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Asian Americans furious at proposal allowing colleges to choose students by race

Hundreds of Asian American families protest over a state law that many fear will discriminate against their children in college admission because of their race.

Friday, 7 March, 2014, 11:09am 1 comment More on SCA-5

Carson Yeung 'only laundered HK$449 million' says his lawyer, in bid for lenient sentence

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A lawyer representing Carson Yeung Ka-sing told a judge on Friday morning that the amount of money laundered by the major shareholder of English football club Birmingham City had been overestimated by some HK$272 million.

7 Mar 2014 - 1:18pm More on Money Laundering

China chides North Korea over missile's near-miss with passenger jet

Beijing publicly expresses its displeasure following reports that a rocket launched by North Korea had crossed the path of a Chinese passenger jet flight with 220 people onboard.

7 Mar 2014 - 9:00am

Singapore police probe ‘unnatural’ death of American CEO of bitcoin trader

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Police are investigating the death of the 28-year-old American boss of a Bitcoin exchange found dead at the base of a Singapore apartment block.

They say Autumn Radtke's death - the latest misfortune linked with the troubled virtual currency - appears "unnatural".

6 Mar 2014 - 11:52pm More on Bitcoin

Weeping doctor paraded around hospital by angry mob after patient dies

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A doctor in Guangdong province has been confronted by an angry mob and paraded around a hospital after a man he treated had died the previous night, a mainland newspaper reported.

7 Mar 2014 - 9:48am 1 comment More on Health

Beijing denies Xi planned to visit Holocaust Memorial during trip to Europe

China's ambassador to Germany has denied that Beijing proposed a visit by President Xi Jinping to a second world war memorial in Berlin during his tour of Europe later this month.

7 Mar 2014 - 4:12am 3 comments More on Japan

Obama and EU slap first sanctions on Russia over Ukraine crisis

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The US and the EU have unveiled sanctions to punish Russia for occupying Crimea, imposing visa restrictions on individuals and sharpening rhetoric in what has degenerated into the worst east-west crisis since the end of the Cold War.

7 Mar 2014 - 11:13am 1 comment

Genetically modified food is safe to eat, says China's agriculture minister

Agriculture Minister Han Changfu says there is no reason to fear genetically modified food and that he regularly eats it himself. The statement was the most public effort yet by a senior mainland official to dispel anxiety about the safety of GM foods.

7 Mar 2014 - 9:32am 5 comments More on Chinese parliamentary sessions 2014

Lost German backpacker survives on diet of flies for two weeks in Aussie Outback

7 Mar 2014 - 10:54am

Dalai Lama says he has no problem with gay marriage

7 Mar 2014 - 11:24am

US defends Japan over plutonium hoard fears expressed by China

7 Mar 2014 - 3:15am 7 comments

Nurse paralysed as shocking hospital attack by Nanjing official is caught on camera

6 Mar 2014 - 7:19pm

US convicts two of selling DuPont trade secrets to Chinese state-owned firms

6 Mar 2014 - 3:26pm 2 comments

Founder of Tibet’s Communist Party makes a final plea for Dalai Lama’s return

6 Mar 2014 - 8:17pm 2 comments

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This time it looks like Beijing is serious about tackling smog

Premier Li Keqiang pulled a surprise by making the war on pollution a priority alongside continued poverty reduction. No nation has improved the lives of so many so quickly; with the same determination, there is every hope the environmental crisis can be averted.

6 Mar 2014 - 5:52pm 2 comments

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Opinion

Alex Lo Alex Lo

Those who attack Leung Chun-ying's daughter misunderstand freedom of speech

7 Mar 2014 - 8:47am 17 comments
Howard Winn Howard Winn

Another broadside launched against bar licensing regime

7 Mar 2014 - 12:22am 1 comment
Albert Cheng Albert Cheng

Tepid market suggests target for private housing won't be met

7 Mar 2014 - 1:49am
Alex Lo Alex Lo

Robert Chung's Hong Kong polls show pan-democrats are as unpopular as Leung Chun-ying

6 Mar 2014 - 4:29am 13 comments

Insight

Hong Kong must have zero tolerance for anti-mainlander hate campaigns

John Young

Last month's protests against mainland visitors in Tsim Sha Tsui cast a shadow over Hong Kong's reputation as a world city and international tourist destination. Anti-mainland protesters targeted Chinese visitors in an extraordinary display of hatred and contempt opposite the shops on Canton Road.

7 Mar 2014 - 2:58am 13 comments

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What Li Keqiang omitting Hong Kong principles from report may mean

STUART LAU AND TONY CHEUNG

Speculation there is a hidden meaning behind Premier Li Keqiang's omission of two of Hong Kong's key constitutional principles from his maiden work report deepened yesterday as Beijing's third-in-command cryptically advised Hongkongers to "cautiously interpret" the implications of the omission.

7 Mar 2014 - 7:11am 1 comment

Harry's View

7 Mar 2014

Hong Kong

DEATH

Protege praises late Basic Law drafter Xu Chongde as 'walking dictionary' of Hong Kong's mini-constitution

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As top mainland officials waved a final farewell to late Basic Law drafter Xu Chongde on Friday morning, one of his former students lamented the death of the “final guardian of the Basic Law” has made the understanding of legislative intent of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution more difficult.

7 Mar 2014 - 1:18pm
COURT

Carson Yeung 'only laundered HK$449 million' says his lawyer, in bid for lenient sentence

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A lawyer representing Carson Yeung Ka-sing told a judge on Friday morning that the amount of money laundered by the major shareholder of English football club Birmingham City had been overestimated by some HK$272 million.

7 Mar 2014 - 1:18pm More on Money Laundering

Young mainland women 'marrying elderly Hong Kong men to get residency'

7 Mar 2014 1 comment

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China

Retired vice-principal's home sanctuary for hundreds of stuffed birds in Jilin province

A retired teacher in Huinan county in Jilin province has converted his home into an aviary of stuffed birds, Xinhua reported.

Hu Zhentao has spent tens of thousands of yuan over the past 25 years to fill his 60- square-metre home with more than 700 bird specimens.

7 Mar 2014 - 1:15pm
SCIENCE

Genetically modified food is safe to eat, says China's agriculture minister

Agriculture Minister Han Changfu says there is no reason to fear genetically modified food and that he regularly eats it himself. The statement was the most public effort yet by a senior mainland official to dispel anxiety about the safety of GM foods.

7 Mar 2014 - 9:32am 5 comments More on Chinese parliamentary sessions 2014
DIPLOMACY

China chides North Korea over missile's near-miss with passenger jet

7 Mar 2014

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Asia

JAPAN

Japan’s Beethoven apologises before cameras

The man lauded as “Japan’s Beethoven”, who has admitted he never wrote his compositions, appeared before cameras for the first time since the scandal surfaced – clean-shaven and minus his trademark sunglasses.

7 Mar 2014 - 11:48am
MALAYSIA

Malaysia bans Ultraman comic book after it uses 'Allah' to describe Japanese action hero

Malaysia has banned an Ultraman comic book because it uses the word “Allah” to describe the Japanese action hero.

The Home Ministry says the Malay-edition of “Ultraman, The Ultra Power” contains elements that can undermine public security and societal morals.

7 Mar 2014 - 11:21am
AFGHANISTAN

Nato airstrike kills five Afghan soldiers

6 Mar 2014

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World

CURRENCY

'I got nothing to do with it': Satoshi Nakamoto denies he founded Bitcoin in challenge to Newsweek report

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The man Newsweek claims is the founder of Bitcoin denied he had anything to do with the digital currency.

7 Mar 2014 - 11:08am More on Bitcoin

Dalai Lama says he has no problem with gay marriage

The celibate Dalai Lama has thrown his considerable moral weight behind gay marriage, condemning homophobia and saying sex is fine as long as it is consensual.

7 Mar 2014 - 11:24am More on Tibet

Lost German backpacker survives on diet of flies for two weeks in Aussie Outback

7 Mar 2014

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China Insider

TENCENT

WeChat’s latest viral hit in China: health insurance

6 Mar 2014 1 comment
TIBET

Founder of Tibet’s Communist Party makes a final plea for Dalai Lama’s return

6 Mar 2014 2 comments
hoax

China’s Sohu falls for ‘Back to the Future’ hover board video hoax

6 Mar 2014
Hospitals

Nurse paralysed as shocking hospital attack by Nanjing official is caught on camera

6 Mar 2014
DISCRIMINATION

Police apologise for evicting innocent Uygur man after Kunming terror attack

5 Mar 2014 1 comment
POLITICS

No more Chanel or Emilio Pucci for princeling Li Xiaolin at congress meeting, but critics unimpressed

5 Mar 2014 3 comments
DIPLOMACY

Germany refuses Xi Jinping's request to visit Holocaust memorial sites during tour of Europe

5 Mar 2014 8 comments
NPC

Disturbance and smoke in Tiananmen Square amid tight security for NPC meeting

5 Mar 2014
MEDIA

US calls Kunming attack ‘act of terrorism’ amid accusations of bias in Western media reporting

5 Mar 2014 4 comments
KUNMING ATTACK

Chinese police rush to dispel rumours of more attacks in wake of Kunming massacre

4 Mar 2014 1 comment
INTERNET

China has a new state-run search engine - but will anyone use it?

3 Mar 2014 1 comment
EMIGRATION

Olá Lisboa! Chinese millionaires hog Portugal's golden visas

3 Mar 2014 2 comments
TERRORISM

Calmer, conciliatory voices clash with radical ones on social media as China grieves Kunming victims

5 Mar 2014 3 comments
TENCENT

Tencent brings its popular messaging app to desktops with WeChat for Mac

28 Feb 2014

Business

Sabrina Chao steers Wah Kwong past rocky shoals

Sabrina Chao Sih-ming’s life hasn’t been plain sailing after she took the helm of 61-year-old Wah Kwong Maritime Transport a year ago.

It has been a year in which the volatile market for dry bulk shipping mauled many of the firm’s rivals.

7 Mar 2014 - 11:48am More on Wah Kwong Maritime Transport
TELECOMMUNICATIONS

VAT may drive China’s mobile operators to cut costs, including smartphone subsidies

The value-added tax that Chinese telecom companies face later this year might force the mainland’s three wireless operators to cut their expenses, including subsidies promoting smartphone usage, analysts say.

7 Mar 2014 - 10:01am More on Value Added Tax

Markets

Doug Young Doug Young

Canadian Solar, Chaori cast cloud over solar shares

6 Mar 2014 - 10:35am

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Property

PROPERTY

Hong Kong developers' profit margins squeezed

Profit margins of property developers could be slashed in half this year as falling home prices and soaring construction costs and land premiums bite into performance.

7 Mar 2014 - 2:37am
EARNINGS

China Vanke targets small Chinese cities as rivals pull out

China Vanke, the mainland's largest developer by revenue, will buy land evenly across the nation, in sharp contrast to rivals which are bypassing small cities, company president Yu Liang said yesterday.

7 Mar 2014 - 1:12am

Hongkong Land sees profit rise by 20pc

7 Mar 2014

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Lifestyle

Arts & Culture

Local musicians ambivalent about benefits of streamed content

Hong Kong hip hop artist Masta Mic (real name Tong Sung-ching) is constantly hustling to get his music out to the people, and last month, he had a breakthrough. After extended negotiations, he got his music on the library of Spotify, one of the world's biggest music streaming services.

4 Mar 2014 - 10:20am More on LIFE

Alliance Francaise's Gérard Henry displays his work at ArtWalk

4 Mar 2014 1 comment

Arts festival Le French May returns to Hong Kong

4 Mar 2014
Food & Wine

Taking food photos has become so popular even chefs are doing it

Chefs in Hong Kong love their porn. Food porn, that is. While a recent controversy in France highlighted that not all chefs are happy about diners clicking away with their camera phones, cooks here do see some advantages to it.

7 Mar 2014 - 9:15am More on LIFE

Top chefs are taking to the high seas

7 Mar 2014

Something to chew on: Asian rice cakes

1 Mar 2014
Technology

Why living in cities raises stress

Researchers, led by Professor Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Germany, were trying to find out more about how different people handled stress. They discovered that city dwellers' brains, compared with people who live in the countryside, seem not to handle it so well.

3 Mar 2014 - 5:59pm

Why country parks benefit Hong Kong

3 Mar 2014 2 comments

Mirrors in space, ocean plankton no easy climate change fix, says study

2 Mar 2014
Fashion

Paris fashion shows offer autumn looks for the no-nonsense woman

7 Mar 2014

Innovation to the fore as Paris Fashion Week kicks off

3 Mar 2014
Books

Short stories deal in brutal truths about life in modern China

3 Mar 2014

Book review: Bending Adversity, by David Pilling

2 Mar 2014
Health

Staying fit should be a family affair

4 Mar 2014

Health bites

4 Mar 2014
Beauty

It's a guy thing: grooming for the modern man

6 Mar 2014

Review: Elemis Pro-Intense Lift Effect Facial at 10/10 Space

5 Mar 2014
Family & Education

A new app aims to help parents teach children the value of money

4 Mar 2014 1 comment

Will separation damage my daughter?

4 Mar 2014
Interiors & Living

Celebrity interior designer Kelly Hoppen offers tips for the masses

7 Mar 2014

High-end US developers use valuable artworks to draw in potential buyers

5 Mar 2014

Magazines

Sport

Six Nations

Brian O’Driscoll set for emotional send-off in his last match at Lansdowne Road

The latest stop on Brian O’Driscoll’s long goodbye to rugby is at Lansdowne Road on Saturday against Italy in the Six Nations, with the centre marking his final home match for Ireland with a record 140th test cap.

7 Mar 2014 - 11:02am More on Six Nations Championship
WGC Cadillac Championship

Tiger Woods among a host of players unable to finish first round as new Blue Monster shows its teeth

Tiger Woods only made it through 10 holes Thursday – this time because of the weather, not his back.

7 Mar 2014 - 9:45am
SOCCER

New China manager Alain Perrin warns of changes after big scare

6 Mar 2014

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Magazines

Shocking extent of maid abuse in Hong Kong laid bare

Marginalised by Hong Kong society and its laws, domestic helpers are left vulnerable to horrific abuse, writes Simon Parry, and a newly compiled body of research suggests the problem is far more extensive than has been previously reported.

2 Mar 2014 - 9:03am 39 comments

Richard Quest: the voice of choice

Love him or hate him, the inimitable Richard Quest has long been a jewel in CNN’s crown. Fionnuala McHugh talks to ‘Mr Marmite’ about syntax, selfies and surviving that scandal.

1 Mar 2014 - 11:13pm

Going back to their roots: Chaoshan folk music

1 Mar 2014

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Blogs

Adventures in Alcohol Mischa Moselle

Yanking Jamie Oliver’s chain: Why chef's Hong Kong venture could actually work

Mischa Moselle 7 Mar 2014 - 8:39am 3 comments
Happy Lucky Dragon Win Michael Cox

Are stewards rule enforcers or riding instructors?

Michael Cox 7 Mar 2014 - 1:06pm
Corporate China Doug Young

Canadian Solar, Chaori cast cloud over solar shares

Doug Young 6 Mar 2014 - 10:35am
The Beauty Blog TAMA LUNG

Review: Elemis Pro-Intense Lift Effect Facial at 10/10 Space

TAMA LUNG 5 Mar 2014 - 4:59pm
Culture Club Vivienne Chow

Brace yourself for March madness and culture fatigue when Art Basel Hong Kong changes dates

Vivienne Chow 5 Mar 2014 - 7:11pm
The Hongcouver Ian Young

Immigration, property prices and Vancouver: An expert’s view

Ian Young 6 Mar 2014 - 8:59am 6 comments
Wealth Blog Anna Healy Fenton

Get behind Mission Possible and beat last year’s Sevens triumph

Anna Healy Fenton 6 Mar 2014 - 5:57pm

In Pictures

Today in Photos, March 7

Members of Argentina’s IUNA Ballet give a lift to a bizarrely contorted fellow dancer in Buenos Aires, while South Korean new military officers cheer during the joint commission ceremony in S.

7 Mar 2014

Everyone's snapping: world icons' selfies as well as those of the daring splash on social media, March 6

Selfies dominate the traffic of social media. Even celebrities take them.

6 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 6

This baby takes centre stage at a rally for a Salvadorean presidential candidate, US first lady Michelle Obama learns some basic Putonghua at a Washington elementary school, and more ...

6 Mar 2014

Battle of the Oranges pits good versus evil on Italian piazza, March 5

People dressed in medieval costumes bombarded each others with oranges during the Battle of the Oranges in the Italian city of Ivrea on Tuesday.

5 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 5

A heavy volume of water flowing through the Ultzama river in Spain, while a man lies on the edge of a roof in North Point as police officers attempt to coax him down, and more around the world ...

5 Mar 2014
Photos

Members of Argentina’s IUNA Ballet give a lift to a bizarrely contorted fellow dan

7 Mar 2014
Photos

Selfies dominate the traffic of social media. Even celebrities take them.

6 Mar 2014
Photos

This baby takes centre stage at a rally for a Salvadorean presidential candidate, 

6 Mar 2014
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People dressed in medieval costumes bombarded each others with oranges during the

5 Mar 2014
Photos

A heavy volume of water flowing through the Ultzama river in Spain, while a man li

5 Mar 2014

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24 Feb 2014 2 comments
News

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