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A number of schools in eastern China have moved their routine flag-raising ceremonies into classrooms as students returned to school on Monday amid the most severe smog ever experienced by the region.
Tuesday, 10 December, 2013, 4:03pm 1 comment More on SmogA senior judge in Hubei province was sacked on Tuesday after a video emerged online showing him entering and leaving a hotel with his alleged mistress.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:37pmFreshly leaked documents by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Monday revealed spies disguised as fantasy characters prowled online games hunting terrorists.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:21pm 1 comment More on Edward SnowdenMainland scientists are increasingly confident of developing the world's first invisibility cloak, using technology to hide objects from view and make them "disappear".
10 Dec 2013 - 10:38am 31 comments More on Stealth AircraftPolice in China’s northern Inner Mongolia have launched an official investigation into the beating of five newly-recruited firefighters in Wuhai city after a video that showed them being abused by senior soldiers went viral over the weekend, reported China’s Southern Metropolis Daily.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:39pm 1 commentNorth Korea confirmed yesterday that the powerful uncle of young leader Kim Jong-un has been purged. State television broadcast humiliating pictures of Jang Song-thaek being dragged from his chair by uniformed officers during a meeting in Pyongyang.
10 Dec 2013 - 12:08pm 5 comments More on Kim Jong-unNew York City’s Chinatown may soon have a larger cousin – a massive, 600 acre “China City of America” cousin, that is.
9 Dec 2013 - 6:14pmPeople around the world see China as “confident”, “belligerent” and “arrogant”, state-run media reported on Tuesday in an unusually direct survey of attitudes towards the country.
10 Dec 2013 - 2:33pm 1 commentA US Korean war veteran held for over a month in North Korea said on Monday that a video “confession” released during his detention was made under duress.
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Global and regional movements of people seeking opportunities created by demand for their labour can test the tolerance and values of host communities and guest workers or migrants alike.
10 Dec 2013 - 2:30pm 1 commentAn academic working in Britain has just published a paper suggesting that, apart from the risk of being shot dead in a gang fight, junior teachers are just as economically vulnerable as drug dealers in the streets.
10 Dec 2013 - 12:42pm 1 commentAn FBI agent recently showed Arnaud de Laforcade a file with several labels supposedly from 1947 bottles of Chateau Cheval Blanc, one of France's finest wines. To the CEO of the Saint-Emilion vineyard, the tags were clearly fakes — too new looking and on the wrong kind of paper.
But customers may be more easily duped.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:31amThey 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.
From towering Christmas trees to tiny fairy lights, Hong Kong’s malls never spare any expense at Christmas.
10 Dec 2013 - 1:03pmThe gap in electricity tariffs between Hong Kong Island and the rest of the city might be further narrowed next year after increases planned by the two main electricity producers.
10 Dec 2013 - 2:22pmPeople around the world see China as “confident”, “belligerent” and “arrogant”, state-run media reported on Tuesday in an unusually direct survey of attitudes towards the country.
10 Dec 2013 - 2:33pm 1 commentUS Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday urged China to free Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo as the writer and activist marked five years in detention.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:25pm More on Liu XiaoboNorth Korea confirmed yesterday that the powerful uncle of young leader Kim Jong-un has been purged. State television broadcast humiliating pictures of Jang Song-thaek being dragged from his chair by uniformed officers during a meeting in Pyongyang.
10 Dec 2013 - 12:08pm 5 comments More on Kim Jong-unHer eyes welling with tears, Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded on Tuesday for demonstrators to clear the streets and support a snap election, but defiant protest leaders called for her to step down within 24 hours.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:35pm 1 commentFreshly leaked documents by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Monday revealed spies disguised as fantasy characters prowled online games hunting terrorists.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:21pm 1 comment More on Edward SnowdenChinese Vice-President Li Yuanchao today joins an unprecedented gathering of dignitaries past and present, celebrities and thousands of ordinary South Africans at the main memorial service for Nelson Mandela.
10 Dec 2013 - 4:26pm More on Nelson MandelaChina Everbright Bank, a Beijing-based lender making its third tilt at a Hong Kong flotation, says it will be able to meet more stringent mainland capital requirements within two years after raising fresh equity capital.
10 Dec 2013 - 2:39pm More on China Everbright BankInflation on the mainland eased last month from October, which could take the pressure off Beijing to further tighten its credit policy.
10 Dec 2013 - 2:56amChu Kin-lan has already shuttered six of 11 offices of her real estate agency, Bo Fung Property Agency, and let go half of her 70 employees amid Hong Kong's toughest curbs on home buying in its history. The worst pain may be still to come.
10 Dec 2013 - 2:58am 5 commentsThe government's cooling measures for the overheated property market have been in force for 10 months. Yet prices remain high, making it harder for average people to buy their own home.
10 Dec 2013 - 2:58am 6 commentsTaiwanese comic artist Chris Tseng Hsin-chieh and his Hong Kong friend Juno Man Chun-lun set up a Facebook page three months ago just for their own amusement.
9 Dec 2013 - 8:10pm 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 - 5:45amThe deaf have fought to preserve sign language in the past. Fifty deaf students protested a ban on sign language with a strike in 1973 at the Hong Kong School for the Deaf, the first such school in Hong Kong, established in 1935. The students boycotted classes, but to no avail.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:56pm More on LIFEBright 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
Australian bowling coach Craig McDermott had a chilling warning for England on Tuesday – Mitchell Johnson can go even faster on his home ground in Perth.
10 Dec 2013 - 11:40amArsenal legend Patrick Vieira has revealed he started the infamous tunnel row between the Gunners and Manchester United in 2005.
10 Dec 2013 - 11:06amPresident 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 - 5:39pmWrecked cars sit on the Chengzilu Highway in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, after a 19-car pile-up that killed eight people and injured 23 others, Chinese factory worker Zhang Fuxing takes daily walks
Qinghai Lake is the largest lake in China.
Severe smog weather has been enveloping an extensive area of eastern China including the metropolis cities of Shanghai and Nanjing.
Some 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
Wrecked cars sit on the Chengzilu Highway in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, after a 19
Severe smog weather has been enveloping an extensive area of eastern China includi
Some of the ice will be used as building blocks in a local winter garden, girls at
