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Beijing yesterday announced an official investigation into former security chief Zhou Yongkang, shattering the decades-old political taboo of not prosecuting the highest ranking Communist Party officials for corruption.
Wednesday, 30 July, 2014, 1:51pm 22 comments More on Zhou YongkangA timeline of recent corruption probes shows the extent of an corruption investigation into the entourage of China's former security tsar Zhou Yongkang.
30 Jul 2014 - 2:43pm More on Zhou YongkangFour US teens were charged on Tuesday with murder in the fatal beating of a Chinese graduate student with a baseball bat and spanner as he walked to his flat.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:49pm 1 commentDozens of people, ethnic Han and Uygur, were killed or injured in at least one terror attack in the restive Xinjiang region early on Monday, state media reported late last night.
30 Jul 2014 - 8:59am 14 commentsAsian gambling kingpin Paul Phua Wei-seng was San Marino's ambassador to Montenegro for more than three years until the tiny city state revoked his diplomatic status shortly after his arrest in Las Vegas.
30 Jul 2014 - 11:17amHow should Vancouver meet the challenge and opportunity presented by soaring numbers of mainland Chinese tourists?
30 Jul 2014 - 8:41amZlatan Ibrahimovic nets hat-trick against Hong Kong champions, but Kitchee boss says 17,000 crowd will leave organisers out of pocket.
30 Jul 2014 - 2:40pm 4 commentsCanada yesterday took the unusual step of singling out Chinese hackers for attacking a key computer network and lodged a protest with Beijing, raising tensions at a time when Ottawa wants to boost oil sales to China.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:36amWith the launch of the formal investigation into former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, President Xi Jinping has consolidated power in a way that eluded his predecessors.
30 Jul 2014 - 11:56am 4 comments More on FocusThe photo in the corporate records of a Beijing energy investment firm shows Zhou Bin looking solemn and not unlike his father, former security tsar Zhou Yongkang.
30 Jul 2014 - 9:09am 2 comments More on Zhou YongkangTo access the SCMP ePaper Edition you will need a Digital Premium Subscription.
Few places in the world are so confident and so well positioned for the future as to be able to seriously consider deliberately damaging nearly 5 per cent of the economy.
30 Jul 2014 - 4:41am 8 commentsWith the launch of the formal investigation into former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, President Xi Jinping has consolidated power in a way that eluded his predecessors.
30 Jul 2014 - 11:56am 4 commentsSixteen people arrested during a sit-in protest on Chater Road on July 2 will refuse to renew their bail licences on Thursday, saying they fear that police will constrain their ability to protest in future.
30 Jul 2014 - 2:34pm More on Universal SuffrageGovernment hopes prospect of more democratic electoral system in future can push moderate pan-democrats to accept model for 2017 chief executive election.
30 Jul 2014 - 2:41pm 2 comments More on Universal SuffrageGeologists have discovered the largest gold mine so far in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, according to state media.
30 Jul 2014 - 2:45pmWith the launch of the formal investigation into former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, President Xi Jinping has consolidated power in a way that eluded his predecessors.
30 Jul 2014 - 11:56am 4 comments More on FocusBy this time next week Shinzo Abe will have visited 47 nations since taking office in 2012, after an itinerary encompassing six Latin American and Caribbean cities in nine days.
30 Jul 2014 - 2:18pm 2 commentsPresident Hamid Karzai’s powerful cousin, a close ally of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, was killed on Tuesday in a suicide bomb attack at his home in the southern province of Kandahar.
29 Jul 2014 - 5:13pmA Chinese graduate student at the University of Southern California who was discovered dead in his apartment had been attacked by at least three people a few blocks from the Los Angeles campus.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:48pmFour US teens were charged on Tuesday with murder in the fatal beating of a Chinese graduate student with a baseball bat and spanner as he walked to his flat.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:49pm 1 commentConsumer sentiment in mainland China ticked up this month as expectations for long-term business conditions improved thanks to Beijing’s pro-growth policies, the Westpac MNI China Consumer Sentiment survey found.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:40pm More on Chinese EconomySevere and imminent shortages of labour across the Asia-Pacific will cost the global economy no less than US$10 trillion between now and 2030, a new Boston Consulting Group report* says.
30 Jul 2014 - 11:43amAn oversupply of retail space poses a more serious threat to property investors in the mainland’s many third-tier cities than the much-talked-about housing glut, especially as an increasing number of people are buying goods online.
30 Jul 2014 - 10:47amDevelopers are expected to produce more tiny flats in their future projects given the frenetic buying spree for shoe-box homes by young homebuyers and investors, industry observers said.
30 Jul 2014 - 10:36am 4 commentsHong Kong has always been an internationally minded city, and that fact is increasingly reflected not just in the way local musicians think, but also in the way they record.
29 Jul 2014 - 10:41am More on LIFEJamie’s Italian officially opened its doors after months of anticipation, as British celebrity chef attempts to capture mid-range market with inexpensive Italian cuisine. So was the food any good?
30 Jul 2014 - 12:49pm 5 commentsInventor hopes fleet of automated boats will one day patrol the oceans, performing clean-up and data-collection tasks, such as radioactivity sensing, coral reef imaging and fish counting.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:29pm 2 comments More on LIFEIn India, when it comes to class and cuisine, food is as divisive as it is defining
Done right, this takeaway classic is a joy to behold. But who makes the city's best?
Sir Kai Ho Kai was a colossal public figure, so how did we forget him?
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic nets hat-trick against Hong Kong champions, but Kitchee boss says 17,000 crowd will leave organisers out of pocket.
30 Jul 2014 - 2:40pm 4 commentsManchester United remained unbeaten under new Dutch manager Louis Van Gaal on Tuesday, defeating Inter Milan 5-3 on penalty kicks after playing to a goalless draw in Washington.
30 Jul 2014 - 1:50pmAs new genre of caste-based cookbooks reveals, India's culinary customs not only denote class and region, but symbolise faith, dictate who you marry and can be a barrier to social mobility.
27 Jul 2014 - 5:48pm 6 commentsThousands of people saw their life savings wiped out when the "low-risk" fund into which they had put their nest eggs imploded last year. Benjamin Robertson looks into the murky world of LM Investment Management and what its collapse should signal to the investing public.
27 Jul 2014 - 12:05am 9 commentsAfter the holy month of Ramadan ends with the sighting of a new moon, the world's Muslims unite in prayer for the first day of Eid ul-Fitr.
A view of the Zhongjian River bridge after it was joined to a new road network in Enshi in Hubei, while firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a Dongfeng Tyre Factory in Hubei, and more ...
A selection of the best photos from rugby sevens action at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Bangladeshi Muslims scramble for space on the roof of an overcrowded train to head hone in Dhaka, while a couple sit on a bench as they look at a parascending in Nice, and more ...
China has built up a reputation for taking on ambitious civil engineering projects in some of the most dramatic and beautiful scenery in the country.
After the holy month of Ramadan ends with the sighting of a new moon, the world's
A view of the Zhongjian River bridge after it was joined to a new road network in
Bangladeshi Muslims scramble for space on the roof of an overcrowded train to head
China has built up a reputation for taking on ambitious civil engineering projects
