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China will sign a series of agreements with countries including Kazakhstan and Pakistan next month as part of Beijing's plan to stimulate economic development along the ancient Silk Road.
Saturday, 28 February, 2015, 3:11amWidespread criticism of Hongkongers, including calls for travel boycotts to the territory, have emerged in mainland online forums in the wake of angry protests against tourist shoppers in Sha Tin and Tuen Mun.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:50am 1 commentGuangdong is rolling out a province-wide pilot scheme that will let domestic companies invest in any part of the economy that is not clearly labeled out of bounds.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:41amMore than 200 million rural households around the nation will be interviewed as part of efforts to prepare an accurate record of farming rights
27 Feb 2015 - 7:13pmChen 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 - 7:48pmAmerica's immigrant investor visa, hugely popular with wealthy Chinese, could be used to defraud applicants, a group that advises US Congress has warned.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:42amWill the Shanghai government learn from the fatal New Year's Eve stampede on the Bund? Promises usually come quickly from politicians after a major tragedy, but after a few months, delivery takes a back seat to more immediate concerns.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:10amBeijing is committed to maritime cooperation with Sri Lanka but insists Colombo to create a positive climate for Chinese investment amid fears over the possible scrapping of a port project led by a Chinese company.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:23amThe move, which appears to confirm Xie Zhenhua has retired, means it is unclear who will lead the Chinese team at crucial climate talks in Paris at the end of the year
27 Feb 2015 - 6:30pmA 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.
28 Feb 2015 - 4:30am 4 commentsChina's top leaders met yesterday to discuss and approve a plan to revive the country's ailing soccer fortunes.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:11amIt caused barely a ripple when it was first printed two years ago but the republication of an article this week about a corrupt Qing dynasty prince set off of a wave of speculation about just which former leader it was alluding to.
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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 5 commentsAs the ink dries on Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah's giveaway budget chock-a-block with sweeteners aimed at defusing political strife, people are weighing up what they are getting - or not getting.
He had plenty to give away. For the eighth time, he underestimated the surplus, now set to hit HK$63.8 billion when the financial year ends on March 31, more than six times his estimated HK$9.1 billion.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:50amLogistical problems could delay a citywide by-election intended to serve as a "de facto referendum" on political reform until as late as March next year, a government source has said.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:46amNorman 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.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:55am 12 comments More on Hong Kong Budget 2015Guangdong is rolling out a province-wide pilot scheme that will let domestic companies invest in any part of the economy that is not clearly labeled out of bounds.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:41amChina will sign a series of agreements with countries including Kazakhstan and Pakistan next month as part of Beijing's plan to stimulate economic development along the ancient Silk Road.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:11amMachete-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 - 8:50pmFrench President Francois Hollande yesterday visited a remote Philippine town devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan, seeking to sound a global alarm on climate change ahead of a crucial UN summit.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:29amThe 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 - 9:39pmBritain's security services are in a no-win situation. Monitor a suspected terrorist and, as in the case of Mohammed Emwazi, MI5 ends up accused of harassment. Fail to monitor him, also in the case of Emwazi, and MI5 is blamed for letting him escape abroad to commit murder.
27 Feb 2015 - 10:43pmA surge in foreign investment from China into the US is insufficient to rebalance the economic relationship between the two countries, with Beijing still unwilling to offer reciprocal market access to American investors, a Congressional commission says in a new report.
27 Feb 2015 - 10:28pmSun Hung Kai Properties, the city's second-largest developer in terms of market capitalisation, says it has locked in HK$28 billion, or nearly 90 per cent of its sales target for the year to June, after it reported a decline in first-half earnings.
27 Feb 2015 - 10:38pmSome 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 4 comments 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
Hong Kong has called for a 16-team World Cup in 2019 after the International Cricket Council indicated yesterday the proposal to cut the showpiece to 10 might not be a good idea after all.
27 Feb 2015 - 11:12pm More on Cricket World Cup 2015Four years after California Memory announced himself as a star with an upset win in the Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup, the now nine-year-old's career comes full circle and the popular galloper heads into the same race tomorrow as an outsider with his retirement rapidly approaching.
27 Feb 2015 - 11:00pm More on Citibank Hong Kong Gold Cup 2015The 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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