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China announced 18 new policy initiatives for its first free-trade zone in Shanghai, reducing restrictions on six key industries, including financial services and telecommunications.
Saturday, 28 September, 2013, 3:18am 2 comments More on Shanghai Free-trade ZoneIn March last year, after getting government approval to go ahead with a US$900 million refinery expansion in Fujian province, state-run oil giant Sinopec Corp warned the team handling the project against taking bribes.
28 Sep 2013 - 2:42am 5 comments More on PetroChinaThe Philippines’ legal challenge against China’s claims in the South China Sea is gathering pace, emerging as a “proxy battle” over Beijing’s territorial reach.
27 Sep 2013 - 6:11pm 1 commentLauded by many for its principled stance in rejecting Alibaba Group’s plans to list shares, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has left the city’s financial community fuming at a lost opportunity and re-ignited calls for market reforms.
27 Sep 2013 - 1:23pm 1 comment More on HKExA Chinese viewing tower in the shape of a giant, copper puffer fish has raised an online huff about the latest in a series of bizarre and extravagant targets of state investment.
27 Sep 2013 - 8:45pmUS securities regulators on Thursday charged the former chief executive of China-based ChinaCast Education Corporation with stealing tens of millions of dollars from investors in a US public offering.
27 Sep 2013 - 2:15pm More on CorruptionThe 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.
27 Sep 2013 - 8:33am 2 commentsApple's highly-sought-after champagne-colored golden iPhone5s handsets are currently selling for US$2000 on eBay - four times more than their in-store price. Yet some price-sensitive Apple fans in China have settled for a more affordable alternative: the gilded iPhone case.
27 Sep 2013 - 5:13pm 1 comment More on AppleInternational inspectors will get to work destroying Syria’s chemical arsenal by next week, once a document drawn up to avert military strikes is agreed by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Friday.
27 Sep 2013 - 8:17pm More on Syria Conflict
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In the winter of 2009, I was spending my weekends in the northeast Chinese city of Tangshan, and eating most of my food from the far-western province of Xinjiang. Like many minorities, the Uighur, the native people of Xinjiang, have made their chief impact on mainstream culture through cuisine.
Friday, 27 September, 2013, 11:10amAre prospects for global stability and prosperity improving or deteriorating? With enlightenment and progress in some parts of the world accompanied by atavism and stagnation elsewhere, this is not an easy question. But we can gain greater purchase on it by considering three other questions.
28 Sep 2013 - 1:18amAn increase in minimum hourly pay has done little to improve the plight of many, the focus of a two-part series tied to today's poverty summit.
Updated 28 Sep 2013 - 4:29amMartha Ng Hoi-kei bounces out of the exercise room with such energy that it takes me a moment to realise she's the subject of the interview. She looks like an athlete - and is one - having come back from a stroke that left her in a coma for several days and permanently damaged her brain.
The stroke came straight after Ng graduated from university, and she was devastated, feeling that her life was over.
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
New poverty has emerged in Hong Kong thanks to a decade and a half of bad government policies, says a former head of the Central Policy Unit.
Updated 28 Sep 2013 - 4:29amFormer justice secretary Wong Yan-lung is the latest senior Hong Kong figure implicated in claims of judicial interference in a case involving ex-Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Updated 28 Sep 2013 - 4:29amChina announced 18 new policy initiatives for its first free-trade zone in Shanghai, reducing restrictions on six key industries, including financial services and telecommunications.
28 Sep 2013 - 3:18am 2 comments More on Shanghai Free-trade ZoneSenior officials revising their self-criticisms nearly 30 times, sweating and "almost in tears", confessing their mistakes and accusing others. Such meetings used to be closed-door sessions. But this time they were held in front of state TV cameras, and with president and party chairman Xi Jinping sitting next to them.
Updated 28 Sep 2013 - 4:46am More on Xi JinpingA cheer went up from hundreds of onlookers as rescuers brought the baby out of a small tunnel in the rubble, the 25th person to be rescued from the flattened five-storey apartment building.
28 Sep 2013 - 3:40amThe death toll from an earthquake in southwest Pakistan has reached 515, a provincial official said yesterday, as insurgent attacks threaten relief efforts and survivors complain of lack of shelter from the scorching sun.
28 Sep 2013 - 2:14amUS and Russian officials believe that the vast majority of Syria's nerve agent stockpile consists of "unweaponised" liquid precursors that could be neutralised relatively quickly.
Updated 28 Sep 2013 - 4:10amIran's new president said yesterday that US President Barack Obama struck a new tone in his UN speech this week that left him optimistic about easing tensions between the two countries.
Updated 28 Sep 2013 - 4:33amPower Assets Holdings, controlled by Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, yesterday announced a proposal to spin off its Hong Kong electricity business - Hongkong Electric.
28 Sep 2013 - 3:20am More on Hongkong Electric
The British government is in talks with Beijing about the granting of quotas to financial institutions in the City of London that would give their offshore yuan deposits access to the Chinese market.
28 Sep 2013 - 3:25am More on RenminbiRising 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 - 12:07pm 3 comments 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.
27 Sep 2013 - 10:32amThis 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.
27 Sep 2013 - 10:26amGoogle has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questions posed by web surfers.
27 Sep 2013 - 9:01pmCoco Lee is back in the spotlight and telling modern women they can have it all
The award for the 37-year-old caps a season in which he won five events and led all players with US$8.6 million in prize money.
28 Sep 2013 - 12:18amBritain's Brian Cookson was elected president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) after beating incumbent Pat McQuaid at the end of a protracted election process yesterday.
28 Sep 2013 - 1:57amIt 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 - 6:45pmA gibbon named Lele looks out of a window on a bus en route to the Yunnan Wildlife Park in Kunming, Yunnan ...
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.
A gibbon named Lele looks out of a window on a bus en route to the Yunnan Wildlife
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
