LEADER The credit meltdown in America has often been compared to the earlier savings and loan scandal. The comparison is inexact, but the contrast may be more revealing. Take, for example, the ...
LEADER Every child should have an equal opportunity in life. In an internet-driven age, an important part of this means having sufficient computer and broadband access. Poverty means that this ...
Hong Kong, like many cities worldwide, has a troubled historic relationship with incineration as a waste management option. A 1989 white paper published by the government identified ...
GREG TORODEThe phrase "cold war" is one that no one is keen, it seems, to use to describe the manoeuvring between an assertive China and the United States, at least officially. Beijing sometimes uses ...
DEMOCRACYDissident Liu Xiaobo was imprisoned for 11 years on Christmas Day for subversion after co-authoring Charter 08, a petition for political reform. This is an edited translation of the statement ...
Governments recently responded to the Copenhagen accord by merely repeating their existing pledges on greenhouse gases over the coming decade. Their obvious failure to raise the level of ambition ...
Many innocent people have died in Hong Kong because of drink-driving. It has caused so much alarm that measures have been introduced to curb drivers who get behind the wheel of a vehicle after ...
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