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Occupy Central (Sep 20, 2014)    Hong Kong students are preparing for a showdown with Beijing over democratic reforms by boycotting classes on Monday, as a restive younger generation challenges the Chinese Communist Party's tightening grip on the city. The former British colony returned to China in 1997 with a high degree... 

A Chinese noodle shop owner has admitted to lacing his wares with opium poppy seeds, in an apparent effort to keep customers coming back, it's reported. (23 September 2014)     The use of the unusual ingredient - used to make opium - at the restaurant in Yan'an, in Shaanxi province, came to light after one of its clients... 

Health workers remove the body of Prince Nyentee, a 29-year-old man whom local residents said died of Ebola in Monrovia September 11, 2014. (Photo: Reuters) (September 23, 2014)    A case of a patient exhibiting Ebola-like symptoms in Malacca was nothing more than training simulation for the central hospital, health officials...