Explosives

5 Oct 2012

Spanish police said yesterday they had arrested a 21-year-old as he received 140kg of explosives and chemicals that he intended to use in a Columbine-style massacre of students.

4:24AM

Then & now: these were our children

19 Aug 2012

A former terrorist's attempt to justify the planting of bombs in 1967 is an affront to the memory of those killed.

6:31PM

Signature Wound

1 Jan 2012

Signature Wound
by Bob Drury
Rodale Inc (e-book)

4:22AM

Arms cache find prompts warning

17 Apr 2011

Hong Kong's security chief warned that laws on the possession and use of firearms and ammunition may need to be tightened after police found an arms cache in a Sham Shui Po flat.

8:06AM

Gunpowder

2 Dec 2009

The Chinese invented it

4:58PM

Workers queue for a job with more bang

29 Jun 2009

Workers are lining up to join the city's first formal course on the use of explosives in construction, launched to meet demand for such skills for big projects due to start soon.

8:12PM

Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

5 comments

3:37AM

Suspicious parcel sent to newspaper

Apple Daily received a threatening parcel containing a newspaper advertisement for the latest film starring Edison Chen Koon-hei and explosive powder yesterday.

6:40AM

Three arrested over gunpowder explosion

At least three men have been arrested in Wushenqi, Inner Mongolia , over a massive gunpowder blast that injured 20 people and damaged more than 560 commercial and residential buildings last week...

3:44AM

101 Things You Wish You'd Invented

by Richard Horne and Tracey Turner

Bloomsbury, HK$112

1:42PM

Gunpowder residue ignites at firing range

A spark from a police officer's gun ignited a small patch of gunpowder residue on the fire-proof rubber floor of the indoor firing range at the Kowloon East police operational base in Siu Yip...

10:12AM

Police seize guns in raid on operator of weapons store

Police seized guns and bullets in a raid on a storage facility in Fo Tan yesterday, saying the operator's licence had expired and public safety was at stake.

6:05AM

Doubts over official death toll of 25 in karaoke bar blast

Locals say as many as 50 may have died in explosion

Doubts have surfaced about the death toll in an explosion at a karaoke parlour in Tianshifu, Liaoning province , as some reports...

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