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Editor's Pick
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...
11:05PM
Insight
Since Edward Snowden first broke cover in Hong Kong, many people have been puzzled about his choice of this city to take on the US government. Despite being wedded to the rule of law and having...
1:26AM
Celebrating Hong Kong
Heartbeat of Hong Kong
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.
8:56AM
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...
5:02AM
Uniquely Hong Kong
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...
6:10PM
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
6:11PM
Hong Kong
Two Hong Kong bands are facing calls to boycott a music festival on July 1 amid criticism from pro-democracy march internet users who say the festival is aimed at drawing participants from the...
9:17PM
Pear-shaped and flawless, the China Star Diamond is said to be “the largest and most perfect briolette diamond” ever to be auctioned, according to Christie’s Asia.
4:33PM
Lingnan University council chairman Bernard Chan on Tuesday rejected students’ request for an open "one-man-one-vote" election to elect their president.
6:47PM
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....
8:30AM
China
A Communist Party magazine published a commentary against internet users on Monday - saying they were disseminating false information. It is the latest in a series of state press editorials...
3:11AM
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for high-level talks with Chinese officials on North Korea, Syria and other issues, his spokesman said.
5:21PM
China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, was set on Tuesday to launch its first carbon trading scheme aimed at reducing emissions, state media said.
5:05PM
Charges by a top activist that New York University dismissed him due to Chinese influence have added fuel to concerns over Beijing’s educational clout which critics say hurts US academic freedom...
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Asia
In a lonely corner of the Pacific, 1,740 kilometres south of Tokyo, a tiny but potentially crucial piece of Japanese territory is now rising from the waves.
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World
G8 leaders yesterday threw their weight behind calls for a peace conference on Syria to be held in Geneva "as soon as possible" and agreed to measures to tackle tax evasion.
Updated 4:48AM
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that China has understood his “blunt” warnings against cyber-hacking as he credited new leader Xi Jinping with accepting more global responsibility for...
5:30PM
US President Barack Obama and former national security contractor Edward Snowden are mounting public relations campaigns over a classified US surveillance programme leaked by the latter. Obama...
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Business
Sluggish industrial activity on the mainland and cooling external demand curbed foreign investment inflows last month but property prices continued to rise. The situation may force policymakers to...
3:50AM
Beijing is on its way to lifting an eight-month suspension of new share offerings, in a move that may open the floodgates for a fundraising spree by cash-hungry companies on the mainland and gnaw...
3:47AM
Publishing group Sing Tao News was recently in talks as part of a syndicate to acquire the Hong Kong businesses of Swedish free paper publisher Metro International, it said in a filing with the...
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The Australian dollar might fall further as export prices eased, the country's central bank said, as it repeated that it had room to cut interest rates again, according to minutes of its June 4...
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Mainland shoppers are swiping more cards and using less cash in a trend that is luring more providers into the burgeoning mobile payment market. Among the new players is a company called QFPay, a...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Sport
Asian football powerhouses Iran, South Korea and Australia reached the 2014 World Cup, but Uzbekistan narrowly failed to book their place on a dramatic night of action yesterday.
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Organisers are likely to replace the event, which began in Shanghai in 1993, with a competition for athletes aged 14 to 18.
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Australian rugby league was hit with a second off-field scandal in as many days yesterday as Rabbitohs forward George Burgess was suspended after being charged with wilful damage of property.
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Property
Hong Kong luxury homes may lose their mantle as the most expensive in the world as measures aimed at curbing property prices begin to bite this year.
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Swedish boutique developer Helen Lindman is on a mission - to help preserve Hong Kong's built heritage and show by example that old can be both beautiful and profitable as she builds a portfolio...
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Bidding closes on Friday for two residential sites, in Tseung Kwan O and Tuen Mun. The plots are expected to generate about HK$4 billion in revenue for the government.
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Technology
Mainland shoppers are swiping more cards and using less cash in a trend that is luring more providers into the burgeoning mobile payment market. Among the new players is a company called QFPay, a...
Updated 4:40AM
China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse.
2:54PM
Longer-lasting batteries are crucial for a new crop of wearable computers whose rise may upend Apple and Google’s dominance of mobile devices, two of the field’s pioneers say.
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Debates
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.
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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...
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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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Video
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In Pictures
Drawing a crowd - Out of the pages of comic books and into the Convention and Exhibition Centre … Marvel Comics' Iron Man and Manga hero Eren Yeager made a special appearance yesterday to remind fans that Hong Kong's 15th Ani-Com and Games fair will be held from July 26 to 30. About 700,000 comic lovers are expected to show up … in various guises. Photo: David Wong
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