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		<title>No nose-picking: Image-conscious China admonishes its &#8216;unruly&#8217; tourists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or steal airplane life jackets, China&#8217;s image-conscious authorities have warned in a handbook in their latest effort to counter unruly behavior. The National Tourism Administration publicized its 64-page Guidebook for Civilized Tourism, with illustrations to accompany its list of do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can ambitious Chinese effort rival Hollywood&#8217;s movie clout?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ambitious studio complex built by China&#8217;s richest man will be a major boost for the country&#8217;s film industry, but experts say it needs more than sprawling grounds to rival Hollywood. Global A-listers Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio and Catherine Zeta-Jones showed up for the lavish event Sunday to showcase plans for the Oriental Movie Metropolis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huge duck makes debut in Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s first authentic version of a giant rubber duck that has made a splash around the world and inspired fakes across the country made its debut Friday &#8212; but some complained that visitors had to pay to see it. The inflatable yellow bird, which has made appearances from Australia to South America since 2007, attracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese woman survives 15 days trapped down well by eating corn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman stranded for 15 days in an abandoned well in central China said Wednesday that she shouted for help every day and began to lose hope, but that she managed to survive on raw corn and rainwater. Su Qixiu, 48, was gathering herbs when she fell into the 4-meter-deep well in a village in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide victim&#8217;s organ donation wish denied in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man who texted police in China to donate his body and organs to science before hanging himself was denied his final wish because he had not applied in advance, official media reported Wednesday. &#8220;I have decided to donate my body and all my organs to charity. When you receive my message, I will already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog donates blood to save cat in N.Z.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traditional animal rivalries were set aside in New Zealand when a dog&#8217;s blood was used to save the life of a poisoned cat in a rare interspecies transfusion, reports said Wednesday. Kim Edwards was frantic last Friday when her ginger tom Rory went limp after eating rat poison, rushing to her local veterinary clinic in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fork extracted from Aussie&#8217;s penis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shocked doctors had to perform emergency surgery on a man in the Australian capital of Canberra after he lodged a 10-cm steel fork inside his penis for sexual pleasure. According to a paper titled &#8220;An Unusual Urethral Foreign Body&#8221; that was published in the International Journal of Surgery, the 70-year-old man arrived at the emergency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese zoo&#8217;s lion in fact hairy dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese zoo&#8217;s supposed &#8220;African lion&#8221; was exposed as a fraud when the dog used as a substitute started barking. The zoo in the People&#8217;s Park of Luohe, in the central province of Henan, replaced exotic exhibits with common species, according to the state-run Beijing Youth Daily. It quoted a customer who wanted to show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N. Korea unveils &#8216;secure, homemade&#8217; smartphone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea, one of the most isolated and censored societies on the planet, has unveiled what it claims is a domestically produced smartphone. Industry analysts, however, say the Arirang, built around Google&#8217;s Android OS, is likely manufactured in neighboring China. The existence of the phone, named after a famous Korean folk song, came to light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thai pupils see glimpse of freedom in new hair rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pudding-bowl bobs and army-type cuts were for decades the only hairstyles allowed for Thai schoolchildren &#8212; but now looser rules spell new freedom for classroom coiffures. &#8220;I am embarrassed having this kind of hairstyle,&#8221; 14-year-old Visarut Rungrod said, running a hand over his close-cropped head, adding he plans to lengthen his locks as soon as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass vomiting hits Qantas passengers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dozens of people were rushed off a Qantas flight for medical treatment in Sydney after a stomach bug struck mid-journey, triggering a mass vomiting episode. A &#8220;number of passengers traveling in the same group on QF28 (between) Santiago and Sydney became unwell with a gastro intestinal illness&#8221; on the 14-hour journey to Australia, Qantas said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian baby with big head released</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors Friday discharged a 1-year-old Indian baby who underwent multiple surgery to correct a rare disorder that caused her head to nearly double in size, a neurosurgeon said. Roona Begum endured several surgical procedures which saw doctors at a hospital near New Delhi drain fluid from her head in a life-saving operation and dramatically reduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lincoln statue vandal suspect is Chinese national</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moments before District of Columbia police found Jiamei Tian hiding in a bathroom stall at Washington National Cathedral, a family of tourists had spotted her in a back pew of the Children&#8217;s Chapel guarding two bags and muttering softly in a foreign language. Tian&#8217;s unsettling behavior continued Tuesday, when the 58-year-old Chinese national made her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s nouveau riche fork out for high-class etiquette</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to properly peel an orange, hold an oyster fork and pronounce luxury brand names &#8212; wealthy Chinese are paying handsome sums to learn such skills as they seek to match their high-end lifestyles with high-class etiquette. A two-week course at the newly opened Institute Sarita in Beijing costs 100,000 yuan (&#36;16,000), but that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whale knocks surfer unconscious</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Sydney surfer had a lucky escape Sunday when he was hit and knocked unconscious by a whale frolicking off Bondi Beach. Bishan Rajapakse, a 38-year-old doctor, said the last thing he remembers before waking up on the beach was saying &#8220;Hey, how&#8217;s it going?&#8221; to the whale, believed to be a southern right, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s &#8216;miracle rooster&#8217; further complicates chicken-and-egg dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question has long been, &#8220;Which came first, the chicken or the egg?&#8221; The apparently insoluble puzzle has become further complicated in India, where a rooster in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has been laying eggs. According to a report in the The Asian Age newspaper, people are thronging the house of the rooster&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unwitting Chinese railway station worker plays porn on big screen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A maintenance worker surprised passers-by near a Chinese railway station when he started watching a banned porn film, not realizing his computer was connected to a giant screen, state media said Tuesday. The worker, identified only by his surname, Yuan, was supposed to repair the screen, on a building near the main railway station in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore gripped by &#8216;Singing Bone&#8217; Hello Kitty frenzy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hello Kitty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tempers flared and police had to be called in as anxious Singaporeans rushed to McDonald&#8217;s outlets to buy plush Hello Kitty toys being sold in a promotion by the fast food chain Thursday. Hundreds had begun waiting in line from Wednesday night in the hope of getting their hands on the famed kitten dressed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian reporter who rode atop flood victim is fired</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Indian television journalist who reported on deadly floods while perched on a survivor&#8217;s shoulders has been fired, the head of the channel said Wednesday. &#8220;What he did was very inhuman. You cannot ride on someone&#8217;s back for a story. We terminated him on Tuesday,&#8221; said Nishant Chaturvedi, channel head at News Express. Narayan Pargaien, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar mystics give supernatural help to Asia leaders, military chiefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frail and barely able to speak, Myanmar&#8217;s most famous fortuneteller &#8212; known as ET &#8212; has for years whispered predictions to Asia&#8217;s rich and powerful, from generals to foreign politicians. The soothsayer, whose popularity has inspired a recent Thai biopic, is one of a plethora of mystics in Myanmar, where generations of rulers have sought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North vows to kill authors of report that Kim dished out Hitler &#8216;guidebook&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korea has angrily denied a report that its ruler used Adolf Hitler&#8217;s memoir as a leadership guide, and threatened to kill its authors. The article by New Focus International, an online news portal run by North Korean defectors, said Kim Jong Un had given copies of &#8220;Mein Kampf&#8221; to his top officials, urging them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samoan airline introduces &#8216;XL&#8217; class</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tiny Samoan airline says it will introduce an &#8220;XL&#8221; class for supersized passengers, featuring extra-wide rows and special ramps to help them reach their seats. Samoa Air already pioneered a world first late last year, when it began charging passengers fares based on how much they weigh, rather than a set price for each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aussie leader blasts &#8216;sexist&#8217; menu at opposition dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday accused the opposition of a pattern of misogynist behavior, branding a menu for a party fundraiser &#8220;grossly sexist and offensive&#8221; after it featured a quail dish named after her that offered &#8220;small breasts&#8221; and &#8220;huge thighs.&#8221; The menu was used at a dinner in March for Mal Brough, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Africans keeping ancient customs alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 15:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tiny Sidi community, descendants of ninth-century African migrants, have lived quietly along India&#8217;s west coast for hundreds of years without ever losing touch of their ancient traditions. &#8220;A Certain Grace,&#8221; a new book by Indian photographer Ketaki Sheth, reveals how the community, many of whose members live in poverty, has assimilated in India while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese family kept schizophrenic son shackled in cage for over a decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 15:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mentally ill Chinese man has been kept in a cage for more than a decade by his family after he beat a child to death, local media reported, carrying images of him staring blankly though the bars. Wu Yuanhong, 42, was shown sitting on blankets in the narrow enclosure, his feet shackled with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV show gives peek into world of Chinese porn censors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the annals of bizarre bureaucratic desk jobs, the Chinese government may have all others beat. Officials in charge of censoring pornography for the southern province of Hunan gave a rare and revealing peek into the strange (and quite possibly libido-numbing) demands of their job in a rare, local TV interview now making the rounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. returns dinosaur to Mongolia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States has given back to Mongolia the remains of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton stolen from the Gobi Desert and sold at auction in New York. The nearly complete skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus bataar, a cousin of the fearsome T. rex, had been put up for sale and went for &#036;1.05 million last year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China on the rise manifested in newspaper&#8217;s phallic HQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 15:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unamused Chinese censors have been hard at work trying to stop people sniggering over the new Beijing headquarters of the People&#8217;s Daily newspaper, which bear a resemblance to a giant penis. Photos of the imposing tower, which is still under construction, had Internet users tittering away, especially given one of Beijing&#8217;s other landmarks — the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8217;4Real&#8217; — New Zealand reveals banned baby names</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand officials Wednesday released a list of 77 baby names proposed by parents that were rejected because they were too bizarre or offensive, including &#8220;Lucifer&#8221; and &#8220;Mafia No Fear.&#8221; The list shows one child was set to be called &#8220;Anal&#8221; before the Department of Internal Affairs vetoed the idea, while another narrowly avoided being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PNG to revive death penalty, repeal sorcery law to tackle violent crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O&#8217;Neill has announced a renewed push for the death penalty, as well as life sentences for rape, saying that &#8220;draconian&#8221; penalties were needed to tackle violent crime, local media reported Wednesday. O&#8217;Neill said the impoverished Pacific nation would also repeal its controversial Sorcery Act, meaning any black magic killing [...]]]></description>
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