France

Plan for French universities to teach in English sparks a war of words

13 May 2013

Jacques Chirac once stormed out of an EU summit because a French business leader was speaking it, Nicolas Sarkozy lamented his lack of it and Francois Hollande makes small talk in it but is...

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France seeks to improve export performance

7 May 2013

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius highlighted the need for his country to regain its competitiveness in order to rebalance bilateral trade. "Although our trade deficit with China decreased by...

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Bienvenue! France welcomes Hong Kong youth in new working-holiday scheme

7 May 2013

Young Hongkongers will get a chance to spend up to a year in France, thanks to a new working-holiday scheme starting in July. The bilateral programme will open 200 places each year to applicants...

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French minister says Yahoo wanted to “devour” website

2 May 2013

France’s industry minister said he had blocked Yahoo’s plan to buy a majority stake in online video website Dailymotion because the US group wanted to “devour” its smaller competitor.

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Paris bids for top spot in Europe's yuan business

29 Apr 2013

French Minister of the Economy and Finance Pierre Moscovici spoke to the South China Morning Post on Friday during a visit to Hong Kong after he joined a delegation led by President Francois...

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Two killed in France's Reims city as apartment block collapses after blast

28 Apr 2013

Two people died and 14 were injured yesterday when part of an apartment block in the French city of Reims collapsed after an explosion, just three weeks after a similar tragedy not far away.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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China news round-up: French president in Beijing, Xinjiang officials urged to be vigilant

French President in Beijing
Le Figaro

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China, France stress a multipolar world as Hollande visits Beijing

China and France pledged yesterday to promote a new international order that was not dominated by any single superpower. President Xi Jinping told his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, he was...

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French police hunt for armed robber who held guards hostage in jail break

French police were yesterday hunting a notorious armed robber, nicknamed "The Writer", who staged a dramatic jailbreak in northern France after briefly taking several guards hostage.

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FRANCE

French robber takes hostages and blasts way out of jail

A robber with links to organised crime blasted his way out of jail with explosives yesterday as he took prison wardens hostage in northern France, officials said.

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MALI

France launches major offensive on Mali Islamists

A French force of 1,000 soldiers in a major offensive has swept a valley thought to be a logistics base for Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists near the Malian city of Gao.

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FRANCE

Man held for sawing off tusk of elephant skeleton at Paris museum

A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into Paris' Museum of Natural History and using a chainsaw to cut off a tusk from a centuries-old elephant skeleton.

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