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| California court revives suit claiming woman frozen alive in morgue Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 06:09 PM PDT By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California appeals court has revived a malpractice suit brought by the family of an 80-year-old grandmother they claim was prematurely declared dead by doctors then frozen alive inside a body bag in the hospital's morgue. A lower-court judge had dismissed the lawsuit brought in May 2012 by relatives of Maria de Jesus Arroyo against White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles over the woman's 2010 death, on grounds that the statute of limitations had lapsed. But a three-judge panel of a state appeals court sided with the family on Wednesday in agreeing they could not have known how Arroyo was alleged to have died until it was brought to light by a pathologist in an expert opinion he gave in December 2011. Full Story | Top |
| Scores fall sick at Cambodian garment factories Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 07:36 AM PDT  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Scores of garment workers have fallen sick this week at factories in Cambodia, including two that produce clothing for sportswear groups Puma SE and Adidas, workers and the companies said on Thursday. A total of 118 employees passed out at work on Thursday at the Shen Zhou and Daqian Textile factories in Phnom Penh, police said, another blow for an industry fraught with disputes but critical to Cambodia's economy. Garment manufacturing earns Cambodia more than $5 billion a year in revenue and employs some 600,000 people, many of them breadwinners for impoverished families in the countryside. "It was hot and I began to vomit, I had diarrhea and others had the same problems," said Nguon Sarith, 30, who was hooked up to an intravenous drip at a hospital in the capital. Full Story | Top |
| British Prince George's first tour stifles Australia/NZ republicans Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 04:37 AM PDT  By Belinda Goldsmith and Thuy Ong LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) - He may still be in nappies but Prince George embarks on his first official tour this weekend as Britain's younger royals ride a wave of popularity that is expected to dampen republican movements in Australia and New Zealand. The eight-month-old prince, third-in-line to the British throne, will accompany his parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on a three-week tour of the two former British colonies. His first official event is expected to be at a parent and baby group on April 9 at Government House in Wellington, the New Zealand capital, the residence where his father, Prince William, crawled for the first time during a royal tour in 1983. Queen Elizabeth, who turns 88 this month, is scaling back her workload and the younger royals - William and his party-loving brother Harry - are taking on more duties as is their father and heir apparent Prince Charles. Full Story | Top |
| Chinese Buddhist temple forms "anti-terrorist" squad Thursday, Apr 03, 2014 04:27 AM PDT Nervous about a repeat of last month's deadly knife attack at a Chinese train station, a well-known Buddhist temple in eastern China has drafted some of its monks into a new "anti-terrorist" squad, state media said on Thursday. The team at the 1,700-year-old Lingyin Temple in the tourist city of Hangzhou is made up of 20 monks and more than 20 security guards, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the temple's Buddhist Master Jueheng as saying. It is the first time a Chinese temple has set up such a team, Xinhua said. "The squad members practice Buddhism in the day and take part in training exercises at night," Jueheng said, adding police helped with the training. Full Story | Top |
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