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As China's environmental woes grow, typified by recent toxic smog, Beijing has been increasing funding for research into how pollution affects fertility. The number of studies funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the leading research institute, has tripled in the last five years.
Thursday, 12 December, 2013, 10:47am 9 comments More on Beijing air pollutionVIDEO: Smiling, and even performing a dance, Guo Bin, whose eyes were gouged out in an attack in Shanxi, was discharged from a Shenzhen hospital on Thursday afternoon.
12 Dec 2013 - 2:22pm 1 commentZoe Davies was walking on air yesterday after a lovely day out with her father - at the controls of a Cathay Pacific flight to Manila. The 35-year-old was first officer while father Stuart, 64, was captain, making them probably the only father-and-daughter team flying commercial Boeing 747s in Asia.
12 Dec 2013 - 10:16am 5 comments More on Cathay PacificAn online affair between a woman and a Beijing official has been publicly unveiled by the woman’s ex-husband, who uploaded chat logs of the two’s intimate conversations online.
12 Dec 2013 - 10:49am 1 commentCommunist Party officials are interfering less in court hearings amid a push by Beijing to reform the country’s legal system, judges and legal experts said.
12 Dec 2013 - 12:54pm 1 comment More on Judicial ReformThe central government provoked outrage from many Chinese after its holiday plan released on Thursday revealed it had dropped Spring Festival Eve as a public holiday.
12 Dec 2013 - 12:45pm 1 commentSouth Africans will get a second chance on Thursday to pay their last respects to Nelson Mandela, a day after his distraught widow joined thousands of mourners at his open casket.
12 Dec 2013 - 2:36pm More on Nelson MandelaChina has put Zhou Yongkang, one of the most powerful politicians of the last decade, under virtual house arrest while the ruling Communist Party investigates accusations of corruption against him, several sources said on Wednesday.
12 Dec 2013 - 12:57pm More on Zhou YongkangA senior editor with Beijing’s most popular newspaper, the Beijing Youth Daily, has been arrested on graft charges, according to a report by Caixin, amid a wider crackdown on malpractice in the media industry.
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Political office is about serving the people. Thailand's urban and business elite, which is supporting the opposition, have forgotten this most basic aspect of governance in their frenzy to remove populist Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and expunge all traces of the influence of her brother, ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
12 Dec 2013 - 1:18pmA bill that seeks to take polluting vehicles off our roads was gazetted on October 25 and now awaits a vote in the Legislative Council.
12 Dec 2013 - 3:02pm 1 commentAlthough there are traffic lights in other North Korean cities, the ones in the Rason Special Economic Zone actually light up.
12 Dec 2013 - 2:51amThey are 11 ordinary people who lead extraordinary lives. People who achieve against all the odds and set an example for others.
It’s a simple contraption – an iron frame, foldout handle and four rubber wheels – but in Hong Kong the old-fashioned handcart is what keeps the city rolling.
Hong Kong residents will benefit from a shorter and smoother entry process to South Korea starting on Friday, just in time for the busy Christmas getaway, the Immigration Department has announced.
12 Dec 2013 - 1:42pmThe driver of a stolen taxi, who had been disqualified from driving since July, led police on a high-speed chase from Kwun Tong to Kwai Chung before being intercepted in Tai Kok Tsui on Thursday morning.
12 Dec 2013 - 2:02pmTrading of live chicken continued at the poultry stall at Shenzhen’s Kangqiao market until 9am on Thursday, where two samples had been tested positive for H7N9 bird flu virus.
12 Dec 2013 - 3:00pm More on H7N9 avian fluThe central government provoked outrage from many Chinese after its holiday plan released on Thursday revealed it had dropped Spring Festival Eve as a public holiday.
12 Dec 2013 - 12:45pm 1 commentFormer Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was indicted for murder on Thursday in connection with a deadly military crackdown on mass opposition protests in Bangkok three years ago, prosecutors said.
12 Dec 2013 - 2:46pmAustralia’s highest court struck down a landmark law on Thursday that had begun allowing the country’s first gay marriages, shattering the dreams of more than two dozen same-sex newlyweds whose marriages will now be annulled less than a week after their weddings.
12 Dec 2013 - 2:25pmSouth Africans will get a second chance on Thursday to pay their last respects to Nelson Mandela, a day after his distraught widow joined thousands of mourners at his open casket.
12 Dec 2013 - 2:36pm More on Nelson MandelaRebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper business, exchanged banter with rival editor Piers Morgan at a dinner party in 2003 about hacking each others’ phone messages, a court heard on Thursday.
12 Dec 2013 - 12:47pm More on Rebekah BrooksHacking of corporate computer systems is on the rise in China, including Hong Kong, according to an annual survey.
12 Dec 2013 - 3:30am 2 commentsChina Merchants Securities, one of the mainland’s oldest and largest securities houses, has set up a subsidiary in Britain to expand into global capital and commodities markets, with a focus on derivatives – at a time when Western rivals are trying to scale back from a business that often comes with high profits and equally high risks.
12 Dec 2013 - 1:45am More on China Merchants SecuritiesChina Merchants Property, a mainland-listed developer, plans to buy more land in first and second-tier cities and enter the ranks of the top 10 players in the sector in the next few years, although expensive land prices pose a big challenge, a senior executive said.
12 Dec 2013 - 3:25amGreenland Hong Kong, the listed arm of Shanghai-based Greenland Group, said yesterday it bought a commercial and residential site in Huangpu, Shanghai, for 5.95 billion yuan (HK$7.59 billion).
12 Dec 2013 - 3:25amTaiwanese comic artist Chris Tseng Hsin-chieh and his Hong Kong friend Juno Man Chun-lun set up a Facebook page three months ago just for their own amusement.
9 Dec 2013 - 8:10pm More on LIFEThe recent isolation of certain bacteria and yeast as responsible for terroir - the evocation of a sense of place in the flavour of a wine - is another apparent triumph for the application of science to the art of winemaking.
6 Dec 2013 - 5:45amThe deaf have fought to preserve sign language in the past. Fifty deaf students protested a ban on sign language with a strike in 1973 at the Hong Kong School for the Deaf, the first such school in Hong Kong, established in 1935. The students boycotted classes, but to no avail.
12 Dec 2013 - 10:50am More on LIFEBright ideas for the planet from this year’s Slow Life Symposium
Oil rich yet mired in poverty, East Timor is embracing development
Mainland cartoonists spread their message to the masses online
Talismanic midfielder Dario Conca has insisted Marcello Lippi’s Guangzhou Evergrande have the confidence to win the Club World Cup as he aims to leave the team on a high.
12 Dec 2013 - 11:33amTen-man Arsenal advanced to the Champions League knockout phase for the 14th consecutive year despite a 2-0 loss on Wednesday at Napoli, who were eliminated from the competition.
12 Dec 2013 - 11:41amPresident Taur Matan Ruak believes the way to kickstart Asia’s newest country is by empowering its people, writes Mary O’Shea. Pictures by Cedric Arnold.
27 Nov 2013 - 6:04pmStaging Hong Kong's biggest annual music and arts festival is no walk in the park. Jo Baker meets a team of dedicated, determined and quite possibly exhausted organisers ahead of this year's event.
4 Dec 2013 - 5:39pmChristmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ by millions of people around the World. Across the world, people put up different types of special decorations.
Thick fog enveloped most of London this morning, with visibility less than 50 metres in some regions.
Participants wearing zebra masks, taxi drivers pose for the NYC Taxi Drivers 2014 calendar, final touches on a reproduction of a mural from the Mogao Grottoes, and more around the world ...
A snowstorm pushed into the United States, causing school and government closures as well as traffic, but others used the time for outdoor recreation and spending time with family.
Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ by millions of p
Thick fog enveloped most of London this morning, with visibility less than 50 metr
Participants wearing zebra masks, taxi drivers pose for the NYC Taxi Drivers 2014
A snowstorm pushed into the United States, causing school and government closures
