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IS "hit-list" includes 8 Australians, prompts warnings of lone-wolf attacks

​An Islamic State-issued "hit-list " has revealed the names of more than 1,400 people, and includes the details of eight Australian police officers, defense force employees and public figures.

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Russia to expand EU travel ban list if West increases sanctions

Moscow is ready to expand its travel ban list of European Union (EU) officials if the West increases its own blacklist of Russian officials, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.

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China "uncomfortable with" U.S. negative list for investment treaty talks

​China's Finance Minister Lou Jiwei has said his country is "uncomfortable with" the negative list provided by the United States, which is a key part of the ongoing negotiation of the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) between the world's two largest economies.

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China announces plans for pilot free trade zones

China released more details for regarding pilot free trade zones (FTZ) in Guangdong, Tianjin and Fujian as well as plans to further reform and open up the Shanghai FTZ on Monday.

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Catching 14 military "tigers"

Moments after questions on whether China's ongoing countercorruption campaign would snatch "bigger tigers" were aired by China's state broadcaster, the Chinese military authority released Monday a list of 14 generals that had been investigated or convicted recently.

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China to ease restrictions on foreign investment

A new foreign investment law will ease restrictions on foreign investors and grant them easier access to the Chinese market, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Monday.

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Singapore ranks top tourist destination next year

Travel media company Lonely Planet has named Singapore as the world's top destinations among countries to visit next year, while Washington D.C. of the United States is named the top city to visit, Singapore media reported on Tuesday.

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70 candidates run for Tunisia's presidency

​An unprecedented list of 70 candidates will be contending in Tunisia's presidential election in November, the country's Elections Board (ISIE) said on Tuesday.

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Jack Ma richest man in China

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, has become the richest man in China with a fortune of 150 billion yuan (24.4 billion U.S. dollars), according to the "Hurun Rich List 2014" released by the Hurun Research Institute on Tuesday.

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Japan rejects report of DPRK providing list of abductees

The Japanese government rejected in its entirety a newspaper report that Tokyo has received from Pyongyang a list containing around 30 names of Japanese citizens living in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), some of whom had been kidnapped by DPRK agents in the 1970s and 1980s.

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China's Fortune 500 companies weak in profitability

More Chinese companies have made this year's Fortune Global 500 list but their typical profitability is weak, according to the annual ranking released on Monday.

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Russia produces tit-for-tat sanction list against U.S.

Russia barred Thursday a list of U. S. politicians from entering the country as a tit-for-tat move over Washington's sanctions.

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Candidate registration for Thailand's Feb. 2 election starts

Thai political parties started Monday to register their party-list candidates for the upcoming Feb.2 general election amid disruption from anti-government protesters who have besieged the registration venue.

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Mistakes allowed in FTZ trials: government think tank

The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ) should be allowed to make mistakes as it carries out experimental policies, said Long Guoqiang, a senior researcher with a Chinese government think tank, on Wednesday.

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Chinese billionaires reach 168 in Forbes list

The 2013 edition of the Forbes China Rich List published on Wednesday identified a record 168 billionaires in the country.

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Real estate tycoon Wang Jianlin richest man in China

Real estate tycoon Wang Jianlin is the richest man in China with a personal fortune of 135 billion yuan (22 billion U.S. dollars), according to the Hurun Rich List released Wednesday in Beijing.

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Cambodian election council rejects opposition chief's request to run

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Monday rejected the request of recently-returned opposition leader Sam Rainsy to stand as a parliamentary candidate for the fifth National Assembly elections on July 28.