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Wang Suwei holds the purse strings in her family. Each month, her husband hands his salary to her.
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US grand jury indicts former Bank of China managers and their wives over a scheme to defraud the state-owned bank of US $485 million. More
taiwan hunts drug ring smuggling
Taiwan authorities are planning to work with Canada to dismantle a Vancouver-based drug trafficking ring they say was run by a language tutor from BC.More
Disputed Dokdo Islands
Five college students will travel around the world by motorcycle to publicize Korea’s sovereignty over Dokdo later this year.
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Sam Sullivan

Mayor Sam Sullivan declared Feb. 4, 2006 as the city’s "Hong Kong Cultural and Heritage Day."

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Professional wrestler Gail Kim, a Korean Canadian who signed onto Total Nonstop Action (TNA), will return to Seoul to greet her legion of South Korean fans.
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China's growing US dollar millionaires
China’s millionaires like nothing better than a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce, but if they are getting behind the wheel themselves, it is the Bentley.
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She is the luckiest and most cursed child in Japan. A royal heir, yet destined, by having been born a girl, to be second best.
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Pet business goes to the dogs in Asia
As the Year of the Dog in Chinese lunar calendar beckons, the price for pet dogs in Shenzhen has increased by 30 percent.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Thailand will push Burma "as hard as we can" to free Suu Kyi from house arrest, while also opening a new bridge across a river to link the two Southeast Asian nations.
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chinese spying prenuptial
A growing number of Shanghai residents are hiring private detectives to investigate their future spouse before walking down the aisle, say Chinese media.
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Ms. Shen earns about C$1,000 a month. But she has chalked up some C$200,000 in debt by swiping her 10 credit and cash cards.

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Kim Jong-il

Watching foreign movies clouds the mental and ideological health of the people. Foreign hairstyles and clothings are signs of the "utterly rotten bourgeois lifestyle".

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A small community living in the Pacific island chain of Vanuatu has become one of, if not the first, to be formally moved out of harm's way as a result of climate change.

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Engineers, nurses, teachers, doctors, paramedics, journalists, humantiarian workers, and heavy equipment operators left Canada behind to help wherever they could after the tsunami struck.

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Though Mary Kay Ash never visited China, thousands of Chinese women know the story of how she overcame adversity to build a nearly US $2 billion company from an initial investment of only US $5000.

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Having a baby boy is a cause for celebration among rural Chinese families, but the birth of a girl illustrates the enormous human cost it involves.

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An increasing number of elderly Chinese people are heading to Canada to baby-sit for children.

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The Pattaya Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of fugitive murder suspect Van Treeck, who fled to his native Belgium in 2004.

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Gion's tea houses would show you the best time with the best food, best drinks, best dancing and music with the best hostess - the geiko

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