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More than 100 grieving relatives and friends gathered at a funeral parlour on Penghu Island to pay their respects to their loved ones on board TransAsia Airways flight 222.
Friday, 25 July, 2014, 6:45pmNo one survived the crash of an Air Algerie flight over Mali, French President Francois Hollande said on Friday, adding that the plane’s black box flight recorder had been found.
25 Jul 2014 - 5:56pm 1 commentThree siblings on board the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over the Ukraine grew up in Hong Kong and were much-loved students at the Australian International School.
26 Jul 2014 - 3:03am 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Australian troops plan to join a police contingent helping to secure the site in Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday.
26 Jul 2014 - 4:29am More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Food safety authorities on Friday said they would investigate McDonald’s Hong Kong’s failure to disclose its imports of meat products from a mainland factory at the centre of a rotten meat scandal.
25 Jul 2014 - 11:41pm 49 comments More on China Food ScandalsChinese authorities on Friday executed a Japanese man who had been sentenced to death in connection with smuggling a stimulant drug, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said.
25 Jul 2014 - 1:59pm 12 commentsAirspace intrusion has caused nearly 100 aviation accidents and the permanent shutdown of more than 10 military airbases on the mainland in the past 20 years, says PLA.
25 Jul 2014 - 4:59pmSupporters of the local dialect of Guangdong are campaigning to name July 25 "Cantonese Day", it being the anniversary of boisterous street rallies four years ago in support of the language.
25 Jul 2014 - 5:59pm 22 commentsMcDonald’s China says it will carry on using scandal-hit meat supplier OSI Group on the mainland because “it is riskier to find another local supplier”.
25 Jul 2014 - 5:38pm 4 commentsSouth Korean President Park Geun-Hye held a rare meeting with a Japanese politician yesterday as she received visiting Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe despite a virtual freeze in diplomatic ties.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," wrote Leo Tolstoy. The same might be said of peace and war (to invert the order of the author's most famous novel).
26 Jul 2014 - 4:24am 2 commentsJuly 28, 2014 marks the centenary of the first world war’s outbreak in Europe. A hundred years later, the story of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers, the largest non-European labour contingent in the war, is only slowly being rediscovered.
25 Jul 2014 - 11:03pmAn official probe is under way into the McDonald's "rotten meat" scandal, focusing on whether the fast-food giant knowingly sold potentially tainted food to the Hong Kong public over a four-day period this week.
26 Jul 2014 - 2:59am 1 comment More on China Food ScandalsThree siblings on board the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over the Ukraine grew up in Hong Kong and were much-loved students at the Australian International School.
26 Jul 2014 - 3:03am 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Ma Ying-jeou yesterday ordered transport authorities to improve flight safety, as the head of airline TransAsia Airways apologised to relatives of victims killed when one of its planes crashed on the resort island of Penghu.
26 Jul 2014 - 3:01amChinese relatives of passengers of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 claim they were detained by Beijing police for nearly 24 hours after demanding to see the carrier's official video footage showing people boarding the doomed flight.
26 Jul 2014 - 2:52am 2 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370The United Nations has called on Japan to accept full blame for pressing women from Korea and other Asian nations into sexual slavery in the second world war.
25 Jul 2014 - 11:15pm 1 commentThe ex-general who lost Indonesia's presidential election to Jakarta governor Joko Widodo mounted a legal challenge to the result yesterday, alleging widespread electoral fraud and irregularities in vote counting.
26 Jul 2014 - 1:24amNo one survived the crash of an Air Algerie flight over Mali, French President Francois Hollande said on Friday, adding that the plane’s black box flight recorder had been found.
25 Jul 2014 - 5:56pm 1 commentNearly 300 passengers are killed when their plane is shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine. Airlines suspend flights to Israel's largest airport after rocket attacks. An airliner crashes during a storm in Taiwan, and yet another crashes in West Africa.
26 Jul 2014 - 1:27am More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17President Xi Jinping believes a slight slowdown in economic growth would be acceptable, Li Yang, a deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told a briefing yesterday as the government think tank said growth could ease to as low as 6.4 per cent.
26 Jul 2014 - 5:02amLVMH has seen a drop in demand from Chinese buyers in its home market and overseas, as well as a slowdown in Hong Kong because of political unrest, the French fashion, spirits and cosmetics group said after posting below-forecast second-quarter sales and profits.
26 Jul 2014 - 12:11amVacancy rates for retail outlets, at their highest in three years in four shopping districts, will head higher still by early next year, but not enough to bring down rents by more than a modest amount, analysts say.
26 Jul 2014 - 1:38amHigh construction costs and strong demand are seen keeping property prices high although new private housing supply over the next three to four years is set to push inventory to an eight-year high, analysts say.
26 Jul 2014 - 1:38amBack in 1976, not many aspiring singer-songwriters recording their debut albums were lucky enough to have Eric Clapton turn up at the studio to contribute a couple of guitar solos.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:53pmTattooed 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 - 1:49amEver since the invention of the MP3 file in 1993, the music industry has been in flux. From illegal file-sharing to YouTube, from downloads to streaming services, it continues to pioneer new ways to consume content, and new business models.
25 Jul 2014 - 1:49amDone 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
The cast of Downton Abbey come to the aid of Guangxi’s moon bears
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
The personal touch is what attracts diners to small, cosy restaurants
As his team hoped, Vincenzo Nibali has demonstrated he's the "boss" of the Tour de France. Just don't compare him to the last rider to regularly bear that sobriquet at cycling's greatest race, Lance Armstrong.
26 Jul 2014 - 12:40amWelsh 400m hurdler Rhys Williams, son of 1970s Wales and British Lion rugby icon "JJ" Williams, has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games after failing a doping test.
26 Jul 2014 - 12:42amA good burger is a joy to behold. Our team put 16 of the city's most popular versions to the test.
24 Jul 2014 - 12:15pm 15 commentsThe time is ripe to get your hands dirty and sign up for one of the city's budding organic farming workshops.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:21pmA new island formed by volcanic activity off the uninhabited Japanese island of Nishinoshima has grown sixfold, while a little girl lies in a pile of foam during Foam Day in Utah, and more ...
July 28, 2014 marks the centenary of the First World War’s outbreak in Europe.
Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her son Supasek Amornchat arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport, while German pianist Stefan Aaron plays over the sky, and more ...
The rusty hulk of the cruise liner Costa Concordia sits in the sea in northern Italy, while children look at the body of a beached young humpback whale lying on the shore, and more ...
With the thermometer nudging 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the mainland's south and in the low 30s in Hong Kong, it's hard to beat a water park, such as in Enshi and Chongqing.
A new island formed by volcanic activity off the uninhabited Japanese island of Ni
Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her son Supasek Amornchat arriv
The rusty hulk of the cruise liner Costa Concordia sits in the sea in northern Ita
With the thermometer nudging 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the mainland's so
