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At least 47 people were killed and 11 injured in Taiwan yesterday when a local TransAsia Airways plane crashed on the beach resort island of Penghu, smashing into houses after an aborted landing.
Wednesday, 23 July, 2014, 11:45pm 3 commentsTyphoon Matmo on Wednesday was downgraded to a tropical storm as it made landfall in heavily populated Fujian province after crossing Taiwan overnight causing only minor damage.
23 Jul 2014 - 9:02pm 2 commentsThe MH17 jet may have been shot down by 'mistake' by ill-trained pro-Russian separatists, US intelligence officials said, as Malaysia sent black boxes to Britain for analysis.
23 Jul 2014 - 4:56pm 2 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Chinese reports about a giant inflatable toad have been deleted from the internet after social media users compared the puffed-up animal to former Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin.
23 Jul 2014 - 3:52pm 6 commentsShanghai authorities are investigating 22 restaurants and food distributors, including McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Papa Johns and 7-Eleven, that bought meat from Husi Food.
23 Jul 2014 - 3:59pm 18 comments More on China Food ScandalsXi visited Cuba's former revolutionary leader in Havana on Tuesday as he aims to expand investment in the fellow communist nation, his last stop on a four-country Latin American tour.
23 Jul 2014 - 3:36pmPart of a city in Gansu province remained sealed off yesterday after the death of a local man from pneumonic plague last week.
23 Jul 2014 - 4:15pm 1 commentThe first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, with grieving relatives and the king and queen solemnly receiving the as yet unidentified victims.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:15pm More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Twelve 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 - 5:20pm 25 commentsPro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets on Wednesday, not far from where a Malaysian airliner was brought down last week in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers on board.
23 Jul 2014 - 8:21pm 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17To access the SCMP ePaper Edition you will need a Digital Premium Subscription.
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 11 commentsAfter winning Indonesia's closest ever presidential election, Joko Widodo now faces what could be his toughest battle yet - winning over his own party.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:21pmThe wife of Rafael Hui Si-yan discussed with a Sun Hung Kai Properties representative in 2001 how to fit out two luxury Happy Valley flats developed by the property giant, the High Court heard yesterday.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:32pmHongkongers have been invited to pay their respects to the victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, after the Australian consulate in Wan Chai opened a public book of condolence.
23 Jul 2014 - 6:22pm 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17At least 47 people were killed and 11 injured in Taiwan yesterday when a local TransAsia Airways plane crashed on the beach resort island of Penghu, smashing into houses after an aborted landing.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:45pm 3 commentsOne woman was reportedly killed and another escaped serious injury after falling from platforms onto Beijing’s subway track this morning in separate incidents.
23 Jul 2014 - 6:04pmThailand's junta chief could stay in charge of the country as head of a provisional government until elections are held some time next year, a legal adviser said yesterday, outlining details of an interim constitution.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:24pmAn Indonesian court jailed a Frenchman for 15 years yesterday for smuggling a huge stash of crystal methamphetamine into the resort island of Bali.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:02pmThe first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, with grieving relatives and the king and queen solemnly receiving the as yet unidentified victims.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:15pm More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets on Wednesday, not far from where a Malaysian airliner was brought down last week in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers on board.
23 Jul 2014 - 8:21pm 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Analysts are demanding clarity regarding large-scale air traffic restrictions on the mainland rumoured to reduce flights to major airports in eastern China by a quarter for up to three weeks.
23 Jul 2014 - 5:30pmLogistics are a fertile field for reform that would benefit the trading economies in the Asia-Pacific.
23 Jul 2014 - 10:45amSwire 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 9 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 - 3:54amDone right, this takeaway classic is a joy to behold. But who makes the city's best?
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23 Jul 2014 - 10:26pmMax Lee Ho-yin claimed a breakthrough by gaining direct entry to the main draw for next month's Hong Kong Open - now he aims for another by winning his first-round match.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:00pmA 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
