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  • March 11, 2014
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Chinese satellites deployed in search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

China's defence ministry will redeploy 10 satellites to join the hunt for the Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared on Saturday with 239 people on board after three days of fruitless searching.

Tuesday, 11 March, 2014, 7:33am 2 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Kim Jong-un’s little sister revealed to the world in ‘election day’ stunt

The younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made an official debut of sorts, consolidating the grip on power of the ruling Kim dynasty's third generation.

11 Mar 2014 - 4:30am 4 comments More on Kim Jong-un

Obama offers condolences to Xi over Chinese nationals on missing flight

US President Barack Obama expressed his condolences over the missing Chinese aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight in a telephone conversation with President Xi Jinping yesterday.

11 Mar 2014 - 6:07am 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Rallies in Crimean capital show divide about peninsula’s future

By the monument to the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, they came with yellow-blue flags and chanted "Glory to Ukraine" and "Down with the Russian occupiers". Across town by the monument to Vladimir Lenin, the flags were red, white and blue, and the chanting was for union with Russia.

10 Mar 2014 - 11:31pm

A nod to grief, then it's back to business

Apart from a minute's silence at the start of the National People's Congress (NPC) for victims of the deadly March 1 attack at Kunming's main train station, everything has been business as usual at the once-a-year parliamentary meeting in Beijing.

11 Mar 2014 - 6:27am More on Chinese parliamentary sessions 2014

Japan says it will not review 1993 apology over wartime comfort women

Japan's government yesterday announced that it was not planning to revise an apology for the military's use of sex slaves in the 1930s and 1940s, in apparent response to a week of intense criticism from Asian neighbours.

10 Mar 2014 - 10:24pm

Fighting corruption and terrorism top priorities of China's judiciary

The number of terrorism attacks has increased in recent years. In the latest incident, on March 1, a group of knife-wielding assailants staged a bloody attack in Kunming railway station, leaving 29 civilians dead and 143 injured.

11 Mar 2014 - 6:08am More on Chinese parliamentary sessions 2014

Pistorius vomits when hearing details of girlfriend's bullet wounds

Oscar Pistorius vomited in the dock and retched repeatedly and loudly at his murder trial yesterday as he heard graphic details of the injuries sustained by the girlfriend he shot.

11 Mar 2014 - 5:08am

Michelle Obama expected to stay away from politics on China visit

10 Mar 2014 - 11:18pm

Dictators 'infiltrate' web, not shut it down, says Google boss Eric Schmidt

10 Mar 2014 - 11:11pm 1 comment

Largest ever Chinese rescue fleet to join search for Malaysia Airlines plane

11 Mar 2014 - 6:38am

Anger grows as wait continues for news of missing Malaysian flight

11 Mar 2014 - 6:38am 1 comment

Warning of ‘possible terrorist attack on China’ received by Taiwan days before Malaysia Airlines jet vanished

11 Mar 2014 - 12:12am 4 comments

Pollution would be cut by high-voltage grid, says energy firm boss

11 Mar 2014 - 6:24am

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11 Mar 2014 - 12:00am

Today's Poll

What do you think is the most likely scenario behind Malaysian Airlines flight 370's disappearance?
  • Mid-air disintegration: 35%
  • Hijacking: 29%
  • Bombing: 35%
  • Others: 0%
11 Mar 2014
  • Mid-air disintegration
  • Hijacking
  • Bombing
  • Others
Total number of votes recorded: 17

Opinion

Alex Lo Alex Lo

Lesson of 'Munich' resonates in today's Crimea

11 Mar 2014 - 4:37am
Jake Van Der Kamp Jake Van Der Kamp

Wasteful subsidies miss the point on real innovation

11 Mar 2014 - 12:53am 1 comment
Howard Winn Howard Winn

Another bar given leave to appeal against licensing conditions

11 Mar 2014 - 12:45am
Enoch Yiu Enoch Yiu

Scrap the MPF offset, which favours bosses unfairly

10 Mar 2014 - 11:40pm 1 comment

Insight

Unfair to paint China as a colonialist in Africa

He Yafei

The African continent, with its fast growth of the past decade, is a future wonderland for prosperity that will benefit foreign investment and entrepreneurs. Strangely, rumours have been circulating that target China as a "villain" who is plundering Africa for its energy resources. That's a big lie. The real story about China and Africa is one of a long-lasting friendship based on mutual benefit and support.

11 Mar 2014 - 4:09am 2 comments

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Focus

What caused Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to vanish into thin air?

Ernest Kao and Stephen Chen

The absence of a Mayday call and sudden loss of radio signals has fuelled rumours about what caused the Malaysia Airlines plane to disappear. Among the possibilities are a mid-air disintegration after an explosion, a hijacking and a head-on crash into the sea.

11 Mar 2014 - 7:44am

Harry's View

11 Mar 2014

Hong Kong

POLITICS

Central Policy Unit head Shiu Sin-por calls for team to lobby lawmakers

An adviser to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has called on the government to consider setting up a team of officials for the task of lobbying lawmakers. Central Policy Unit head Shiu Sin-por told reporters in Beijing on Sunday that the existing team of political appointees was not big enough to lobby the city's divided legislature.

11 Mar 2014 - 7:37am 3 comments
POLITICS

Chief executive vote method could change after 2017, says expert

An understanding between Beijing and pan-democrats that the method for electing the chief executive could be changed after universal suffrage is introduced in 2017 would create more room for compromise and avoid a "life-or-death" struggle, a leading mainland expert on Hong Kong affairs says.

11 Mar 2014 - 3:29am

'My waist bones blocked the knife': Kevin Lau says his attacker showed no mercy

11 Mar 2014

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China

POLITICS

A nod to grief, then it's back to business

Apart from a minute's silence at the start of the National People's Congress (NPC) for victims of the deadly March 1 attack at Kunming's main train station, everything has been business as usual at the once-a-year parliamentary meeting in Beijing.

11 Mar 2014 - 6:27am More on Chinese parliamentary sessions 2014

Fighting corruption and terrorism top priorities of China's judiciary

The number of terrorism attacks has increased in recent years. In the latest incident, on March 1, a group of knife-wielding assailants staged a bloody attack in Kunming railway station, leaving 29 civilians dead and 143 injured.

11 Mar 2014 - 6:08am More on Chinese parliamentary sessions 2014
Flight MH370

Chinese satellites deployed in search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

11 Mar 2014 2 comments

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Asia

What caused Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to vanish into thin air?

The absence of a Mayday call and sudden loss of radio signals has fuelled rumours about what caused the Malaysia Airlines plane to disappear. Among the possibilities are a mid-air disintegration after an explosion, a hijacking and a head-on crash into the sea.

11 Mar 2014 - 4:15am More on Focus

Anger grows as wait continues for news of missing Malaysian flight

Relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight endured a third tense day of waiting to hear news about their loved ones, with some furious with what they called the paltry information being shared by the airline and the Chinese government.

11 Mar 2014 - 6:38am 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

Warning of ‘possible terrorist attack on China’ received by Taiwan days before Malaysia Airlines jet vanished

11 Mar 2014 4 comments

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World

SOUTH AFRICA

Pistorius vomits when hearing details of girlfriend's bullet wounds

Oscar Pistorius vomited in the dock and retched repeatedly and loudly at his murder trial yesterday as he heard graphic details of the injuries sustained by the girlfriend he shot.

11 Mar 2014 - 5:08am
SYRIA

Syria army using starvation as ‘weapon of war’, say Amnesty

The Syrian army has been using starvation as a “weapon of war” in its siege of the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, Amnesty International said on Monday.

10 Mar 2014 - 7:24pm More on Syria conflict
UKRAINE

Rallies in Crimean capital show divide about peninsula’s future

10 Mar 2014

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China Insider

Russia's war of words with US over Crimea spills onto Chinese social media

10 Mar 2014
CRIME

US language tutor jailed for 30 years for sexually exploiting children in China

10 Mar 2014 5 comments
EMIGRATION

China becomes top source of fresh immigrants moving to New Zealand

8 Mar 2014 2 comments
KUNMING ATTACK

Beijing police threaten action against microbloggers over Kunming attack comments

8 Mar 2014 2 comments
TENCENT

WeChat’s latest viral hit in China: health insurance

6 Mar 2014 2 comments
TIBET

Founder of Tibet’s Communist Party makes a final plea for Dalai Lama’s return

7 Mar 2014 3 comments
hoax

China’s Sohu falls for ‘Back to the Future’ hover board video hoax

6 Mar 2014
Hospitals

Nurse paralysed as shocking hospital attack by Nanjing official is caught on camera

6 Mar 2014
DISCRIMINATION

Police apologise for evicting innocent Uygur man after Kunming terror attack

10 Mar 2014 1 comment
POLITICS

No more Chanel or Emilio Pucci for princeling Li Xiaolin at congress meeting, but critics unimpressed

5 Mar 2014 3 comments
DIPLOMACY

Germany refuses Xi Jinping's request to visit Holocaust memorial sites during tour of Europe

5 Mar 2014 9 comments
NPC

Disturbance and smoke in Tiananmen Square amid tight security for NPC meeting

5 Mar 2014
MEDIA

US calls Kunming attack ‘act of terrorism’ amid accusations of bias in Western media reporting

5 Mar 2014 4 comments
KUNMING ATTACK

Chinese police rush to dispel rumours of more attacks in wake of Kunming massacre

4 Mar 2014 1 comment

Business

LISTINGS

Chinese brokerage drops plans for Shanghai IPO in favour of Hong Kong

After two years, Central China Securities has scrapped its plans for an initial public offering in Shanghai as the mainland brokerage believes it will be easier and quicker to raise up to US$400 million in Hong Kong.

11 Mar 2014 - 12:35am More on IPO
TECHNOLOGY

Tencent-JD.com alliance intensifies e-commerce challenge to Alibaba

The mainland's rapidly expanding e-commerce landscape is poised for a seismic shift after Tencent agreed to acquire a 15 per cent stake in online retail platform JD.com for US$214.66 million, ratcheting up their challenge to market leader and common riv

11 Mar 2014 - 12:37am More on Tencent

Markets

Doug Young Doug Young

Weibo: Baidu, Xiaomi, TCL leaders strut at NPC

10 Mar 2014 - 2:17pm

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Property

BRICKS & MORTAR

When homebuyers get a free car

What does it tell you when developers give away a car with each purchase of a home?

11 Mar 2014 - 5:05am More on Macau Property
PROPERTY

Dark clouds over Hong Kong's property market as 'perfect storm' looms

Hong Kong's housing market faces being caught in the middle of a perfect storm, with government curbs having crimped demand at a time of increasing supply and an imminent interest rate rise threatening to set off a severe price correction.

10 Mar 2014 - 10:23am 9 comments
PROPERTY

China's developers shrug off earnings risks from yuan depreciation

10 Mar 2014

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Lifestyle

Arts & Culture

Review: Grandad Mick Jagger and Rolling Stones on fire in front of star-studded Macau crowd

The Rolling Stones showed a sold-out, celebrity-studded crowd in Macau’s Cotai arena last night why they can still claim to be the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band.

10 Mar 2014 - 9:24am 4 comments

Elements mall has sights set on becoming a go-to place for gourmets

10 Mar 2014

French director tackles sex and the teenager

9 Mar 2014
Food & Wine

Elements mall has sights set on becoming a go-to place for gourmets

Civic Square, the alfresco dining space on the roof of Elements mall, didn't get off to an auspicious start. Besides having to overcome the relative isolation of its location in West Kowloon, the timing of its opening was also unfortunate.

10 Mar 2014 - 4:36pm More on LIFE

Taking 'food porn' photos in Hong Kong is so popular even the chefs are doing it

7 Mar 2014 1 comment

Top chefs are taking to the high seas

7 Mar 2014
Technology

Extreme weather may be wake-up call for world, UN climate chief says

Devastating extreme weather, including recent flooding in England, Australia's hottest year on record and the US being hit by a polar vortex have a "silver lining". It boosts global warming to the highest level of politics and reminds politicians that climate change is not a partisan issue, according to the UN's climate chief.

9 Mar 2014 - 4:02am 3 comments

Rising seas may threaten one-fifth of world heritage sites, say scientists

9 Mar 2014 1 comment

Technology has slashed CLP power generation emissions since 1990

9 Mar 2014 1 comment
Fashion

Christina Zeller revives traditional Belgian bag company Delvaux

10 Mar 2014

A Chanel supermarket and dancing models end Paris Fashion Week

10 Mar 2014
Books

Thrills and a history lesson in Hong Kong-based novel

9 Mar 2014

Memoir chronicles voyage of self-discovery by saviour of abandoned orphans

10 Mar 2014
Health

Cut down on your calorie intake and you might live to be 100

10 Mar 2014

Hits and myths: is excessive iron intake linked with cancer?

10 Mar 2014
Beauty

Beauty buzz

10 Mar 2014

Beauty brands turn to rare plants and precious materials to enhance luxury products

10 Mar 2014
Family & Education

Voluntary groups are reaching out to help HKDSE students cope with stress

10 Mar 2014

Reflections: why teachers make good role models for young people

10 Mar 2014
Interiors & Living

Celebrity interior designer Kelly Hoppen offers tips for the masses

7 Mar 2014

High-end US developers use valuable artworks to draw in potential buyers

5 Mar 2014

Magazines

Sport

Dibayani key threat to Moore's Derby stranglehold

John Moore was satisfied with Able Friend's final piece of serious work before his showdown with stablemate Designs On Rome in Sunday's Group One BMW Hong Kong Derby - but from his spot in the trainers' stand, Moore has also kept tabs on the progress of Dibayani, the horse he feels is the biggest

10 Mar 2014 - 10:05pm
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

English pair seeking European miracles

Arsenal and Manchester City face monumental tasks when they look to overturn 2-0 deficits in the second legs of their last-16 ties, against Bayern Munich and Barcelona respectively.

10 Mar 2014 - 8:41pm
CRICKET

Tight security for Hong Kong squad at World Twenty20 tournament

10 Mar 2014

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Magazines

Let there be light: Will Caravaggio bring the Asia Society out of the shadows?

As Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus goes on show at the Asia Society, Fionnuala McHugh wonders whether the 1606 masterpiece will help bring the organisation to the fore.

10 Mar 2014 - 3:25pm

Baby Halder: domestic helper turned author

Married at 12, a mother at 13, Indian domestic helper Baby Halder, whose third book is about to be published, has come a long way from a life of abuse and destitution – not that you would know it, writes Amrit Dhillon.

10 Mar 2014 - 3:17pm

Making scents: saviours of the incense tree

8 Mar 2014

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Blogs

Happy Lucky Dragon Win Michael Cox

Master Size with an appropriate winner to bring up a milestone

Michael Cox 10 Mar 2014 - 7:03pm
Corporate China Doug Young

Weibo: Baidu, Xiaomi, TCL leaders strut at NPC

Doug Young 10 Mar 2014 - 2:17pm
As I see it Jason Y Ng

Movie Reviews: Three Oscar-nominated Best Pictures

Jason Y Ng 10 Mar 2014 - 2:58pm
Bikini body or bust SOFIA MITRA-THAKUR

Bikini Body or Bust: Week 2

SOFIA MITRA-THAKUR 10 Mar 2014 - 11:05am
Adventures in Alcohol Mischa Moselle

Yanking Jamie Oliver’s chain: Why chef's Hong Kong venture could actually work

Mischa Moselle 8 Mar 2014 - 12:36pm 11 comments
Happy Lucky Dragon Win Michael Cox

Are stewards rule enforcers or riding instructors?

Michael Cox 7 Mar 2014 - 1:06pm
Corporate China Doug Young

Canadian Solar, Chaori cast cloud over solar shares

Doug Young 6 Mar 2014 - 10:35am

In Pictures

Today in Photos, March 11

Robots perform a pole dance at the 2014 CeBIT technology trade fair in Germany, Police break up a small Tibetan protest in Nepal’s capital, revellers carrying lanterns parade in Switzerland, and mo

11 Mar 2014

Six Nations Championship, February 9

A selection of some of the best images from Sunday’s Six Nations match between England and Wales.

10 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 10

With the approach of spring, a woman and child find time to enjoy plum blossoms in Anhui, Indian sand artist Sudersan Pattnaik gives final touches on a sand sculpture with a message of prayers for

10 Mar 2014

Six Nations Championship, March 8

A selection of some of the best images from Six Nations action involving Ireland against Italy and Scotland against France.

9 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 8

Students at the Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Centre in Henan, Indian police detain a supporter of pro-independent group JKLF during a protest against the expulsion of Kashmiri students, and mor

8 Mar 2014
Photos

Robots perform a pole dance at the 2014 CeBIT technology trade fair in Germany, Po

11 Mar 2014
Sport

A selection of some of the best images from Sunday’s Six Nations match between Eng

10 Mar 2014
Photos

With the approach of spring, a woman and child find time to enjoy plum blossoms in

10 Mar 2014
Sport

A selection of some of the best images from Six Nations action involving Ireland a

10 Mar 2014
Photos

Students at the Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Centre in Henan, Indian police de

8 Mar 2014

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