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A 12-hour humanitarian truce between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group entered into effect on Saturday, as top diplomats pressed efforts to secure a longer-term ceasefire.
Saturday, 26 July, 2014, 4:08pmMa Ying-jeou yesterday ordered transport authorities to improve flight safety, as the head of airline TransAsia Airways apologised to relatives of victims killed when one of its planes crashed on the resort island of Penghu.
26 Jul 2014 - 3:01amThe European Union announced on Saturday it had widened its sanctions against Russia over Moscow’s role in conflict-torn Ukraine to include the heads of intelligence services.
26 Jul 2014 - 4:45pmChinese relatives of passengers of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 claim they were detained by Beijing police for nearly 24 hours after demanding to see the carrier's official video footage showing people boarding the doomed flight.
26 Jul 2014 - 2:24pm 4 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 370July 28, 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. The story of hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers, the largest non-European labour contingent in the war, is only slowly being rediscovered.
26 Jul 2014 - 11:31am More on SCMP ChroniclesMore than 850 government workers in Guangdong have been forced out of their jobs as part of a crackdown on officials whose spouses and children have emigrated abroad.
26 Jul 2014 - 2:32pm 1 commentAfrica’s most populous country Nigeria on Friday became the fourth West African country to be affected by the Ebola virus, announcing that a Liberian national in quarantine in a Lagos hospital had died of the disease.
26 Jul 2014 - 1:53pmMcDonald’s China says it will carry on using scandal-hit meat supplier OSI Group on the mainland because “it is riskier to find another local supplier”.
25 Jul 2014 - 5:38pm 4 commentsThree siblings on board the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over the Ukraine grew up in Hong Kong and were much-loved students at the Australian International School.
26 Jul 2014 - 3:03am 4 comments More on Malaysia Airlines flight 17Britain's food safety watchdog will investigate two chicken processing factories there after reports of contamination in the poultry industry.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," wrote Leo Tolstoy. The same might be said of peace and war (to invert the order of the author's most famous novel).
26 Jul 2014 - 4:24am 4 commentsJuly 28, 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. The story of hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers, the largest non-European labour contingent in the war, is only slowly being rediscovered.
26 Jul 2014 - 11:31amJuly 28, 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. The story of hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers, the largest non-European labour contingent in the war, is only slowly being rediscovered.
26 Jul 2014 - 11:31am More on SCMP ChroniclesAn official probe is under way into the McDonald's "rotten meat" scandal, focusing on whether the fast-food giant knowingly sold potentially tainted food to the Hong Kong public over a four-day period this week.
26 Jul 2014 - 2:59am 9 comments More on China Food ScandalsMore than 850 government workers in Guangdong have been forced out of their jobs as part of a crackdown on officials whose spouses and children have emigrated abroad.
26 Jul 2014 - 2:32pm 1 commentMa Ying-jeou yesterday ordered transport authorities to improve flight safety, as the head of airline TransAsia Airways apologised to relatives of victims killed when one of its planes crashed on the resort island of Penghu.
26 Jul 2014 - 3:01amThe United Nations has called on Japan to accept full blame for pressing women from Korea and other Asian nations into sexual slavery in the second world war.
25 Jul 2014 - 11:15pm 10 commentsThe ex-general who lost Indonesia's presidential election to Jakarta governor Joko Widodo mounted a legal challenge to the result yesterday, alleging widespread electoral fraud and irregularities in vote counting.
26 Jul 2014 - 1:24amA 12-hour humanitarian truce between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group entered into effect on Saturday, as top diplomats pressed efforts to secure a longer-term ceasefire.
26 Jul 2014 - 4:08pmThe European Union announced on Saturday it had widened its sanctions against Russia over Moscow’s role in conflict-torn Ukraine to include the heads of intelligence services.
26 Jul 2014 - 4:45pmPresident Xi Jinping believes a slight slowdown in economic growth would be acceptable, Li Yang, a deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told a briefing yesterday as the government think tank said growth could ease to as low as 6.4 per cent.
26 Jul 2014 - 5:02am 1 commentLVMH has seen a drop in demand from Chinese buyers in its home market and overseas, as well as a slowdown in Hong Kong because of political unrest, the French fashion, spirits and cosmetics group said after posting below-forecast second-quarter sales and profits.
26 Jul 2014 - 12:11am 3 commentsVacancy rates for retail outlets, at their highest in three years in four shopping districts, will head higher still by early next year, but not enough to bring down rents by more than a modest amount, analysts say.
26 Jul 2014 - 1:38am 2 commentsHigh construction costs and strong demand are seen keeping property prices high although new private housing supply over the next three to four years is set to push inventory to an eight-year high, analysts say.
26 Jul 2014 - 1:38amBack in 1976, not many aspiring singer-songwriters recording their debut albums were lucky enough to have Eric Clapton turn up at the studio to contribute a couple of guitar solos.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:53pmTattooed 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 - 1:49amEver since the invention of the MP3 file in 1993, the music industry has been in flux. From illegal file-sharing to YouTube, from downloads to streaming services, it continues to pioneer new ways to consume content, and new business models.
25 Jul 2014 - 1:49amDone right, this takeaway classic is a joy to behold. But who makes the city's best?
Sir Kai Ho Kai was a colossal public figure, so how did we forget him?
Delhi’s vibrant colony of artists and street performers is under threat from the modern world
An organic farming commune in Hebei is going back to the roots of Maoist thought
The cast of Downton Abbey come to the aid of Guangxi’s moon bears
Space invaders: ‘The final frontier’ is ready for tourists later this year
The personal touch is what attracts diners to small, cosy restaurants
As his team hoped, Vincenzo Nibali has demonstrated he's the "boss" of the Tour de France. Just don't compare him to the last rider to regularly bear that sobriquet at cycling's greatest race, Lance Armstrong.
26 Jul 2014 - 12:40amWelsh 400m hurdler Rhys Williams, son of 1970s Wales and British Lion rugby icon "JJ" Williams, has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games after failing a doping test.
26 Jul 2014 - 12:42amA good burger is a joy to behold. Our team put 16 of the city's most popular versions to the test.
24 Jul 2014 - 12:15pm 15 commentsThe time is ripe to get your hands dirty and sign up for one of the city's budding organic farming workshops.
23 Jul 2014 - 11:21pmA new island formed by volcanic activity off the uninhabited Japanese island of Nishinoshima has grown sixfold, while a little girl lies in a pile of foam during Foam Day in Utah, and more ...
July 28, 2014 marks the centenary of the First World War’s outbreak in Europe.
Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her son Supasek Amornchat arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport, while German pianist Stefan Aaron plays over the sky, and more ...
The rusty hulk of the cruise liner Costa Concordia sits in the sea in northern Italy, while children look at the body of a beached young humpback whale lying on the shore, and more ...
With the thermometer nudging 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the mainland's south and in the low 30s in Hong Kong, it's hard to beat a water park, such as in Enshi and Chongqing.
A new island formed by volcanic activity off the uninhabited Japanese island of Ni
Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her son Supasek Amornchat arriv
The rusty hulk of the cruise liner Costa Concordia sits in the sea in northern Ita
With the thermometer nudging 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the mainland's so
