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Marchers demand abolition of death penalty
A mass protest held by Amnesty International Hong Kong and the Joint Committee for the Abolition of the Death Penalty marks the 9th World Day Against the Death Penalty, calling on China and other countries that still use captial punishment to abolish it. The protesters will march from the Korean consulate in Admiralty via the United States' consulate in Central to the central government's liaison office in Western District. According to Amnesty International statistics, China has the world's largest annual tally of people put to death.
Economics prize caps 2011 Nobel season
The Nobel prize for economic sciences caps the 2011 Nobel awards season. The economics prize is the only one of six Nobel prizes not created in Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's 1896 will; introduced in 1968 to mark the tricentenary of the Swedish central bank, it was first awarded in 1969. Last year, Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen, of the United States, and British-Cypriot Christopher Pissarides won for work on why supply and demand do not always meet in the labour market and elsewhere.
Putin due in Beijing for two days of talks