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- Commentary: How U.S. should respond to Mumbai attacks
A captured suspect in the Mumbai attacks has told police that he is Pakistani, Indian officials say. CNN's sister station, CNN-IBN, reports that the alleged terrorist said he was trained by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistan-based terror group that opposes India over the disputed Kashmir region.
    
- Royal Engineers oversee Afghan reconstruction work
An orphanage, a nursery and a women's centre all opened in Lashkar Gah last week thanks to the work of Afghan construction firms and . , who since April 2008 have been supporting 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines, deployed to Helmand with the brigade in
- Hong Kong stocks rise for fifth day in longest rally of year
Hong Kong - Hong Kong stocks rose 1.59 per cent Monday in their fifth straight day of gains, the longest rally for almost a year. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index climbed by 220.6 points to end the day at 14,108.84 points. Turnover was 43.9 billion Hong
- Chinese manufacturing swoons as global crisis bites
* Official and CLSA PMIs for China plunge to record lows * Output, orders and jobs all weak; export orders evaporate * South Korea, India and Hong Kong all report poor data (Adds PMIs for India and Russia in paragraph 13) BEIJING (Reuters) - China's
- Chile copper export revenue sink...
·PanAust lifts Laos copper mine yield forecast 10% ·Palabora Mining looking into extending copper mine ·Zambia copper output up 12.9 pct in Jan-Aug 2008 ·Copper miner Kazahkmys gains 18 percent ·Southern Copper Corp To Pay $0.34-A-Share Dividend
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Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997. In this agreement, China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be practiced in Hong Kong and that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.
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