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South Korean prosecutors sought arrest warrants on Friday for the captain and two crew members of the ferry that capsized with hundreds of children on board, as a rescued school vice principal dies in an apparent suicide.
Friday, 18 April, 2014, 9:45pm More on South Korea ferry disasterThe government has raised new fears over the safety of the mainland’s home-grown food after admitting that nearly one-fifth of the nation’s soil – including 19.4 per cent of its crop-growing areas – is polluted
18 Apr 2014 - 3:32pm 2 commentsEmbattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has acknowledged “rocky moments over the past year”, but has vowed to fight harder than ever to win re-election at a rally he dubbed the official launch of his campaign.
18 Apr 2014 - 4:34pm 1 commentThe central government's top anti-corruption agency said yesterday it was investigating Song Lin, chairman of the state-owned conglomerate China Resources Holdings.
18 Apr 2014 - 12:24pm 2 comments More on China Resources (Holdings)One day, for no particular reason, Stephen Poon Wing-sing decided to run. Once the Hongkonger started, he just kept going, 40 kilometres a day for 27 consecutive days.
18 Apr 2014 - 4:43pmWeibo Corp executives on Thursday toasted the Chinese social media firm’s debut at Nasdaq’s New York headquarters.
18 Apr 2014 - 6:55pm 1 commentChina sentences four activists to jail for up to three-and-a-half years for urging officials to reveal their assets, a lawyer says.
18 Apr 2014 - 6:34pm 3 commentsAn avalanche swept down a slope of Mount Everest on Friday killing 12 Nepali mountaineering guides at the beginning of the main climbing season, a Tourism Ministry official said.
18 Apr 2014 - 4:44pmTo access the SCMP ePaper Edition you will need a Digital Premium Subscription.
With the government's public consultation on political reform drawing to a close, Beijing decided to invite all Legislative Council members to Shanghai.
18 Apr 2014 - 3:14am 9 commentsThe world's largest shoemaker caved in to some demands by striking workers yesterday, but the four-day labour stoppage involving tens of thousands of employees continued to brew over company benefits.
18 Apr 2014 - 3:29amThe government could directly import workers for infrastructure projects at the border, an official has suggested after manpower shortages were given as one of the reasons behind the two-year delay to the HK$67 billion high-speed railway linking Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
18 Apr 2014 - 11:42pm More on MTRCUnionists have urged the government to increase the number of statutory holidays in the city to 17, so all workers will be entitled to all public holidays.
18 Apr 2014 - 5:08pm 1 commentThe PLA Daily yesterday published two full pages of speeches by 17 generals vowing allegiance to their commander-in-chief, President Xi Jinping , the third such campaign by the official military newspaper in the past six weeks.
18 Apr 2014 - 11:48pmChina sentences four activists to jail for up to three-and-a-half years for urging officials to reveal their assets, a lawyer says.
18 Apr 2014 - 6:34pm 3 commentsThe vice principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of his pupils on what turned out to be a disastrous ferry trip has committed suicide, as hopes faded of finding any of the 268 missing passengers alive.
19 Apr 2014 - 12:01amThe mini-sub searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had reached depths well beyond its normal operating limits, officials said yesterday, as it made its fifth dive to the seabed.
19 Apr 2014 - 12:01amUS President Barack Obama had a curt assessment of his own administration’s latest “breakthrough” in its tangled diplomacy with Russian leader Vladimir Putin: buyer beware.
18 Apr 2014 - 11:29pmA recent spate of infections from a frequently deadly Middle East virus is raising new worries about efforts to contain the illness, with infectious disease experts urging greater vigilance in combatting its spread.
18 Apr 2014 - 10:17pmSwiss bank UBS' internal investigation of one of its senior bankers is focusing on her relationship with the chief of state-owned China Resources, sources say.
19 Apr 2014 - 12:06amIt is never easy switching to a new business and leaving behind the comfort of a familiar company and an industry you know well.
18 Apr 2014 - 2:15pmHome price inflation eased on the mainland for the third straight month, official data showed on Friday, lending more evidence to a market downturn and fuelling further talk about a possible relaxation of housing policy.
18 Apr 2014 - 9:58amProperty-related taxes imposed and proposed by the British government will not deter mainland Chinese intent on buying property in Britain, lawyers and industry insiders say.
18 Apr 2014 - 10:37amGabriel Garcia Marquez was an enormous influence on a huge number of writers worldwide, in particular through his 1967 novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
18 Apr 2014 - 6:12pm 2 commentsWith the price of wholesale coffee set to surge as much as 20 per cent in the next few months, it's customers at cha chaan teng and speciality roasters who can expect to bear the brunt of any increases.
18 Apr 2014 - 8:34am More on LIFEThe prize is the panoramic curvature of the earth against the starry scenery of space, but passengers on the HK$550,000-per-ticket World View Experience trip to the edge of space won't have to keep the privileged view to themselves.
18 Apr 2014 - 8:26am More on LIFEThriller instinct: Nick Cheung and Dante Lam are a winning combination
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
City of angles: Five outdoor enthusiasts show a different view of Hong Kong
True grit: from Hollywood to the horrors of a Phnom Penh rubbish dump
A young Pakistani is being mourned not only by his family but also by the close-knit Kwai Chung community whose hopes he carried on his shoulders
Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo opens up about his relationship with the US president
The personal touch is what attracts diners to small, cosy restaurants
Lewis Hamilton may have battled back on Friday to set the fastest time in the second practice, but all eyes were on Ferrari as the new principal took the helm for the Chinese Grand Prix.
18 Apr 2014 - 11:22pmLee Westwood surged four shots clear at the halfway stage of the European Tour's Malaysian Open on Friday after an eventful second round where Spain's Pablo Larrazabal was forced to dive into a lake to avoid a swarm of hornets.
18 Apr 2014 - 10:34pmErnesto 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.
Two pressure cooker bombs killed three people and injured an estimated 264 others during the Boston marathon on April 15, 2013.
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
Britain's Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are pictured in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, supporters participate in an event lead by Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela
The pro-Russian activists occupying state institutions in eastern Ukraine said the
Two pressure cooker bombs killed three people and injured an estimated 264 others
US President Barack Obama joins Vice-President Joe Biden for the first “selfie” of
From pollution to a factory fire, to sports and scenes from everyday life on the m
Britain's Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are pictured in front of the
