Natural Disaster

12 May 2013

A return to the epicentre of the 2008 disaster brings an emotional reunion and mixed feelings for a journalist who was among the first outsiders to reach flattened Yingxiu as it mourned its lost...

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Rescuers battle to help victims of Sichuan quake as death toll hits 188

22 Apr 2013

Relief teams battled to gain access to isolated areas in quake-hit Sichuan province as the death toll rose to 188 yesterday, with more than 11,000 injured and 21 still missing.

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Quake survivors find extraordinary strength in life-or-death moments

22 Apr 2013

Remarkable tales of courage and survival continued to appear in mainland media yesterday, a day after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Sichuan.

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PLA shows quick response to Lushan earthquake

21 Apr 2013

In stark contrast to the Great Sichuan Earthquake five years ago, the central government and the army showed yesterday that they could respond quickly to natural disasters. And volunteer groups...

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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...

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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...

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Letters

Compulsory sale does not benefit owners

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Dongfeng to invest 30b yuan in growth

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...

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Shangri-La books in for a 164pc profit rise

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...

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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...

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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...

8:56AM

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...

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