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It happens so often in Shenzhen it is almost commonplace: a baby is abandoned by its mother on the streets, sometimes in a skip, or even in a public toilet near the factory where she works. The mothers are often migrant workers lured to manufacturing centres by the promise of a job. These young women are usually unmarried and desperate enough to abandon their child.
Wednesday, 11 December, 2013, 3:36amSince September, Animals Asia has been urging people across the mainland to stop eating cats and dogs by using a head-turning poster series that shows the animals sandwiched between a pair of chopsticks. The images are accompanied by a simple message: "Be healthy. Say NO to cat and dog meat."
11 Dec 2013 - 4:39amZhang, the internationally acclaimed director of such films as Hero and House of Flying Daggers and the director of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, has admitted he fathered one daughter and two sons with his wife Chen Ting.
11 Dec 2013 - 6:29amSales of pork have skyrocketed in South Korea, largely thanks to an old superstition that claims eating the meat helps the body dispose of pollutants taken in from breathing smog.
10 Dec 2013 - 7:33pmSales of air purifiers and face masks have gone through the roof in China as the country struggles with the worst smog so far this winter.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:45pm 1 comment More on SmogThe US is planning to station anti-ballistic-missile systems on the Pacific island of Guam, a move ostensibly to defend against unpredictable North Korea, but which analysts say may be intended to counter China.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:00amIsrael, Jordan and Palestine have signed an agreement on an ambitious and controversial project to replenish the rapidly shrinking Dead Sea by transferring water from the Red Sea along a 175-kilometre pipeline.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:26amChinese hackers eavesdropped on the computers of five European foreign ministries before last September's G20 summit, which was dominated by the Syrian crisis, according to research by computer security firm FireEye.
10 Dec 2013 - 9:45pm More on China hackingTens of thousands of South Africans united in a proud and noisy celebration yesterday at a rain-soaked memorial service to Nelson Mandela.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:58am 2 comments More on Nelson Mandela
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Anti-government protests in Ukraine have the potential to spin dangerously out of control. President Viktor Yanukovych could take the heat out of them by meeting the demonstrators' demands, but he has so far made clear he has no intention of budging.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:27amA Western media company recently commissioned me to write an article but suggested that I do so under a different name. That's because articles with my name on are blocked on the internet by Chinese censors, and the company naturally wished to reach more readers on the mainland.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:34am 1 commentThe spectacle of Jang Song-thaek's humiliating dismissal and arrest was a highly unusual glimpse of a power struggle unfolding inside the nuclear-armed country. But the major impact may be outside. The video of Jang's arrest on Sunday at a Politburo meeting was released to the North Korean public, replete with tearful underlings shown denouncing him, was particularly unsettling for China.
11 Dec 2013 - 6:36amThey are 11 ordinary people who lead extraordinary lives. People who achieve against all the odds and set an example for others.
It’s a simple contraption – an iron frame, foldout handle and four rubber wheels – but in Hong Kong the old-fashioned handcart is what keeps the city rolling.
Journalists and campaigners should be specifically exempted from both criminal and civil liabilities under the proposed law against stalking, a government consultancy report has recommended.
11 Dec 2013 - 7:52am 2 commentsHouseholds in Kowloon and the New Territories will see the cost of electricity soar by almost 40 per cent in the next five years, making it higher than on Hong Kong Island, where bills will be frozen.
11 Dec 2013 - 4:43am 10 comments More on CLPSince September, Animals Asia has been urging people across the mainland to stop eating cats and dogs by using a head-turning poster series that shows the animals sandwiched between a pair of chopsticks. The images are accompanied by a simple message: "Be healthy. Say NO to cat and dog meat."
11 Dec 2013 - 4:39amIt happens so often in Shenzhen it is almost commonplace: a baby is abandoned by its mother on the streets, sometimes in a skip, or even in a public toilet near the factory where she works. The mothers are often migrant workers lured to manufacturing centres by the promise of a job. These young women are usually unmarried and desperate enough to abandon their child.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:36amHer eyes welling with tears, Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded on Tuesday for demonstrators to clear the streets and support a snap election, but defiant protest leaders called for her to step down within 24 hours.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:35pm 3 commentsThe US is planning to station anti-ballistic-missile systems on the Pacific island of Guam, a move ostensibly to defend against unpredictable North Korea, but which analysts say may be intended to counter China.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:00amTens of thousands of South Africans united in a proud and noisy celebration yesterday at a rain-soaked memorial service to Nelson Mandela.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:58am 2 comments More on Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela loomed large for each of the four US presidents who honoured him yesterday - as a distant mentor, a personal counsellor, a wartime critic and a fellow world sage.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:13am More on Nelson MandelaThe mainland's industrial activity data signals recovery has been moderating although economic growth is on track to meet the official target this year as policymakers huddle to lay out the blueprint for next year.
11 Dec 2013 - 5:05amBeijing officials began a highly anticipated annual meeting yesterday to draw up the economic blueprint for next year and set targets for key indicators.
11 Dec 2013 - 5:05amThe landlord of the IFC Mall in Central, which generated total sales of more than HK$10 billion last year, is eyeing the launch of an online shopping website.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:47amChina Vanke, the country's largest homebuilder by sales, is trying something no peers have done before - a "run for fun" - to sustain its leadership in the competitive industry.
11 Dec 2013 - 3:47am More on China VankeTaiwanese comic artist Chris Tseng Hsin-chieh and his Hong Kong friend Juno Man Chun-lun set up a Facebook page three months ago just for their own amusement.
9 Dec 2013 - 8:10pm More on LIFEThe recent isolation of certain bacteria and yeast as responsible for terroir - the evocation of a sense of place in the flavour of a wine - is another apparent triumph for the application of science to the art of winemaking.
6 Dec 2013 - 5:45amThe deaf have fought to preserve sign language in the past. Fifty deaf students protested a ban on sign language with a strike in 1973 at the Hong Kong School for the Deaf, the first such school in Hong Kong, established in 1935. The students boycotted classes, but to no avail.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:56pm More on LIFEBright ideas for the planet from this year’s Slow Life Symposium
Oil rich yet mired in poverty, East Timor is embracing development
Say hello to the Clockenflap headliners . . . and don’t miss our essential guide to the festival
Mainland cartoonists spread their message to the masses online
Brazil has pledged to stamp out stadium violence after hooliganism marred a weekend first division league game, raising fresh doubts about its ability to stage a trouble-free World Cup.
10 Dec 2013 - 10:18pmHong Kong Jockey Club stewards found no rider was to blame for the incident that put jockey Steve Drowne in hospital and resulted in the death of English filly Jwala after an inquiry into the "catastrophic" fall in the frantic final stages of Sunday's Longines Group One Hong Kong Sprint.
10 Dec 2013 - 10:24pmPresident Taur Matan Ruak believes the way to kickstart Asia’s newest country is by empowering its people, writes Mary O’Shea. Pictures by Cedric Arnold.
27 Nov 2013 - 6:04pmStaging Hong Kong's biggest annual music and arts festival is no walk in the park. Jo Baker meets a team of dedicated, determined and quite possibly exhausted organisers ahead of this year's event.
4 Dec 2013 - 5:39pmPeople attend the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg and pay tribute all over the world ...
Students perform a skit entitled Blind Ones in Brazil, photographs of victims of war on display to mark Human Rights Day in Kabul, Yingluck Shinawatra's eyes welling with tears, and more ...
Wrecked cars sit on the Chengzilu Highway in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, after a 19-car pile-up that killed eight people and injured 23 others, Chinese factory worker Zhang Fuxing takes daily walks
Qinghai Lake is the largest lake in China.
People attend the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg and pay trib
Students perform a skit entitled Blind Ones in Brazil, photographs of victims of w
Wrecked cars sit on the Chengzilu Highway in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, after a 19
