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America's immigrant investor visa, hugely popular with wealthy Chinese, could be used to defraud applicants, a group that advises US Congress has warned.
Saturday, 28 February, 2015, 10:27am 4 commentsChina's top leaders met on Friday to discuss and approve a plan to revive the country's ailing soccer fortunes.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:53pm 2 commentsRussian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down while walking in sight of the Kremlin late on Friday, prompting an international chorus of condemnation.
28 Feb 2015 - 12:09pmA compound in traditional Chinese medicine for lowering blood pressure has been found to be effective in blocking the Ebola virus, according to new research.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:18amLegendary Hong Kong martial arts star Bruce Lee is getting the official biopic treatment, daughter Shannon Lee has announced.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:50pmA couple in South Africa have found their daughter 17 years after she was stolen from her sleeping mother's arms thanks to an astonishing coincidence.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:37amThough reputed to be lazy at sex, wild giant pandas in China have somehow managed to get in the mood – enough to bump up their numbers over the past decade.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:55pmWidespread criticism of Hongkongers, including calls for travel boycotts to the territory, have emerged in mainland online forums in the wake of angry protests against tourist shoppers in Sha Tin and Tuen Mun.
28 Feb 2015 - 9:44am 22 commentsIn an unprecedented move, the constitutional affairs minister on Friday said he was "cautiously optimistic" that the Legislative Council would eventually pass the government's political reform proposal.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:17amA half-naked "mentally ill" young woman was rescued by internet activists after being locked in a room for five years by her Chinese family after a dispute with her mother.
28 Feb 2015 - 4:30am 4 commentsChina will sign a series of agreements with countries including Kazakhstan and Pakistan next month as part of Beijing's plan to stimulate economic development along the ancient Silk Road.
28 Feb 2015 - 11:18amIt caused barely a ripple when it was first printed two years ago but the republication of an article this week about a corrupt Qing dynasty prince set off a wave of speculation about just which former leader it was alluding to.
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Last week, China and Russia announced their intention to plan joint commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war. Such cuddling up on the world stage may appear merely a modern political convenience against Western antipathy.
27 Feb 2015 - 4:22pm 10 commentsAs the ink dries on Hong Kong's giveaway budget chock-a-block with sweeteners aimed at defusing political strife, people are weighing up what they are getting - or not getting.
28 Feb 2015 - 9:45amLegendary Hong Kong martial arts star Bruce Lee is getting the official biopic treatment, daughter Shannon Lee has announced.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:50pmLogistical problems could delay a citywide by-election intended to serve as a "de facto referendum" on political reform until as late as March next year, a government source has said.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:46am 2 commentsThough reputed to be lazy at sex, wild giant pandas in China have somehow managed to get in the mood – enough to bump up their numbers over the past decade.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:55pmGuangdong is rolling out a province-wide pilot scheme that will let domestic companies invest in any part of the economy that is not clearly labeled out of bounds.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:51pmNorth Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un has urged his army to prepare for war with the United States and its allies, state media said on Saturday, as Pyongyang ramps up the rhetoric ahead of US-South Korea military drills.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:49pmMachete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
27 Feb 2015 - 8:50pmRussian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down while walking in sight of the Kremlin late on Friday, prompting an international chorus of condemnation.
28 Feb 2015 - 12:09pmVeteran actor Leonard Nimoy, known for playing the pointy-eared Mr Spock in the Star Trek television series and films, passed away aged 83.
28 Feb 2015 - 11:05amA surge in foreign investment from China into the US is insufficient to rebalance the economic relationship between the two countries, with Beijing still unwilling to offer reciprocal market access to American investors, a Congressional commission says in a new report.
27 Feb 2015 - 10:28pmSun Hung Kai Properties, the city's second-largest developer in terms of market capitalisation, says it has locked in HK$28 billion, or nearly 90 per cent of its sales target for the year to June, after it reported a decline in first-half earnings.
28 Feb 2015 - 12:45pmSome Chinese developers are planning to raise prices for new luxury projects in prime areas this year, in a rare sign of improving sentiment in a market that saw new home prices fall for the last eight months of 2014.
24 Feb 2015 - 6:22pm More on China PropertyGreenland Hong Kong, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the mainland’s largest developer by sales, announced it would diversify into internet finance this year, hoping to capitalise on the cyber world to offer financial services to cash-strapped mainland developers.
11 Feb 2015 - 6:11am More on China PropertyBlur appear to have discovered their inner Chinese. The quintessentially British indie-rock band looked East for inspiration for their new album.
28 Feb 2015 - 10:28amFood and models are not an obvious pairing. Yet increasingly they are moving from catwalk to kitchen - among them Hong Kong's Amanda Strang, supermodels Jourdan Dunn and Karlie Kloss, and Helena Rizzo, named world's best woman chef.
27 Feb 2015 - 10:13amThe owner of a Tesla electric car in China's Sichuan province came up with an innovative way of charging his vehicle: plug it directly into a power line.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:39pm 5 comments More on TeslaRobert and Sally Lo, the hearts and minds behind the Hong Kong Cancer Fund
Adrenaline junky Kenny Chiang is China’s only competing aerobatic pilot
Alfresco dining is gaining popularity among busy Hongkongers who want to unwind
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
Hong Kong has called for a 16-team World Cup in 2019 after the International Cricket Council indicated yesterday the proposal to cut the showpiece to 10 might not be a good idea after all.
27 Feb 2015 - 11:12pm More on Cricket World Cup 2015Four years after California Memory announced himself as a star with an upset win in the Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup, the now nine-year-old's career comes full circle and the popular galloper heads into the same race tomorrow as an outsider with his retirement rapidly approaching.
27 Feb 2015 - 11:00pm More on Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup 2015The British actor delivers a nuanced turn as the riddle-solving father of computer science with a brilliant mind and a tortured soul.
25 Feb 2015 - 10:30pmYou know Roy Ayers' music, even if you don't know you know it. He has more than 90 albums to his name, and claims to be the most sampled musician in history.
25 Feb 2015 - 11:09pm More on Hong Kong gigsThis week Hong Kong plays host to the world’s biggest gathering of fur traders at the International Fur and Fashion Fair in Wan Chai.
Polar bear Milk hams it up with a gas pipe over her head as she climbs out of her pool at Kushiro City Zoo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, a tiger cub jumped to its death from a building in Shandong p
A four-storey building at a privately owned school collapsed in Shenzhen, while Filipino soldiers and policemen link arms as they march in the Philippines, and more ...
Snowfall during the Lunar New Year period in many northern parts of the mainland brought not only fun and games for vacationers and traditional hopes for a fruitful year ahead, but also travel disr
Stunt planes get the annual Australian International Airshow off to an explosive start, while doctors work to separate 10-month-old conjoined twin girls in Houston, and more ...
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!["[Alan Turing's] importance is massive compared to how people know him," says Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the code-breaking scientist in The Imitation Game.](http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/308x191/public/2015/02/16/53cec1cbe3190f7a1235440e372e8e10.jpg?itok=2GHHSqUc "\"[Alan Turing's] importance is massive compared to how people know him,\" says Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the code-breaking scientist in The Imitation Game.")
