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17 face charges in club scam

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-9

THREE karaoke club owners and 14 employees are facing charges of robbery, conducting business using force and organized prostitution involving a hotel sex scam focusing on out-of-towners. Come-on men lured victims...

Yao Ming doesn't buy Sharks

Metro
2009-11-4

BASKETBALL superstar Yao Ming has not been guaranteed ownership of his former club. He may have to pay more than he expected or share ownership with other bidders. But Yao's management team, Team Yao, has...

Yao link to no-wages restaurant ruled out

Metro
2009-10-21

AN employee of a city restaurant - an outlet that used basketball star Yao Ming's fame, and name, to advertise - is demanding that the eatery coughs up 100,000 yuan (US$14,648) in unpaid wages to 30 staff members...

Give up smoking, say Yao and Peng

National
2009-10-13

BASKETBALL superstar Yao Ming and famed soprano Peng Liyuan yesterday became the new faces of China's anti-smoking campaign, which health officials said is still a tough task in the world's largest tobacco market....

Yao says recovery on track

Sports | Basketball
2009-9-26

ENCOURAGED by progress in his recovery from major foot surgery, Yao Ming says he will return to action -- just not next season. "The (X-ray) picture looks good. The bones heal well," he said in an interview with...

Photography festival focuses on lovers, both young and old

National
2009-9-25

TWO young lovers, arm in arm, whisper to each other while looking at a wedding photo in which a couple drifts in a small boat on a lake dappled with morning sun at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in...

Five die in minivan plunge

National
2009-9-22

FIVE people were killed and four were injured in a road crash yesterday in Yao'an County in southwest China's Yunnan Province. A minivan hit the guardrails while driving to Chuxiong city at 1pm yesterday, plunging...

Rockets: Yao's return next season not ruled out

Sports | Basketball
2009-9-3

CHINESE center Yao Ming is progressing well after foot surgery and while a return to court for the Houston Rockets next season remains unlikely, it has not been ruled out, the National Basketball Association team's...

Miyazaki eyes US animation success

World
2009-8-13

DIRECTOR Hayao Miyazaki is considered a master of animation in his native Japan, and when Disney releases his latest movie "Ponyo" tomorrow the studio hopes to score with an entirely different audience - mainstream...

Three-pointer: Yao operation proves success

Sports | Basketball
2009-7-23

CHINESE basketball star Yao Ming has undergone successful surgery on his broken left foot in Texas, according to the official Website of National Basketball Association of the United States. The operation was performed...