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  • March 10, 2014
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Oil slick spotted by rescuers ‘not from missing Malaysia Airlines flight’, tests reveal

Update

An oil slick spotted by the Vietnamese air force did not come from the burst tanks of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, tests revealed on Monday night. As yet another sighting of suspected crash debris proved to be a false lead, rescuers remained in the dark as to the fate of the passenger jet and the 239 people on board, which has been missing for almost three days.

Monday, 10 March, 2014, 9:28pm 3 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Malaysia Airlines has previous conviction for 'falsifying passport details to allow passenger on board'

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Malaysia Airlines was convicted two years ago for boarding a passenger against the wishes of a foreign government by falsifying passport identity records, it has emerged, and was also prosecuted for a similar incident in 2007.

10 Mar 2014 - 4:22pm More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Two more Chinese warships to join massive search for missing Malaysian Airlines plane

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Beijing has sent two more advanced warships to waters between Malaysia and Vietnam where the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 may have crashed, in what Chinese media have described as the largest Chinese presence in any international maritime search and rescue operation.

10 Mar 2014 - 1:01pm More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Russia's war of words with US over Crimea spills onto Chinese social media

Russia’s war of words with the United States over the Crimea crisis is set to spread to China’s social networks after the Russian embassy in China mounted a series of fierce accusations against the US government.

10 Mar 2014 - 6:50pm

Kim Jong-un’s little sister revealed to the world in ‘election day’ stunt

The younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made an official debut of sorts, consolidating the grip on power of the ruling Kim dynasty’s third generation.

10 Mar 2014 - 4:25pm 3 comments More on Kim Jong-un

Be careful with that! Caravaggio masterpiece worth HK$640 million is unpacked in Hong Kong

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Caravaggio’s master work Supper at Emmaus was unpacked on Monday morning ready to wow Hong Kong's art lovers. The painting will go on display in the city on March 12.

10 Mar 2014 - 6:23pm 1 comment

Warning of ‘possible terrorist attack on China’ received by Taiwan days before Malaysia Airlines jet vanished

Update

Taiwan’s spy chief revealed on Monday that the island’s security officials had last week received a warning of possible terrorist attacks in China. National Security Bureau chief Tsai De-sheng told a legislative committee on Monday that the agency had passed on a warning of planned attacks on Beijing airport and the city’s subway system to Chinese authorities, after receiving it on March 4.

10 Mar 2014 - 9:31pm 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

China urges Malaysia to step up search for missing passenger plane as families grow impatient

China on Monday night urged Malaysia to step up the search for a missing passenger plane, as it sent security agents to assist with an investigation into stolen passports.

10 Mar 2014 - 6:39pm 19 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Canadian court victory for group of Chinese migration applicants

10 Mar 2014 - 10:15am 7 comments

Web tribute page lauds MH370 captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah

10 Mar 2014 - 6:05pm 1 comment

Powerful 6.9 earthquake strikes off California coast, no damage reported

10 Mar 2014 - 6:11pm

'Parody' protesters march to urge mainlanders to 'reignite their patriotism... and shop at home'

10 Mar 2014 - 11:15am 23 comments

US lasers? PLA preparing to raise its deflector shields

10 Mar 2014 - 4:37am 3 comments

North Koreans vote in parliament 'election' that may offer clues to shifts in power

10 Mar 2014 - 10:32am 1 comment

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Editor's Pick

Taiwan must look beyond Korea to draw up its economic road map

Latent economic anxiety typically manifests itself in strange ways. The broadcast of the Korean television drama, My Love from the Star, which tells of an alien who came to earth and fell in love with an actress, is a case in point.

10 Mar 2014 - 2:47am

Today's Poll

Should Malaysia overhaul its airport security system after the discovery of MH370 passengers with fake passports?
  • Yes: 91%
  • No: 9%
10 Mar 2014
  • Yes
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Total number of votes recorded: 417

Opinion

George Chen George Chen

Hong Kong should not be a dumping ground for middling IPOs

10 Mar 2014 - 10:18am 5 comments
Tammy Tam Tammy Tam

Zhang Dejiang gives political warriors plenty to chew on

10 Mar 2014 - 9:14am 1 comment
Wang Xiangwei Wang Xiangwei

Central government must prove 'war on smog' not just hot air

10 Mar 2014 - 3:26am
Alex Lo Alex Lo

China's parliament a billionaires' club

10 Mar 2014 - 2:47am 11 comments

Insight

What exchange rate policy?

JOE ZHANG

Analysts have built entire careers analysing and re-analysing China and its economy.

They make predictions, get proven wrong and move on to the next topic.

10 Mar 2014 - 12:54pm 5 comments

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Focus

Stricken tsunami city of Minamisoma searches for its lost youth

KRISTINE KWOK

For Tokyoki Matsuno, a lifetime as a fisherman in Minamisoma was turned upside down when a monstrous tsunami swamped his home and boat on March 11, 2011. Like many who have committed their whole lives to this devastated town, 72-year-old Matsuno refuses to leave, although he risks harm from nuclear radiation.

10 Mar 2014 - 8:46am

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10 Mar 2014

Hong Kong

Planned rally to urge for crackdown on bid-rigging in renovation projects

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Flat owners say bill rigging in building maintenance and renovation is so widespread in Hong Kong that they fear there will be no honest market player left soon as many housing estates built in the 1980s need renovating.

10 Mar 2014 - 7:34pm

'My waist bones blocked the knife': Kevin Lau says his attacker showed no mercy

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The ex-chief editor of the Ming Pao Daily newspaper, who is recovering from six stab wounds that left him close to death, said Monday that he had not been shown mercy by his attacker and dismissed doctors' suggestions that the attack was meant as a warning.

10 Mar 2014 - 6:09pm
EDUCATION

Students and teachers urge town planning board to support plan for Chinese medicine teaching hospital

10 Mar 2014

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China

XINJIANG

Uygur Aids activist arrested for ‘threatening national security’

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An ethnic-Uygur Aids activist from Xinjiang was arrested for allegedly “threatening national security” on the same day as the outspoken Uygur academic Ilham Tohti was taken away by the police.

10 Mar 2014 - 6:04pm More on Xinjiang
AVIAN FLU

China bird flu deaths reach 72 this year, says government

A total of 72 people died from the H7N9 bird flu strain in China in the first two months of this year, government figures showed, far more than in the whole of last year.

10 Mar 2014 - 2:40pm
SECURITY

Anti-terrorism measures ‘in place’ ahead of Beijing Apec summit

10 Mar 2014

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Asia

Warning of ‘possible terrorist attack on China’ received by Taiwan days before Malaysia Airlines jet vanished

Update

Taiwan’s spy chief revealed on Monday that the island’s security officials had last week received a warning of possible terrorist attacks in China. National Security Bureau chief Tsai De-sheng told a legislative committee on Monday that the agency had passed on a warning of planned attacks on Beijing airport and the city’s subway system to Chinese authorities, after receiving it on March 4.

10 Mar 2014 - 9:31pm 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370
AVIATION

China urges Malaysia to step up search for missing passenger plane as families grow impatient

China on Monday night urged Malaysia to step up the search for a missing passenger plane, as it sent security agents to assist with an investigation into stolen passports.

10 Mar 2014 - 6:39pm 19 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370
AVIATION

Unanswered questions behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370

10 Mar 2014

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World

ART

Italians angry over advert image of Michelangelo’s David holding rifle

In 1527 his arm was smashed by rioters. In 1991 a man attacked his toe with a hammer. Now, however, Michelangelo's David has suffered arguably his greatest indignity to date.

10 Mar 2014 - 9:48pm
SOUTH AFRICA

Prosecutor moves to bar broadcasting of 'graphic testimony' of autopsy expert in Pistorius trial

The chief prosecutor in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius on Monday asked the judge to bar broadcasting of what he says will be the graphic testimony of the expert who conducted the autopsy on Reeva Steenkamp, who was fatally shot by her athlete boyfriend.

10 Mar 2014 - 5:38pm
SYRIA

Syria army using starvation as ‘weapon of war’, say Amnesty

10 Mar 2014

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China Insider

Russia's war of words with US over Crimea spills onto Chinese social media

10 Mar 2014
CRIME

US language tutor jailed for 30 years for sexually exploiting children in China

10 Mar 2014 5 comments
EMIGRATION

China becomes top source of fresh immigrants moving to New Zealand

8 Mar 2014 2 comments
KUNMING ATTACK

Beijing police threaten action against microbloggers over Kunming attack comments

8 Mar 2014 2 comments
TENCENT

WeChat’s latest viral hit in China: health insurance

6 Mar 2014 2 comments
TIBET

Founder of Tibet’s Communist Party makes a final plea for Dalai Lama’s return

7 Mar 2014 3 comments
hoax

China’s Sohu falls for ‘Back to the Future’ hover board video hoax

6 Mar 2014
Hospitals

Nurse paralysed as shocking hospital attack by Nanjing official is caught on camera

6 Mar 2014
DISCRIMINATION

Police apologise for evicting innocent Uygur man after Kunming terror attack

10 Mar 2014 1 comment
POLITICS

No more Chanel or Emilio Pucci for princeling Li Xiaolin at congress meeting, but critics unimpressed

5 Mar 2014 3 comments
DIPLOMACY

Germany refuses Xi Jinping's request to visit Holocaust memorial sites during tour of Europe

5 Mar 2014 9 comments
NPC

Disturbance and smoke in Tiananmen Square amid tight security for NPC meeting

5 Mar 2014
MEDIA

US calls Kunming attack ‘act of terrorism’ amid accusations of bias in Western media reporting

5 Mar 2014 4 comments
KUNMING ATTACK

Chinese police rush to dispel rumours of more attacks in wake of Kunming massacre

4 Mar 2014 1 comment

Business

LISTINGS

Chinese brokerage drops plans for Shanghai IPO in favour of Hong Kong

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After two years, Central China Securities has scrapped its plans for an initial public offering in Shanghai, as the mainland brokerage believes it will be easier and quicker to raise up to US$400 million in Hong Kong.

10 Mar 2014 - 2:16pm More on IPO
CURRENCIES

What exchange rate policy?

Analysts have built entire careers analysing and re-analysing China and its economy.

They make predictions, get proven wrong and move on to the next topic.

10 Mar 2014 - 12:54pm 5 comments More on Yuan

Markets

Doug Young Doug Young

Weibo: Baidu, Xiaomi, TCL leaders strut at NPC

10 Mar 2014 - 2:17pm

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Property

MACAU

When homebuyers get a free car

What does it tell you when developers give away a car with each purchase of a home?

The obvious answer: competition for customers is getting tough in the face of a cooling market.

10 Mar 2014 - 11:08am More on Macau Property
PROPERTY

Dark clouds over Hong Kong's property market as 'perfect storm' looms

Hong Kong's housing market faces being caught in the middle of a perfect storm, with government curbs having crimped demand at a time of increasing supply and an imminent interest rate rise threatening to set off a severe price correction.

10 Mar 2014 - 10:23am 9 comments
PROPERTY

China's developers shrug off earnings risks from yuan depreciation

10 Mar 2014

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Lifestyle

Arts & Culture

Review: Grandad Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones on fire in front of star-studded Macau crowd

The Rolling Stones showed a sold-out, celebrity-studded crowd in Macau’s Cotai arena last night why they can still claim to be the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band.

10 Mar 2014 - 9:24am 4 comments

Elements mall has sights set on becoming a go-to place for gourmets

10 Mar 2014

French director tackles sex and the teenager

9 Mar 2014
Food & Wine

Elements mall has sights set on becoming a go-to place for gourmets

Civic Square, the alfresco dining space on the roof of Elements mall, didn't get off to an auspicious start. Besides having to overcome the relative isolation of its location in West Kowloon, the timing of its opening was also unfortunate.

10 Mar 2014 - 4:36pm More on LIFE

Taking 'food porn' photos in Hong Kong is so popular even the chefs are doing it

7 Mar 2014 1 comment

Top chefs are taking to the high seas

7 Mar 2014
Technology

Extreme weather may be wake-up call for world, UN climate chief says

Devastating extreme weather, including recent flooding in England, Australia's hottest year on record and the US being hit by a polar vortex have a "silver lining". It boosts global warming to the highest level of politics and reminds politicians that climate change is not a partisan issue, according to the UN's climate chief.

9 Mar 2014 - 4:02am 3 comments

Rising seas may threaten one-fifth of world heritage sites, say scientists

9 Mar 2014 1 comment

Technology has slashed CLP power generation emissions since 1990

9 Mar 2014 1 comment
Fashion

Christina Zeller revives traditional Belgian bag company Delvaux

10 Mar 2014

A Chanel supermarket and dancing models end Paris Fashion Week

10 Mar 2014
Books

Thrills and a history lesson in Hong Kong-based novel

9 Mar 2014

Memoir chronicles voyage of self-discovery by saviour of abandoned orphans

10 Mar 2014
Health

Cut down on your calorie intake and you might live to be 100

10 Mar 2014

Hits and myths: is excessive iron intake linked with cancer?

10 Mar 2014
Beauty

Beauty buzz

10 Mar 2014

Beauty brands turn to rare plants and precious materials to enhance luxury products

10 Mar 2014
Family & Education

Voluntary groups are reaching out to help HKDSE students cope with stress

10 Mar 2014

Reflections: why teachers make good role models for young people

10 Mar 2014
Interiors & Living

Celebrity interior designer Kelly Hoppen offers tips for the masses

7 Mar 2014

High-end US developers use valuable artworks to draw in potential buyers

5 Mar 2014

Magazines

Sport

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

English pair seeking European miracles

Arsenal and Manchester City face monumental tasks when they look to overturn 2-0 deficits in the second legs of their last-16 ties, against Bayern Munich and Barcelona respectively.

10 Mar 2014 - 8:41pm
CRICKET

Tight security for Hong Kong squad at World Twenty20 tournament

Hong Kong's cricketers have been warned not to leave the team hotel alone, or even in small groups, as organisers have thrown a massive security blanket around the major cities hosting the ICC World Twenty20, which starts on Sunday.

10 Mar 2014 - 9:42pm
BADMINTON

Third All-England trophy may be last one for Lee Chong Wei

10 Mar 2014

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Magazines

Let there be light: Will Caravaggio bring the Asia Society out of the shadows?

As Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus goes on show at the Asia Society, Fionnuala McHugh wonders whether the 1606 masterpiece will help bring the organisation to the fore.

10 Mar 2014 - 3:25pm

Baby Halder: domestic helper turned author

Married at 12, a mother at 13, Indian domestic helper Baby Halder, whose third book is about to be published, has come a long way from a life of abuse and destitution – not that you would know it, writes Amrit Dhillon.

10 Mar 2014 - 3:17pm

Making scents: saviours of the incense tree

8 Mar 2014

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Blogs

Happy Lucky Dragon Win Michael Cox

Master Size with an appropriate winner to bring up a milestone

Michael Cox 10 Mar 2014 - 7:03pm
Corporate China Doug Young

Weibo: Baidu, Xiaomi, TCL leaders strut at NPC

Doug Young 10 Mar 2014 - 2:17pm
As I see it Jason Y Ng

Movie Reviews: Three Oscar-nominated Best Pictures

Jason Y Ng 10 Mar 2014 - 2:58pm
Bikini body or bust SOFIA MITRA-THAKUR

Bikini Body or Bust: Week 2

SOFIA MITRA-THAKUR 10 Mar 2014 - 11:05am
Adventures in Alcohol Mischa Moselle

Yanking Jamie Oliver’s chain: Why chef's Hong Kong venture could actually work

Mischa Moselle 8 Mar 2014 - 12:36pm 11 comments
Happy Lucky Dragon Win Michael Cox

Are stewards rule enforcers or riding instructors?

Michael Cox 7 Mar 2014 - 1:06pm
Corporate China Doug Young

Canadian Solar, Chaori cast cloud over solar shares

Doug Young 6 Mar 2014 - 10:35am

In Pictures

Six Nations Championship, February 9

A selection of some of the best images from Sunday’s Six Nations match between England and Wales.

10 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 10

With the approach of spring, a woman and child find time to enjoy plum blossoms in Anhui, Indian sand artist Sudersan Pattnaik gives final touches on a sand sculpture with a message of prayers for

10 Mar 2014

Six Nations Championship, March 8

A selection of some of the best images from Six Nations action involving Ireland against Italy and Scotland against France.

9 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 8

Students at the Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Centre in Henan, Indian police detain a supporter of pro-independent group JKLF during a protest against the expulsion of Kashmiri students, and mor

8 Mar 2014

A blend of solemn ceremonies and clashes in Venezuela, March 7

Venezuela marked the first anniversary of Hugo Chavez's death with a military parade led by the President Nicolas Maduro.

7 Mar 2014
Sport

A selection of some of the best images from Sunday’s Six Nations match between Eng

10 Mar 2014
Photos

With the approach of spring, a woman and child find time to enjoy plum blossoms in

10 Mar 2014
Sport

A selection of some of the best images from Six Nations action involving Ireland a

10 Mar 2014
Photos

Students at the Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Centre in Henan, Indian police de

8 Mar 2014
News

Venezuela marked the first anniversary of Hugo Chavez's death with a military para

7 Mar 2014

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