BEIJING: Half of the world’s wealthiest female billionaires are Chinese, according to a respected ranking ...
Published 20 Sep, 2013 07:27am
BEIJING: On a summer day about a month before Chinese authorities revealed explosive bribery allegations against the...
Updated 23 Jul, 2013 07:41am
HONG KONG: A Beijing court has sentenced China's former minister of railways Liu Zhijun to death, with a two-year...
Published 09 Jul, 2013 03:16am
A CAR thief in north-eastern China who discovered a baby boy asleep in a stolen 4x4 killed him and buried the corpse in the snow.
Published 08 Mar, 2013 12:00am
AFTER spending eight years translating the first third of James Joyce’s famously opaque novel Finnegans Wake into Chinese, Dai Congrong assumed it was a labour of love rather than money. The book’s language is
Published 07 Feb, 2013 12:00am
CHINESE environmental groups warn that government plans for a slew of hydroelectric dams on the pristine Salween (Nu) river — often called the Grand Canyon of the east for its deep valleys and sweeping views — could
Published 31 Jan, 2013 03:01am
Reports that the gunman at a Parti Quebecois victory rally muttered “the English are waking up” in accented French while being escorted to a police cruiser will send a chill through Canada.
Published 07 Sep, 2012 12:00am
