampaged through the city, killing up to 200 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quote: Kelly Hammond on Pepsi for China

  
  CNReviews — Authority: 506
  “What does all this mean for scholars who work so hard to deflate this false conflation of westernization and modernization?” Kelly Hammond, Ph.D. candidate in Chinese History at Georgetown University, wonders how a fizzy drink like Pepsi became the object that Chinese people rally around, whereas the other ...
  5 weeks ago

• Quote: Kelly Hammond on Pepsi for China

  
  CNReviews — Authority: 506
  “What does all this mean for scholars who work so hard to deflate this false conflation of westernization and modernization?” Kelly Hammond, Ph.D. candidate in Chinese History at Georgetown University, wonders how a fizzy drink like Pepsi became the object that Chinese people rally around, whereas the other ...
  5 weeks ago

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