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More than 10 people are believed to be missing after a speedboat allegedly used to transport illegal immigrants from mainland China capsized off Macau on Friday.
Friday, 27 February, 2015, 1:42pmApple is due to enter China's hugely lucrative luxury watch market with the launch of the Apple Watch, which will debut at an event on March 9, the company announced this week.
27 Feb 2015 - 1:59pm More on AppleThe owner of a Tesla electric car in China's Sichuan province came up with an innovative way of charging his vehicle: plug it directly into a power line.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:39pm 1 comment More on TeslaA half-naked "mentally ill" young woman was rescued by internet activists after being locked in a room for five years by her Chinese family after a dispute with her mother.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:21pm 1 commentA ranking Taiwan transport official on Thursday reiterated opposition to China’s planned corridors for commercial flights above the Taiwan Strait, suggesting the use of military planes for interception after the new airspace is implemented.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:16pmChen Shih-chih became a hostage by accident – bumping into armed inmates at Kaohsiung Prison on February 11 as he belatedly ran to the scene 30 minutes after siege began
27 Feb 2015 - 6:53pmChina is to scrap its controversial plan to build luxury public conveniences in tourist spots and instead will replace them with cleaner, more practical facilities as part of its “toilet revo-loo-tion”, the Beijing News reports.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:20pmBeijing has narrowed the controversial definition of "terrorism" in the revised draft of its counterterrorism law by removing a reference to "thought" as a crime.
27 Feb 2015 - 8:15am 5 commentsChina now has more diesel- and nuclear-powered vessels than the US, although their quality is inferior, a top US Navy admiral tells American lawmakers
26 Feb 2015 - 4:27pm 11 commentsArgentina's Congress has approved the installation of a Chinese satellite tracking station in the South American country's Patagonia region.
27 Feb 2015 - 3:20am 1 commentBut, unlike the UK and USA, Leeson believes both Hong Kong and Singapore are better placed than other markets to avoid such wrongdoing.
27 Feb 2015 - 2:52pmBeijing is committed to launching maritime cooperation with Sri Lanka amid concerns over the cancellation of a port development project in Colombo led by a Chinese company.
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Last week, China and Russia announced their intention to plan joint commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war. Such cuddling up on the world stage may appear merely a modern political convenience against Western antipathy.
27 Feb 2015 - 4:22pm 1 commentThe government's more generous than expected budget sweeteners have cheered the middle class, the poor, small businesses and even property developers.
27 Feb 2015 - 9:55amNorman Chan Tak-Lam today announced measures to cool Hong Kong's property market after the city's house prices had reached what he called an historical high.
27 Feb 2015 - 5:58pm 5 comments More on Hong Kong Budget 2015The abusive former employer of Indonesian domestic worker Erwiana Sulistyaningsih was sentenced to six years in prison and fined HK$15,000 at the District Court this morning.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:58pm 40 comments More on Erwiana SulistyaningsihChina is expanding its outposts in the South China Sea to include stationing for ships and potential airfields as part of its “aggressive” effort to exert sovereignty, the US intelligence chief said on Thursday.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:13pmBeijing is committed to launching maritime cooperation with Sri Lanka amid concerns over the cancellation of a port development project in Colombo led by a Chinese company.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:17pmNorth Korea ramped up its threatening language against the United States on Friday, days before the start of annual joint US-South Korean military exercises that often trigger an angry response from Pyongyang.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:10pmMachete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
27 Feb 2015 - 7:09pmThe parliament in Germany, Europe’s largest economy and effective paymaster, on Friday overwhelmingly backed a four-month extension of Greece’s bailout programme by international creditors.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:41pmInvestigators believe that the “Jihadi John” masked fighter who fronted Islamic State beheading videos is a British man named Mohammed Emwazi, two US government sources said on Thursday.
26 Feb 2015 - 10:40pm 1 commentChina will sign a series of flagship agreements with countries including Kazakhstan and Pakistan next month as part of Beijing’s plan to revive economic development along the ancient Silk Road, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Friday.
27 Feb 2015 - 9:36amNew World Development is optimistic on the outlook of the Hong Kong property market, after posting a modest 5 per cent gain in underlying profit to HK$4.41 billion for the six months to December.
27 Feb 2015 - 1:31pm More on New World Development CoSome Chinese developers are planning to raise prices for new luxury projects in prime areas this year, in a rare sign of improving sentiment in a market that saw new home prices fall for the last eight months of 2014.
24 Feb 2015 - 6:22pm More on China PropertyGreenland Hong Kong, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the mainland’s largest developer by sales, announced it would diversify into internet finance this year, hoping to capitalise on the cyber world to offer financial services to cash-strapped mainland developers.
11 Feb 2015 - 6:11am More on China PropertyAn unprecedented lesbian kiss between two high school students on a popular South Korean TV drama has fuelled a debate about portrayals of sexuality in a rapidly modernising society with deeply conservative roots.
27 Feb 2015 - 2:50pmFood and models are not an obvious pairing. Yet increasingly they are moving from catwalk to kitchen - among them Hong Kong's Amanda Strang, supermodels Jourdan Dunn and Karlie Kloss, and Helena Rizzo, named world's best woman chef.
27 Feb 2015 - 10:13amThe owner of a Tesla electric car in China's Sichuan province came up with an innovative way of charging his vehicle: plug it directly into a power line.
27 Feb 2015 - 6:39pm 1 comment More on TeslaRobert and Sally Lo, the hearts and minds behind the Hong Kong Cancer Fund
Adrenaline junky Kenny Chiang is China’s only competing aerobatic pilot
Alfresco dining is gaining popularity among busy Hongkongers who want to unwind
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
Fans and media heaped praise on Italy’s World Cup winning-coach Marcello Lippi on Friday, after he resigned from Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande following three trophy-laden years.
27 Feb 2015 - 1:22pmChinese pace-setters Dongfeng Race Team clung to a slim lead yesterday as the Volvo Ocean Race's fourth leg looked set for a grandstand finish.
27 Feb 2015 - 11:39amThe British actor delivers a nuanced turn as the riddle-solving father of computer science with a brilliant mind and a tortured soul.
25 Feb 2015 - 10:30pmYou know Roy Ayers' music, even if you don't know you know it. He has more than 90 albums to his name, and claims to be the most sampled musician in history.
25 Feb 2015 - 11:09pm More on Hong Kong gigsThis week Hong Kong plays host to the world’s biggest gathering of fur traders at the International Fur and Fashion Fair in Wan Chai.
Polar bear Milk hams it up with a gas pipe over her head as she climbs out of her pool at Kushiro City Zoo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, a tiger cub jumped to its death from a building in Shandong p
A four-storey building at a privately owned school collapsed in Shenzhen, while Filipino soldiers and policemen link arms as they march in the Philippines, and more ...
Snowfall during the Lunar New Year period in many northern parts of the mainland brought not only fun and games for vacationers and traditional hopes for a fruitful year ahead, but also travel disr
Stunt planes get the annual Australian International Airshow off to an explosive start, while doctors work to separate 10-month-old conjoined twin girls in Houston, and more ...
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Polar bear Milk hams it up with a gas pipe over her head as she climbs out of her
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Snowfall during the Lunar New Year period in many northern parts of the mainland b
Stunt planes get the annual Australian International Airshow off to an explosive s
!["[Alan Turing's] importance is massive compared to how people know him," says Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the code-breaking scientist in The Imitation Game.](http://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/308x191/public/2015/02/16/53cec1cbe3190f7a1235440e372e8e10.jpg?itok=2GHHSqUc "\"[Alan Turing's] importance is massive compared to how people know him,\" says Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the code-breaking scientist in The Imitation Game.")
