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Beijing yesterday announced an official investigation into former security chief Zhou Yongkang, shattering the decades-old political taboo of not prosecuting the highest ranking Communist Party officials for corruption.
Wednesday, 30 July, 2014, 7:16am 12 comments More on Zhou YongkangCanada yesterday took the unusual step of singling out Chinese hackers for attacking a key computer network and lodged a protest with Beijing, raising tensions at a time when Ottawa wants to boost oil sales to China.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:36amNo one knows for sure just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where he died days later from Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases known to man.
29 Jul 2014 - 9:33pmTogether with another airport in Pudong, at least 71 flights from the two Shanghai airports were cancelled as the People's Liberation Army began an exercise on the southeast coast.
30 Jul 2014 - 8:32amIf it's Monday, it must be Trinidad and Tobago. That's what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could have said as he woke up in Port of Spain, the Caribbean country's capital. By this time next week Abe will have visited 47 nations since taking office in 2012, after an itinerary encompassing six Latin American and Caribbean cities in nine days.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:32pm 1 commentIsrael knocked out Gaza's only power plant, flattened the home of a Hamas leader and pounded dozens of other high-profile targets in the enclave yesterday.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:16amIn an escalation of tensions, the Obama administration has accused Russia of conducting tests in violation of a 1987 nuclear missile treaty, calling the breach “a very serious matter” and going public with allegations that have simmered for some time.
30 Jul 2014 - 4:58amMicrosoft, the US technology giant, is under investigation in China for allegedly breaching antitrust regulations, the country’s market regulator confirmed on Tuesday.
29 Jul 2014 - 10:14pm More on MicrosoftDozens of people, ethnic Han and Uygur, were killed or injured in at least one terror attack in the restive Xinjiang region early on Monday, state media reported late last night.
30 Jul 2014 - 8:00am 4 commentsAsian gambling kingpin Paul Phua Wei-seng was San Marino's ambassador to Montenegro for more than three years until the tiny city state revoked his diplomatic status shortly after his arrest in Las Vegas.
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Few places in the world are so confident and so well positioned for the future as to be able to seriously consider deliberately damaging nearly 5 per cent of the economy.
30 Jul 2014 - 4:41am 4 commentsWith the launch of the formal investigation into former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, President Xi Jinping has consolidated power in a way that eluded his predecessors.
30 Jul 2014 - 8:24am 2 commentsOrganisers of the pro-democracy Occupy Central movement expressed disappointment on Tuesday after the city’s No 2 official told them their goal would “never be achieved” through civil disobedience.
30 Jul 2014 - 8:16am 23 comments More on Occupy CentralThe beleaguered chairman of the Legislative Council Finance Committee has urged lawmakers to settle their disputes before bringing contentious matters to the committee for a vote.
30 Jul 2014 - 8:36amWith the launch of the formal investigation into former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, President Xi Jinping has consolidated power in a way that eluded his predecessors.
30 Jul 2014 - 8:24am 2 comments More on FocusBeijing yesterday announced an official investigation into former security chief Zhou Yongkang, shattering the decades-old political taboo of not prosecuting the highest ranking Communist Party officials for corruption.
30 Jul 2014 - 7:16am 12 comments More on Zhou YongkangIf it's Monday, it must be Trinidad and Tobago. That's what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could have said as he woke up in Port of Spain, the Caribbean country's capital. By this time next week Abe will have visited 47 nations since taking office in 2012, after an itinerary encompassing six Latin American and Caribbean cities in nine days.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:32pm 1 commentPresident Hamid Karzai’s powerful cousin, a close ally of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, was killed on Tuesday in a suicide bomb attack at his home in the southern province of Kandahar.
29 Jul 2014 - 5:13pmIsrael knocked out Gaza's only power plant, flattened the home of a Hamas leader and pounded dozens of other high-profile targets in the enclave yesterday.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:16amNo one knows for sure just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where he died days later from Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases known to man.
29 Jul 2014 - 9:33pmSingapore's Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp completed its buyout of Wing Hang Bank yesterday for HK$38.4 billion and now plans to take the Hong Kong lender private.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:25amSingapore, the US, Australia and South Korea emerged as the offshore hubs that saw their shares of the renminbi payments market grow the most in the past year.
30 Jul 2014 - 8:42am More on RenminbiDevelopers are expected to produce more tiny flats in their future projects given the frenetic buying spree for shoe-box homes by young homebuyers and investors, industry observers said.
30 Jul 2014 - 3:05am 1 commentNew residential projects where discounts and subsidies for extra stamp duty are being offered have revived buying interest from investors who stayed on the sidelines.
30 Jul 2014 - 3:12amHong Kong has always been an internationally minded city, and that fact is increasingly reflected not just in the way local musicians think, but also in the way they record.
29 Jul 2014 - 10:41am More on LIFEThe highly anticipated Jamie’s Italian officially opened its doors yesterday, with streams of diners coming in from the late afternoon to evening to sample what the British celebrity chef had to offer in Hong Kong.
30 Jul 2014 - 7:52amInventor hopes fleet of automated boats will one day patrol the oceans, performing clean-up and data-collection tasks, such as radioactivity sensing, coral reef imaging and fish counting.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:29pm 2 comments More on LIFEIn India, when it comes to class and cuisine, food is as divisive as it is defining
Done right, this takeaway classic is a joy to behold. But who makes the city's best?
Sir Kai Ho Kai was a colossal public figure, so how did we forget him?
Delhi’s vibrant colony of artists and street performers is under threat from the modern world
An organic farming commune in Hebei is going back to the roots of Maoist thought
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
The personal touch is what attracts diners to small, cosy restaurants
Paris Saint-Germain star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic said World Cup fans missed out on watching him in action after Sweden failed to qualify for Brazil.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:09amThree-time Sydney champion Nash Rawiller will join the riding ranks for a four-month-stint in Hong Kong from September 21.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:40pmAs new genre of caste-based cookbooks reveals, India's culinary customs not only denote class and region, but symbolise faith, dictate who you marry and can be a barrier to social mobility.
27 Jul 2014 - 5:48pm 6 commentsThousands of people saw their life savings wiped out when the "low-risk" fund into which they had put their nest eggs imploded last year. Benjamin Robertson looks into the murky world of LM Investment Management and what its collapse should signal to the investing public.
27 Jul 2014 - 12:05am 7 commentsAfter the holy month of Ramadan ends with the sighting of a new moon, the world's Muslims unite in prayer for the first day of Eid ul-Fitr.
A view of the Zhongjian River bridge after it was joined to a new road network in Enshi in Hubei, while firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a Dongfeng Tyre Factory in Hubei, and more ...
A selection of the best photos from rugby sevens action at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Bangladeshi Muslims scramble for space on the roof of an overcrowded train to head hone in Dhaka, while a couple sit on a bench as they look at a parascending in Nice, and more ...
China has built up a reputation for taking on ambitious civil engineering projects in some of the most dramatic and beautiful scenery in the country.
After the holy month of Ramadan ends with the sighting of a new moon, the world's
A view of the Zhongjian River bridge after it was joined to a new road network in
Bangladeshi Muslims scramble for space on the roof of an overcrowded train to head
China has built up a reputation for taking on ambitious civil engineering projects
