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UN Security Council to vote on Syria

2012-2-4

THE UN Security Council is scheduled to meet in an open session on the current situation in Syria, the UN Spokesperson's Office announced yesterday. ...

HK may adjust its quota for mothers from the mainland

HONG Kong's Secretary for Food & Health York Chow said yesterday that the city government is to review the need for an adjustment in the quota and pol...

Swiss watches clocking up record sales in China

Demand gives rise to increase in firms' profits

Too cold for this boy!

Writer brings suit over authorship claims

POPULAR young writer Han Han yesterday brought a civil suit against "science cop" Fang Zhouzi at Putuo District People's Court over accusations he use...

Residents shocked by sadistic cat killings

POLICE are seeking three teenagers suspected of brutally killing more than 10 stray cats over the Spring Festival holiday. Almost daily over the b...

5 held after masked gang bind guards

POLICE said yesterday that they have detained five men in connection with a robbery on Chinese New Year's Eve in which guards were bound and their cas...

Abandoned boy reunited with father

Mailbox windfalls baffle community

China ready for bigger euro role

PREMIER Wen Jiabao said yesterday that China was considering playing a bigger role in resolving Europe's debt crisis by getting involved in European r...

Stepfather detained after child drowns in washer

A MAN in Chongqing City has been detained for allegedly drowning his two-year-old stepdaughter in a washing machine to collect life insurance payouts....

9 officials punished over toxic spill

NINE officials in Hechi City in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have been punished in connection with a cadmium spill that seriously co...

Female bodyguards muscle in on market

Skipper of fishing boat repatriated by Japanese

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1993 Hou Baolin, one of China's earliest and most famous Xiangsheng (comic writing) m...

FEB

China State Grid gains REN stake

Wen: No bias in rare earth supply

CHINA'S premier yesterday said the country does not discriminate against foreign companies in terms of rare earth supplies, stating that policies and ...

Premier hopes for Sino-German trade boom

PREMIER Wen Jiabao yesterday said trade volumes between China and Germany will "hopefully" exceed US$200 billion this year. The total trade volume...

Swiss watches clocking up record sales in China

Expansion of China's service sector weakens

Stocks hit 8-week high on better outlook

EU retail sales decline in December

US job growth rises to 9-month high as unemployment drops

Enduring success of D&G ‘boys’

2012-2-3

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Eves in group stage

Play called off in windy Doha

EUROPEAN Tour officials reduced the Qatar Masters to 54 holes when they called off play yesterday after strong winds moved golf balls and damaged the ...

Rose blooms as Bulls gore Knicks

DERRICK Rose took over scoring duties late in the game to ensure the surging Chicago Bulls held off the New York Knicks to record a 105-102 victory at...

Ferrari unveils new car on Net

Dragons take huge bite out of Sharks

First lady's pressing engagement

4 die in Egypt clashes over deadly soccer riot

ROCK-THROWING protesters yesterday fought riot police through clouds of tear gas to within meters of Egypt's Interior Ministry on a second day of clas...

Leaks grow at 'stable' Japan nuclear plant

LEAKS of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stab...

Khmer Rouge jailer's prison term extended

Survey says brains maybe wired for addiction

Art | Stage | Fashion | Travel

Festival of lanterns and laughter

THE Lantern Festival on Monday ends the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, and cities nationwide are ablaze with multicolored lanterns, children eyes...

Famous strip hip and happening

NANJING Road W. is one of the longest roads in Shanghai. It has a wide range of restaurants and bars as well as chain stores and independent boutiques...

In search of his father's history

LEGENDARY photographer Deke Erh (Er Dongqiang) is famous for documenting Shanghai's history and its dramatic changes, usually through architecture - f...

Westminster accepts 6 new breeds

Enduring success of D&G 'boys'

Hollywood lineup boasts long list of familiar characters

TCM treatments

Chinese perspectives | Foreign perspectives

Migrants go west as factories relocate

AS some manufacturers pull out of China's increasingly costly coastal regions and move to the hinterlands, many workers in traditional manufacturing h...

Tapping masses' opinions can both help and hurt

STRESSING the importance of drawing on collective wisdom, a Chinese idiom says that "three cobblers with their wits combined surpass Zhuge Liang, the ...

Business Books TOP FIVE US

And now, scandal over tainted olive oil

Crisis can be wake-up call to fix economic ills