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President Xi Jinping visited Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in Havana on Tuesday as he aims to expand investment in the fellow communist nation, his last stop on a four-country Latin American charm offensive.
Wednesday, 23 July, 2014, 11:15amShanghai authorities are investigating 22 restaurants and food distributors, including McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Papa Johns, Dicos and 7-Eleven, that have bought meat from Husi Food.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:21am 6 comments More on China Food ScandalsA city in Gansu province remained sealed off yesterday after the death of a local man from pneumonic plague last week.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:09amUncertainty hung over the Indonesian presidential election after Joko Widodo was declared the winner of the closely-fought race, after his rival Prabowo Subianto withdrew from the contest.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:29amLast month was the world's hottest June since records began in 1880, US government scientists said, as authorities warned that temperatures in southern China could top 40 degrees Celsius today.
23 Jul 2014 - 4:34am 2 commentsChina's involvement in Africa will face complications because Western nations are stepping up their military presence on the continent, Chinese think tank says.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:41am 3 commentsE-commerce giant said the background of investors mattered less to the company than the market, after The New York Times revealed political connections of some shareholders.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:39amWenzhou in Zhejiang province is known as China's Jerusalem. One million of the city's eight million legal residents are Christian. Huge crosses rise towards the sky on many of the city's more than 2,000 churches.
23 Jul 2014 - 9:55am 3 comments More on FocusTyphoon Matmo slammed into Taiwan on Wednesday with heavy rains and strong winds, shutting financial markets and schools, with at least one person killed and some damage reported.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:40amTwelve mainland airports, many of them among the busiest, will be hit by widespread delays until the middle of next month because of what are believed to be PLA military exercises.
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I was in Kuala Lumpur last weekend, where flags flew at half mast for the victims of flight MH17 and the key terms in the media coverage seemed to be "outrage" and "damning".
23 Jul 2014 - 4:09am 3 commentsWenzhou in Zhejiang province is known as China's Jerusalem. One million of the city's eight million legal residents are Christian. Huge crosses rise towards the sky on many of the city's more than 2,000 churches.
23 Jul 2014 - 9:55am 3 commentsAspects of both the business and the private lives of Jimmy Lai Chee-ying are outlined in files leaked to the media. They include a suspicious food poisoning incident and big businesses pulling ads from his newspaper, allegedly under political pressure.
23 Jul 2014 - 9:28amHundreds of records detailing millions of dollars in donations to pan-democrats by the Apple Daily's founder have been leaked to the media, a move the camp slammed as a 'smear campaign'.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:21am 69 comments More on Jimmy LaiTwelve mainland airports, many of them among the busiest, will be hit by widespread delays until the middle of next month because of what are believed to be PLA military exercises.
23 Jul 2014 - 9:57am 14 commentsChina's involvement in Africa will face complications because Western nations are stepping up their military presence on the continent, Chinese think tank says.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:41am 3 commentsUncertainty hung over the Indonesian presidential election after Joko Widodo was declared the winner of the closely-fought race, after his rival Prabowo Subianto withdrew from the contest.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:29amA badly decomposed body found surrounded by liquor bottles in an orchard last month was that of Yoo Byung-eun, the fugitive billionaire businessman blamed for April's South Korean ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people, police confirmed yesterday
22 Jul 2014 - 11:02pm 2 comments More on South Korea ferry disasterPresident Xi Jinping visited Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in Havana on Tuesday as he aims to expand investment in the fellow communist nation, his last stop on a four-country Latin American charm offensive.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:15amA no-fly area declared in eastern Ukraine after the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is a rare restriction shared with rogue states like North Korea, prompting some airlines to question whether rules for flights over war zones need tightening.
23 Jul 2014 - 1:27am 3 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Logistics are a fertile field for reform that would benefit the trading economies in the Asia-Pacific.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:45amIt’s really simple – if you are going to claim credit for things going well on your watch, you obviously need to accept blame for when things are not going so well.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:08amSwire Properties has presold at record prices more than 40 per cent of the first residential tower at its large mixed-use project in Miami, Florida, as Chinese buyers lead a surge in foreign purchases of homes in the United States.
23 Jul 2014 - 5:27am More on Swire PropertiesWhile the government seeks more land across the city to meet its ultimate target of 470,000 more homes within a decade, architect Bryant Lu says Hong Kong urgently needs an urban master plan.
23 Jul 2014 - 1:52amA decade after their creation, the jury is still out on Cyberport and Science Park, both huge projects underpinned by property development, writes Charley Lanyon.
22 Jul 2014 - 11:14am 8 comments More on LIFESitting on a plastic stool, head bowed over a bowl of noodles listening to people chat, laugh and smoke - you can't get a more down-to-earth Hong Kong experience than that.
21 Jul 2014 - 5:24pm More on LIFELike a well-trained dog, the HEXO+ follows you faithfully wherever you go. But it doesn't walk besides you - it's airborne.
20 Jul 2014 - 3:54amSir Kai Ho Kai was a colossal public figure, so how did we forget him?
Delhi’s vibrant colony of artists and street performers is under threat from the modern world
An organic farming commune in Hebei is going back to the roots of Maoist thought
The cast of Downton Abbey come to the aid of Guangxi’s moon bears
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
The personal touch is what attracts diners to small, cosy restaurants
A week after finishing the World Cup as the tournament’s top scorer with six goals, Colombia forward James Rodriguez signed a six-year deal with Real Madrid on Tuesday.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:47am
Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Douglas Costa said he and his fellow players who refused to return to the Ukrainian champions did so because the conflict in the country puts their lives at risk.
23 Jul 2014 - 12:32amA Legco stalwart and mentor to Sun Yat-sen, Sir Kai Ho Kai wielded huge influence in Hong Kong at the turn of the 20th century. How did the man who put the 'Kai' into Kai Tak die penniless?
22 Jul 2014 - 10:26am 2 commentsHundreds of suspected Uygurs are being held in Thai immigration camps while officials try to validate their desperate claims of Turkish nationality. Deportation to China, they know, could be a deadly fate, writes Gabrielle Paluch.
20 Jul 2014 - 11:32amA photo to mark Britain's Prince George's first birthday, while People’s Liberation Army cadets adjust dancing robots in Beijing, and more ...
A woman parks her car in an extra large female-only parking space outside a shopping centre in Dalian, while a Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu devotee suspended with hooks, and more ...
The Malaysian airliner flight MH-17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising the stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro
Bosnian Muslims pray near the coffins of relatives during a funeral for 284 people whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Kozarac, near Prijedor, At least 18 people died as Typhoon Rammasun swe
A photo to mark Britain's Prince George's first birthday, while People’s Liberatio
A woman parks her car in an extra large female-only parking space outside a shoppi
The Malaysian airliner flight MH-17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine on July
Bosnian Muslims pray near the coffins of relatives during a funeral for 284 people
