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Chinese hotels’ dirty secrets exposed: same towels used on toilets and drinking cups

Whistle-blower Huazong blows up a storm with video of hotel hygiene horrors Upmarket hotel chains say they’ll tighten rules and train staff better

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Teen girl uses mother’s bank details to borrow US$14,000 for Jade Dynasty costumes

Mother in northeast China discovered spending spree when she tried to withdraw deposit Daughter, 16, had applied for loans every day for six months to buy virtual coins, costumes and props for popular video game

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Donnie Yen makes legal strike against makers of terrible Iceman film

Reputation of the action superstar ‘severely harmed’ by a blog post accusing Yen of ruining new film Iceman: The Time Traveler War of words fails to spark ticket sales for the box office flop.

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Chinese-American General Ying Hsing Wen, who pioneered warm relations 100 years ago, offers lesson for today, honour says

The Museum of Chinese in America bestows an award on the family of Ying Hsing Wen, one of the first two Chinese cadets to graduate from the US Military Academy ‘The first economy of the world and the second economy of the world have to learn to get together because it benefits both sides,’ Wen’s granddaughter said.

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Leon Li, fugitive who escaped Hong Kong police through ceiling of hospital toilet, ‘may have had accomplice’

Man tried to deliver pills to Dominican Republic passport holder in prison, soon before he made his latest escape Officers believe Li still in Hong Kong

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Imelda Marcos will be free soon

FORMER Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos faces imprisonment of between six and 11 years for each count of graft.

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‘To keep Singapore going’

The republic’s Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong looks back on his political career.

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Life after Kim

Alternative schools help young North Korean defectors to cope in the alien South.

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Myanmar given support over Rohingya issue after US rebuke

BEIJING: China supports the Myanmar government’s efforts to protect domestic stability and approach to resolving the Rohingya issue, Premier Li Keqiang told the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, after United States vice president Mike Pence offered a strong rebuke.

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‘Smelly’ noodles now come in a package

BEIJING: Yuan Xiang is ordering instant luosifen – a specialty of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region-online with friends in Shanghai.

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University students in Henan go on the run for breakfast

BEIJING: A college in Central China’s Henan province launched the annual “Run for Breakfast” campaign to encourage students to brave the cold and exercise, Dahe Daily reported.

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‘No place for porn in this country’

BEIJING: China is raising the cash rewards paid to citizens for reporting pornographic and “illegal” publications to authorities, government regulators have announced.

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Imelda posts bail for graft conviction in Philippines

MANILA: Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos posted a US$7,400 (RM31,009) bail for provisional liberty after she was found guilty of graft.

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Major African ivory smuggling channel closed

BEIJING: Customs officers from Guangdong province and Hong Kong seized 10 pieces of African ivory, weighing 323.7kg, after busting a major smuggling operation.

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Hotels told to probe room cleaning

BEIJING: The Chinese tourism ministry has asked authorities in Beijing, Shanghai and three provinces to investigate room cleaning at 14 major hotels after hidden camera video showed workers using used towels to clean cups and glasses and other questionable practices.

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Varsity warns against activism

Beijing: One of China’s top universities has warned students they face arrests if they associate with a labour-rights organisation that has drawn support in a recent surge of Chinese campus activism.

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N. Korea tests new tactical weapon

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen the testing of a “newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon”, Pyongyang’s state media reported, in a move that will raise the temperature over denuclearisation talks.

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Roller-skaters staying active in their golden years

BEIJING: A group of roller-skaters drew people’s attention at Hankou Jiangtan Park in Wuhan for their skill, their laughter and athleticism despite their advanced age, Chutian Metropolis Daily reported.

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Khieu Samphan, Nuon Chea sentenced to ‘life in prison’

PHNOM PENH: Two top leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime were found guilty of genocide, in a landmark ruling almost 40 years after the fall of a brutal regime that presided over the deaths of a quarter of the population.

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Chinese students have invented a device to turn book pages by blinking

Headband uses brain-sensing technology and sends digital signals to page-flipping gadget using Bluetooth Inventors say it could make it easier for people with disabilities to read books