Premier

Billionaire spared the death sentence after outcry for mercy

21 Apr 2012

A 30-year-old billionaire was spared the death penalty yesterday after the mainland's highest court ruled on a case that attracted an unprecedented outcry for mercy including sympathetic comments...

1:05PM

A dressing-down for C.Y. Leung's wife

13 Apr 2012

A steep learning curve lies ahead for Hong Kong's new first lady, judging by the sniping of fashion critics on her first official trip with husband Leung Chun-ying.

12:35PM

For Wen, it's too little, too late

22 Mar 2012

Premier Wen Jiabao's latest commitment to protect the environment, made during the annual session of the National People's Congress that ended last week, has met with little fanfare.

10:49AM

'Forget me and the good I did when I die'

15 Mar 2012

Wisdom may have dictated that Premier Wen Jiabao use his last all-important annual news conference to laud his government's economic achievements during the past decade.

10:10AM

Hard-hit firms in line for cash aid

2 Feb 2012

The central government says it will take a slew of measures to help the mainland's cash-strapped small businesses, including earmarking billions of yuan in funding, offering tax cuts and opening...

6:28AM

Who said it?

1 Feb 2012

We just couldn't believe [his] peers would do something like that to their own people

Father of the US Marine Harry Lew (pictured) who committed suicide after being beaten by a...

6:24AM

Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Media censorship of premier's words mocked online

The official media's decision to change a transcript of remarks by Premier Wen Jiabao to refer to 'weibo' rather than Twitter has been ridiculed by mainland internet users frustrated at being...

5:50AM

Wen's land pledge gives farmers hope

Mainland farmers' hopes were raised when Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to let them benefit more from land sales, saying that China had 'lowered the costs of industrialisation and urbanisation by...

5:35AM

Briefs

Wen urges farmers' rights in rural revival

4:05AM

What Trade Overhaul?

'People say that in state-owned enterprises, one man works, one man watches and one man makes trouble,' former premier Zhu Rongji once quipped. He came up with a simple solution: get rid of two of...

3:03AM

Rich Unicorn gets deserved call-up

Leading trainer John Size has had his stocks boosted for the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint on Sunday week with the elevation of Rich Unicorn to the field.

2:02AM

Price war starts on mainland

The first shots have been fired in a property war on the mainland that has already slashed prices by almost a third and could see them halved by next year.

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