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China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, in a move targeting one of the ruling Communist Party’s most powerful men.
Tuesday, 29 July, 2014, 6:36pm 3 comments More on Zhou YongkangUS federal immigration officials released Asian gambling kingpin from custody on Monday in latest twist to saga around alleged leading member of Hong Kong’s 14K triad.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:03pmMainland business authorities are investigating Microsoft, the US technology giant confirmed yesterday, with reports that the focus was on antitrust behaviour.
29 Jul 2014 - 9:31am 16 comments More on MicrosoftStudent campaigners have reacted with mixed feelings after the success of a rare public protest against a proposed “elite” training school at China’s most prestigious university.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:20pm 1 commentPhotojournalist Alex Hofford visited the turbulent and crime-ridden border between China and Myanmar, to report on the rampant trade in endangered species there.
29 Jul 2014 - 5:35pm More on Myanmar's changing ties with ChinaChina’s top anti-graft body has established a new office to go after corrupt officials who have fled abroad and retrieve their illicit funds, an official says.
29 Jul 2014 - 5:21pmOwners of Jumei.com apologised on Monday after a media investigation revealed that a third-party store had sold fake luxury products through its website.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:44pmChinese officials painted a rectangular running track at a stadium as they rushed preparations for a visit by their superiors.
29 Jul 2014 - 5:21pm 7 commentsEight Chinese airports won't allow landings this afternoon due to PLA exercises in East China Sea, with capacity at Shanghai’s two airports cut by 75 per cent, mainland’s civilian air traffic authority warns.
29 Jul 2014 - 5:40pm 4 commentsThe public trial of a foreign couple linked to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is set for August 8, a Shanghai court said on Tuesday.
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It hits women every day, everywhere. It hit my friend when she travelled on the MTR and was groped by a man in a carriage full of people.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:02pm 3 commentsOn Hainan Island, a fishing boat captain has one hi-tech piece of equipment: a navigation system that gives him a direct link to the Chinese coastguard should he run into bad weather or a Philippine or Vietnamese patrol ship when he's fishing in the disputed South China Sea.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:43am 1 commentDespite controversy over their presence in Hong Kong, mainland visitors were happier with their experience in the city last year than the year before, according to a study.
29 Jul 2014 - 6:36pm More on Chinese touristsJust over 60 minibus drivers protested against the planned Occupy Central sit-in, by parking their buses along busy Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:42pm 18 comments More on Occupy CentralChina’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, in a move targeting one of the ruling Communist Party’s most powerful men.
29 Jul 2014 - 6:32pm 3 comments More on Zhou YongkangThe public trial of a foreign couple linked to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is set for August 8, a Shanghai court said on Tuesday.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:56pmPresident 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 - 5:13pmFireworks danced across the sky in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night, ahead of yesterday's Hari Raya Puasa holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
28 Jul 2014 - 11:27pm More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Israeli tank fire hit the fuel depot of the Gaza Strip’s only power plant on Tuesday, witnesses said, cutting electricity to Gaza City and many other parts of the Palestinian enclave of 1.8 million people.
29 Jul 2014 - 5:55pmUS federal immigration officials released Asian gambling kingpin from custody on Monday in latest twist to saga around alleged leading member of Hong Kong’s 14K triad.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:03pmConcern about the ability of markets to provide income equity for the least able members of the work force has given the minimum wage its strong social appeal.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:47pm 2 commentsTight supply and stricter vehicle pollution control standards on the mainland will continue to be key drivers of higher prices of palladium this year and next year, even as the industrial metal’s price reached a 13-year peak, analysts say.
29 Jul 2014 - 10:58amDevelopers 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.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:08pmNew residential projects where discounts and subsidies for extra stamp duty are being offered have revived buying interest from investors who stayed on the sidelines after the government introduced a series of measures to rein in runaway home prices.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:59pmHong 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 LIFETattooed on the left forearm of chef Bruno Menard are three Michelin stars, an indelible souvenir of his culinary achievement at L'Osier, a restaurant opened by cosmetics maker Shiseido in Tokyo.
25 Jul 2014 - 1:49amInventor 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
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Three-time Sydney champion Nash Rawiller will join the riding ranks for a four-month-stint in Hong Kong from September 21.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:40pm
The estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling can proceed with the record US$2 billion sale of the NBA team despite her husband’s objections, a judge ruled on Monday, in a likely close to a case of lingering racism in American sports.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:01amAs 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 6 commentsA 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.
Fields of gold - A woman walks through a maze of bright yellow blooms covering a field during a three - day sunflower festival in the town of Nogi, Tochigi prefecture, a mother and daughter cross a
The forests of southwest China are among the safest and most hospitable places on earth … for elephants.
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
Fields of gold - A woman walks through a maze of bright yellow blooms covering a f
The forests of southwest China are among the safest and most hospitable places on
