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  • Chinas role in NSA snoopgate leak questioned by GOP politician

    Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers said that China's role is questionable in light of Edward Snowden's leaking NSA secret intelligence and his subsequent fleeing to Hong Kong despite its extradition treaty with US. Defending the NSA spy programme as an essential and life saving tool in the war on terrorism, Rogers said that Snowden is a traitor and not a hero, Washington Times ...

  • Hong Kong says it will follow law in Snowden case

    The government of Hong Kong, headed by Leung Chung-ying, said it will conduct itself in accord with the laws in the case of US former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who is believed to be in hiding at an unknown location in the coastal enclave. Leung said in a statement that China's special administrative region will handle the case according to its established procedures, an allusion to the ...

  • Passengers aboard flight from Hong Kong to New Jersey bound paranoid mans hands feet after poison claims

    A battle is brewing between the federal government and the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association over the issue of making fuel economy labels on new vehicles ...

  • Hong Kong Stocks Drop on China Housing GCL-Poly Plunges

    home prices will limit the scope for monetary easing. GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd. plunged after a unit of China's sovereign-wealth fund agreed to sell a stake in the company. GCL-Poly sank 12 percent after Chengdong Investment Corp. offered 1.2 billion shares in the largest maker of materials used in solar ...

  • Hang Seng dips Shanghai edges up

    (1 hr 1 min ago) Stocks in Hong Kong opened 0.74 percent lower as investors awaited a Federal Reserve meeting for clues on whether it will soon start to reel in its massive stimulus spending. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 156.54 points to 21,069.36 in the first minutes of trade. In Shanghai shares were up slightly in early trading, lifted by overnight gains in US stocks, dealers said. The ...


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The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

Half a century after her initial claim to fame, Leni Riefenstahl remains a frustrating and fascinating enigma. Here is a woman who directed only six films during the 1930's and 40's, and yet she has been hailed as the greatest female director of all time, and deplored as a conspiring agent of Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich. This complex existence is the subject of writer/director Ray ... ...

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  • Hong Kong stocks off as China banks property down

    HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks on Tuesday pulled back after a two-day rally amid uncertainty over the pace of the U.S. Federal Reserve's bond purchases, with Chinese property developers dropping after another strong monthly increase in home prices on the mainland. The Hang Seng ...

  • Man Involved in Hong Kong Assault Had Ties to Communist Front Group

    A man suspected of beating an elderly man with a chair was ordered into a Hong Kong prison on Monday. Prior to that, he admitted that he was working under the aegis of the Hong Kong Youth Care Association, a front group associated with an extralegal agency run by the Chinese Communist Party. Guan Ziang, 39, was charged for being one of four men to assault a 53-year-old Mr. Chen on June 6, when ...

  • Hong Kongs Hang Seng Index down 0.5 early but Shanghai Composite up 0.2

    HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks on Tuesday pulled back after a two-day rally amid uncertainty over the pace of the U.S. Federal Reserve's bond purchases, with Chinese property developers dropping after another strong monthly increase in home prices on ...

  • Hong Kong shares to open down 0.6 pct GCL-Poly Energy plunges

    HONG KONG, June 18 | Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:25pm EDT HONG KONG, June 18 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares were poised to start lower on Tuesday, with GCL-Poly Energy Holdings diving 11.4 percent, more than the 9.1 percent discount from its Monday close on news that a substantial shareholder priced a stake sale. The Hang Seng Index was set to open down 0.6 percent at 21,102.6 points. The China ...

  • China says US should explain surveillance claims

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