Natural Disaster

Nineteen children among 46 dead in China landslide

12 Jan 2013

A desperate search for three people missing in a landslide in southwestern China ended on Saturday when their bodies were pulled from the mud, taking the final death toll to 46 - many of them...

Look high, look low, then say a prayer

13 Nov 2012

While many companies are shifting to countries with cheaper rents or lower wages, they had better check with the weather bureau and their insurers.

Why? Ask the Japanese carmakers and they...

Letters

31 Mar 2011

Compulsory sale does not benefit owners

Dongfeng to invest 30b yuan in growth

31 Mar 2011

Dongfeng Motor Group, the largest Hong Kong-listed carmaker by market value, plans to invest 30 billion yuan (HK$35.58 billion) in the next two years to boost production and research and...

Shangri-La books in for a 164pc profit rise

31 Mar 2011

Luxury hotel owner and operator Shangri-La Asia, which saw profit before non-operating items jump 163.98 per cent to US$144.4 million last year, warned that the economic outlook in North America...

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

SBI chief looks to HK for growth

SBI Holdings, a Japanese online financial services and venture capital firm which is seeking up to HK$2.55 billion in a secondary listing in Hong Kong, said the country's nuclear crisis would have...

Jiangxi expects copper to reach record prices

A record price for copper may be set in the coming year even though the mainland's biggest copper producer aimed at increasing the metal's production by 66 per cent to 1.5 million tonnes in the...

Change of tuna

The health of our customers is our number one concern,' says Erik Idos, the executive chef of Nobu InterContinental in Tsim Sha Tsui. 'The sushi chef and I made a map of where all our fish comes...

Job guaranteed: City U launches nuclear degree

City University is to launch Hong Kong's first degree course in nuclear and risk engineering - a decision made before the crisis at the Fukushima reactor in Japan.

Friends in adversity

'In the middle of this terrible disaster, we see the most precious treasure of Japan - the hard work, wisdom and indomitable spirit of its people. In their darkest hour, in their deepest trauma,...

Radioactivity test needed verifying, Observatory says

The Hong Kong Observatory's director said it could have released a day earlier test results showing that radioactive iodine had descended on the city from the damaged Japanese nuclear power...