3rd Millennium

17 Jul 2012

Developed nations have always had good intentions towards Afghanistan. But the peaceful and prosperous country envisaged at their first donors' meeting a decade ago remains a dream despite...

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Who said it?

8 Jul 2012

Who wants to receive welfare if they can work? Before 1997, I earned a living by myself. Now, I haven't even been given that dignity

Egg-Waffle man Ng Yuk-fai

There's...

7:34PM

Afghanistan ruled out of Sixes

17 May 2012

Red tape has forced the Hong Kong Cricket Association to abandon plans to invite Afghanistan to the Karp Group Hong Kong Sixes in October.

Chairman Dinesh Tandon said: 'We will not...

3:04PM

A futile war grinds on, this time in Afghanistan

18 Apr 2012

In the midst of the Taliban attacks in central Kabul on Sunday, a journalist called the British embassy for a comment. 'I really don't know why they are doing this,' said a diplomat. 'We'll be out...

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Who said it?

12 Feb 2012

Mainland vehicles, not mainlanders, are the locusts unleashed on Hong Kong

Paul Zimmerman, Head of Designing Hong Kong

[The] match was a big milestone for Afghanistan...

7:16AM

Talking points

26 Jan 2012

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

Beijing envoy to attend African Union summit

6:03AM

Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Lost souls inside Afghanistan's graft-riddled narco state

Opium Nation
by Fariba Nawa
Harper Perennial

4:51AM

Talking points

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

Hainan province girds for second tempest in a week

9:10PM

Best of times

I wonder how many journalists covering Libya are aware that the African continent is the world's most peaceful when it comes to interstate wars. Moreover, its number of civil, ethnic and tribal...

6:26PM

Bin Laden bled US for a cool trillion

How much did it cost the United States to finally find and kill Osama bin Laden?

9:41AM

Bomb threat on Afghan plane to Urumqi

A plane from Afghanistan scheduled to land in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, received a bomb threat and landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Xinhua reported early today. Armed police sources in...

5:10AM

The joke's on you

One April 1 in the 1840s, the Boston Post revealed the location of a cave full of treasure on Boston Common. A flock of treasure seekers set out for the park despite the heavy rain to find...

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