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China 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.
Tuesday, 29 July, 2014, 11:46pm 8 comments More on Zhou YongkangMicrosoft, the US technology giant, is under investigation in China for allegedly breaching antitrust regulations, the country’s market regulator confirmed on Tuesday.
29 Jul 2014 - 10:14pm More on MicrosoftEight Chinese airports won't allow landings this afternoon due to PLA exercises in East China Sea, with capacity at Shanghai’s two airports cut by 75 per cent, mainland’s civilian air traffic authority warns.
29 Jul 2014 - 5:40pm 6 commentsThe public trial of a foreign couple linked to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is set for August 8, a Shanghai court said on Tuesday.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:56pmUS federal immigration officials released Asian gambling kingpin from custody on Monday in latest twist to saga around alleged leading member of Hong Kong’s 14K triad.
29 Jul 2014 - 8:13pmFor nearly a decade, the burly son of a poor family in rural Jiangsu was one of the most powerful men in China, but now he is just a detainee at the mercy of the party’s anti-graft agency.
29 Jul 2014 - 7:56pm More on Zhou YongkangMainland business authorities are investigating Microsoft, the US technology giant confirmed yesterday, with reports that the focus was on antitrust behaviour.
29 Jul 2014 - 9:31am 17 comments More on MicrosoftStudent campaigners have reacted with mixed feelings after the success of a rare public protest against a proposed “elite” training school at China’s most prestigious university.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:20pm 1 commentPolice in Xinjiang shot dead dozens of knife-wielding attackers on Monday morning after they staged assaults on two towns in the westerly Xinjiang region, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, citing local police.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:54pmWith Tuesday's announcement on the official investigation into former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, Chinese President Xi Jinping has consolidated power in a way that eluded his predecessors.
29 Jul 2014 - 8:58pm 2 comments More on Zhou YongkangTo access the SCMP ePaper Edition you will need a Digital Premium Subscription.
It hits women every day, everywhere. It hit my friend when she travelled on the MTR and was groped by a man in a carriage full of people.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:02pm 4 commentsOn Hainan Island, a fishing boat captain has one hi-tech piece of equipment: a navigation system that gives him a direct link to the Chinese coastguard should he run into bad weather or a Philippine or Vietnamese patrol ship when he's fishing in the disputed South China Sea.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:43am 1 commentOrganisers of the pro-democracy Occupy Central movement expressed disappointment on Tuesday after the city’s No 2 official told them their goal would “never be achieved” through civil disobedience.
29 Jul 2014 - 10:20pm 10 comments More on Occupy CentralJust over 60 minibus drivers protested against the planned Occupy Central sit-in, by parking their buses along busy Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok.
29 Jul 2014 - 4:42pm 30 comments More on Occupy CentralWith Tuesday's announcement on the official investigation into former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, Chinese President Xi Jinping has consolidated power in a way that eluded his predecessors.
29 Jul 2014 - 8:58pm 2 comments More on Zhou YongkangChina 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.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:46pm 8 comments More on Zhou YongkangIf it's Monday, it must be Trinidad and Tobago. That's what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could have said as he woke up in Port of Spain, the Caribbean country's capital. By this time next week Abe will have visited 47 nations since taking office in 2012, after an itinerary encompassing six Latin American and Caribbean cities in nine days.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:32pmPresident 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 - 5:13pmIsrael knocked out Gaza's only power plant, flattened the home of a Hamas leader and pounded dozens of other high-profile targets in the enclave yesterday.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:49pmNo one knows for sure just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where he died days later from Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases known to man.
29 Jul 2014 - 9:33pmConcern about the ability of markets to provide income equity for the least able members of the work force has given the minimum wage its strong social appeal.
29 Jul 2014 - 1:47pm 5 commentsTight supply and stricter vehicle pollution control standards on the mainland will continue to be key drivers of higher prices of palladium this year and next year, even as the industrial metal's price reached a 13-year peak, analysts say.
30 Jul 2014 - 12:20amDevelopers 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.
29 Jul 2014 - 9:03pm 1 commentNew residential projects where discounts and subsidies for extra stamp duty are being offered have revived buying interest from investors who stayed on the sidelines after the government introduced a series of measures to rein in runaway home prices.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:59pmHong 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 LIFETattooed on the left forearm of chef Bruno Menard are three Michelin stars, an indelible souvenir of his culinary achievement at L'Osier, a restaurant opened by cosmetics maker Shiseido in Tokyo.
25 Jul 2014 - 1:49amInventor 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
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Three-time Sydney champion Nash Rawiller will join the riding ranks for a four-month-stint in Hong Kong from September 21.
29 Jul 2014 - 3:40pm
The estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling can proceed with the record US$2 billion sale of the NBA team despite her husband’s objections, a judge ruled on Monday, in a likely close to a case of lingering racism in American sports.
29 Jul 2014 - 11:01amAs 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 7 commentsA 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.
Fields of gold - A woman walks through a maze of bright yellow blooms covering a field during a three - day sunflower festival in the town of Nogi, Tochigi prefecture, a mother and daughter cross a
The forests of southwest China are among the safest and most hospitable places on earth … for elephants.
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
Fields of gold - A woman walks through a maze of bright yellow blooms covering a f
The forests of southwest China are among the safest and most hospitable places on
