Vice-president Xi Jinping will meet the US president, Barack Obama, in the White House on Valentine's Day in another test for the man widely expected to succeed Hu Jintao next year.
Hongkongers should expect gossip galore in the Year of the Dragon and be careful to differentiate right from wrong - if the traditional Taoist fortune ceremony is any guide. Lau ...
A Tibetan region of Sichuan was tense yesterday after violence on Monday left at least one person dead. About 30 Tibetans were injured after police fired into a crowd of protesters ...
They claim to offer unrivalled convenience: but the inconvenient truth is that prices at your local 7-Eleven have crept up by almost a quarter in just three months, according to a new ...
Five years ago, the only bird Emily Kwan Wing-lam could recognise was a sparrow. But now, when a spotted dove appears outside her classroom, she can name it, and tell her classmates all about it.
Slowing global trade this year will force China's ports to scale back investment in container terminals, but investment in bulk-cargo terminals should continue, analysts say.
In a project hatched by the internet giant Tencent to prove the mainland remains a warm-hearted place despite recent shocking incidents, 10 adults and a five-year-old boy recently travelled across the ...
Raees Baig calls on the administration to follow the British government and admit that racial bias still exists in its institutions, including in the police and education, as a first step ...
ADVENTURELaura Dekker, a 16-year-old Dutch sailor who has become the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe single-handed, has threatened never to return to the Netherlands because of the ...
The Year of the Dragon is a boom time for births. But dragon children face fierce competition to get into the kindergartens and schools of their choice, says Vanessa Yung.
TENNISRoger Federer celebrated his 1,000th match by brushing aside the challenge of Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro to become the first man through to the Australian Open semi-finals yesterday.
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