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A court in Beijing found Li Guanfeng, the 17-year-old son of prominent military artist Li Shuangjiang, guilty on Thursday of charges of gang-raping a woman earlier this year and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
Thursday, 26 September, 2013, 4:53pm 17 commentsA letter from Hong Kong's former envoy to Europe to a close political associate of Silvio Berlusconi will be presented to a Milanese court as evidence in a money laundering and tax evasion trial linked to the ex-Italian premier.
26 Sep 2013 - 9:09amWashington's top envoy in Hong Kong might have thought he was being careful when he said on Tuesday that the US would not take sides when it came to the city's democratic development.
26 Sep 2013 - 3:49pm 23 commentsOutspoken Taiwanese singer, actress and writer Annie Yi said she had adopted a Shenyang hawker’s son as her godson and promised to financially support his future education, one day after the boy’s father was executed for killing two chengguan officers in a controversial case that drew wide public
26 Sep 2013 - 4:53pm More on ChengguanA comprehensive government plan to prevent child molestation in schools was a decent gesture, but unlikely to reduce widespread sexual abuse of children, experts and parents say.
26 Sep 2013 - 12:33pm 1 commentHungry survivors dug through rubble to find food and thousands slept under the open sky or in makeshift shelters for a second night as the death toll from Pakistan’s massive earthquake rose to 348 on Thursday.
26 Sep 2013 - 3:29pmThe United States and Iran have set the stage for what could become their most serious contacts in a generation, but direct talks on the Iranian nuclear programme are likely to be slow, difficult and fragile.
26 Sep 2013 - 4:01am 1 comment More on United NationsPresident and Communist Party chief Xi Jinping has taken his "criticism and self-criticism" campaign on the road, attending a series of meetings where provincial cadres were made to admit shortcomings and offer ideas for correcting their behaviour.
26 Sep 2013 - 3:58pm 3 comments More on Xi JinpingA group of 14 giant panda cubs, born between July and September this year, made their first public appearance in China's Sichuan province on Monday.
26 Sep 2013 - 3:02pm 2 comments
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Beijing loathes it. The Hong Kong government rejects it. And the US Congress has all but forgotten about it. It is in need of a comeback. The US-Hong Kong Policy Act, passed in 1992 by Congress, gave Hong Kong its legal status in US law after 1997. Its mission was to safeguard US business interests. But its guiding light was the overarching principle that US support for democracy would drive its policy towards Hong Kong.
Thursday, 26 September, 2013, 4:21pm 1 commentEver since the re-establishment of the Commission on Poverty, drawing an official poverty line for Hong Kong has been a high priority on the government's to-do list. On Saturday, the administration is expected to announce details of the new poverty line, long rumoured to be set at half the median household income.
27 Sep 2013 - 1:16amThe opening up of a debate about housing development in country parks is being watched with interest by the city's developers, not least because it increases the chances they will be able to dust off schemes in green-belt areas.
Updated 27 Sep 2013 - 5:00amBriton John Snelgrove lopes across the coffee shop floor of Pacific Coffee in the ground-floor lobby of The Vine in Wan Chai loudly calling my name. “Ah, there you are,” he says, before enveloping me in a hug.
Professional letter writers were once a common sight on Hong Kong’s streets, but today only a few survive. In the latest episode of our Uniquely Hong Kong series, we talk to Pun Tse-ching about the dying art
The legality of a proposal to widen police power in conducting drug tests on suspects has been called into question, with a human rights lawyer describing it as potentially unconstitutional.
27 Sep 2013 - 3:52am 2 commentsLed by a sign language translator as conductor, 14 hearingimpaired children have set out to show the world that music really can be enjoyed by everyone.
27 Sep 2013 - 3:54amThe rise of China's super-rich has lured one of the world's top schools for butlers to set up a branch on the mainland. International Butler Academy chairman Robert Wennekes said the school in Chengdu aimed to cultivate a culture of service in a country that had only recently begun to appreciate the finer points of presentation.
Updated 27 Sep 2013 - 4:52amThe execution of a street hawker who killed two urban management officers after they had beaten him has sparked grief and anger across the nation.
Updated 27 Sep 2013 - 4:44amThirty-five years after she vanished from Macau, relatives of a Thai woman believed to have been snatched by North Korean agents hope that a landmark UN investigation will help to finally bring her home.
27 Sep 2013 - 3:18am More on North KoreaAid workers warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis in a major Philippine city wracked by more than two weeks of deadly street battles between Muslim rebels and soldiers.
27 Sep 2013 - 3:22amAs diplomats at the United Nations push for a peace conference to end Syria's civil war, a collection of some of the country's most powerful rebel groups publicly abandoned the opposition's political leaders, casting their lot with an affiliate of al-Qaeda.
27 Sep 2013 - 3:26am More on Syria ConflictIranian President Hasaan Rowhani set off a political storm in New York and in Iran on Wednesday with an acknowledgment and condemnation of the Holocaust that landed him in precisely the kind of tangled dispute he had hoped to avoid.
27 Sep 2013 - 3:33am More on Hassan RowhaniAlibaba tore into Hong Kong authorities for rebuffing its IPO plan, adding fuel to the rift between the stock market authorities and the regulators over whether or not to order a review of the city's listing rules.
27 Sep 2013 - 2:31am More on AlibabaRising construction costs will act as a brake on falling property prices, limiting any declines to about 10 per cent, says New World Development chairman Henry Cheng Kar-shun.
27 Sep 2013 - 2:38am More on New World DevelopmentRising construction costs will act as a brake on falling property prices, limiting any declines to about 10 per cent, says New World Development chairman Henry Cheng Kar-shun.
27 Sep 2013 - 2:38am More on New World DevelopmentHigher profit margins are encouraging some developers to continue to build luxury flats even though the high-end residential market has been hardest hit by the government's market-cooling measures.
27 Sep 2013 - 2:32amMatt Friedman has battled what he calls modern-day slavery for more than 22 years, working for outfits such as the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking.
26 Sep 2013 - 8:06pmThis summer brought hailstorms that destroyed thousands of hectares of vines in just about every region of France. Two masses of air clashing into each another, one cold, one hot, were the cause.
26 Sep 2013 - 7:55pmThe act of walking may not seem like a feat of agility, balance, strength and brainpower. But lose a leg, as Zac Vawter of Washington state did after a motorcycle accident in 2009, and you will appreciate the myriad calculations that go into putting one foot in front of the other.
Updated 27 Sep 2013 - 4:33amCoco Lee is back in the spotlight and telling modern women they can have it all
British four-time Olympic champion Ben Ainslie says he realised a lifelong dream by inspiring Oracle Team USA to an improbable win in the America's Cup. He replaced John Kostecki as Oracle's tactician ahead of races six and seven last week and the move proved inspired. With his guile and expertise, Oracle recovered from an 8-1 deficit to overhaul Emirates Team New Zealand 9-8 to clinch sailing's greatest prize.
27 Sep 2013 - 1:42amHong Kong, and not Japan, should represent Asia when rugby sevens makes its mini-Olympic debut at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing next year, said a top official of the Hong Kong Olympic Committee.
27 Sep 2013 - 1:47amIt is the symbiosis between performer and audience that makes live shows so special, Indian vocalist Sonu Nigam tells P. Ramakrishnan.
25 Sep 2013 - 10:26pmStephen Hung sees the future of consumption, designing his new Macau hotel with ultra-rich mainlanders - and their opulent tastes - in mind, writes Nick Edwards.
22 Sep 2013 - 6:45pmThree-year-old Wang Wuka plays snooker in Beijing against former seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry, 48, of Scotland.
Aviation manufacturers from around the world are vying for a part of the burgeoning market in China at the 15th Aviation Expo in Beijing.
A look at today's pictures from around the world, leading with the stunning image of a skydiver freefalling over Lompoc, Calif., during a rocket launch.
Staff members arrange panda cubs in a crib for photos at the Giant Panda Breeding and Research Base in Chengdu, while a dead dolphin is carried by a tractor on Upanema beach in Rio Grande do Norte
The 40th edition of the Coupe Icare (Icarus Cup) in France, winners of the 2013 Shaw Prize, a annual bird-singing contest in Thailand, and more ...
Three-year-old Wang Wuka plays snooker in Beijing against former seven-time world
Aviation manufacturers from around the world are vying for a part of the burgeonin
A look at today's pictures from around the world, leading with the stunning image
Staff members arrange panda cubs in a crib for photos at the Giant Panda Breeding
The 40th edition of the Coupe Icare (Icarus Cup) in France, winners of the 2013 Sh
