Man Made Disaster

31 Mar 2011

While you don't have to leave Asia to get your festival fix, the really heavy-hitting action is happening in the US and Europe, where multi-day music blow-outs have been attracting the biggest,...

Japanese eateries plan to cut prices

30 Mar 2011

Japanese restaurants in Hong Kong hit by nuclear contamination fears plan to cut prices and ask the government to provide safety certificates for food imported from Japan in a bid to stay afloat...

The days after

29 Mar 2011

At night, Tokyo's famed Ginza retail and nightlife quarter still looks like an abandoned film set; blackouts and a lack of clientele conspire to extinguish its blare and shimmer.

Letters

28 Mar 2011

Hongkongers must do more to protect planet

The letters page on March 22 covered topics including the horrors of shark finning, the unwelcome development proposal for Lamma, the...

Normal service restored by still-smarting Wales

26 Mar 2011

Once they were slayers of world champions. But last night giant-killers Hong Kong tasted the revenge of the fallen and it was hard to stomach as they tumbled to a 35-12 defeat at the hands of...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Students turn to sperm donation as a means to raise funds

Perhaps inspired by late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping's 1980s mantra that 'to get rich is glorious', some Guangdong university students have turned to a new method for making money.

Zhejiang villagers become the latest victims of lead poisoning

More than 130 villagers in Zhejiang - including at least 35 children aged between 14 months and 10 years - are suffering from lead poisoning caused by a battery factory in the latest toxic metal...

Lesson in civility

Japan has been subjected to a horrifying ordeal since it was struck by a massive magnitude-9 earthquake, followed by a gigantic tsunami that knocked out the Fukushima nuclear power plant,...

Freeman Lau takes inspiration from the elements in his latest design

Freeman Lau Siu-hong, who went from humble graphic designer to award-winning visionary who shapes corporate identities - most notably the award-winning Watsons Water bottle design in 2002 - has...

Internet user held by police for spreading polluted sea rumour

A man has been detained by police and fined 500 yuan (HK$593) for spreading rumours that radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant had polluted the sea around Shandong, China News...

Letters

Incendiary rhetoric is not the answer

In his article, Lau Nai-keung equates recent actions by anti-government forces with 'revolutionary' activity ('Protesters play with fire by...