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Street vendor stabs fellow Uygur to death in Changsha, kills 4 passers-by

Five people were hacked to death yesterday following a dispute between two Uygur vendors in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, state media reported.

Saturday, 15 March, 2014, 5:20am 2 comments

Chinese museums, collectors set for fierce bidding on iconic bronze

The auction of an antique Chinese bronze ritual wine vessel at Christie’s Asian Art Week in New York next week has caught the attention of well-heeled collectors across China.

15 Mar 2014 - 5:41am

Censors were at WeChat officers before crackdown on accounts

Censors were stationed for a week at the offices of Tencent's popular social media service WeChat before dozens of prominent accounts were closed or suspended, a source has said.

15 Mar 2014 - 5:30am More on Tencen

Xi likely to meet Obama during European tour

Both presidents will attend the Nuclear Security Summit 2014 in the Netherlands, and it is possible he will meet Xi on the meeting's sidelines. Fifty-three national leaders are scheduled to attend the summit and discuss issues such as proliferation and nuclear terrorism.

15 Mar 2014 - 5:46am

Paris provides free public transport amid smog, hoping to keep cars home

Paris authorities are making public transport free for three days to encourage drivers to leave their vehicles behind due to severe pollution caused by unusually warm weather.

15 Mar 2014 - 4:44am

Hong Kong-born Olivia Chow to run against Rob Ford for Toronto mayor

Left-leaning, Hong Kong-born Olivia Chow has launched her campaign to replace Toronto's conservative mayor Rob Ford, whose drug scandal turned him into an international punchline.

14 Mar 2014 - 9:55pm 1 comment

Foul play fears grow as search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 widened

Update

The international search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet expanded westwards yesterday towards the Indian Ocean, hundreds of kilometres from the scheduled route of flight MH370 which vanished eight days ago.

15 Mar 2014 - 2:02am 9 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370

200 'Turkish refugees' rescued from Thai slave camp turn out to be Uygurs

Some 200 people rescued by police from a human trafficking camp in southern Thailand are suspected to be Uygur Muslims from Xinjiang , Thai police sources said yesterday.

14 Mar 2014 - 11:47pm 2 comments

Beijing criticised for dragging Japan into a media ‘cold war’

14 Mar 2014 - 10:14pm 3 comments

Watchdog says 303 people died in car models recalled by General Motors

14 Mar 2014 - 9:56pm

Xian kindergartens secretly fed pupils flu pills for 5 years, police say

15 Mar 2014 - 5:48am

Dissident Cao Shunli dies in detention after denied treatment

15 Mar 2014 - 5:50am 1 comment

Wukan protest leader Yang Semao arrested, accused of taking bribes

15 Mar 2014 - 2:49am

Pistorius trial hears bungling police mishandled evidence and stole watch

15 Mar 2014 - 12:58am 1 comment

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Editor's Pick

China must work with other nations to rein in North Korea

China's patience with North Korea has been gradually wearing thin. Six-party talks organised by Beijing in 2003 to bring the North to heel over its nuclear weapons programme have achieved little and been stalled since 2012.

15 Mar 2014 - 6:34am

Today's Poll

Do you believe the new theory that MH370 may have been hijacked and crashed in the Indian Ocean?
  • Yes: 65%
  • No: 35%
14 Mar 2014
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Total number of votes recorded: 568

Opinion

Ivan Zhai Ivan Zhai

Open look at city budgets more than just window-dressing in graft fight

15 Mar 2014 - 5:55am
Niall Fraser Niall Fraser

Flight 370 families deserve the truth, just as Lockerbie families do

15 Mar 2014 - 6:43am
Shirley Yam Shirley Yam

Trust product sounds great, so long as you don't ask questions

15 Mar 2014 - 1:50am
Howard Winn Howard Winn

Digesting the price

15 Mar 2014 - 1:50am

Insight

Evidence of Japan's wartime role in sex slavery is incontrovertible

DANNY FRIEDMAN

During a UN Security Council session in January about "war, its lessons and the search for a permanent peace", China, South Korea and North Korea made it painfully clear that Japan's non-recognition of the "comfort women" issue, its politicians' Yasukuni shrine visits and revisionist history books form the roadblocks to reconciliation between their countries and Japan.

15 Mar 2014 - 6:36am

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Focus

Insurers of flight MH370's passengers have no precedent for policy payouts

Enoch Yiu

The unprecedented nature of Malaysia Airlines flight 370's disappearance means it is up to the discretion of the passengers' insurers whether or when they make payouts to their families.

However, the high profile of the case and a notice from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to all mainland insurers to fast-track compensation has prompted many insurers to consider showing flexibility and signing off on the cheques soon, according to several insurance executives.

15 Mar 2014 - 1:58am

Harry's View

14 Mar 2014

Hong Kong

COURTS

Joseph Lau Luen-hung, Steven Lo Kit-shing sentenced to jail for land deal

Billionaire Hong Kong property tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung has been handed a jail term of five years and three months by a Macau court for his part in a bribes-for-land racket involving the most corrupt public official ever brought to justice in the history of the former Portuguese enclave.

15 Mar 2014 - 5:21am
POLITICS

Beijing 'positive' about restoring pan-democrats' home-return permits

The central government's liaison office in Hong Kong has responded positively to the idea of helping pan-democratic lawmakers get back their home-return permits, Legislative Council President Jasper Tsang Yok-sing said yesterday.

15 Mar 2014 - 3:03am 2 comments
EDUCATION

Two-year reprieve for Tin Hau school

15 Mar 2014

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China

CRIME

Street vendor stabs fellow Uygur to death in Changsha, kills 4 passers-by

Five people were hacked to death yesterday following a dispute between two Uygur vendors in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, state media reported.

15 Mar 2014 - 5:20am 2 comments
CENSORSHIP

Censors were at WeChat officers before crackdown on accounts

Censors were stationed for a week at the offices of Tencent's popular social media service WeChat before dozens of prominent accounts were closed or suspended, a source has said.

15 Mar 2014 - 5:30am More on Tencen
AUCTION

Chinese museums, collectors set for fierce bidding on iconic bronze

15 Mar 2014

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Asia

Flight MH370

Foul play fears grow as search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 widened

Update

The international search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet expanded westwards yesterday towards the Indian Ocean, hundreds of kilometres from the scheduled route of flight MH370 which vanished eight days ago.

15 Mar 2014 - 9:03am 9 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370
Flight MH370

Chinese scientists observe 'seismic event' on sea floor, as US points towards Indian Ocean in MH370 mystery

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A team of seismologists at one of China's top universities said they had detected a slight seismic event on the sea floor between Vietnam and Malaysia on March 8, which might be consistent with an airplane crashing into the sea, and possibly related to the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

14 Mar 2014 - 5:57pm 24 comments More on Malaysian Airlines flight 370
SOUTHEAST ASIA

Thai troops accused of killing 15 Cambodians who crossed over to log

14 Mar 2014

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World

Paris provides free public transport amid smog, hoping to keep cars home

Paris authorities are making public transport free for three days to encourage drivers to leave their vehicles behind due to severe pollution caused by unusually warm weather.

15 Mar 2014 - 4:44am
CANADA

Hong Kong-born Olivia Chow to run against Rob Ford for Toronto mayor

Left-leaning, Hong Kong-born Olivia Chow has launched her campaign to replace Toronto's conservative mayor Rob Ford, whose drug scandal turned him into an international punchline.

14 Mar 2014 - 9:55pm 1 comment
UKRAINE

Crimean voters' rosy view of Russia blinds them to a different reality

15 Mar 2014

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China Insider

vandalism

Rubbish, cigarettes and sanitary pads - Two Hong Kong visitors to Taiwan vandalise local flat

14 Mar 2014
VIRAL VIDEOS

From the makers of 'Friday' and 'I Love Chinese Food' comes 'Get In My Car'

14 Mar 2014
Electric vehicles

Ready to get your Tesla on the road in Beijing? Think again

13 Mar 2014
E-COMMERCE

Infographic: Asia's HK$4 trillion e-commerce market

13 Mar 2014
ENTERTAINMENT

House of Cards embodies the corruption in American politics, says Chinese ambassador

14 Mar 2014 6 comments

Russia's war of words with US over Crimea spills onto Chinese social media

11 Mar 2014
CRIME

US language tutor jailed for 30 years for sexually exploiting children in China

10 Mar 2014 5 comments
EMIGRATION

China becomes top source of fresh immigrants moving to New Zealand

8 Mar 2014 2 comments
KUNMING ATTACK

Beijing police threaten action against microbloggers over Kunming attack comments

8 Mar 2014 2 comments
TENCENT

WeChat’s latest viral hit in China: health insurance

6 Mar 2014 2 comments
TIBET

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

7 Mar 2014 3 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

10 Mar 2014 1 comment

Business

REGULATION

PBOC halts plans by Tencent, Alibaba for virtual credit cards

News that the People's Bank of China had halted plans by mainland internet giants Alibaba and Tencent to offer virtual credit cards sent Tencent shares tumbling yesterday, along with those of partner China Citic Bank.

15 Mar 2014 - 12:39am 1 comment More on People's Bank of China
REGULATION

UBS traders tried to rig Hibor, HKMA probe finds

Six traders at Swiss lender UBS attempted to manipulate Hong Kong interbank offered rates following the rigging of similar London interbank rates, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority found after an investigation lasting more than a year.

15 Mar 2014 - 5:00am

Markets

Doug Young Doug Young

Tencent M&A in overdrive with reported handset bid

13 Mar 2014 - 10:30am

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Property

PRIVATISATIONS

New World taps market for HK$18.6b to buy out China unit

New World Development, the city's fifth-largest developer by market value, yesterday announced it would make an HK$18.6 billion rights issue to take its mainland property arm New World China Land private.

15 Mar 2014 - 12:53am More on New World China Land

Tiny store in Causeway Bay shopping district sells for record price

A tiny Causeway Bay shop has become the most expensive commercial property after it was sold for a record HK$1.38 million per square foot.

The 130-square-foot shop on 77-83 Matheson Street changed hands at HK$180 million, with no information yet on the identity of the buyer.

14 Mar 2014 - 1:07am

Swire Properties to spend HK$10b on Taikoo Place redevelopment

14 Mar 2014

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Lifestyle

Arts & Culture

Pink Dollar app fights gay prejudice

As much as we like to consider ourselves highly evolved beings free from prejudice, recent anti-gay protests around the world have proved that we still have a way to go.

14 Mar 2014 - 10:06am 1 comment More on LIFE

Overseas tours will help Hong Kong Philharmonic hit the high notes, says conductor Jaap van Zweden

14 Mar 2014

String theorist: an audience with jazz guitar great John McLaughlin

12 Mar 2014
Food & Wine

The Seasons aims to train staff for the coming restaurant boom in Macau

It's taken more than 18 months to get up and running but Jean Alberti is pleased to say The Seasons, the training restaurant he set up, is finally open to the public.

14 Mar 2014 - 10:23am More on LIFE

Last orders for the great British pub as gastropubs and restaurants move in

14 Mar 2014

The humble bao has been given a make over

12 Mar 2014
Technology

Chinese online games firm ChangYou to invest US$600m in mobile push

ChangYou.com a leading mainland developer and operator of online games, will roll out a US$600 million mobile gaming development initiative that represents one of the largest investments in its industry.

14 Mar 2014 - 12:06am More on Mobile games

Broadcast data project could provide free uncensored internet to anyone in the world

13 Mar 2014

Happy birthday, World Wide Web! On 25th anniversary, inventor calls for action to ensure freedom online

12 Mar 2014 3 comments
Fashion

Designer Matthew Williamson talks about a recurring motif in his work

14 Mar 2014

Trend spotter: sports luxe and urban dandy in the fashion spotlight

12 Mar 2014
Books

Thrills and a history lesson in Hong Kong-based novel

9 Mar 2014

Memoir chronicles voyage of self-discovery by saviour of abandoned orphans

10 Mar 2014
Health

Carob enjoys a resurgence in popularity as a 'superfood'

11 Mar 2014

Fit & Fab: Fiona Foxon

11 Mar 2014
Beauty

Kate Somerville is here to save our skin

14 Mar 2014

Beauty fix: Elemis facial treatment provides some lift at 10/10 Space

12 Mar 2014
Family & Education

Taobao's rise in Hong Kong may pave globl expansion

14 Mar 2014

Singaporean author on a crusade against Asian education system

11 Mar 2014
Interiors & Living

Style with David Roden, March 12, 2014

12 Mar 2014

Shanghai fair attracts do-it-yourself interior designers

12 Mar 2014

Magazines

Sport

Classic repeat unlikely in showdown for Hong Kong Derby, says Berry

Jockey Tommy Berry - whose masterful ride on Designs On Rome upset Joao Moreira on Able Friend three weeks ago - has warned that a sequel is unlikely in Sunday's Group One BMW Hong Kong Derby.

14 Mar 2014 - 10:50pm
CRICKET

Haseeb Amjad bowls best ever spell as Hong Kong beat the Netherlands

Haseeb Amjad bowled the "best spell of my life" as Hong Kong came back from the dead, snatching a 27-run victory over the Netherlands yesterday in a warm-up ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.

15 Mar 2014 - 12:51am
MOTOR RACING

Red Bull bounce back from winter woes

14 Mar 2014

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Magazines

From brewing your own beer to learning leather work: why DIY rocks

There’s a deep satisfaction in doing it yourself. Perhaps it’s the pride that comes with crafting something unique, or the take-it-slow philosophy behind it. Vanessa Yung gets hands on.

12 Mar 2014 - 10:42pm
SEE/HEAR

Photographer William Furniss likes taking pictures in the rain

Photographer William Furniss loves the city when it rains, so much so that he's made it the subject of his latest exhibition. Kylie Knott takes her umbrella.

12 Mar 2014 - 10:42pm
SEE/HEAR

String theorist: an audience with jazz guitar great John McLaughlin

12 Mar 2014

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Blogs

The Beauty Blog TAMA LUNG

Kate Somerville is here to save our skin

TAMA LUNG 14 Mar 2014 - 6:11pm
Happy Lucky Dragon Win Michael Cox

How do you solve a problem like Moreira?

Michael Cox 13 Mar 2014 - 9:16pm
Corporate China Doug Young

Tencent M&A in overdrive with reported handset bid

Doug Young 13 Mar 2014 - 10:30am
Happy Lucky Dragon Win Michael Cox

Master Size with an appropriate winner to bring up a milestone

Michael Cox 12 Mar 2014 - 9:51am
The Hongcouver Ian Young

Potent symbols of the new Vancouver, served up on a Rolls-Royce’s ‘CHINA’ plate

Ian Young 12 Mar 2014 - 5:14pm 12 comments
The Beauty Blog TAMA LUNG

Review: Vinoperfect Radiance Facial at Caudalie Spa

TAMA LUNG 12 Mar 2014 - 9:14am
Corporate China Doug Young

Weibo: Baidu, Xiaomi, TCL leaders strut at NPC

Doug Young 10 Mar 2014 - 2:17pm

In Pictures

Pray for the missing Malaysia flight MH370

The search continues for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on Saturday, March 8, 2014.

11 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 15

Paper pandas are seen in the Taipei Metro during the Pandas World Tour in Taipei, a truck dumps counterfeit and shoddy goods at a landfill site in Nanning, and more ...

15 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 14

An anti-government protester sets fire to a barricade as he confronts a police water cannon during clashes in Caracas, U.S. first lady Michelle Obama greets Kermit the Frog, and more ...

14 Mar 2014

Today in Photos, March 13

A firefighter battles flames at a construction site in the Mission Bay neighbourhood of San Francisco, an art enthusiast checks out local visual artist Jessie Leung Ka-yi’s work Panniculus, and mor

13 Mar 2014

Improving well-being: mainland masseuses learn to relax tense muscles, March 12

The basic conditions at the classrooms and dormitories of Huaxia Liangste's massage training centres in Henan seem very far away from its luxurious spas and massage stores of Beijing.

12 Mar 2014
News

The search continues for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished en route f

14 Mar 2014
Photos

Paper pandas are seen in the Taipei Metro during the Pandas World Tour in Taipei,

15 Mar 2014
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An anti-government protester sets fire to a barricade as he confronts a police wat

14 Mar 2014
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A firefighter battles flames at a construction site in the Mission Bay neighbourho

13 Mar 2014
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The basic conditions at the classrooms and dormitories of Huaxia Liangste's massag

12 Mar 2014

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