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Asia Cast for Tuesday 6th November

-Torture case win in court against Chinese Minister of Commerce
-Amnesty Attacks Pakistan’s Emergency Rule
-Abbas’s Security Forces, Gunmen Clash in West Bank and

On Monday the 5th of November the supreme Court of NSW issued a default judgement against Chinese Minister of Commerce, Mr Bo Xilai recognizing his failure to provide a defense for the torture case brought against him by Sydney Falun Gong practitioner and Chinese labour camp survivor, Mr PAN Yu.

This is the first win in a case against Bo Xilai, 58 who has been sued in over ten countries, i cluding the USA, Canada, Germany, and Ireland for his role in the persecution Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Bo was served a Summons in person on the 4th of September 2007 in Canberra prior to the APEC forum.

Another two similar cases are in the Supreme Court of NSW and are progressing towards similar judgements against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, the 6-10 ‘Gestapo-like’ office and its head Chen Shaoji.

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The state of emergency in Pakistan breaks international law and human rights standards enshrined in the constitution, Amnesty International said on Monday.

Condemning Musharraf’s declaration of a state of emergency on Saturday and decision to suspend the constitution, the human rights group called for an immediate return to constitutional rule and the release of hundreds of detainees.

Musharraf cited spiralling militancy and hostile judges to justify his decision to impose emergency rule.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s forces clashed on Monday with gunmen for the first time since their deployment in the city of Nablus as part of a Western-backed push to bolster West Bank security.

Abbas’s security forces imposed a curfew within the Balata refugee camp and searched houses for gunmen involved in the exchange of fire, in which five Palestinians were wounded including two security men.

The clash was the first since members of Abbas’s National Security forces deployed in Nablus on Friday. It came during a visit to the West Bank and Israel by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to lay the groundwork for a conference on Palestinian statehood.

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A man accused of helping to plot botched suicide bombings on London on July twenty-first, 2005, pleaded guilty on Monday to a terrorism offence in connection with the failed attacks.

Adel Yahya was one of six men who went on trial over the al Qaeda-inspired attacks on London’s transport system which occurred two weeks after similar, successful bombings killed fifty-two people.

Detectives said the second plot only failed to replicate the carnage of a fortnight earlier because the bombers’ homemade devices failed to explode.

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A Taiwanese vessel and its crew that were kidnapped almost six months ago off the coast of Somalia have been set free by pirates.
Taiwanese and Kenyans were among those released. One crew member was killed shortly after the hijacking.
The release followed intervention by the US Navy, which has helped five ships in the area in the past week, all of which had been boarded by pirates.
The increased US activity is being seen as a sign of growing concern over Somali pirates.
The waters off the East African country are notorious for piracy – second only to Indonesia.

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At about 5:20am on the 2nd of November, the roof of a mine at Jing-Le County, Shanxi Province in China collapsed killing four and five stranded under the mine.

Ming Press news website disclosed that on the 4th of November, the five staff trapped are confirmed to have died from the incident.

According to the mine authorities, the mine was halted from its operation for a while and the workers were carrying out repair jobs under the mine at the time of the incident.

The investigation for the cause is now under way.

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Although the Protocol of Rightful Ownership in China has been implemented on the1st of October 2007, the residential complex at 8 Han-Yang Boulevard in Wuhan City was still forcibly dismantled.

The realty developer ordered the residents to sign an agreement for eviction before the protocol and new constitution became effective on the 1st of October.

The Epoch Times revealed that some children of those who had not signed the pact were threatened to be dismissed from jobs.

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