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Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai talks to the media after leaving Wanchai police station in Hong Kong on January 21, 2015. "I absolutely believe that Hong Kongers will not give up," Tai said in a speech to the crowd before he went in to the station. Tension remains high in the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city... 

The 'bank' appeared legitimate to the 200 people who handed over their money. A fake bank which was set up to look just like a real one has swindled Chinese savers out of 200m yuan ($32m; £21m), it's reported. To customers in the eastern city of Nanjing the interior looked like any other state-owned bank, with uniformed clerks... 

Vietnamese high school students and their families attend an international education fair on October 26, 2014 in Hanoi. Wearied by the rampant cheating, endless rote learning and mandatory Leninist ideology classes, Vietnam's middle-classes are fleeing the country's school system for overseas education. Every year, Vietnamese...