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- Oct 3, 2013
- Updated: 3:41am
All-star teams at Hu-Obama summit
12 Sep 2013US President Barack Obama played host to President Hu Jintao yesterday in what many see as the most important US-China summit in 30 years - one packed with thorny economic differences.
The Stanley Ho family tree
12 Sep 2013Stanley Ho, born on November 25, 1921, also known as Ho Hung Sun, Stanley Ho Hung Sun, is a Hong Kong and Macanese business magnate. Ho is nicknamed "The King of Gambling", a reference to the government-granted monopoly he held on the Macau gambling industry for 40 years.
Westminister Abbey
12 Sep 2013The 11th-century abbey has played host to 15 royal weddings over 1,000 years. Its gothic architecture dates mainly from the reign of King Henry III in the 13th century.
Breast cancer in Hong Kong
12 Sep 2013Angelina Jolie recently revealed that due to her defective gene BRCA1, she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy to reduce the risk of getting breast cancer from 87 per cent to 5 per cent.
The first man in space
12 Sep 2013Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became an international icon as the first man to travel into space 50 years ago today.
Entomophagy, the consumption of insects as food
12 Sep 2013The UN Food and Agricuture Organisation has just published a report on the promotion of entomophagy - the consumption
May 12, 2008, Sichuan earthquake in context
12 Sep 2013The devastating earthquake that struck Sichuan province five years ago marked one of a series in the earthquake-prone region. The earthquake occurred in an area that is deforming as two tectonic plates - the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate - collide.
John Tsang's 2013 budget aims to spur prosperity
12 Sep 2013Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah in his budget yesterday stressed the need for projects that will ensure growth and jobs in the long term.