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Four Chinese will be charged for wrecking Japanese cars in Shenzhen

15 Sep 2012

Police have arrested at least four people accused of damaging privately owned Japanese cars in a big anti-Japanese demonstration in Shenzhen last month and say they will face prosecution.

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Return book that revealed Japanese plot, heroes' relatives tell the UN

19 Sep 2011

The descendants of nine patriots who risked their lives to collect evidence of Japan's aggression against China 80 years ago have called on the United Nations in Geneva to return the original...

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September 18 incident remains political dynamite for relations as Chinese remember 'day of national humiliation' by Japan

18 Sep 2010

On the evening of September 18, 1931, near the Shenyang suburb of Liutiaohu, a section of railway owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway Company was rigged with dynamite and exploded.

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America's chance to engage with the world

12 Nov 2008

'Come home, America' said US presidential candidate George McGovern during the Vietnam war, while suffering a bad defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon.

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Adventures of a globetrotter

8 Jul 2006

CHANCES ARE you have shared a flight with David Arkless. On average, he travels for 250 days a year and has been doing that for the past 22 years.

'I think my address should be Boeing...

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Mainlanders torn over Mid-Autumn coincidence

17 Sep 2005

Mainlanders are in two minds about whether to celebrate or commemorate tomorrow, with the Mid-Autumn Festival and 64th anniversary of the Japanese invasion of northeastern China falling on the...

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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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Language point

(1) The government says Ethiopia should stop leaning on other nations or risk being seen as Africa's perpetual begging bowl.

(2) ... some fields are now green with plump cabbages,...

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NO TIME FOR DO-NOTHING GOVERNMENTS

I must write to correct the error made by Elsie Tu (South China Morning Post, January 18) that I said in my letter on January 13 that America single-handedly defeated Nazi Germany and imperial...

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REVENGE RULES THE DAY IN WASHINGTON

I appreciate what Roy Prouse says about my being 'quite right to be worried by American power being wielded around the world' (South China Morning Post, January 13).

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Time for migrants in US to stand up and be counted

I was appalled when I learned, from news reports, which have since been questioned by a Chinese official in Washington, that several mainland journalists visiting the United States had cheered and...

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Let nations sort out their own messes

Your correspondent Hugh Terry (South China Morning Post, September 3) takes me to task because I believe in non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries.

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The proposal to link pay to performance had been delayed

The proposal to link pay to performance had been delayed because more time was needed to consult staff, a bureau spokesman said. 'We want to adopt a carrot-and-stick strategy.

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