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At least 12 airports in mainland cities, including Shanghai, Nanjing and Wuhan, are expecting wide-scale delays over the coming three weeks, the China Central Television (CCTV) reported today.
Tuesday, 22 July, 2014, 10:49pmA toxic food scandal in China is spreading fast, dragging in US coffee chain Starbucks , Burger King and others, as well as McDonald’s products as far away as Japan.
22 Jul 2014 - 4:25pm 1 commentThe number of young male workers with no history of health problems who died suddenly in their sleep has risen sharply over the past decade in the manufacturing hub Dongguan, research shows.
22 Jul 2014 - 5:16pm 4 commentsWenzhou in Zhejiang province is known as China's Jerusalem. One million of the city's eight million legal residents are Christian. Huge crosses rise towards the sky on many of the city's more than 2,000 churches.
22 Jul 2014 - 11:25pm More on FocusA badly decomposed body found surrounded by liquor bottles in an orchard last month was that of Yoo Byung-eun, the fugitive billionaire businessman blamed for April's South Korean ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people, police confirmed yesterday
22 Jul 2014 - 11:02pm 2 comments More on South Korea ferry disasterMouldy bread was sent to victims of Typhoon Rammasun in Hainan province in the latest scandal involving mainland relief efforts.
22 Jul 2014 - 2:57pmThe world experienced its hottest June last month since record-keeping began 134 years ago, as Chinese authorities warned that temperatures could top 40 degrees Celsius today.
22 Jul 2014 - 5:23pm 1 commentA train carrying some 280 bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived on Tuesday in the government-controlled city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.
22 Jul 2014 - 7:43pm 1 comment More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17A Chinese city has been sealed off and 151 people placed in quarantine since last week after a man died of bubonic plague, state media said on Tuesday.
22 Jul 2014 - 7:17pmMore than 5,000 tourists were evacuated from outlying islands as Typhoon Matmo churned towards Taiwan on Tuesday, picking up strength as weather forecasters warned of possible flash floods and landslides.
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It is true that during the consultation period, the public focused on the method for electing the chief executive and did not have much to say regarding the 2016 Legco election.
22 Jul 2014 - 5:25amWenzhou in Zhejiang province is known as China's Jerusalem. One million of the city's eight million legal residents are Christian. Huge crosses rise towards the sky on many of the city's more than 2,000 churches.
22 Jul 2014 - 11:25pmHundreds of records detailing tens of millions of dollars in donations to pan-democrats made by the founder of Apple Daily have been leaked to the media, a move the camp slammed as a "smear campaign".
22 Jul 2014 - 11:48pm 23 commentsBanker Eric Slighton was arrested last week in San Francisco after reportedly posing as a security screener and directing two women to a private area for pat-downs.
22 Jul 2014 - 5:30pm 1 commentMore than 5,000 tourists were evacuated from outlying islands as Typhoon Matmo churned towards Taiwan on Tuesday, picking up strength as weather forecasters warned of possible flash floods and landslides.
22 Jul 2014 - 7:18pmA Chinese city has been sealed off and 151 people placed in quarantine since last week after a man died of bubonic plague, state media said on Tuesday.
22 Jul 2014 - 7:17pmUncertainty hung over the Indonesian presidential election after Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo was declared the winner of the closely-fought race, hours after his rival and former general Prabowo Subianto withdrew from the contest, condemning the poll as fraudulent.
22 Jul 2014 - 11:58pmA badly decomposed body found surrounded by liquor bottles in an orchard last month was that of Yoo Byung-eun, the fugitive billionaire businessman blamed for April's South Korean ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people, police confirmed yesterday
22 Jul 2014 - 11:02pm 2 comments More on South Korea ferry disasterA no-fly area declared in eastern Ukraine after the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is a rare restriction shared with rogue states like North Korea, prompting some airlines to question whether rules for flights over war zones need tightening.
22 Jul 2014 - 11:34pm More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17For almost two weeks, Israel practically bristled with confidence and pride: the Iron Dome air defence system was dependably intercepting Hamas rockets, the military was successfully repelling infiltration attempts on the ground and sea, and the conflict with Hamas was causing almost no casualties in Israel.
22 Jul 2014 - 11:10pmTackling poverty is a very difficult problem. First, there is the issue of the causes of low income, which boil down to one thing - low productivity.
This requires solutions that open up economic opportunities and enhance the capacity of the poor to become productive.
23 Jul 2014 - 1:17am 1 commentAs President Xi Jinping leaves Latin America for the second time in almost 12 months with billions of dollars worth of freshly signed investment deals in hand, the groundwork he laid a year ago after a trip to Mexico is beginning to pay off.
23 Jul 2014 - 1:03amSwire Properties has presold at record prices more than 40 per cent of the first residential tower at its large mixed-use project in Miami, Florida, as Chinese buyers lead a surge in foreign purchases of homes in the United States.
22 Jul 2014 - 7:58pm More on Swire PropertiesWhile the government seeks more land across the city to meet its ultimate target of 470,000 more homes within a decade, architect Bryant Lu says Hong Kong urgently needs an urban master plan.
22 Jul 2014 - 5:28pmA decade after their creation, the jury is still out on Cyberport and Science Park, both huge projects underpinned by property development, writes Charley Lanyon.
22 Jul 2014 - 11:14am 8 comments More on LIFESitting on a plastic stool, head bowed over a bowl of noodles listening to people chat, laugh and smoke - you can't get a more down-to-earth Hong Kong experience than that.
21 Jul 2014 - 5:24pm More on LIFELike a well-trained dog, the HEXO+ follows you faithfully wherever you go. But it doesn't walk besides you - it's airborne.
20 Jul 2014 - 3:54amSir Kai Ho Kai was a colossal public figure, so how did we forget him?
Delhi’s vibrant colony of artists and street performers is under threat from the modern world
An 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
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
The personal touch is what attracts diners to small, cosy restaurants
Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Douglas Costa said he and his fellow players who refused to return to the Ukrainian champions did so because the conflict in the country puts their lives at risk.
23 Jul 2014 - 12:32amAustralian Michael Rogers finally earned his first stage victory in his 10th Tour de France on Tuesday.
The three-time world time-trial champion, riding for Tinkoff-Saxo, came home on his own at the end of a mammoth 237.5-km 16th stage from Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-Luchon.
22 Jul 2014 - 11:56pmA Legco stalwart and mentor to Sun Yat-sen, Sir Kai Ho Kai wielded huge influence in Hong Kong at the turn of the 20th century. How did the man who put the 'Kai' into Kai Tak die penniless?
22 Jul 2014 - 10:26am 2 commentsHundreds of suspected Uygurs are being held in Thai immigration camps while officials try to validate their desperate claims of Turkish nationality. Deportation to China, they know, could be a deadly fate, writes Gabrielle Paluch.
20 Jul 2014 - 11:32amA photo to mark Britain's Prince George's first birthday, while People’s Liberation Army cadets adjust dancing robots in Beijing, and more ...
A woman parks her car in an extra large female-only parking space outside a shopping centre in Dalian, while a Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu devotee suspended with hooks, and more ...
The Malaysian airliner flight MH-17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising the stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro
Bosnian Muslims pray near the coffins of relatives during a funeral for 284 people whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Kozarac, near Prijedor, At least 18 people died as Typhoon Rammasun swe
A photo to mark Britain's Prince George's first birthday, while People’s Liberatio
A woman parks her car in an extra large female-only parking space outside a shoppi
The Malaysian airliner flight MH-17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine on July
Bosnian Muslims pray near the coffins of relatives during a funeral for 284 people
