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The investigation into the dealings of tycoon Liu Han has revealed the intricate relationships between officials and businesspeople on the mainland.
Monday, 21 April, 2014, 7:15amChina Resources said top executives had visited its key business units in a bid to shore up morale after Song Lin was removed as the conglomerate's chairman over suspicions of corruption.
21 Apr 2014 - 6:27am More on China Resources (Holdings)A Japanese cabinet minister yesterday visited a Tokyo shrine that honours the dead, including war criminals, in what has repeatedly caused friction with Japan's neighbours.
21 Apr 2014 - 1:41am 4 commentsChina’s desire for luxury cars remains undimmed by an economic slowdown and political austerity drive as the country’s growing band of wealthy motorists set their sights on high-end wheels.
20 Apr 2014 - 6:33pmMore than 1,000 police officers started patrols in Shanghai carrying guns on Sunday, Xinhua reported.
The Ministry of Public Security said last month that more armed patrols would be introduced around the country in the wake of the knife attacks at Kunming railway station on March 1.
20 Apr 2014 - 10:26pm 1 commentNintendo's trailblazing Game Boy marks its 25th anniversary today with the portable device's legacy living on in cutting-edge smartphone games and among legions of nostalgic fans.
21 Apr 2014 - 2:00am More on NintendoFour days after South Korea's shattering ferry disaster, grieving relatives were split yesterday over whether to approve an end to the search for survivors and let cranes raise the sunken vessel to the surface.
21 Apr 2014 - 7:38am More on South Korea ferry disasterAmid the pomp and ceremony of Barack Obama's trip to East Asia this week, the US president will be on a mission to quell doubts and anxiety.
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Barack Obama touches down in Japan on Wednesday to start an important week-long trip that will also take in three other countries: South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.
21 Apr 2014 - 3:11am 2 commentsKeen to learn about the United Nations' review of human rights in China, Cao Shunli planned to travel to Geneva last September. She never made her flight. Beijing police barred her from boarding her plane on September 14. Then the human rights activist disappeared.
21 Apr 2014 - 3:21am 1 commentHong Kong has pencilled in next month for the city's first burning of seized ivory - and the government plans to give the incineration a high profile to drive home the message of conservation.
21 Apr 2014 - 5:52am 1 commentWhen well-known comic artist Ma Sing-yuen received thanks from a grateful mother who told him that his books had taken her son deep into the world of reading, he had mixed emotions.
21 Apr 2014 - 7:58amThe investigation into the dealings of tycoon Liu Han has revealed the intricate relationships between officials and businesspeople on the mainland.
21 Apr 2014 - 7:15amA court in Shanghai has seized a large Japanese ore carrier at a port in Zhejiang province to enforce a verdict seeking compensation for the sinking of two civilian Chinese cargo ships during the second world war.
21 Apr 2014 - 6:24am 2 commentsThe official death toll in the South Korean ferry sinking soared to 58 on Sunday after divers finally succeeded in entering the vessel, which a newly released transcript shows was crippled with confusion and indecision well after it began listing dangerously.
20 Apr 2014 - 11:29pm 4 comments More on South Korea ferry disasterAmid the pomp and ceremony of Barack Obama's trip to East Asia this week, the US president will be on a mission to quell doubts and anxiety.
21 Apr 2014 - 1:41am 1 commentPro-Kremlin rebels in east Ukraine appealed yesterday for Russian "peacekeepers" after a deadly gunfight killed at least two of their militants, shattering an Easter truce and sparking "outrage" in Moscow.
21 Apr 2014 - 1:28amGunmen have kidnapped three workers including a Chinese and an Algerian from an oilfield in Sudan's West Kordofan province, the army said.
21 Apr 2014 - 12:27amFund managers predict a flat performance for the Hong Kong equity index in the second quarter amid worries over the mainland's slowing economy, while some see selling pressure in the Macau casino and the mainland's internet sectors due to overvaluations.
21 Apr 2014 - 1:29amIn a grim precursor to the much-awaited through train scheme, the first batch of foreign hedge funds allowed to raise yuan capital on the mainland for overseas equity purchases under the qualified domestic limited partner programme fell short of expectations.
21 Apr 2014 - 2:11am 1 commentHong Kong developers are aggressively pushing project launches on the four-day Easter break but sales momentum for larger units is showing signs of slowing.
19 Apr 2014 - 1:10amSweeteners were aplenty at the Beijing Spring Real Estate Trade Fair last week. But Zhao Xiao wasn't biting.
19 Apr 2014 - 12:46amThe world never really started to take the superhero genre seriously until Christopher Reeve donned a pair of blue tights and fronted up as Superman in 1978.
20 Apr 2014 - 12:36pm More on LIFEThe Mexican-American chef of Elements steakhouse Toro is helping push the trend for pan-Latin American cuisine, writes Andrew Sun.
20 Apr 2014 - 12:50amUsers of Android phones running a particular version of the Jelly Bean operating system should take extra care with free Wi-Fi hotspots and unfamiliar websites as they are vulnerable to a new variant of the "Heartbleed" bug, IT experts warn.
21 Apr 2014 - 6:06amThe ditching of an airliner in New York in 2009 made world headlines but, the following year, two pilots demonstrated even greater airmanship on approach to Chek Lap Kok
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Liverpool nervously edged closer to a first league title in the Premier League era with a nail-biting 3-2 success over Norwich City at Carrow Road on Sunday.
21 Apr 2014 - 12:35amLewis Hamilton raced to a hat-trick of wins in Sunday's Formula One Chinese Grand Prix, cruising unchallenged to the flag ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg as a dominant Mercedes claimed a third straight one-two finish.
20 Apr 2014 - 10:22pmErnesto Spicciolato emerges from the mist and drags his kayak up onto the shore in the otherwise empty Hap Mun bay on what has turned out to be one of the foggiest days of the year – the zero visibility adds to the sense of utter remoteness, though we’re actually only a 15-minute ride away from Sai Kung pier.
15 Apr 2014 - 8:55amTODAY REPRESENTS an important career milestone for Tsui Tin-yau, the singer-songwriter, film actor, mystery novel writer, and Aaron Kwok Fu-shing doppelganger whenever he knits his eyebrows.
15 Apr 2014 - 8:55amThe pro-Russian activists occupying state institutions in eastern Ukraine said they will not heed an ultimatum by the government in Kiev.
Iranian army troops march in a parade,while the Duchess of Cambridge visits with young lifesavers at Sydney's Manly Beach, and more ...
Subdivided flats are clearly not just a Hong Kong phenomenon. In New York, photographer Annie Ling has captured the lives of people living in tiny cubicles in Manhattan's Chinatown.
US President Barack Obama joins Vice-President Joe Biden for the first “selfie” of Biden’s new Instagram account, a large pink 'Duerer Rabbit' sculpture is lifted at the top of the Albertina-wing i
From pollution to a factory fire, to sports and scenes from everyday life on the mainland, here are the striking images taken by Chinese photographers that won awards at the annual China Internatio
The pro-Russian activists occupying state institutions in eastern Ukraine said the
Iranian army troops march in a parade,while the Duchess of Cambridge visits with y
US President Barack Obama joins Vice-President Joe Biden for the first “selfie” of
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