High-tech products winning fans at Canton Fair

Edit China Daily 19 Apr 2016
Chinese-made products on display at the Canton Fair are taking on a new and trendy image thanks to the introduction of cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality ... Liang Xingmei, a sales manager of game machines' maker, Guangzhou Zhuoyuan Machinery Co, said that the number of orders her company has received at the Canton Fair this year has increased at least 30 percent compared with the previous session of the fair in October....

Parking in Hyderabad to get costlier soon

Edit The Times of India 19 Apr 2016
The cash-strapped Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is mulling ways to boost its revenue, and much to the annoyance of denizens, a hike in parking fees is in the offing, sources say ... Sources said that GHMC commissioner B Janardhan Reddy would announce revised parking fares by the end of this month ... Officials confessed they are aware of this menace and are working towards a solution....

Austin Spurs defeat D-Fenders 91-83, force Game 3

Edit Austin American Statesman 19 Apr 2016
The Austin Spurs kept their playoff run alive with a 91-83 victory over the the Los Angeles D-Fenders in Game 2 of the NBADL’s Western Conference Finals Monday night at Cedar Park Center ... Sioux Falls defeated Canton 117-85 on Sunday to advance....

Where do you draw the line on religious and gender freedom? - Letters to the Editor

Edit The Dallas Morning News 19 Apr 2016
I assumed the Civil Rights Act would protect the rights of anyone who did not want to participate in something against their religious beliefs ... So we do need religious freedom laws to protect the rights of wedding vendors ... Maybe we need an anti-discrimination law to protect the rights of Christians in this country ... Both of these commentaries state there are no statistics backing up transgender men attacking women in bathrooms....

From 'deserter' to 'missing' soldier; army reverses its own 15 year old order

Edit DNA India 19 Apr 2016
It took 15 years for the Indian Army to reverse one of its own order – an order on which hinged the fate of Sangita Das, the wife of one of the force's former sepoy Pradip Das ... Sangita has now been given a job at the headquarters of 51 Sub Area at Narangi and her daughter admitted to Army Public School in the same cantonment....

Setback for Samajwadi Party as its Agra woman candidate joins BJP

Edit Indian Express 19 Apr 2016
According to sources, Agra MP and Union Minister of State for HRD Ram Shanker Katheria played a key role in Hemlata’s defection to BJP and she is likely to contest the forthcoming Assembly polls as BJP nominee from either Agra Rural or Agra Cantonment seats (both reserved for Scheduled Caste) ... “There was a wave in favour of SP in 2012 still I lost the election because of differences and groupism within the organisation in Agra....

Old Chinese texts basis of modern design contest

Edit China Daily 19 Apr 2016
The National Center for Preservation and Conservation of Ancient Books and the Library Society of China, a network of public libraries in the country, will jointly launch a contest on the upcoming World Book Day to encourage young Chinese to explore ancient texts ... The pieces include a chronicle of Canton in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), a Dongba manuscript-a hieroglyph of the Naxi ethnic people in Southwest China-and oracle bones....

Food Festival Finale – Stalls Announced (City of Perth)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016
City of Perth) ... Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi said the popular event marked the finale of Eat Drink Perth 2016, the City's 12th annual month-long food festival ... Other first time participants' dishes include Urban Bowl's noodle salad and iced tea, Canton Bar's pan-fried dumplings of beef, vegetable and chilli chicken, Arirang's cup noodle with bbq meats, and Noodle Forum's beef or satay chicken noodles, and pork balls in curry sauce....

Another blogger down

Edit Indian Express 19 Apr 2016
The comment of the home minister after Samad’s killing is instructive ... The latest killing follows the pattern of previous murders of bloggers ... Nationwide protests against the murder of a young female cultural activist, Sohagi Jahan Tonu, whose body was found in a cantonment in early March, and the investigation which proceeded at a snail’s pace with no arrests and allegations of cover-up, is a case in point....

Companies garner Rs 20K crore via OFS in FY'16

Edit The Times of India 18 Apr 2016
Indian companies raised nearly Rs 20,000 crore by selling shares through the offer for sale (OFS) mechanism in 2015-16, with PSUs accounting for most of the fund mop-up ... This mechanism has significantly helped the government's disinvestment drive on account of greater transparency and wider market participation ... via OFS route....

IMRA RETURNS TO SPOON RIVER SATURDAY; BRUNS TAKES SERIES OPENER (USAC - United States Auto Club)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
The USAC IMRA Midgets return to Spoon River Speedway in Canton, Ill. Saturday and Patrick Bruns of Champaign, Ill. will try to remain undefeated as the series heads into its second race of the season. Bruns captured the season opening race last Saturday night, leading the final two laps of a hotly-contested 20-lap feature at Spoon River ... Spoon River Speedway (Canton, Illinois) - 3/8-mile, high-banked clay oval....

Provide Medical Reports on alleged Robbers - Court tells Police

Edit Modern Ghana 18 Apr 2016
At the last sitting Stanley Obaliko one of the accused persons was rushed to hospital ... Appearing before the Court, Obaliko and Quarcoe pleaded guilty to the charges of robbery ... The Prosecution said on January 8, this year, around 2000hrs, all the accused persons met at the Koala Shopping Centre at Cantonments and Osabutey, who was a supervisor at the Cantonments Branch, briefed them about the movement of the complainant....
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