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South Korean prosecutors sought arrest warrants on Friday for the captain and two crew members of the ferry that capsized with hundreds of children on board, as a rescued school vice principal dies in an apparent suicide.
Friday, 18 April, 2014, 9:45pm More on South Korea ferry disasterThe government has raised new fears over the safety of the mainland’s home-grown food after admitting that nearly one-fifth of the nation’s soil – including 19.4 per cent of its crop-growing areas – is polluted
18 Apr 2014 - 3:32pm 2 commentsEmbattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has acknowledged “rocky moments over the past year”, but has vowed to fight harder than ever to win re-election at a rally he dubbed the official launch of his campaign.
18 Apr 2014 - 4:34pm 1 commentThe central government's top anti-corruption agency said yesterday it was investigating Song Lin, chairman of the state-owned conglomerate China Resources Holdings.
18 Apr 2014 - 12:24pm 2 comments More on China Resources (Holdings)One day, for no particular reason, Stephen Poon Wing-sing decided to run. Once the Hongkonger started, he just kept going, 40 kilometres a day for 27 consecutive days.
19 Apr 2014 - 2:56am 2 commentsWeibo Corp executives on Thursday toasted the Chinese social media firm’s debut at Nasdaq’s New York headquarters.
18 Apr 2014 - 6:55pm 1 commentChina sentences four activists to jail for up to three-and-a-half years for urging officials to reveal their assets, a lawyer says.
18 Apr 2014 - 6:34pm 3 commentsAn avalanche swept down a slope of Mount Everest on Friday killing 12 Nepali mountaineering guides at the beginning of the main climbing season, a Tourism Ministry official said.
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The government is planning to increase the plot ratio by 20 per cent or more in some densely populated areas such as Kai Tak and Tun Mun East, to boost housing supply.
19 Apr 2014 - 2:59am 1 commentLawyer Hao Junbo wants to make you rich if you're a whistle-blower after a bounty. But for big business on the mainland he's a headache - part of a small but fast-growing industry built around exposing corporate wrongdoing.
19 Apr 2014 - 3:46amMore than 21,000 patients had waited three years before receiving specialist treatment at the city's overburdened and understaffed public hospitals last year, with more than 1,000 waiting even longer.
19 Apr 2014 - 3:05am 1 commentThe government could directly import workers for infrastructure projects at the border, an official has revealed to the South China Morning Post.
19 Apr 2014 - 4:18am 1 comment More on MTRCThe PLA Daily yesterday published two full pages of speeches by 17 generals vowing allegiance to their commander-in-chief, President Xi Jinping, the third such campaign by the official military newspaper in the past six weeks.
19 Apr 2014 - 3:41am 1 commentScientists are researching whether so-called solar chimneys, which rise half a kilometre or even higher from the earth, might produce enough clean energy to help reduce the mainland's chronic air pollution.
19 Apr 2014 - 3:26amThe captain of a South Korean ferry that sank last week has been jailed and is facing five charges including negligence of duty and violation of maritime law, according to Yonhap News.
19 Apr 2014 - 5:04am More on South Korea ferry disasterThe vice principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of his pupils on what turned out to be a disastrous ferry trip has committed suicide, as hopes faded of finding any of the 268 missing passengers alive.
19 Apr 2014 - 1:21amArmed pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine said yesterday they were not bound by an international deal ordering them to disarm and would not move out of public buildings they had seized until the Kiev government stepped down.
19 Apr 2014 - 1:25amA recent spate of infections from a frequently deadly Middle East virus is raising new worries about efforts to contain the illness, with infectious disease experts urging greater vigilance in combatting its spread.
19 Apr 2014 - 1:48amSwiss bank UBS' internal investigation of one of its senior bankers is focusing on her relationship with the chief of state-owned China Resources, sources say.
19 Apr 2014 - 3:40amOlu Adeleke sees the coming weeks as a golden opportunity to shop in China, now that the yuan's protracted appreciation seems to have reversed in the past two months.
19 Apr 2014 - 12:40am 9 comments More on Canton FairHong Kong developers are aggressively pushing project launches on the four-day Easter break but sales momentum for larger units is showing signs of slowing.
19 Apr 2014 - 1:10amSweeteners were aplenty at the Beijing Spring Real Estate Trade Fair last week. But Zhao Xiao wasn't biting.
19 Apr 2014 - 12:46amGabriel Garcia Marquez was an enormous influence on a huge number of writers worldwide, in particular through his 1967 novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
18 Apr 2014 - 6:12pm 2 commentsWith the price of wholesale coffee set to surge as much as 20 per cent in the next few months, it's customers at cha chaan teng and speciality roasters who can expect to bear the brunt of any increases.
18 Apr 2014 - 8:34am More on LIFEThe prize is the panoramic curvature of the earth against the starry scenery of space, but passengers on the HK$550,000-per-ticket World View Experience trip to the edge of space won't have to keep the privileged view to themselves.
18 Apr 2014 - 8:26am More on LIFEThriller instinct: Nick Cheung and Dante Lam are a winning combination
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A young Pakistani is being mourned not only by his family but also by the close-knit Kwai Chung community whose hopes he carried on his shoulders
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Lewis Hamilton may have battled back on Friday to set the fastest time in the second practice, but all eyes were on Ferrari as the new principal took the helm for the Chinese Grand Prix.
18 Apr 2014 - 11:22pmLee Westwood surged four shots clear at the halfway stage of the European Tour's Malaysian Open on Friday after an eventful second round where Spain's Pablo Larrazabal was forced to dive into a lake to avoid a swarm of hornets.
18 Apr 2014 - 10:34pmErnesto Spicciolato emerges from the mist and drags his kayak up onto the shore in the otherwise empty Hap Mun bay on what has turned out to be one of the foggiest days of the year – the zero visibility adds to the sense of utter remoteness, though we’re actually only a 15-minute ride away from Sai Kung pier.
15 Apr 2014 - 8:55amTODAY REPRESENTS an important career milestone for Tsui Tin-yau, the singer-songwriter, film actor, mystery novel writer, and Aaron Kwok Fu-shing doppelganger whenever he knits his eyebrows.
15 Apr 2014 - 8:55amThe pro-Russian activists occupying state institutions in eastern Ukraine said they will not heed an ultimatum by the government in Kiev.
Iranian army troops march in a parade,while the Duchess of Cambridge visits with young lifesavers at Sydney's Manly Beach, and more ...
Subdivided flats are clearly not just a Hong Kong phenomenon. In New York, photographer Annie Ling has captured the lives of people living in tiny cubicles in Manhattan's Chinatown.
US President Barack Obama joins Vice-President Joe Biden for the first “selfie” of Biden’s new Instagram account, a large pink 'Duerer Rabbit' sculpture is lifted at the top of the Albertina-wing i
From pollution to a factory fire, to sports and scenes from everyday life on the mainland, here are the striking images taken by Chinese photographers that won awards at the annual China Internatio
The pro-Russian activists occupying state institutions in eastern Ukraine said the
Iranian army troops march in a parade,while the Duchess of Cambridge visits with y
US President Barack Obama joins Vice-President Joe Biden for the first “selfie” of
From pollution to a factory fire, to sports and scenes from everyday life on the m
