5:37pm Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng has obtained his passport and is awaiting to board a flight "soon" to the United States, a close friend said on Saturday.
3:19pm The High Court on Saturday rejected an application for a judicial review over the Legco president who invoked power to kill the progress of a filibuster by pan-democrats.
Lai Changxing , once the mainland's most-wanted fugitive, has been jailed for life by a court in Fujian for running a huge smuggling operation and leading a bribery ring.
5:54pm A deadly suicide blast that hit Syria's main eastern city Deir Ezzor on Saturday killed seven people and wounded 100, according to Syrian foreign ministry spokesman.
A secondary school in Sichuan that was rebuilt using about HK$4 million in Hong Kong donations after the 2008 earthquake is to be demolished, reportedly to make way for a luxury residential complex.
Chinese makers of solar power equipment saws their share prices tumble after Washington imposed tough new duties on panel parts exported to the US. The decision to introduce duties of more than 31 per ...
5:37pmBlind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng has obtained his passport and is awaiting to board a flight "soon" to the United States, a close friend said on Saturday.
Lanxin Xiang disagrees with the forecast of rocky Sino-French ties under the newly elected president, Francois Hollande. Instead, he says, Nicolas Sarkozy's exit could pave the way for ...
12:37pmA growing chorus of world leaders on Friday pushed for a shift toward more pro-growth policies to help ease a European crisis that threatens to oust Greece from the euro zone.
CANNES – DAY 3Endless screenings, interviews and lunch meetings take their toll on Clarence Tsui on his third day at Cannes, which has taken on an distinctly 80s flavour.
12:21pmThe Olympic flame arrived in Britain from Greece on Friday to start a 70-day relay which will culminate in the opening ceremony of the London Games.
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