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Sunday, July 27, 2014

South China Morning Post

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  • July 28, 2014
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China urged to step up protection against hepatitis

World experts have urged the Chinese government to step up protection against viral hepatitis, described by the WHO as a largely neglected silent killer that claims 1.4 million lives across the world every year.
Monday, 28 July, 2014, 8:23am

'I closed my eyes and hoped I would be OK': passengers on planes that turned back before Penghu crash relive terror

Passengers on flights that abandoned landing at Taiwan's Magong Airport around the time TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 crashed say they had never encountered such bad weather while flying.
28 Jul 2014 - 8:37am

Visa glitch leaves US family stuck in Guangzhou with adopted babies

After a long, bureaucratic 18 months, Mike Norton had little reason to doubt that by this weekend he would finally welcome Joseph and Marianna, his new Chinese son and daughter, to their home the US.
28 Jul 2014 - 8:36am 1 comment

Defence Ministry says bad weather behind flight disruptions

The mainland's Defence Ministry has broken its silence about widespread flight delays, saying bad weather and not military drills were to blame.
28 Jul 2014 - 8:44am

Genetically modified rice found for sale in Wuhan supermarket

Genetically modified (GM) rice, which is illegal to sell or grow commercially on the mainland, has been found on sale in a large supermarket in Wuhan.
28 Jul 2014 - 8:31am

Chinese investment in US falls, but big deals in the pipeline

Chinese investments in the US fell year-on-year in the first half, but pending deals and the expected completion of a bilateral investment treaty mean the figure for the year as a whole may rise substantially.
28 Jul 2014 - 8:39am

Baby Jennalyn becomes 100,000,000th Philippine citizen (and sleeps through celebrations)

A baby girl born early yesterday has officially pushed the population of the Philippines to 100 million, highlighting the challenge of providing for more people in the already-impoverished nation.
28 Jul 2014 - 7:36am 8 comments

Athlete jumps at the chance to set new skipping record

Video In the time it takes to cook a bowl of instant noodles, Timothy Ho Chu-ting proved himself the best in the world, setting a world record of 500 skips in three minutes.
28 Jul 2014 - 8:38am 1 comment

Little sign of consensus on 2017 election: SCMP Debate

Reaching consensus on how to nominate candidates for the chief executive election in 2017 looks difficult even if public nomination is set aside. That's the picture that has emerged from the latest SCMP debate.
28 Jul 2014 - 8:35am 1 comment More on Universal Suffrage

McDonald's issues fresh apology but refuses to answer questions on rotten meat scandal

McDonald's issued another apology for its part in the rotten meat scandal, saying a "lack of clarity" had confused people. But it did not answer when asked if there had been a cover-up and refused to take questions on the debacle.
28 Jul 2014 - 7:54am 15 comments

Liaoning businessman probed for alleged ties to ex-PLA chief: report

28 Jul 2014 - 4:48am

100 years on, Hong Kong's own legacies of war

28 Jul 2014 - 8:41am

Chinese fast food for the WeChat generation

28 Jul 2014 - 4:48am

Nepal's 'bamboo schools' open doors to education thanks to Uttam Sanjel

28 Jul 2014 - 4:31am

Ukraine fighting blocks international team access to MH17 crash site

28 Jul 2014 - 7:06am

Gaza siege shaping up as deadliest Israeli conflict in a decade

28 Jul 2014 - 3:32am

Short film casts light on bipolar disorder

28 Jul 2014 - 8:26am 1 comment

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Leader

Clean-up of Victoria Harbour is far from over

28 Jul 2014 - 8:58am

Political parties should take lead and improve transparency on donations

28 Jul 2014 - 9:14am

Asia

EDUCATION

Nepal's 'bamboo schools' open doors to education thanks to Uttam Sanjel

In Nepal, quality education, considered to be within an exclusive domain of private schools, comes with a hefty price tag. But one private institution is out to revolutionise the idea of affordable education for all.
28 Jul 2014 - 4:31am

World

MIDDLE EAST

Gaza siege shaping up as deadliest Israeli conflict in a decade

Palestinian and Israeli casualties are mounting at a pace that could surpass any other Israeli conflict in nearly a decade, amid signs of a deepening military and political stalemate driven by diplomatic gridlock.
28 Jul 2014 - 3:32am

China Insider

LEGAL

Chinese judge probed after marrying woman he granted almost everything to in divorce case

24 Jul 2014
NATURE

World's largest aquatic insect discovered in China's Sichuan province

24 Jul 2014
ENTERTAINMENT

Chinese park sues Paramount for 20.8m yuan over latest Transformers film

24 Jul 2014
MUSIC

Terrible rendition of China's national anthem makes Venezuelan military band a laughing stock

24 Jul 2014 4 comments
TECHNOLOGY

Look familiar? Xiaomi reveals its newest answer to the iPhone - the Mi4

23 Jul 2014 2 comments
VIDEO GAMING

Chinese gamers win US$5m top prize in international video game tournament

24 Jul 2014 1 comment
ENTERTAINMENT

Chinese farmer who makes giant Transformers from car parts cashes in on success of film

22 Jul 2014 4 comments
FOOD SAFETY

Starbucks, Dicos withdraw sandwiches as China launches nationwide probe into 'rotten meat' firm

22 Jul 2014 58 comments
sino-russian

Russians love their Chinese neighbours, Gallup poll shows

18 Jul 2014 3 comments
INTERNET

China web giant Baidu launches search engine in Brazil

21 Jul 2014 1 comment
TRANSPORT

Uber taxis: they may be luxurious, but not everyone's hailing them

18 Jul 2014 16 comments
FOOD

No more cheap breakfasts? Street food hawkers banned from Beijing's Haidian district

17 Jul 2014 1 comment
CULTURE

Mainland Chinese buyers contribute significantly to global art sales: report

17 Jul 2014
WORLD CUP

Chinese soccer fans - mostly young and female - posted 2 billion World Cup messages on Weibo

16 Jul 2014

Collectors turn their passion for vintage goods into thriving businesses

Decked out with old cinema seats, period clocks and well-thumbed maps, antiques collector Fung Wing-kuen's sprawling Kwun Tong warehouse resembles a museum.
28 Jul 2014 - 9:44am More on LIFE

Plunging comic sales in Hong Kong force artists to find a new perspective

27 Jul 2014

London celebrates century of Chinese cinema

27 Jul 2014

Bruno Menard weaves his Michelin magic in Asia

Tattooed on the left forearm of chef Bruno Menard are three Michelin stars, an indelible souvenir of his culinary achievement at L'Osier, a restaurant opened by cosmetics maker Shiseido in Tokyo.
25 Jul 2014 - 1:49am

Tasmanian whisky making its mark on the international scene

25 Jul 2014

It's a bun fight! Who sells the best burger in Hong Kong?

24 Jul 2014 15 comments

Disease research lab mishaps rattle scientists and regulators

For the danger they posed, the lapses were appalling. They put lives at risk, that much is clear. But they were shocking, too, due to where they happened. The US government's high-security disease-control laboratories, which house samples of the most harmful germs in the world, cannot afford to screw up.
27 Jul 2014 - 3:47am

Gene for salt-tolerant soybeans discovered by Hong Kong professor

27 Jul 2014

Death is mercifully quick when a rocket hits an airliner mid-flight

27 Jul 2014 2 comments

Magazines

Sport

CYCLING

Better dope testing 'gave me a chance', says Nibali

Vincenzo Nibali said he would never have been in with a chance of winning the Tour de France had it not been for recent improvements in tackling doping.
28 Jul 2014 - 12:53am
MOTOR RACING

Daniel Ricciardo wins his second Grand Prix in drenched Hungary

Australian Daniel Ricciardo charged to a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix victory on Sunday, his second Formula One win for Red Bull, as a drenched track caused chaos among world championship leaders.
27 Jul 2014 - 11:49pm
SOCCER

My time will come with Brazil, says young star Lucas

27 Jul 2014

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Magazines

In India, caste system ensures you are what you eat

As new genre of caste-based cookbooks reveals, India's culinary customs not only denote class and region, but symbolise faith, dictate who you marry and can be a barrier to social mobility.
27 Jul 2014 - 5:48pm 3 comments

When an investment fund goes bad

Thousands of people saw their life savings wiped out when the "low-risk" fund into which they had put their nest eggs imploded last year. Benjamin Robertson looks into the murky world of LM Investment Management and what its collapse should signal to the investing public.
27 Jul 2014 - 12:05am 5 comments

Tracing roots: illustrating Hong Kong’s botanical beauty

27 Jul 2014

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