Chinese women’s rights activist sent to labor camp again

BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese woman who has campaigned against the strict one-child policy has been sent to labor camp for one and a half years, the third time she has been detained for criticizing the government, her husband said on Tuesday.Mao Hengfeng, who lives in Shanghai, was seized in Beijing by a team of security officials on September 20 when...

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A Write-Off That Shows Tax Reform Will Be No Game

Theodore Jones has had season tickets on the 43-yard line at Tiger Stadium, home of the perennial football powerhouse Louisiana State University, for almost 20 years. The seats, along with two others, cost him $ 5,340. That’s $ 1,640 for the tickets’ face value, plus $ 3,700 in mandatory donations that Jones gets to write off. The Baton Rouge lawyer...

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Bomb shakes Damascus, opposition holds unity talks

AMMAN (Reuters) – A bomb exploded near army and security compounds in Damascus, Syrian television reported, and fractured opposition groups seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad began unity talks abroad to win international respect and arms supplies.The 50-kilogram (110-pound) bomb, near a large hotel in a heavily guarded district, was described...

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Gadget-free and shopping sprees rule travel trends

LONDON (Reuters) – Luxury shopping trips for the nouveaux riches, gadget-free accommodation and booking holidays on smart TVs are some of the future travel trends predicted in a new report released on Monday.The “Global Trends Report” by market research firm Euromonitor International predicted a continued rise in holiday packages which cater to tourists...

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Bac Films shops Gael Garcia Bernal starrer to AFM buyers

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Bac Films International has picked up sales duties on “The Ardor,” an Amazon-set feature from director, Pablo Fendrik.Gael Garcia Bernal, left, and Alice Braga will star in this modern day Western, which is being sold at this week’s American Film Market. Bernal will play an Amazon shaman who...

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Merkel coalition agrees welfare changes as poll looms

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s center-right coalition reached agreement on Monday on contentious social welfare issues that it hopes will bolster its support in the countdown to federal elections next September.After nearly eight hours of talks that underlined the degree of discord simmering within her three-party government, Merkel...

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HSBC earmarks more for US fines

5 November 2012 Last updated at 03:47 ETHSBC bank has put aside a further $ 800m (£500m) to cover potential money-laundering fines in the US as it announced a fall in quarterly profits. The bank had already put aside $ 700m after a US Senate report published in July said lax controls had left it vulnerable to money...

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Brazil’s ‘pop-star priest’ gets mammoth new stage

affiliate marketing SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil‘s “pop-star priest” is already packing in the crowds at the newly opened mammoth sanctuary that he built for his campaign to stem the exodus of faithful from the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America’s biggest nation.Brazil still has more Catholics than any other country in the world, with...

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Meet the Only Guy In Line for an iPad Mini in NYC [PICS]

affiliate marketing Amid the rushing passersby outside the flagship Apple Store, one man stood alone Thursday afternoon in the official line for Friday morning’s iPad mini launch.Luis Lorenzo braved New York City’s transit system — still weakened by flooding from Hurricane Sandy — to get from East New York in Brooklyn to the Fifth Avenue...

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DA seeks rehearing in Anna Nicole Smith drug case

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors refusing to accept an appellate court‘s ruling in the Anna Nicole Smith case asked the court on Friday to change its decision and allow her former boyfriend and manager to be retried.California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled last month that Howard K. Stern could not be retried...

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