20 Apr 2013

When Greece's economy took a plunge, murders and disease rates soared, according to a study that suggests the impact of the European nation's austerity cuts may be worse than expected. Suicide and...

3:27AM
20 Dec 2012

Western areas allotted 578b yuan in projects

3:19AM
14 Dec 2012

Tom Holland's Monitor column ("Opponents of austerity are barking up the wrong tree", December 10) is excellent. That is, it is an excellent example of the narrow, ahistorical and uncritical...

3:03AM
4 Dec 2012

HK$8.9m in bonus shares for HKEx chief

3:10AM
3 Dec 2012

One after another they are calling in sick. First, Portugal and Poland and now, short of an economic miracle, Cyprus and Greece.

4:24AM
29 Nov 2012

Europe's leaders have reached Plan C in their efforts to rescue Greece. Unfortunately, it lacks a crucial element also absent in plans A and B: adequate debt relief.

3:46AM

Strategic dialogue for China and South Korea

2:58AM

An EU budget summit seemed set for trouble before it began on Thursday as leaders were to start two days of talks to agree a trillion-euro budget that has bitterly divided a 27-nation union...

11:46AM

Greece reacted with dismay to a failure by European finance ministers to agree to release up to €44 billion (HK$436 billion) of rescue loans it vitally needs, with the prime minister warning that...

4:08AM

Greece runs out of cash

2:20AM

One certainty about life, in addition to Keynes' death and taxes, is that everything changes. And no more so than in the financial environment.

2:58AM

In a country ravaged by recession, Soula Alevridou stands out, in more ways than one. Where other Greek entrepreneurs have fallen on hard times, her business is booming: so much so that she has...

3:55AM

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