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A leading anchor with China Central Television was taken away for investigation on Friday, mainland media reported. Rui Chenggang's sudden departure left an empty seat beside his co-host when his show aired that night.
Sunday, 13 July, 2014, 4:00am More on CCTVTaiwan's Democratic Progressive Party may agree to put its pro-independence stance on hold, paving the way for possible talks with Beijing. The decision could remove a key challenge for the DPP in the run-up to the presidential election in 2016.
13 Jul 2014 - 6:40amChina and the United States are finding it harder to accommodate each other, many observers believe, despite both nations putting a positive spin on the outcome of annual high-level talks.
13 Jul 2014 - 5:53amThe latest round of PLA promotions shows President Xi Jinping is moving ahead with overhaul of the army's leadership, analysts say. Xi promoted four lieutenant generals to the rank of general on Friday.
13 Jul 2014 - 5:53am More on Xi JinpingApple has rebutted a report by state media which claimed a feature in the iPhone that tracks a user's location could be a national security threat. The technology giant said it did not track the locations of iPhone users and that it did not work with any government agency.
13 Jul 2014 - 5:53am More on AppleSeismologists said an earthquake that struck near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant was an aftershock of the quake that sparked 2011's deadly tsunami along the country's northeast coast, and warned of more to come.
13 Jul 2014 - 4:10am More on Fukushima nuclear disasterUS President Barack Obama recently singled out Myanmar as a foreign policy victory - a country that had emerged from decades of military rule and turned toward the West, thanks in part to American diplomacy.
13 Jul 2014 - 6:06am More on FocusA doodle by a Hong Kong teenager will potentially be seen by millions. Aspiring designer Wong Chiu-yung is the first Hongkonger to have a design featured on Google's Hong Kong home page.
13 Jul 2014 - 5:21am More on GoogleThe United States wants China and rival countries to voluntarily halt actions aggravating territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
13 Jul 2014 - 5:53amNegotiations between the government and the victims - including four young children - of a secret CIA rendition flight from Chek Lap Kok have come to a standstill, more than two years after lawyers first alerted justice officials to the case.
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US President Barack Obama recently singled out Myanmar as a foreign policy victory - a country that had emerged from decades of military rule and turned toward the West, thanks in part to American diplomacy.
13 Jul 2014 - 6:06amTwo auxiliary bishops newly appointed by the Vatican have spoken out about the Occupy Central campaign, saying the church supports civil disobedience when it's for the common good.
13 Jul 2014 - 5:21am More on Occupy CentralA HK$1.6 billion request for funds to redevelop Queen Mary Hospital received unanimous support from lawmakers, passing in the final minute of the Legislative Council Finance Committee's final meeting before the summer break.
13 Jul 2014 - 3:41am 3 commentsA leading anchor with China Central Television was taken away for investigation on Friday, mainland media reported. Rui Chenggang's sudden departure left an empty seat beside his co-host when his show aired that night.
13 Jul 2014 - 4:00am More on CCTVThe United States wants China and rival countries to voluntarily halt actions aggravating territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
13 Jul 2014 - 5:53amThe United States wants China and rival countries to voluntarily halt actions aggravating territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
13 Jul 2014 - 5:53amSeismologists said an earthquake that struck near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant was an aftershock of the quake that sparked 2011's deadly tsunami along the country's northeast coast, and warned of more to come.
13 Jul 2014 - 4:10am More on Fukushima nuclear disasterLarge multinational corporations could develop their own highly capable security forces. Criminals and terrorists will have access to increasingly cheap unmanned drones and space satellites. Sophisticated environmental warfare will spread plant and human diseases through insects.
13 Jul 2014 - 6:32amAfter days of around-the-clock rocket and missile fire that has left more than 125 Palestinians dead and several Israelis injured, the latest bout of fighting in and around the Gaza Strip has produced no clear winners.
13 Jul 2014 - 6:32amFinancial regulators in the US suspended trading in a social-networking company with no assets, no revenues and one employee, whose value on the stock market soared to US$6 billion in a matter of weeks.
13 Jul 2014 - 6:32amThe Bank of China cash-transfer service at the centre of money laundering allegations could escalate the sabre-rattling between the mainland's liberal-minded bankers and conservative regulators.
12 Jul 2014 - 4:36am 3 comments More on Bank of ChinaTiny flats on offer at Cheung Kong's Mont Vert in Tai Po are set to cause a big impact among investors and first-time buyers. The 1,071-unit project in Fung Yuen offers 196 flats with sizes of less than 200 sq ft.
12 Jul 2014 - 2:38am 20 commentsTop-end properties are once again the talk of the town, with some recent prices ranking among the top five deals ever.
12 Jul 2014 - 12:53amDirector Scott Derrickson describes his film, Deliver Us from Evil, as " Serpico meets The Exorcist".
12 Jul 2014 - 8:37pm More on LIFESelling Australian-grown Périgord truffles to French chefs may seem a foolhardy, even impossible goal, but that is exactly what The Truffle & Wine Co has successfully done.
11 Jul 2014 - 12:09amWhen Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sat down for a rare frank and open chat with the veteran technology venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, they admitted, among other things, that Google was interested in health care but scared of its intense regulation.
13 Jul 2014 - 3:10am More on GoogleDelhi’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
The Academy for Performing Arts honours the city’s great and good
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
The personal touch is what attracts diners to small, cosy restaurants
Argentina's Lionel Messi will never have a better opportunity to prove he is one of the greatest players of all time than in this World Cup final against Germany.
13 Jul 2014 - 1:13am More on World Cup 2014A Germany side chasing a place in history will attempt to wreck Lionel Messi's dream of a World Cup coronation with Argentina on Sunday as the month-long football carnival hits a climax at the Maracana Stadium.
13 Jul 2014 - 1:19amHaunted by their past, veterans of the Vietnam war are returning to former battlefields to make peace with the ghosts of the conflict and help those who are still picking up the pieces, writes Eric San Juan.
12 Jul 2014 - 11:21pmAs the vibrant Kathputli Colony prepares for redevelopment, its resident puppeteers, snake charmers and street artists fear losing their homes will also destroy their livelihoods, writes Bibek Bhandari.
13 Jul 2014 - 12:33amA five-year-old Muslim girl mourns her uncle at the Srebenica genocide memorial in Bosnia, while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talks with retired basketball star Yao Ming, and more ...
Customers wait in the heat to enter a store called Cannabis City during the first day of legal retail marijuana sales in Seattle, while residents cool off from the summer heat in Xian, and more ...
The world's third-largest democracy is divided over two very different choices: Joko Widodo, a one-time furniture maker, and Prabowo Subianto, a wealthy ex-army general with close links to former d
The FingerReader ring enables people with visual disabilities to read text printed on paper or a screen, while lightning strikes north of Gillette early Monday morning, and more ...
Revelers from around the world in Pamplona take part in an eight-day event of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises".
A five-year-old Muslim girl mourns her uncle at the Srebenica genocide memorial in
Customers wait in the heat to enter a store called Cannabis City during the first
The world's third-largest democracy is divided over two very different choices: Jo
The FingerReader ring enables people with visual disabilities to read text printed
Revelers from around the world in Pamplona take part in an eight-day event of the
