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        <pubDate>2009-11-21 20:20:04</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Time corporate voting was declared bankrupt]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The government has triggered heated debate with the pan-democrat camp over whether its latest blueprint for political reform represents a meaningful increase in democracy for the 2012 elections. There can be no argument, however, that the administration has not helped its case with a sin of omission. That is its failure to abolish corporate voting, an affront to the democratic aspirations of most Hong Kong people.
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            <title><![CDATA[Scholarships fuel fury in Namibia]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Beijing funds education for children of rich, powerful, <B>Sharon LaFraniere</B> reports.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[No place for hypocrisy on national security]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the world's only superpower, the United States is accustomed to setting standards of conduct across a range of issues. These include human rights, free trade, currency manipulation and illicit drug control. Whether  the US is in a position to moralise depends, to a large extent, on the countries being praised or criticised. One area where Washington has been most vocal has been its persistent criticism of Chinese espionage against US interests. In the world of intelligence, everyone spies on everyone else. Is the complaint from the US not a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black? Perhaps there is an acceptable espionage threshold beyond which spies from one nation should not go against another. But no one has specified what that might be. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Hirohito was no lover of peace]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[I refer to the report (&quot;Emperor Akihito defends father's wartime record, saying he was a man of peace&quot;, November 13).
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            <title><![CDATA[Bows and arrows point to trouble]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[It has been an interesting week for those who believe in the &quot;Cleopatra's nose&quot; theory of history - that chance events, as much as tectonic historical forces, cause the great waves that bring about the rise and fall of great powers. The theory gets its name from Mark  Antony's  infatuation with Cleopatra  that caused him to lose at Actium  and changed the course of Western civilisation.
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            <title><![CDATA[First, teach the teachers]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The first wave of any educational reform is likely to be followed by a countercurrent of criticism from those negatively affected. But wise reformers do not overcorrect, lest its modification should become a sell-out of its original purpose. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's speech spelled a new era in American foreign policy]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[During his state visit to China, US President Barack Obama told a student assembly in Shanghai: &quot;We do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation, but we also don't believe that the principles that we stand for are unique to our nation.&quot; 
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            <title><![CDATA[Pacific president]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's conciliatory approach has led to a transformation in US relations with Southeast Asia,  writes <B>Kavi Chongkittavorn</B>.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda's message spreading in English]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of English-language websites are spreading al-Qaeda's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature such charismatic clerics  as Anwar al-Awlaki,  who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the US Army psychiatrist accused of the shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Texas.
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            <title><![CDATA[Watching RTHK]]></title>
            <pubDate>2009-11-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the Legislative Council's panel on information technology and broadcasting held a special meeting to hear different community groups  give their views on RTHK's future. So far, the public consultation on the station's new mission as a public broadcaster has received 42 submissions. Most seem to support the proposal for RTHK to remain a government department and receive funding,  to develop digital broadcasting to  become a public-service broadcaster that serves the interests of minority groups and non-governmental organisations.
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