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Fomer PM insists it was no mistake to let people from eastern Europe come to the UK to work from 2004, while Farage says he considers Blair to have been Ukip’s ‘secret weapon’ (16 Mar) - Tony Blair has rejected the idea that he helped fuel the rise of Ukip, and called on politicians to stop indulging the party’s rhetoric... 

(18 Mar) - Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew who is credited as being the founder of modern Singapore, is critically ill in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Singapore General Hospital, just five months shy of the country's 50th anniversary of independence. The first ever prime minister of Singapore, 92-year-old Lee is one of the... 

Liao Yongyuan was disciplined over fires at CNPC-run plants in Dalian, including a 2010 pipeline blast. (Photo: AP) The general manager of China National Petroleum Corporation, Liao Yongyuan, is under investigation for suspected graft, the Communist Party's anti-graft agency said on Monday. Liao, 52, was being investigated for...