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Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra called a snap election on Monday to try to defuse the kingdom’s political crisis, but protesters vowed to keep up their fight to topple her government with a major rally described as “judgment day”.
Monday, 9 December, 2013, 2:24pm 1 commentPolice in Singapore have arrested 27 South Asian suspects after a riot broke out on Sunday evening in Little India, officials said in a dawn press conference.
9 Dec 2013 - 11:11am 4 commentsA cold front was expected to sweep across central and east parts of China, which would gradually clear the smog that has lingered in parts of the country for more than a week, the National Meteorological Centre said.
9 Dec 2013 - 9:04am 1 comment More on Beijing air pollutionHackers in China have leaked a database of an estimated 20 million hotel reservations on multiple websites and even WeChat, the wildly popular messaging service, reflecting failed government efforts to prevent massive leaks of personal data.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:41pmChina’s top court and top legislature are at odds over the abolition of a notorious criminal charge of having sex with the under-age, according to a Beijing Times report.
9 Dec 2013 - 12:57pmThe market reform drive set out in the Communist Party’s third plenum, coupled with the leadership’s consolidation of power, is only likely to deepen social problems in the absence of political reform, say liberal party veterans and scholars.
9 Dec 2013 - 3:25pm More on Communist Party third plenumRenowned economist gives Premier Li Keqiang top marks managing China's economy
Li Yining, one of China’s most famous economists, has given top marks to his former student Premier Li Keqiang in a recent online chat.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:28pmSouth Korea yesterday declared an expansion of its air defence identification zone, partially overlapping a similar zone created by China two weeks ago, as regional tensions continue to rise over territorial disputes.
9 Dec 2013 - 3:02pm 4 comments More on Air Defence Identification ZoneChinese Vice President Li Yuanchao will attend the funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela as a special representative of President Xi Jinping, Xinhua reported.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:49pm More on Nelson Mandela
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Last week, a pleased Shanghai doctor who performed a successful cataract operation gingerly led his patient to the window for him to see the city's skyline for the first time, but instead of a delightful cry, the patient batted his eyelids several times and began to shout at the doctor for botching the job.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:55pm 1 commentLast month saw the launch of this year's World Wide Web Foundation annual Web Index report, which is the world's first measure of the web's contribution to social, economic and political development in 81 countries.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:21amThe website of China's biggest internet video company, Youku Tudou, was once a haven for illicit Hollywood blockbusters and hit South Korean soap operas - until it realised that piracy doesn't pay.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:15am 1 commentThey 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.
Although the Legislative Council meeting on electoral reform on Monday was punctuated by shouts and fiery words, the chief secretary remained confident in being able to bridge the divide between the administration and the pan-democrats.
9 Dec 2013 - 4:08pmBN(O) passport holders living in Hong Kong and overseas will have to submit their passport applications and renewals by mail to Britain’s passport office starting from tomorrow (Tuesday).
9 Dec 2013 - 11:48amChinese Vice President Li Yuanchao will attend the funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela as a special representative of President Xi Jinping, Xinhua reported.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:49pm More on Nelson MandelaA cold front was expected to sweep across central and east parts of China, which would gradually clear the smog that has lingered in parts of the country for more than a week, the National Meteorological Centre said.
9 Dec 2013 - 9:04am 1 comment More on Beijing air pollutionThailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra called a snap election on Monday to try to defuse the kingdom’s political crisis, but protesters vowed to keep up their fight to topple her government with a major rally described as “judgment day”.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:24pm 1 commentPolice in Singapore have arrested 27 South Asian suspects after a riot broke out on Sunday evening in Little India, officials said in a dawn press conference.
9 Dec 2013 - 11:11am 4 commentsMany world leaders have said they wouldn't miss Nelson Mandela's funeral for anything, but Czech Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok isn't among them. Rusnok's conversation with Defence Minister Vlastimil Picek in parliament on Friday was broadcast by the Czech public television news channel and has since gone viral.
9 Dec 2013 - 6:00am More on Nelson MandelaHe was with Nelson Mandela during all the years the anti-apartheid icon was imprisoned on Robben Island. And, like millions of people around the world, he has been hit hard by Mandela's death. Yet this South African was not one of Mandela's fellow prisoners. Christo Brand was his jailer.
9 Dec 2013 - 10:41am 1 comment More on Nelson MandelaGoldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank are among five Wall Street firms in addition to JPMorgan Chase whose hiring practices in China are being probed by regulators in the United States, it was reported yesterday.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:27am 4 comments More on JPMorgan ChaseAn unlikely beneficiary of the liberalisation drive initiated by the third plenum may be the tightly controlled media industry, where the Communist Party leadership is pushing for greater digital orientation and has indicated it is open to private and even overseas investment.
9 Dec 2013 - 4:50amPrivate equity firm Gaw Capital Partners is poised to take minority stakes in four commercial property acquisitions in the United States and Britain in ventures with mainland Chinese and Asian partners, involving a gross value of US$1 billion.
9 Dec 2013 - 4:51amLegal experts and property consultants have called for a clear tax policy for international property investors in Britain after the government announced a capital gains tax on foreign property investments.
7 Dec 2013 - 2:51amOne day, when he was a wild Australian boy of 13, Christopher Doyle found his parents' marriage certificate. From the date, he worked out that he was illegitimate - a mistake, as he always likes to put it, conceived in the back of a Holden sedan on Bondi Beach.
8 Dec 2013 - 3:55pm 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 - 5:45amTiny bits of plastic rubbish ingested by marine worms are significantly harming their health and will have a wider impact on ocean ecosystems, scientists have found.
8 Dec 2013 - 6:18amBright 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
Australia captured England’s four remaining wickets within an hour to close out an emphatic 218-run victory in the second Ashes test on Monday and push England to the brink of a humiliating series defeat.
9 Dec 2013 - 11:46amSix people have been arrested following fresh allegations of match-fixing in English soccer, authorities said, with media reports suggesting that even next year’s World Cup could be a target.
9 Dec 2013 - 10:50amPresident 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 - 5:39pmSome of the ice will be used as building blocks in a local winter garden, girls attend a mass commemorating late South African former president Nelson Mandela, relatives of those who died in Tyhpoo
Mandela passed away Thursday night after a long illness. He was 95.
Australia's Mitchell Johnson celebrates taking the wicket of England's Stuart Broad with teammate David Warner (left) on the third day of the second Ashes cricket test in Adelaide.
Some of the ice will be used as building blocks in a local winter garden, girls at
Australia's Mitchell Johnson celebrates taking the wicket of England's Stuart Broa
