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China and the United States have pledged to keep each other better informed of their major military activities and launch consultation on rules of behaviour in military and maritime affairs as they seek to contain conflicts.
Friday, 11 July, 2014, 9:30am 5 commentsEight kindergarten pupils and three adults died in central China after the minivan they were in crashed into a pond, state media reported on Friday.
11 Jul 2014 - 11:15am 1 commentUS Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday denounced the "chilling effect" of internet hacking on American businesses as he wrapped up two days of high-level talks with Chinese government officials.
11 Jul 2014 - 8:28am 1 commentUS Treasury Secretary Jack Lew praised the annual dialogue with his Chinese counterparts as "good and productive", after Beijing agreed to reduce intervention in the currency market as conditions permit.
11 Jul 2014 - 4:36amA US federal judge on Thursday sentenced a California chemical engineer to 15 years in prison and fined him US$28.3 million for selling China a secret recipe to a widely used white pigment.
11 Jul 2014 - 11:21amThe birth rate has remained stable following the mainland's easing of the one-child policy, a senior official in charge family planning has said. But the authorities would not allow all parents to have a second child.
11 Jul 2014 - 8:16amScholars working for the CASS should be judged mainly on their loyalty to communist ideology, the People's Daily has said, in yet another warning for the think tank's academics to toe the party line.
11 Jul 2014 - 9:19amGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel went home from her trip to China with more than just multibillion-dollar trade deals and a five-yuan (HK$6.30) bag of Sichuan chilli bean paste she picked up at a wet market in Chengdu.
11 Jul 2014 - 9:20amState broadcaster CCTV has accused the Bank of China of offering a money laundering service to wealthy mainlanders and helping them to siphon cash out of the country.
11 Jul 2014 - 7:59am 12 comments More on Bank of ChinaChinese law limits individual citizens to the equivalent of US$50,000 per year in foreign exchange, meaning that anyone who wants to spend more than that overseas must look for alternative ways to move money out.
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Hong Kong has long branded itself "Asia's world city", with some justification. It was ranked first in Ernst and Young's 2012 Globalisation Index, and leads the world in the trend towards greater integration of goods and services, technology and capital.
11 Jul 2014 - 4:04am 6 commentsThe World Cup game between Honduras and Switzerland last week wasn't a particularly glamorous match-up, but it may have been historic nonetheless.
11 Jul 2014 - 4:16amThe chief executive's wife has criticised the media for its coverage of an online post by her daughter that depicted a slashed wrist, and urged it to stop reporting on her situation.
11 Jul 2014 - 11:25am 28 commentsPlanned arts and cultural facilities at the West Kowloon arts hub were projected in 2005 to incur losses of up to HK$300 million a year, a corruption trial involving Rafael Hui heard yesterday.
11 Jul 2014 - 7:29amGuo Meiling, who stepped into the public eye after flaunting her wealth online three years ago, was detained by Beijing police for illegally gambling on World Cup matches.
11 Jul 2014 - 11:04amEight kindergarten pupils and three adults died in central China after the minivan they were in crashed into a pond, state media reported on Friday.
11 Jul 2014 - 11:15am 1 commentForty-two Taiwanese and two mainland Chinese suspects have been arrested in the Philippines over a sophisticated internet scam targeting compatriots back home, police said yesterday.
10 Jul 2014 - 11:12pmHeavy rain continued to hit wide areas of Japan and affected traffic on Thursday due to typhoon Neoguri making landfall on the southernmost main island of Kyushu earlier in the day before it moved further east, the Japan Meteorological Agency said
11 Jul 2014 - 9:45amIsraeli warplanes on Friday kept up deadly raids on Gaza but failed to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets across the border, as US President Barack Obama in a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government was willing to broker a ceasefire.
11 Jul 2014 - 11:22amA US federal judge on Thursday sentenced a California chemical engineer to 15 years in prison and fined him US$28.3 million for selling China a secret recipe to a widely used white pigment.
11 Jul 2014 - 11:21amPolicymakers and business leaders need to embrace the unknown if they want to make better decisions, and not be afraid of publicly saying, “I don’t know”, Nobel economics laureate Lars Peter Hansen said.
11 Jul 2014 - 11:18am“Name a brand that has an iconic item,” said Nick Woodhouse, president of Juicy Couture’s parent, Authentic Brands.
He paused before saying: “I’m not going to compare Juicy Couture to Hermes, but Hermes, you know, [has] the Birkin bag.
11 Jul 2014 - 10:26amHousing affordability is back in focus as property prices in the city show signs of picking up.
11 Jul 2014 - 4:30amHong Kong-listed mainland developer Landsea Green Properties is negotiating with mainland financial firms with a view to introducing them as strategic investors via issuance of additional shares, chairman Tian Ming said yesterday, without giving a specific timetable.
11 Jul 2014 - 1:31amThe Sandstorm ran into trouble when Ai Weiwei, who had agreed to play a cameo role, complained he never agreed to be promoted as the star or gave consent to use his image or name to promote the film.
9 Jul 2014 - 8:23pm 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 - 12:09amThe cloud is everywhere, and conventional wisdom suggests that optical discs - the CD, the VCD, the DVD and even the Blu-ray disc - are being superseded by streaming to televisions, tablets and smartphones.
11 Jul 2014 - 12:09amAn 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
An executive from the World Cup’s hospitality services firm escaped out the back door of his plush Rio de Janeiro hotel on Thursday to avoid arrest on charges of illegally selling tickets, authorities said.
11 Jul 2014 - 10:38am More on World Cup 2014Crocked Brazilian star Neymar declared he wants Lionel Messi to lead fierce rivals Argentina to victory over Germany as the countdown to the World Cup final began.
11 Jul 2014 - 10:15am More on World Cup 2014There's something for everyone in Macau. Here's three ways to get the best out of the city.
10 Jul 2014 - 10:54amDining out in Macau need not be a costly affair. Here are eight restaurants that should satisfy your gastronomic cravings without breaking the bank.
9 Jul 2014 - 11:07pmA 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
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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
