China Datang Corporation Renewable Power is one of the largest wind-power producers in Inner Mongolia, but it has hit a snag: there isn't enough infrastructure in the grid to transport all its...
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- May 23, 2013
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Japan's economy minister, 72-year-old Kaoru Yosano, clad in his regulation ministerial 'Action Man' powder-blue boiler suit and heavy gumboots ready to spring into emergency mode, claimed last...
With Japanese suppliers overwhelmed by the damage to the transport and power infrastructure caused by last week's earthquake, a shortage of key electronic components and higher prices for these...
The Cathay Pacific flight attendant who fought off a man trying to enter her hotel room in Saudi Arabia might have found herself on the wrong side of the law if police had been alerted, her union...
Living in a dark, blurry and colourless world, the visually impaired in Hong Kong rely on a cane to move around. And they face many obstacles in their daily lives. Overhanging scaffolding, for...
The revolution in Egypt reverberates in North Korea - and not just because Pyongyang would like to hide the news from a citizenry that might want to emulate the Egyptian example.
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Cracks on MTR tracks that caused rush-hour disruption twice in three weeks were much more serious than initially believed, the government says. It ordered further reports from the MTR Corporation...
With benchmark Brent crude oil hovering at around US$100 a barrel and Malaysia's Tapis, Nigeria's Bonny Light and most of the world's marker crude prices reaching triple digits, oil market...
Hong Kong sets itself apart from much of the rest of Asia with its mish-mash of East and West, the ancient and modern, the commercial and the spiritual, and the seemingly normal and bizarre...
Nature lovers are demanding police investigate a fire in the popular Nam Sang Wai wetland that has destroyed natural habitat in an area at the centre of a development controversy.
Pay talks between Cathay Pacific and its pilots begin tomorrow, with the pilots' union arguing they earn millions of dollars less over their careers than cockpit crew with competitor airlines like...
For some it has been a bitter saga of riches to rags. But for at least one of the executives of ill-fated Moulin Global Eyecare Holdings jailed for fraud, it was presented as a redemptive tale....
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