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Chinese buyers flee Hong Kong for overseas property markets

2013-06-25 16:36:30| Real Estate - Topix.net

On the seventh floor of a luxury hotel in the heart of Hong Kong, a Chinese couple listens carefully as an agent takes them on a virtual tour of an upmarket property development for sale - not in the former British colony, but in London.

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India's 'climate refugees' flee monsoon flooding

2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Le Monde: In 2012, out of the millions of people displaced by natural disasters around the world, over a quarter were from northeast India. Almost nine million inhabitants were forced to flee the region's devastating monsoon. These forced displacements are a common occurrence. Floods have become so routine in Assam, a state located at the foothills of the Himalayas, irrigated by one of the world's mightiest river -- the Brahmaputra -- that a special administrative post was created to deal with natural disasters....

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Donors Will Flee Obama if Keystone Approved, Says Billionaire Activist

2013-05-21 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

The Hill: Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer, whos increasingly throwing his weight around in politics, said approving the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would create political hurdles for President Obamas second-term agenda and cost him the support of key donors. Steyer, a major Democratic fundraiser, told Grist magazine that Keystone opponents have leverage to exert over Obama even though hes free of having to run for reelection. If you look at the people who support Obama, and then you look...

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