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Whistle-blower Edward Snowden last night accused the US government of destroying "any possibility of a fair trial" as he took questions in a live webchat organised by The Guardian newspaper.
It was only the second time Snowden had spoken since revealing himself as the man behind a series of leaks on US cybersurveillance and hacking operations.
The key man behind Shanghai's ambitious plan to develop the city into the world's leading financial centre by 2020 has been promoted to an elite economic team that may help the city speed up its...
The mainland's four-year-old Food Safety Law is set for a major amendment this year that will increase penalties.
A young television anchor who exposed a philandering State Archives Administration official, has accused the Communist Party's General Office, where the man previously worked, of trying to cover...
Three youths have been charged and detained in France over a racist attack on six Chinese students in the European nation's wine-making region that has been condemned by both Beijing and Paris,...
He had already missed three court appearances and tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung made it four yesterday, preferring lunch at his favourite restaurant in Wan Chai to Macau's Court of First Instance....
Three recent news stories conjure up a messy picture of the mainland's rule of law. Liu Hui, brother-in-law of jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, received an 11-year jail term on June 9 after...
Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng , whose dramatic escape from house arrest to the US embassy in Beijing last year sparked a diplomatic crisis, has accused New York University of ending his...
Air pollution from 196 coal-fired power stations in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei caused 9,900 premature deaths in 2011, with the province, a big coal consumer, deserving most of the blame, according...
Organisers of activities celebrating the handover anniversary aim to turn July 1 into a shopping day with special deals at 1,000 shops and restaurants - sparking accusations that it is aimed at...
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29-year-old American Edward Snowden, a contract employee at the National Security Agency, is the whistleblower behind significant revelations that surfaced in June 2013 about the US government's...
From poisonous rice to melamine-infused milk, reports of tainted food are a regular occurrence in China. Just last month, farmers in Shandong province were found to be using an illegal and highly...
At a casual glance, a fish stored in Rebecca Lee Lok-sze's home could be a typical Hong Kong salted variety.
But it's actually preserved in formalin and comes from Antarctica.
From public housing to luxury houses on The Peak, flat inspector Tsim Chai-nam has seen it all. And he has found one thing many homeowners have in common: the urge to rip out furnishings provided...
Professional letter writers were once a common sight on Hong Kong’s streets, but today only a few survive. In the latest episode of our Uniquely Hong Kong series, we talk to Pun Tse-ching about...
In this latest episode of our Uniquely Hong Kong series, a traditional rice shop owner laments how his business is declining in changing times, but argues it still has a vital role to play
He had already missed three court appearances and tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung made it four yesterday, preferring lunch at his favourite restaurant in Wan Chai to Macau's Court of First Instance....
Organisers of activities celebrating the handover anniversary aim to turn July 1 into a shopping day with special deals at 1,000 shops and restaurants - sparking accusations that it is aimed at...
Lingnan University students say they may boycott classes after a former adviser to Leung Chun-ying's election campaign was named as the university's new president without the students having a say...
Most supporters of a controversial plan to develop three new towns in the northeastern New Territories say the government should take cultural and ecological concerns into account, a Chinese...
"In case of emergency, break window to escape", bus riders in a Hubei city are told - except they will not have the little hammers to break the glass.
The key man behind Shanghai's ambitious plan to develop the city into the world's leading financial centre by 2020 has been promoted to an elite economic team that may help the city speed up its...
The national soccer team's embarrassing home defeat to Thailand at the weekend has raised questions about the sorry state of the sport in China, which counts President Xi Jinping as one of its...
China would hold talks with North Korea tomorrow, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday, after Pyongyang offered high-level negotiations with the United States to ease tension on the Korean...
Australia’s coastal Wyong region outside Sydney, a pretty stretch of pristine beaches and wildlife-filled wetlands, isn’t high on the travel agenda of most Chinese tourists.
President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview and called them transparent — even though they are authorised in secret.
The late Steve Jobs has taken centre stage in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks.
As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police...
Starboard Value has revealed a major stake in Smithfield Foods and urged the world’s largest pork producer to explore a breakup rather than a planned US$4.7 billion takeover by Chinese meat...
The late Steve Jobs has taken centre stage in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks.
A group of companies controlled by Li Ka-shing is buying Dutch waste management firm AVR Afvalverwerking for HK$9.7 billion, Li's second investment in a waste treatment firm this year.
Ebay will become the first foreign company to secure a financial payments licence in China, chief executive John Donahoe predicted, but the retailer is refraining from competing in the more...
Advanced Business Park (ABP), a private Chinese developer, wants overseas funding for its £1 billion (HK$12.2 billion) project that will transform east London's Royal Albert Dock into an Asia...
Twenty-five years ago, Japan's Seto Inland Sea was little more than a series of deforested islands that had been ruined by unchecked industrialisation and illegal waste dumping.
It's a quiet Tuesday night, but Dim Sum Labs - a workspace shared by a motley crowd of tinkerers - is a hive of activity. Located in a nondescript building in Sheung Wan, the small room is taken...
The strangeness of English Schools Foundation teacher Chris Taylor's quest to visit every mainland province dawned on him as he sat down on a bench in a town square in Ningxia - an obscure...
It’s a timely coincidence. Diet is the leading risk factor for premature death on the mainland, accounting for one in three deaths in 2010, according to the study published in The Lancet.
It's morning assembly, and Form One students at Pui Ching Middle School, have their iPads ready. It's the same story in their English and Chinese classes.
Hong Kong has been judged to have one of the best education systems in the world. In international assessments, such as the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment, our students come...
Fans of juice fasting claim that drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices for three days is the trick to giving the body a good spring clean.
Women's prison workshops across Italy are joining up under a new commercial fashion brand they hope will help encourage more detainees to learn the trade and give them hope for a future on the...
After a touching salute to his late father, a teary victory call to his mother in England and the kiss of the silver trophy, Justin Rose treasured the validation of winning the US Open for his...
The national soccer team's embarrassing home defeat to Thailand at the weekend has raised questions about the sorry state of the sport in China, which counts President Xi Jinping as one of its...
The government's long-term plan to sustain elite sport has kicked in with a massive HK$325 million in investment returns from the HK$7 billion Elite Athletes Development Fund (EADF) being handed...
Advanced Business Park (ABP), a private Chinese developer, wants overseas funding for its £1 billion (HK$12.2 billion) project that will transform east London's Royal Albert Dock into an Asia...
The central government could extend the trial property tax, first introduced in Shanghai and Chongqing two years ago, to more cities, the National Development and Reform Commission indicated last...
It seems that when it comes to the problems of the housing market, the government's left hand does not know what its right hand is doing. Otherwise the measures taken to try to solve the market's...
The late Steve Jobs has taken centre stage in the latest twist in the Apple antitrust trial on ebooks.
Ebay will become the first foreign company to secure a financial payments licence in China, chief executive John Donahoe predicted, but the retailer is refraining from competing in the more...
It's a quiet Tuesday night, but Dim Sum Labs - a workspace shared by a motley crowd of tinkerers - is a hive of activity. Located in a nondescript building in Sheung Wan, the small room is taken...
In Tuesday’s Business section, the Monitor column on the back page decided to pick a fight with the front page’s Jake’s View.
Reporters Victoria Ruan and Celine Sun spoke to senior executives and observers from several countries on the sidelines of this month's Boao Forum. Many believe China will maintain its rapid...
Housing was the dominant theme of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's maiden policy address last month. His plans include rezoning green-belt land, reclamation outside Victoria Harbour and stepping...
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