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HSBC chief with Hong Kong residency 'kept millions of dollars in Swiss bank account'

Stuart Gulliver, HSBC Group chief executive officer, was listed as the beneficial owner of the account containing at least US$7.6 million in 2007, a British newspaper reported. Photo: APUPDATE
HSBC shares retreated slightly in the opening hours of trading on Monday after media reports that chief executive Stuart Gulliver, tax-domiciled in Hong Kong, sheltered US$7.6 million in a Swiss account through a Panamanian company.
Monday, 23 February, 2015, 10:26am 1 commentMore on HSBC

Mandarin maps and rice for breakfast: Chinese tourists become Spain's top holiday spenders

Tourists pose for photographs next to a cathedral in the Andalusian capital of Seville in southern Spain. Photo: Reuters
Chinese holidaymakers are now Spain's biggest spenders, outstripping Russians for the first time, as the tourism industry rushes to adapt to their tastes.
23 Feb 2015 - 8:55am More on Chinese tourists

Oscars 2015 quiz: will you be a winner or loser when it comes to this year’s Academy Awards?

Test your film knowledge with our Oscars quiz. Photo: AFP
So you think you're a film buff? As the Oscars ceremony kicks off here are 87 questions to test your Academy Awards knowledge – one for each year of its history. 
23 Feb 2015 - 10:06am 2 comments

A maid's tale: The story of one woman’s struggle to become a domestic helper

A maid's tale: The story of one woman’s struggle to become a domestic helperINTERACTIVE
An ordinary domestic helper from Manila reaches her dream city of Hong Kong – only to find herself at odds with a flawed and troubled labour system
22 Feb 2015 - 4:02am More on Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong

Fancy a personal chef? Now he's just a click away in China

A chef with Idachu shows off one of his dishes. Photo: Simon Song
Catering services go online to bring families in Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing the luxury of hiring their own personal cook at affordable rates.
23 Feb 2015 - 4:26am

Brother Orange and the lost iPhone: a sweet tale of a digital manhunt

Screenshot from Matt Stopera's BuzzFeed page
When Matt Stopera, from US online outlet BuzzFeed, wrote about the mysterious posts turning up on his photo stream he started what some said was the "most romantic story of the Lunar New Year".
23 Feb 2015 - 9:42am 3 comments

Shanghai revellers sink their teeth into a good time

Shanghai has top taste for a good time
Shanghai residents led the mainland pack in average spending on dining out and entertainment over the Lunar New Year, according to review site Dianping.com.
23 Feb 2015 - 8:56am More on Chinese tourists

Beijing keeps Winter Games champagne on ice

Genting Resort, where business has been boosted due to Zhangjiakou's partnership with Beijing in the Olympics bid. Photo: Simon Song
Finish line looms in bid for 2022 Olympics, but a handful of hurdles remain if China is to leave rival front runner, Kazakhstan, out in the cold.
23 Feb 2015 - 10:17am More on Focus

Faster, higher, stronger…cheaper? Beijing and Almaty slash budgets to compete for 2022 Winter Olympics

Beijing's budget for its 2022 Winter Olympic Games bid is less than a tenth of the amount it spent on the 2008 Summer Olympics. Photo: Reuters
In a departure from past extravagance in hosting major international events, Beijing has come up with a relatively small budget for its 2022 Winter Olympic Games bid - less than a tenth of the amount it spent on the 2008 Summer Olympics.
23 Feb 2015 - 3:38am

Round-the-world cyclist from Chile killed by pickup truck in Thailand

Juan Francisco Guillermo with wife Jennel Ng and son Lucas.
A Chilean cyclist's quest to cycle around the world in five years has ended with his death in a road accident in Thailand that miraculously spared his Singaporean wife and child who were travelling on their own bike.
23 Feb 2015 - 5:25am 2 comments

Hong Kong to set higher target for reducing energy consumption

Hong Kong is to be set an even tougher target to cut energy use over the next decade - beyond the existing plan for a 25 per cent reduction.
23 Feb 2015 - 7:29am 2 comments

Traders given green light to short Shanghai shares to boost Stock Connect scheme

The new lunar year will see more measures to boost the lacklustre Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme, beginning with the provision of short-selling.
23 Feb 2015 - 8:52am 1 comment
South Korean students perform during a rally against Japan's Takeshima Day in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. Photo: AP

South Korea prints 15,000 brochures to promote claim to East Sea islands disputed with Japan

23 Feb 2015 - 4:55am
Prisoners from the "People's Republic of Donetsk" are exchanged during a swap of separatist gunmen and Ukrainian troops. Photo: AFP

Blast kills two as Kiev and rebels try to salvage truce and pull weapons from front line

23 Feb 2015 - 6:01am
R.K. Pachauri denies claims of sexual harassment. Photo: AP

UN climate chief to skip key event amid sexual harassment claims

23 Feb 2015 - 4:59am
Mohamed Nasheed lost the 2013 presidential election. Photo: AFP

Maldives former president Mohamed Nasheed arrested on terrorism charges

23 Feb 2015 - 5:00am
Bangladeshi rescue workers bring dead bodies of victims in a boat after a river ferry carrying about 100 passengers capsized yesterday. Photo: AP

Dozens feared missing after ferry sinks in Bangladesh

23 Feb 2015 - 5:24am
Thai pro-democracy protester Akkarakit Noonchan (centre) is detained by police near Victory Monument in Bangkok yesterday. Photo: Reuters

Thai police 'drag away' three people at Bangkok protest

23 Feb 2015 - 5:24am
Turkish soldiers at the memorial site of Suleyman Shah. Photo: AP

Tomb raiders: Turkey stages daring operation in Syria to evacuate troops and save historic Ottoman remains

23 Feb 2015 - 8:21am
US west coast ports operating at full speed after tentative labour deal reach

US west coast ports operating at full speed after tentative labour deal reach

23 Feb 2015 - 6:49am
Yemen's deposed president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Yemen's deposed Hadi brands 'coup' illegitimate after fleeing house arrest

23 Feb 2015 - 6:02am
US Defence Secretary Carter says slower troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is being considered.

US Defence Secretary Carter says slower troop withdrawal from Afghanistan being considered

23 Feb 2015 - 6:49am

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PLA soldiers practise in a drill. Photo: Reuters

World has little to fear from China's growing military

23 Feb 2015 - 7:23am 3 comments
For health's sake, make caesarean sections the last resort

For health's sake, make caesarean sections the last resort

23 Feb 2015 - 7:23am

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Should small patches of Hong Kong green belt land be turned over to housing?
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Opinion

ALEX LOAlex Lo

Baa humbug! Hong Kong people are nothing like sheep

23 Feb 2015 - 7:23am 3 comments
ALICE WUAlice Wu

Hong Kong sovereignty debate is a non-starter

23 Feb 2015 - 12:48am 5 comments
TAMMY TAMTammy Tam

Surely Hong Kong can offer tech trailblazers something more

23 Feb 2015 - 4:22am 1 comment
DAVID BROWNDAVID BROWN

Deflation is not all bad news for consumers and businesses

23 Feb 2015 - 8:23am

Insight

Democracy is best way for Hong Kong to avoid a 'bad emperor'

Genuine democracy allows the common man's voice to be heard.WILSON LEUNG
You can't eat democracy." This is the attitude - sometimes expressed, but usually lurking beneath the surface - held by many of those in Hong Kong who are indifferent to the current debate on the chief executive electoral reforms.
23 Feb 2015 - 12:42am 8 comments

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Focus

Beijing keeps Winter Games champagne on ice

Genting Resort, where business has been boosted due to Zhangjiakou's partnership with Beijing in the Olympics bid. Photo: Simon SongWU NAN
Finish line looms in bid for 2022 Olympics, but a handful of hurdles remain if China is to leave rival front runner, Kazakhstan, out in the cold.
23 Feb 2015 - 10:17am

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Hong Kong

It would be the first time the government dedicated a set sum to the fashion industry in its annual budget. Photo: Amanda KhoBUDGET

Hong Kong fashion industry to land HK$200m in budget first

Local fashion designers look set to benefit from this year's budget, with the government expected to offer the sector at least HK$200 million in promotion and scholarships in the hope of nurturing young talent in Hong Kong.
23 Feb 2015 - 8:16am 2 comments
POWER

Hong Kong to set higher target for reducing energy consumption

Hong Kong is to be set an even tougher target to cut energy use over the next decade - beyond the existing plan for a 25 per cent reduction.
23 Feb 2015 - 7:29am 2 comments
HOUSING

Three biggest Hong Kong developers occupy 80pc of MTR residential sites, study shows

23 Feb 2015 5 comments

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China

Snowploughs drive along a main road in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang province, which has been hit by blizzards and a number of serious road accidents. Photo: Xinhua LUNAR NEW YEAR

Heavy snow adds to traffic woes as Chinese travellers head back after Lunar New Year

Heavy snow in northeastern provinces and thick fog in central and southern provinces will add to traffic woes today as Chinese people who travelled home for the Lunar New Year are expected to hit the road again to return to the cities where they work.
23 Feb 2015 - 10:29am
LUNAR NEW YEAR

Shanghai revellers sink their teeth into a good time

Shanghai residents led the mainland pack in average spending on dining out and entertainment over the Lunar New Year, according to review site Dianping.com.
23 Feb 2015 - 8:56am More on Chinese tourists
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Fancy a personal chef? Now he's just a click away in China

23 Feb 2015

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Asia

Juan Francisco Guillermo with wife Jennel Ng and son Lucas.THAILAND

Round-the-world cyclist from Chile killed by pickup truck in Thailand

A Chilean cyclist's quest to cycle around the world in five years has ended with his death in a road accident in Thailand that miraculously spared his Singaporean wife and child who were travelling on their own bike.
23 Feb 2015 - 5:25am 2 comments
INDIA

UN climate chief to skip key event amid sexual harassment claims

The Indian leader of the UN's expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations of sexual harassment.
23 Feb 2015 - 4:59am
TERRITORIAL DISPUTE

South Korea prints 15,000 brochures to promote claim to East Sea islands disputed with Japan

23 Feb 2015

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World

"Karl Lagerfeld made this for me," said best actress nominee Julianne Moore of her custom beaded white strapless Chanel gown with black accents. Photo: ReutersOSCARS FASHION

Oscars fashion: white and silver, and lots of beads

Hollywood’s A-list actresses oozed old-school elegance in white and glittering silver on the Oscars red carpet, even as rain tumbled down on Tinseltown’s top fashion parade.
23 Feb 2015 - 10:28amMore on Academy Awards 2015
SYRIA

Tomb raiders: Turkey stages daring operation in Syria to evacuate troops and save historic Ottoman remains

Almost 600 Turkish troops staged a daring incursion overnight on Sunday deep into Syria, evacuating Turkish soldiers guarding a historic tomb who had been stranded in territory controlled by Islamic State (IS) jihadists.
23 Feb 2015 - 8:21am
UKRAINE

Blast kills two as Kiev and rebels try to salvage truce and pull weapons from front line

23 Feb 2015

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China Insider

A worker at the petrol station in Henan, China, found the crying boy wandering alone after his mother and uncle accidentally left without him. Photo: Dahe.cnCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Chinese boy left behind after toilet stop at gas station

22 Feb 2015
Septuagenarian Zhuang Xuejie is the local hero in Dezhou, Shandong after he saved three children who fell through broken ice on a local river. Photo: SCMP Pictures CHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: 70-year-old saves children from icy river

20 Feb 2015
Cai Jianping, pictured at this year's Dapeng marathon in Shenzhen, took five days to run nearly 350km to his hometown, Shantou, for the Lunar New Year holiday. Photo: SCMP PicturesCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Man runs 350km home for Lunar New Year

17 Feb 2015
The owner of a Sichuan-style hotpot restuarant in Huangzhou, Hubei, invited 400 of the city's cleaners to dinner. Photo: SCMP PicturesCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Restaurant owner treats 400 street cleaners to Lunar New Year Banquet

15 Feb 2015
Chasing ghosts: Where is China’s next wave of empty ‘new towns’?URBANISATION

Chasing ghosts: Where is China’s next wave of empty ‘new towns’?

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Staff at a Kunming hotel spa show the tab for a 14-year-old boy's four day spending binge to get even with his "negligent" dad. Photo: SCMP PicturesCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Son runs up hug tab at hotel spa to take revenge on Dad

13 Feb 2015
The 18-year-old college student visits the two sanitary workers whose lives he saved by pulling them out of a sewer and giving them CPR. Photo: Rednet.cnCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Chinese teen saves lives of two workers trapped in sewer

12 Feb 2015
Police officers carry a man out of a Beijing hospital where he has been staying for more than three years. The man claimed doctors had injured his left leg during an operation in 2011 and refused to leave. Photo: ReutersCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Man hauled out of hospital after overstaying his welcome...by three years

12 Feb 2015
A woman driver who ran into a 5-million-yuan Rolls Royce Ghost faces a repair bill of 100,000 yuan. Photo: SCMP PicturesCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Woman driver faces 100,000 bill for dinging $5m Rolls Royce

10 Feb 2015 1 comment
A panda looks out of his cage at Beijing zoo. A fourth panda has died of canine distemper at a wildlife breeding centre in Shaanxi. Photo: EPA CHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Fourth panda dies of canine distemper in Shaanxi

6 Feb 2015
The owner spent years cutting and polishing a 53-tonne bloodstone boulder to its present size. Photo: SCMP PicturesCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: 18-tonne gem goes on display in Guangxi

5 Feb 2015
Beijing commuters head home in the evening rush hour. Photo: Simon SongTRANSPORTATION

Beijing subway to increase train frequencies, but still lags behind Hong Kong MTR

5 Feb 2015
A venomous redback spider has been found by Customs officers in Guangdong among a container of iron frames from Australia. Photo: SCMP PicturesCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Aussie redback spider stowaway found at Guangdong port

4 Feb 2015
An eight-year-old boy has been living at a primary school in Henan after he was abandoned by his father in August. Photo: SCMP PicturesCHINA DIGEST

Around the nation: Abandoned boy, 8, stranded at school

3 Feb 2015

Business

Stuart Gulliver, HSBC Group chief executive officer, was listed as the beneficial owner of the account containing at least US$7.6 million in 2007, a British newspaper reported. Photo: APBANKING AND FINANCE

HSBC chief with Hong Kong residency 'kept millions of dollars in Swiss bank account'

UPDATE
HSBC shares retreated slightly in the opening hours of trading on Monday after media reports that chief executive Stuart Gulliver, tax-domiciled in Hong Kong, sheltered US$7.6 million in a Swiss account through a Panamanian company.
23 Feb 2015 - 10:26am 1 commentMore on HSBC
BANKING

Compliance, regulatory costs still a likely damper on HSBC earnings

New money laundering allegations will cast a shadow over HSBC when it announces its full-year earnings report today.
22 Feb 2015 - 7:54pm

MARKETS

DOUG YOUNGDoug Young

Red envelope wars in China, Xiaomi eyes US

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Property

The volume of sales of luxury apartments in Shanghai worth more than 10 million yuan fell 34 per cent last year to 2,246 units from 2013. Photo: AFPRESIDENTIAL

Chinese developers to raise luxury home prices in prime cities

Some Chinese developers are planning to raise prices for new luxury projects in prime areas this year, in a rare sign of improving sentiment in a market that saw new home prices fall for the last eight months of 2014.
21 Feb 2015 - 12:17pmMore on China Property
INTERNET

Greenland to diversify into internet finance

Greenland Hong Kong, the Hong Kong-listed unit of the mainland’s largest developer by sales, announced it would diversify into internet finance this year, hoping to capitalise on the cyber world to offer financial services to cash-strapped mainland developers.
11 Feb 2015 - 6:11amMore on China Property
STRATEGY

Golden Wheel Tiandi on a roll with metro projects

11 Feb 2015

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Lifestyle

ARTS & CULTURE
An artist's impression of the M+ lobby and "found space".

M+ architects wanted to design a building worthy of the art inside

To some, the minimalist inverted T-shape of Hong Kong's planned M+ visual culture museum is an elegant urban statement. To others, perhaps expecting an architectural spectacle more like the iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, it appears disappointingly understated.
23 Feb 2015 - 6:31amMore on West Kowloon arts hub

Oscars 2015 quiz: will you be a winner or loser when it comes to this year’s Academy Awards?

23 Feb 2015 2 comments

Fame's the name - Georgie returns to Hong Kong for gig

21 Feb 2015
FOOD & WINE
Brothers Tsui Ka-long (left) and Tsui Ka-hei are passionate about Hong Kong milk tea. They are behind a new comic strip, Milkteaology. Photo: David Wong

Milktealogy: twins devise comic strip devoted to preserving Hong Kong's tea drinking culture

Like many twins, Tsui Ka-hei and his brother Ka-long have much in common. They have a similar sense of style, a passion for art and design, and they even work together. The pair founded animation studio Zcratch with a couple of friends in 2006.
17 Feb 2015 - 6:22pm 1 comment More on Living heritage of Hong Kong

Susan Jung's Lunar New Year recipe for prosperity

14 Feb 2015

Peruvian chef Diego Muñoz gets a taste of Hong Kong

14 Feb 2015
TECHNOLOGY
Man's bigger brain

Scientists pinpoint a gene regulator that makes human brains bigger

By inserting bits of human DNA into mice, scientists were able to make their brains develop more rapidly - and ultimately grow bigger - in the womb.
22 Feb 2015 - 7:22am

Next Magazine misses the mark in saying money, influence behind Leung Chuen-yan getting post at Karolinska Institute

22 Feb 2015 2 comments

Do teenagers have 'genetically weak' sperm?

22 Feb 2015
FASHION
"Karl Lagerfeld made this for me," said best actress nominee Julianne Moore of her custom beaded white strapless Chanel gown with black accents. Photo: Reuters

Oscars fashion: white and silver, and lots of beads

23 Feb 2015

Why are people so annoyed by Kanye West's Adidas collection?

23 Feb 2015
BOOKS
Author Michael Meyer's best writing is in the town of Wasteland, where he always has good stories to tell.

Book review: In Manchuria by Michael Meyer

21 Feb 2015

Book review: Made in Hong Kong - a history of advertising

21 Feb 2015
HEALTH
Children in a Hong Kong pre-school class. Early learning is crucial to success in learning two or more languages, says neuroscientist Dr Laura-Ann Petitto Photo: Nora Tam

Bilingual children may have lower Alzheimer's risk

23 Feb 2015

Grilled and fried food may raise Alzheimer's risk, study finds

23 Feb 2015
BEAUTY
Seven stunning lipsticks for your Valentine's Day date

Seven stunning lipsticks for your Valentine's Day date

11 Feb 2015

How to stay looking young: top tips from a cosmetic doctor

9 Feb 2015 1 comment
FAMILY & EDUCATION
Children in a Hong Kong pre-school class. Early learning is crucial to success in learning two or more languages, says neuroscientist Dr Laura-Ann Petitto Photo: Nora Tam

Bilingual children may have lower Alzheimer's risk

23 Feb 2015

Special needs students: more support needed in Hong Kong schools

23 Feb 2015
INTERIORS & LIVING
A Hong Kong flat where the kitchen takes centre stage

A Hong Kong flat where the kitchen takes centre stage

14 Feb 2015

Brighten up your home with some colourful ceramics

14 Feb 2015

Magazines

Sport

Fernando Alonso is shielded by teammates and medical staff as he is carried by stretcher to the evacuation helicopter. Photo: AFPMOTOR RACING

Concussed Fernando Alonso in hospital after Formula One testing crash

McLaren’s Fernando Alonso was kept in hospital overnight after crashing heavily on the final day of Formula One’s second pre-season test in Barcelona on Sunday.
23 Feb 2015 - 9:29am

Liverpool gain momentum in fight for Champions League berth

It has taken a long time for Liverpool’s trio of ex-Southampton players to be able to point to a performance and say “this is why we left”, but there was ample reason to justify their desertion in Sunday’s 2-0 win at St Mary’s.
23 Feb 2015 - 9:44amMore on English Premier League 2014/15

Jose Mourinho fumes at 'criminal' tackle

23 Feb 2015

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Magazines

Hong Kong Cancer Fund's Sally and Robert Lo take on 'the Big C'

Hong Kong Cancer Fund's Sally and Robert Lo take on 'the Big C'

The Hong Kong Cancer Fund's Sally and Robert Lo reflect on nearly 30 years spent helping Hong Kong patients overcome and live with cancer. 
14 Feb 2015 - 10:31pm 1 comment

Peace be with you: 175 years of Islam in Hong Kong

In an increasingly Islamophobic world, Hong Kong - with its 250,000 Muslim residents - is a rare example of peaceful cultural co-existence. Stuart Heaver charts the Islamic community's history in the city.
14 Feb 2015 - 10:31pm 9 commentsMore on LIFE
CULTURE

Why lion dancing in Baizhifang is a dying art

14 Feb 2015

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Blogs

THE HONGCOUVERIan Young

Canada's millionaire migrants earn less than refugees, so why bother with wealth migration?

IAN YOUNG21 Feb 2015 - 1:18am 16 comments
CORPORATE CHINADoug Young

BYD seeks jump-start with asset sale, finance JV

DOUG YOUNG15 Feb 2015 - 2:56pm 1 comment
THE GRIFFINANDREW HAWKINS

A walk down memory lane: historical pictures of Hong Kong racing

ANDREW HAWKINS14 Feb 2015 - 4:36pm 1 comment
AS I SEE ITJason Y Ng

Still Alice (and Julianne Moore’s near-certain Oscar win)

JASON Y NG20 Feb 2015 - 12:44pm
OFF CENTREKenny Hodgart

Why banker's 'leaving Hong Kong' blog jars with so many people

KENNY HODGART11 Feb 2015 - 5:29pm 10 comments
THE HONGCOUVERIan Young

Step aside Vancouver: Windsor, Ontario, wants the next wave of millionaire migrants

IAN YOUNG11 Feb 2015 - 8:01am
HAPPY LUCKY DRAGON WINMichael Cox

Hong Kong's other wealth divide puts the squeeze on little people

MICHAEL COX10 Feb 2015 - 4:16pm

In Pictures

Worshippers hold incense sticks aloft as they make offerings and pray on the second day of the Lunar New Year, while one man pauses for a quick photo at a packed Wong Tai Sin Temple in Kowloon. The popular temple is home to three religions - Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Photo: Edward Wong

Today in Photos, February 21

Worshippers hold incense sticks aloft as they make offerings and pray at Wong Tai Sin Temple, while Japanese college students raise their fists and yell to kick off, and more ...
22 Feb 2015
Upside down and on a road to nowhere, this car is drawing plenty of attention on a strip of tarmac that appears to have been peeled back from the surface at London's South Bank. The illusionary artwork by Alex Chinneck is on display in a real car park this week. Photo: Reuters

Today in Photos, February 20

Pedestrians and workers pass an upside down car art installation in London, while carnival revellers dressed up as mourners during the "The Burial of the Sardine" funeral procession in Madrid, and
18 Feb 2015
A group of joggers run across the Humber Bay Arch Bridge during extreme cold temperatures in Toronto. Toronto experienced some of the coldest weather of the year reaching -25C (-13F) on Sunday, as Environment Canada lifted its "extreme cold weather alert" Monday when temperatures warmed to -13C (8.6F), according to local reports. Photo: Reuters

Today in Photos, February 18

A group of joggers run across the Humber Bay Arch Bridge, while revellers dressed as Stormtroopers participate in the parade of the Carnival in northern Spain, and more ...
18 Feb 2015
Rio Carnival 2015: Storms never stop the Samba School Parade, February 17

Rio Carnival 2015: Storms never stop the Samba School Parade, February 17

Carnival was under way in Rio on Saturday with millions set to take to the streets for days of rowdy, joyous parades and festivities, bringing the nation to a halt for its annual wild party.
17 Feb 2015
Children in Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, stage a rare protest against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Activists said they were seeking to draw attention to the plight of civilians living under brutal siege conditions and dying from military strikes by regime forces in Syria’s civil war. The children appeared in a cage carrying banners reading, “Stop the killing of children”, and wore orange jumpsuits like the victims of Islamic State, seeking to compare the behaviour of Assad’s forces with that of the militant group. Photo: Reuters

Today in Photos, February 17

Children in Douma stage a rare protest against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, while a man dives into a puddle mud during the  Mud Block carnival party in Brazil, and more ...
17 Feb 2015
Worshippers hold incense sticks aloft as they make offerings and pray on the second day of the Lunar New Year, while one man pauses for a quick photo at a packed Wong Tai Sin Temple in Kowloon. The popular temple is home to three religions - Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Photo: Edward Wong
PHOTOS
Worshippers hold incense sticks aloft as they make offerings and pray at Wong Tai
22 Feb 2015
Upside down and on a road to nowhere, this car is drawing plenty of attention on a strip of tarmac that appears to have been peeled back from the surface at London's South Bank. The illusionary artwork by Alex Chinneck is on display in a real car park this week. Photo: Reuters
PHOTOS
Pedestrians and workers pass an upside down car art installation in London, while 
20 Feb 2015
A group of joggers run across the Humber Bay Arch Bridge during extreme cold temperatures in Toronto. Toronto experienced some of the coldest weather of the year reaching -25C (-13F) on Sunday, as Environment Canada lifted its "extreme cold weather alert" Monday when temperatures warmed to -13C (8.6F), according to local reports. Photo: Reuters
PHOTOS
A group of joggers run across the Humber Bay Arch Bridge, while revellers dressed
18 Feb 2015
Rio Carnival 2015: Storms never stop the Samba School Parade, February 17
Carnival was under way in Rio on Saturday with millions set to take to the streets
17 Feb 2015
Children in Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, stage a rare protest against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Activists said they were seeking to draw attention to the plight of civilians living under brutal siege conditions and dying from military strikes by regime forces in Syria’s civil war. The children appeared in a cage carrying banners reading, “Stop the killing of children”, and wore orange jumpsuits like the victims of Islamic State, seeking to compare the behaviour of Assad’s forces with that of the militant group. Photo: Reuters
PHOTOS
Children in Douma stage a rare protest against the government of President Bashar
17 Feb 2015

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SCMP invites you to attend LONGINES HONG KONG MASTERS 2015

LuxeHomes Annual Edition 2014

LuxeHomes Annual Edition 2014

WIN FREE MOVIE TICKETS TO WATCH MORTDECAI

WIN FREE MOVIE TICKETS TO WATCH MORTDECAI

SCMP invites you to watch NIGHTCRAWLER

SCMP invites you to watch NIGHTCRAWLER


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