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Mainland business authorities are investigating Microsoft, the US technology giant confirmed yesterday, with reports that the focus was on antitrust behaviour.
Tuesday, 29 July, 2014, 9:31am 16 comments More on MicrosoftUS federal immigration officials released Asian gambling kingpin from custody on Monday in latest twist to saga around alleged leading member of Hong Kong’s 14K triad.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:07pmA United States-based meat supplier whose Shanghai subsidiary is at the centre of a food safety scandal has promised sweeping changes to its management structure.
29 Jul 2014 - 8:27am 2 comments More on China Food ScandalsDeteriorating security in Syria and Iraq poses a severe risk to China, with the two countries becoming a training ground for "terrorists" from Xinjiang, a senior Chinese diplomat said.
29 Jul 2014 - 8:36amUkraine said its troops had taken more territory from pro-Russian rebels near the site where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:53am 2 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Alarm has risen further in west Africa over the deadliest outbreak yet of the Ebola virus, with a top Liberian doctor succumbing to the disease, and an American doctor and a missionary in the country contracting it.
29 Jul 2014 - 10:40am 1 commentUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that the obstacle to ending fighting between Israel, Islamist Hamas militants and Palestinians in Gaza Strip was “political will.”
29 Jul 2014 - 11:47am 2 commentsInventor hopes fleet of automated boats will one day patrol the oceans, performing clean-up and data-collection tasks, such as radioactivity sensing, coral reef imaging and fish counting.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:06pm 1 comment More on LIFEEight Chinese airports won't allow landings this afternoon due to PLA exercises in East China Sea, with capacity at Shanghai’s two airports cut by 75 per cent, mainland’s civilian air traffic authority warns.
29 Jul 2014 - 12:16pmA San Francisco-based cybersecurity expert claims he has hacked and taken control of hundreds of highly automated rooms at a five-star Shenzhen hotel.
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Thomas Yasuda says its time for Hong Kong's business community to set aside self-interest and political detachment, and to support the public by standing up for democracy.
29 Jul 2014 - 2:05am 8 commentsOn Hainan Island, a fishing boat captain has one hi-tech piece of equipment: a navigation system that gives him a direct link to the Chinese coastguard should he run into bad weather or a Philippine or Vietnamese patrol ship when he's fishing in the disputed South China Sea.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:43amJust over 60 minibus drivers are today protesting against the planned Occupy Central sit-in, by staging a sit-in on busy Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:14pm 2 comments More on Occupy CentralGuests invited to a preview event at Jamie Oliver’s first Hong Kong restaurant were left starving after the celebrity chef’s team provided very little to eat.
29 Jul 2014 - 12:08pm 2 commentsEight Chinese airports won't allow landings this afternoon due to PLA exercises in East China Sea, with capacity at Shanghai’s two airports cut by 75 per cent, mainland’s civilian air traffic authority warns.
29 Jul 2014 - 12:16pmMainland business authorities are investigating Microsoft, the US technology giant confirmed yesterday, with reports that the focus was on antitrust behaviour.
29 Jul 2014 - 9:31am 16 comments More on MicrosoftFireworks danced across the sky in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night, ahead of yesterday's Hari Raya Puasa holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
28 Jul 2014 - 11:27pm More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Abu Sayyaf gunmen attacked Filipinos travelling to celebrate the end of Ramadan with their families yesterday, killing 19, including five children, in a brazen attack that was the bloodiest in recent years by the militant group, police and the military said.
28 Jul 2014 - 11:19pmUS federal immigration officials released Asian gambling kingpin from custody on Monday in latest twist to saga around alleged leading member of Hong Kong’s 14K triad.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:07pmUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that the obstacle to ending fighting between Israel, Islamist Hamas militants and Palestinians in Gaza Strip was “political will.”
29 Jul 2014 - 11:47am 2 commentsConcern about the ability of markets to provide income equity for the least able members of the work force has given the minimum wage its strong social appeal.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:13pmTight supply and stricter vehicle pollution control standards on the mainland will continue to be key drivers of higher prices of palladium this year and next year, even as the industrial metal’s price reached a 13-year peak, analysts say.
29 Jul 2014 - 10:58amWhile higher duties on property purchases in Hong Kong have scared off affluent mainland buyers, the demand for flats for rental for their children studying in the city remains unchanged.
29 Jul 2014 - 12:54am 2 commentsPremier Li Keqiang is pinning hopes on a programme he initiated a decade ago to ensure the target of 7.5 per cent economic growth is reached this year, but economists are worried.
28 Jul 2014 - 6:29amAfter more than two centuries, Mozart's Requiem still deeply engrosses audiences, and this Hong Kong Sinfonietta concert was no exception.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:20am More on LIFETattooed on the left forearm of chef Bruno Menard are three Michelin stars, an indelible souvenir of his culinary achievement at L'Osier, a restaurant opened by cosmetics maker Shiseido in Tokyo.
25 Jul 2014 - 1:49amInventor hopes fleet of automated boats will one day patrol the oceans, performing clean-up and data-collection tasks, such as radioactivity sensing, coral reef imaging and fish counting.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:06pm 1 comment More on LIFEIn India, when it comes to class and cuisine, food is as divisive as it is defining
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The estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling can proceed with the record US$2 billion sale of the NBA team despite her husband’s objections, a judge ruled on Monday, in a likely close to a case of lingering racism in American sports.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:01amThree-time Sydney champion Nash Rawiller will join the riding ranks for a four-month-stint in Hong Kong from September 21.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:40amAs new genre of caste-based cookbooks reveals, India's culinary customs not only denote class and region, but symbolise faith, dictate who you marry and can be a barrier to social mobility.
27 Jul 2014 - 5:48pm 6 commentsThousands of people saw their life savings wiped out when the "low-risk" fund into which they had put their nest eggs imploded last year. Benjamin Robertson looks into the murky world of LM Investment Management and what its collapse should signal to the investing public.
27 Jul 2014 - 12:05am 6 commentsA selection of the best photos from rugby sevens action at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Bangladeshi Muslims scramble for space on the roof of an overcrowded train to head hone in Dhaka, while a couple sit on a bench as they look at a parascending in Nice, and more ...
China has built up a reputation for taking on ambitious civil engineering projects in some of the most dramatic and beautiful scenery in the country.
Fields of gold - A woman walks through a maze of bright yellow blooms covering a field during a three - day sunflower festival in the town of Nogi, Tochigi prefecture, a mother and daughter cross a
The forests of southwest China are among the safest and most hospitable places on earth … for elephants.
Bangladeshi Muslims scramble for space on the roof of an overcrowded train to head
China has built up a reputation for taking on ambitious civil engineering projects
Fields of gold - A woman walks through a maze of bright yellow blooms covering a f
The forests of southwest China are among the safest and most hospitable places on
