Three Links

Flight delays top 40 hours; baggage lost

27 Jul 2012

Golfer Urvashi Sethi's holiday to New Delhi got off to a rough start thanks to Severe Typhoon Vicente, and the ordeal got worse when she reached her destination but her bags did not.

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Beijing offers sweeteners to Taipei

18 Jun 2012

Beijing offered a series of economic sweeteners to Taipei yesterday, pledging 600 billion yuan (HK$734.4 billion) in bank loans to investors, while promising to import rice from the island, in a...

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Briefs

2 Mar 2012

Court agrees to take Jordan's copyright lawsuit

8:52AM

Travellers' checks

26 Feb 2012

Flying the nest

8:21AM

HK-Taiwan ties solid regardless of poll outcome

5 Jan 2012

Hong Kong-Taiwan relations will continue to improve regardless of the outcome of next week's presidential election on the island, says the new director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office...

4:40AM

Shut out

6 Nov 2011

On a mountaintop north of its capital, Taiwan has begun a new and perilous experiment - the construction of the island's first residential skyscraper aimed at investors from the mainland. Even...

11:59PM

Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Board in bid to boost visits from Taiwan

The Hong Kong Tourism Board opened an office in Taipei yesterday, to attract more family and overnight travellers from Taiwan.

6:53PM

Solo mainland tourist numbers disappoint

Wang Tsung-wei, a cab driver in Taipei, has yet to give a ride to a single mainland tourist, despite expectations of a surge of visitors after a ban on individual travellers was lifted on June 28...

4:11PM

Skies set to open for new runway

A major obstacle to the proposed new third runway at Chek Lap Kok could be about to be removed with the opening up of airspace over the Pearl River Delta.

3:01PM

Could city still fly without runway 3?

Is the HK$136.2 billion third runway project our only choice to remain competitive?

The barrage of information in the three weeks since the proposal's release would make you think...

2:33PM

Six decades of suspicion finally over

Some came for medical check-ups, some to check out the property market. One planned to collect her father's ashes.

1:35PM

HK, Taiwan clear way for more flights

Hong Kong and Taiwan are ready to sign a new civil aviation agreement that is expected to increase daily flights between the two places. It is the first deal between them since the handover in...

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