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A leading anchor with China Central Television was taken away for investigation on Friday, mainland media reported. Rui Chenggang's sudden departure left an empty seat beside his co-host.
Sunday, 13 July, 2014, 9:58am More on CCTVTaiwan's Democratic Progressive Party may agree to put its pro-independence stance on hold, paving the way for possible talks with Beijing.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:41amChina and the United States are finding it harder to accommodate each other, many observers believe, despite both nations putting a positive spin on the outcome of annual high-level talks.
13 Jul 2014 - 10:31amThe latest round of PLA promotions shows President Xi Jinping is moving ahead with overhaul of the army's leadership, analysts say. Xi promoted four lieutenant generals to the rank of general on Friday.
13 Jul 2014 - 10:26am More on Xi JinpingFinancial regulators in the US suspended trading in a social-networking company with no assets, no revenues and one employee, whose value on the stock market soared to US$6 billion in a matter of weeks.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:47amApple has rebutted a report by state media which claimed a feature in the iPhone that tracks a user's location could be a national security threat.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:47am 2 comments More on AppleSeismologists said an earthquake that struck near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant was an aftershock of the quake that sparked 2011's deadly tsunami.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:38am 1 comment More on Fukushima nuclear disasterBarack Obama recently singled out Myanmar as a foreign policy victory - a country that had emerged from decades of military rule and turned toward the West, thanks in part to US diplomacy.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:43am More on FocusThe United States wants China and rival countries to voluntarily halt actions aggravating territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
13 Jul 2014 - 10:22am 3 commentsNegotiations between the government and victims - including four children - of a secret CIA rendition flight from Chek Lap Kok have come to a standstill, more than two years after lawyers alerted officials to the case.
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Drones, for most people, are the unmanned aerial vehicles that the US uses for surveillance and missile attacks in terror-prone parts of the world. But these war-ready machines comprise only a tiny percentage of the market, with most being in the hands of users ranging from amateur photographers to university researchers.
13 Jul 2014 - 6:14am 2 commentsBarack Obama recently singled out Myanmar as a foreign policy victory - a country that had emerged from decades of military rule and turned toward the West, thanks in part to US diplomacy.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:43amTwo auxiliary bishops newly appointed by the Vatican have spoken out about the Occupy Central campaign, saying the church supports civil disobedience when it's for the common good.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:45am 5 comments More on Occupy CentralA HK$1.6 billion request for funds to redevelop Queen Mary Hospital received unanimous support from lawmakers, passing in the final minute of the Legislative Council Finance Committee's final meeting before the summer break.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:11am 5 commentsA leading anchor with China Central Television was taken away for investigation on Friday, mainland media reported. Rui Chenggang's sudden departure left an empty seat beside his co-host.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:58am More on CCTVThe United States wants China and rival countries to voluntarily halt actions aggravating territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
13 Jul 2014 - 10:22am 3 commentsNorth Korea launched two projectiles presumed to be ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, South Korea said, the latest in a series of test-firings seen as expressions of anger over its failure to win talks on receiving outside aid, and over ongoing US-South Korean military drills.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:51amA Japanese nursing-care service provider requires Filipino job applicants sign a statement absolving the company of any responsibility should they die in Japan, the statement obtained by Kyodo News showed Saturday.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:40amLarge multinational corporations could develop their own highly capable security forces. Criminals and terrorists will have access to increasingly cheap unmanned drones and space satellites. Sophisticated environmental warfare will spread plant and human diseases through insects.
13 Jul 2014 - 7:14amAfter days of around-the-clock rocket and missile fire that has left more than 125 Palestinians dead and several Israelis injured, the latest bout of fighting in and around the Gaza Strip has produced no clear winners.
13 Jul 2014 - 6:32amFinancial regulators in the US suspended trading in a social-networking company with no assets, no revenues and one employee, whose value on the stock market soared to US$6 billion in a matter of weeks.
13 Jul 2014 - 9:47amThe Bank of China cash-transfer service at the centre of money laundering allegations could escalate the sabre-rattling between the mainland's liberal-minded bankers and conservative regulators.
12 Jul 2014 - 4:36am 3 comments More on Bank of ChinaTiny flats on offer at Cheung Kong's Mont Vert in Tai Po are set to cause a big impact among investors and first-time buyers. The 1,071-unit project in Fung Yuen offers 196 flats with sizes of less than 200 sq ft.
12 Jul 2014 - 2:38am 22 commentsTop-end properties are once again the talk of the town, with some recent prices ranking among the top five deals ever.
12 Jul 2014 - 12:53amDirector Scott Derrickson describes his film, Deliver Us from Evil, as " Serpico meets The Exorcist".
12 Jul 2014 - 8:37pm More on LIFESelling Australian-grown Périgord truffles to French chefs may seem a foolhardy, even impossible goal, but that is exactly what The Truffle & Wine Co has successfully done.
11 Jul 2014 - 12:09amWhen Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sat down for a rare frank and open chat with the veteran technology venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, they admitted, among other things, that Google was interested in health care but scared of its intense regulation.
13 Jul 2014 - 3:10am More on GoogleDelhi’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
The Academy for Performing Arts honours the city’s great and good
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
The personal touch is what attracts diners to small, cosy restaurants
Louis van Gaal on Saturday sought to temper expectations among Manchester United fans excited about his impending arrival at Old Trafford – but then suggested Dutch star Arjen Robben could possibly join him at the club.
13 Jul 2014 - 10:11am More on World Cup 2014Brazil’s traumatic World Cup ended with more pain on Saturday as they lost 3-0 to a superior Netherlands side in the third-place play-off at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium in Brasilia.
13 Jul 2014 - 10:11am More on World Cup 2014Haunted by their past, veterans of the Vietnam war are returning to former battlefields to make peace with the ghosts of the conflict and help those who are still picking up the pieces, writes Eric San Juan.
12 Jul 2014 - 11:21pmAs the vibrant Kathputli Colony prepares for redevelopment, its resident puppeteers, snake charmers and street artists fear losing their homes will also destroy their livelihoods, writes Bibek Bhandari.
13 Jul 2014 - 10:17amA five-year-old Muslim girl mourns her uncle at the Srebenica genocide memorial in Bosnia, while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talks with retired basketball star Yao Ming, and more ...
Customers wait in the heat to enter a store called Cannabis City during the first day of legal retail marijuana sales in Seattle, while residents cool off from the summer heat in Xian, and more ...
The world's third-largest democracy is divided over two very different choices: Joko Widodo, a one-time furniture maker, and Prabowo Subianto, a wealthy ex-army general with close links to former d
The FingerReader ring enables people with visual disabilities to read text printed on paper or a screen, while lightning strikes north of Gillette early Monday morning, and more ...
Revelers from around the world in Pamplona take part in an eight-day event of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises".
A five-year-old Muslim girl mourns her uncle at the Srebenica genocide memorial in
Customers wait in the heat to enter a store called Cannabis City during the first
The world's third-largest democracy is divided over two very different choices: Jo
The FingerReader ring enables people with visual disabilities to read text printed
Revelers from around the world in Pamplona take part in an eight-day event of the
