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China’s central bank announced on Saturday it would cut benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points to 5.35 per cent, in a widely-expected move to join global central banks in easing liquidity amid growing challenges for economic growth.
Saturday, 28 February, 2015, 9:34pm 1 commentIndia’s finance minister pledged major investment in infrastructure on Saturday, saying it was time for the economy to “fly”, as he unveiled the new centre-right government’s first full budget.
28 Feb 2015 - 5:01pmIt caused barely a ripple when it was first printed two years ago but the republication of an article this week about a corrupt Qing dynasty prince set off a wave of speculation about just which former leader it was alluding to.
28 Feb 2015 - 9:31amRussian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down while walking in sight of the Kremlin late on Friday, prompting an international chorus of condemnation.
28 Feb 2015 - 12:09pm 1 commentChina has booted a senior military official who is embroiled in a corruption scandal from its parliament, state media reported on Saturday.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:18pmNorth Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un has urged his army to prepare for war with the United States and its allies, state media said on Saturday, as Pyongyang ramps up the rhetoric ahead of US-South Korea military drills.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:49pmA compound in traditional Chinese medicine for lowering blood pressure has been found to be effective in blocking the Ebola virus, according to new research.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:18amAmerica's immigrant investor visa, hugely popular with wealthy Chinese, could be used to defraud applicants, a group that advises US Congress has warned.
28 Feb 2015 - 10:27am 4 commentsLegendary Hong Kong martial arts star Bruce Lee is getting the official biopic treatment, daughter Shannon Lee has announced.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:50pm 3 commentsA couple in South Africa have found their daughter 17 years after she was stolen from her sleeping mother's arms thanks to an astonishing coincidence.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:37amChina's top leaders met on Friday to discuss and approve a plan to revive the country's ailing soccer fortunes.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:53pm 5 commentsChina will sign a series of agreements with countries including Kazakhstan and Pakistan next month as part of Beijing's plan to stimulate economic development along the ancient Silk Road.
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Last week, China and Russia announced their intention to plan joint commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war. Such cuddling up on the world stage may appear merely a modern political convenience against Western antipathy.
27 Feb 2015 - 4:22pm 11 commentsAs the ink dries on Hong Kong's giveaway budget chock-a-block with sweeteners aimed at defusing political strife, people are weighing up what they are getting - or not getting.
28 Feb 2015 - 9:45amLegendary Hong Kong martial arts star Bruce Lee is getting the official biopic treatment, daughter Shannon Lee has announced.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:50pm 3 commentsLogistical problems could delay a citywide by-election intended to serve as a "de facto referendum" on political reform until as late as March next year, a government source has said.
28 Feb 2015 - 1:46am 4 commentsChina’s central bank announced on Saturday it would cut benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points to 5.35 per cent, in a widely-expected move to join global central banks in easing liquidity amid growing challenges for economic growth.
28 Feb 2015 - 9:34pm 1 commentA former senior Chinese provincial official was sentenced Saturday to 17 years in jail for taking around 13 million yuan (HK$16.3 million) in bribes consisting largely of precious stones, a court said.
28 Feb 2015 - 9:52pmIndia’s finance minister pledged major investment in infrastructure on Saturday, saying it was time for the economy to “fly”, as he unveiled the new centre-right government’s first full budget.
28 Feb 2015 - 5:01pmNorth Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un has urged his army to prepare for war with the United States and its allies, state media said on Saturday, as Pyongyang ramps up the rhetoric ahead of US-South Korea military drills.
28 Feb 2015 - 2:49pmMexican police nabbed the most-wanted drug lord Servando Gomez, a former schoolteacher whose Knights Templar cartel which smuggled drugs to the US and illegally shipped iron ore to China.
28 Feb 2015 - 3:56pmRussian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down while walking in sight of the Kremlin late on Friday, prompting an international chorus of condemnation.
28 Feb 2015 - 12:09pm 1 commentA surge in foreign investment from China into the US is insufficient to rebalance the economic relationship between the two countries, with Beijing still unwilling to offer reciprocal market access to American investors, a Congressional commission says in a new report.
27 Feb 2015 - 10:28pmSun Hung Kai Properties, the city's second-largest developer in terms of market capitalisation, says it has locked in HK$28 billion, or nearly 90 per cent of its sales target for the year to June, after it reported a decline in first-half earnings.
28 Feb 2015 - 12:45pmSome Chinese developers are planning to raise prices for new luxury projects in prime areas this year, in a rare sign of improving sentiment in a market that saw new home prices fall for the last eight months of 2014.
24 Feb 2015 - 6:22pm More on China PropertyGreenland Hong Kong, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the mainland’s largest developer by sales, announced it would diversify into internet finance this year, hoping to capitalise on the cyber world to offer financial services to cash-strapped mainland developers.
11 Feb 2015 - 6:11am More on China PropertyBlur appear to have discovered their inner Chinese. The quintessentially British indie-rock band looked East for inspiration for their new album.
28 Feb 2015 - 10:28amFull of flavour and succulent, braised veal shanks are good to the bone.
28 Feb 2015 - 10:50pmThe future of gaming requires a careful balance. Developers need to innovate while simultaneously preserving the tried-and-tested methods that made gaming of the past so enjoyable. Video games must, to put it bluntly, evolve - the ideal title, then, for 2K's clever and unique new release.
28 Feb 2015 - 11:12pmDirty politics, poaching and attempted murder: Richard Leakey’s story is getting the Hollywood treatment
Robert and Sally Lo, the hearts and minds behind the Hong Kong Cancer Fund
Alfresco dining is gaining popularity among busy Hongkongers who want to unwind
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
Lawrence Fownes sat in a Causeway Bay hotel room and it felt like the walls were closing in.
28 Feb 2015 - 10:25pmDeep in farming country, Berrigan was the original one-horse town and the unlikeliest of the places in Australia from which Gerard Bush might one day arrive at the crowded, shining towers of Dubai or Hong Kong - unless that one horse was Campaign King.
28 Feb 2015 - 10:48pmA scion of Kenya's Leakey family - whose fossil discoveries helped reveal how humans evolved - Richard Leakey has been hailed as a saviour of the African elephant. Will Brad Pitt do justice to this charismatic Kenyan in a forthcoming biopic?
28 Feb 2015 - 10:50pmPeople in Russia's Karelia republic, divided from their kin in Finnish Karelia, are struggling to preserve and promote their culture and heritage.
28 Feb 2015 - 11:40pm
This week Hong Kong plays host to the world’s biggest gathering of fur traders at the International Fur and Fashion Fair in Wan Chai.
Polar bear Milk hams it up with a gas pipe over her head as she climbs out of her pool at Kushiro City Zoo in Hokkaido, northern Japan, a tiger cub jumped to its death from a building in Shandong p
A four-storey building at a privately owned school collapsed in Shenzhen, while Filipino soldiers and policemen link arms as they march in the Philippines, and more ...
Snowfall during the Lunar New Year period in many northern parts of the mainland brought not only fun and games for vacationers and traditional hopes for a fruitful year ahead, but also travel disr
Stunt planes get the annual Australian International Airshow off to an explosive start, while doctors work to separate 10-month-old conjoined twin girls in Houston, and more ...
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Polar bear Milk hams it up with a gas pipe over her head as she climbs out of her
A four-storey building at a privately owned school collapsed in Shenzhen, while Fi
Snowfall during the Lunar New Year period in many northern parts of the mainland b
Stunt planes get the annual Australian International Airshow off to an explosive s
