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A nationalist newspaper has tried to put a positive spin on China’s smog, claiming it is conducive to the country's military defence strategy. Smog, it argued, could thwart missile attacks and hamper hostile reconnaissance.
Monday, 9 December, 2013, 6:22pm 5 comments More on Air PollutionNorth 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 - 12:16am 1 comment More on Kim Jong-unPolice in Singapore have arrested 27 South Asian suspects after a riot broke out on Sunday evening in Little India, officials said in a dawn press conference.
9 Dec 2013 - 11:11am 5 commentsA Chinese factory worker says walking in huge iron shoes weighing more than 200kg each can cure back pain, but faces hefty competition in his bid to build the country’s heaviest footwear.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:59pmHackers in China have leaked a database of an estimated 20 million hotel reservations on multiple websites and even WeChat, the wildly popular messaging service, reflecting failed government efforts to prevent massive leaks of personal data.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:41pmEnvironmentalists hailed on Monday a Chinese government ban on serving shark’s fin, bird’s nest soup and other wild animal products at official functions, saying it will set a precedent that will help protect endangered species.
9 Dec 2013 - 4:59pm 1 commentChina’s top court and top legislature are at odds over the abolition of a notorious criminal charge of having sex with the under-age, according to a Beijing Times report.
9 Dec 2013 - 12:57pmDesperate to defuse Thailand's deepening political crisis, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she was dissolving the lower house of parliament and called for early elections. But the moves did nothing to stem a growing tide of more than 150,000 protesters vowing to overthrow her.
9 Dec 2013 - 10:20pm 4 comments More on Yingluck ShinawatraChinese Vice President Li Yuanchao will attend the funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela as a special representative of President Xi Jinping, Xinhua reported.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:49pm More on Nelson Mandela
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Last week, a pleased Shanghai doctor who performed a successful cataract operation gingerly led his patient to the window for him to see the city's skyline for the first time, but instead of a delightful cry, the patient batted his eyelids several times and began to shout at the doctor for botching the job.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:35pm 2 commentsLast month saw the launch of this year's World Wide Web Foundation annual Web Index report, which is the world's first measure of the web's contribution to social, economic and political development in 81 countries.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:21am 2 commentsAn 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.
9 Dec 2013 - 8:44pmThey 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.
Former Executive Council member Barry Cheung Chun-yuen was on Monday ordered by the High Court to repay more than HK$33.4 million as a guarantee for a loan borrowed by his company.
9 Dec 2013 - 9:53pmAlthough the Legislative Council meeting on electoral reform on Monday was punctuated by shouts and fiery words, the chief secretary remained confident in being able to bridge the divide between the administration and the pan-democrats.
9 Dec 2013 - 9:38pm 4 commentsLi Yining, one of China’s most famous economists, has given top marks to his former student Premier Li Keqiang in a recent online chat.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:44pm 1 commentChinese Vice President Li Yuanchao will attend the funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela as a special representative of President Xi Jinping, Xinhua reported.
9 Dec 2013 - 2:49pm More on Nelson MandelaDesperate to defuse Thailand's deepening political crisis, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she was dissolving the lower house of parliament and called for early elections. But the moves did nothing to stem a growing tide of more than 150,000 protesters vowing to overthrow her.
9 Dec 2013 - 10:20pm 4 comments More on Yingluck ShinawatraNorth 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 - 12:16am 1 comment More on Kim Jong-unChinese 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, who was hailed as a friend of the Chinese people abroad and in his homeland.
9 Dec 2013 - 9:16pm More on Nelson MandelaA massive winter storm that left parts of the southeastern United States in a deep freeze pushed up the east coast, with snow and ice snarling road travel and forcing airline cancellations.
9 Dec 2013 - 9:43pmGoldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank are among five Wall Street firms in addition to JPMorgan Chase whose hiring practices in China are being probed by regulators in the United States, it was reported yesterday.
9 Dec 2013 - 5:27am 4 comments More on JPMorgan ChaseAn unlikely beneficiary of the liberalisation drive initiated by the third plenum may be the tightly controlled media industry, where the Communist Party leadership is pushing for greater digital orientation and has indicated it is open to private and even overseas investment.
9 Dec 2013 - 4:50amPrivate equity firm Gaw Capital Partners is poised to take minority stakes in four commercial property acquisitions in the United States and Britain in ventures with mainland Chinese and Asian partners, involving a gross value of US$1 billion.
9 Dec 2013 - 4:51amLegal experts and property consultants have called for a clear tax policy for international property investors in Britain after the government announced a capital gains tax on foreign property investments.
7 Dec 2013 - 2:51am 1 commentTaiwanese 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
The Hong Kong Open is likely to be played in October next year as organisers try to make the event more attractive to potential title sponsors by returning to a choice slot in the European Tour's Race to Dubai.
9 Dec 2013 - 9:26pmAustralia captured England’s four remaining wickets within an hour to close out an emphatic 218-run victory in the second Ashes test on Monday and push England to the brink of a humiliating series defeat.
9 Dec 2013 - 11:46amPresident 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 - 5:39pmSevere 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
Mandela passed away Thursday night after a long illness. He was 95.
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
