Gulf War

General Norman Schwarzkopf, military hero of Gulf war, dies at 78

29 Dec 2012

Norman Schwarzkopf
1934-2012

General Norman Schwarzkopf commanded the US-led forces that crushed Iraq in the 1991 Gulf war to become America's most acclaimed military hero since the...

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Iraq war would cost Beijing millions

29 Oct 2002

A US-led war on Iraq will cost China millions of dollars in higher oil prices and lost contracts and is likely to result in American domination of global supplies, an official newspaper said...

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Our view

26 Sep 1999

Two of your columnists Andy Ho (South China Morning Post, September 7) and Tim Hamlett (Sunday Morning Post, September 12) have suggested that Hill and Knowlton helped fabricate information during...

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Putting a positive spin on PR spending

7 Sep 1999

The Government is about to recruit a public relations firm to help boost its international image. Seven agencies, including two which helped Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's election campaign, are...

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We haven't learned from blunders of the past

6 Mar 1998

I refer to Chris Bilham's letter, headlined, 'Case of history repeating itself' (South China Morning Post, March 2).

I agree that history has repeated itself in the case of the...

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US jets under fire, says Iraq

8 Sep 1996

Baghdad said yesterday it had fired surface-to-air missiles against United States warplanes policing the no-fly zones in Iraq, but failed to hit them.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Feet of endurance

The One That Got Away by Chris Ryan, Century $170 I DON'T know what has come over the Special Air Service. After decades of being taciturn to the point of paranoia, the regiment has become a...

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Topple war criminal Saddam

OPERATION Desert Storm cost millions of dollars, so that Kuwait could be freed from Saddam Hussein.

Since then, there has been a cat and mouse game between the allies and Iraq....

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Hammerbeck's fortunes of war

IT was a blustery January morning in Hongkong. Weak sunlight filtered into his Prince of Wales Building office and the calm was irregularly disturbed by the clatter of helicopters over HMS Tamar....

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Welcome reminder for the bully of Baghdad

THE Allied air strike on Iraq, described as a ''spanking, not a beating'' by one US official, is not, at this stage, likely to spark a renewal of a similar level of hostilities to those that began...

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