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China’s central bank announced on Saturday it would cut benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points to 5.35 per cent, in a widely-expected move to join global central banks in easing liquidity amid growing challenges for economic growth.
Saturday, 28 February, 2015, 9:34pmIndia’s finance minister pledged major investment in infrastructure on Saturday, saying it was time for the economy to “fly”, as he unveiled the new centre-right government’s first full budget.
28 Feb 2015 - 5:01pmIt 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.
28 Feb 2015 - 9:31amRussian 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 - 12:09pm 1 commentChina has booted a senior military official who is embroiled in a corruption scandal from its parliament, state media reported on Saturday.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:18pmNorth 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 - 2:49pmA 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 - 1:18amAmerica's immigrant investor visa, hugely popular with wealthy Chinese, could be used to defraud applicants, a group that advises US Congress has warned.
28 Feb 2015 - 10:27am 4 commentsLegendary Hong Kong martial arts star Bruce Lee is getting the official biopic treatment, daughter Shannon Lee has announced.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:50pm 2 commentsA 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 - 3:37amChina'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 5 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.
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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 11 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 - 2:50pm 2 commentsLogistical 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 4 commentsChina’s central bank announced on Saturday it would cut benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points to 5.35 per cent, in a widely-expected move to join global central banks in easing liquidity amid growing challenges for economic growth.
28 Feb 2015 - 9:34pmChina has booted a senior military official who is embroiled in a corruption scandal from its parliament, state media reported on Saturday.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:18pmIndia’s finance minister pledged major investment in infrastructure on Saturday, saying it was time for the economy to “fly”, as he unveiled the new centre-right government’s first full budget.
28 Feb 2015 - 5:01pmNorth 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 - 2:49pmMexican police nabbed the most-wanted drug lord Servando Gomez, a former schoolteacher whose Knights Templar cartel which smuggled drugs to the US and illegally shipped iron ore to China.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:56pmRussian 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 - 12:09pm 1 commentA 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
We could have told him this years ago. In fact, we have mentioned in this same column some years ago that the government should use the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes as a vehicle to attract visitors from India and Southeast Asia. It has only now become evident to people in the tourist industry that there is another large group of people - not those from the mainland who are just intent on buying milk powder and other goods to resell across the border - who have money and are travelling.
28 Feb 2015 - 8:59pmHong 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 1 comment More on Cricket World 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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Polar bear Milk hams it up with a gas pipe over her head as she climbs out of her
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Snowfall during the Lunar New Year period in many northern parts of the mainland b
Stunt planes get the annual Australian International Airshow off to an explosive s
!["[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.")
