27 Dec 2012

Keiji Nakazawa, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor whose iconic comic strip about the incident was read by millions of school children in post-war Japan, has died.

3:33AM
6 Aug 2012

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

Briton vies to take He Kexin's gymnastics crown

11:03PM
10 Apr 2011

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
G. P. Putnam's Sons

7:27AM
16 Jan 2010

Even the Communist Party supports Confucianism... Please throw bananas at whoever opposes Confucius

Tong Yun-kai, president of the Confucian Academy, in Legco to lobby lawmakers to...

11:46AM
16 Nov 2008

by David Peace Faber and Faber, HK$120

2:41AM
17 Aug 2008

The last time Joan Hinton came to Japan, she never visited the two cities that she indirectly helped to destroy. Sixty-three years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the former...

5:09AM

From the moment he uttered the words, Fumio Kyuma's fate was sealed.

1:51PM

I am sure all educators will agree with chief executive challenger Alan Leong Kah-kit that we need smaller classes and that free education should be extended to include preschools ('Education...

12:01PM

This day, 61 years ago, was the single most destructive day in human history. On August 6, 1945, at 8.16am, an atomic bomb exploded 600 metres above Hiroshima. An intense sun-like energy...

1:18AM

Atomic Sushi


by Simon May


Alma Books, $195

11:26PM

Every August 6, the Japanese city of Hiroshima commemorates the dropping of Little Boy, the most powerful bomb ever used. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima...

8:54PM

HELEN TUNG learned a lot at college, but her most important lesson did not come from the classroom. It came from talking and sharing with her fellow students at Li Po Chun United World College.

7:31PM

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