FEATURE - In China, parents mourn children abducted by traffickers The Star | DONGGUAN (Reuters) - In the quiet village of Shang Di, wedged among factory towns in southern China, Deng Huidong wheels out a dusty two-seater tricycle that her 9-month-old son rode the day he was abducted outside her family house in 2007. Photographs of some of the lost children in Dongguan area...
China to check on made-in-India drugs The Times Of India | Text: BEIJING: China’s state food and drug administration has begun an investigation into an allegation by Nigeria that a consignment of drugs labelled ‘made in India’ were actually fake pharmaceuticals produced in China, an SFDA spokespe...
SW China: Baby girls taken and sold for adoption China Daily | About 80 newborn baby girls from a county of Guizhou Province in southwest China have been removed from their families by local officials since 2001, and most have been handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of $3,000 each, t...
Graduate sues bank for hepatitis B discrimination China Daily | A university graduate in the Shenzhen special economic zone, Guangdong province, has filed a lawsuit against a bank that turned him down because he has the hepatitis B virus. | The man wants 40,000 yuan ($5,855) in compensation. | He had passed the...
Spike in scams smears Guangzhou China Daily | A spike in an increasingly popular fraud scheme has struck Guangzhou, and authorities are pointing the finger at foreigners for the scams. | Eight foreigners have gone on trial for the so-called black-money scam in Guangzhou Intermediate People's C...
Family accuses police in jail death China Daily | The family of a 34-year-old man who died in a detention center has accused officers of beating the man to death. | Lin Lifeng, detained after allegedly threatening a schoolboy with a knife, is the 16th known person to die in custody this year. | Hi...
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Tony Leung in Hong Kong crime thriller The Star | Award-winning actor Tony Leung Ka Fai has the distinction of being picked to play Hong Kong's notorious Chief Inspector Lee Rock in the 1960s. | IT'S all in a day's work for vers...
China moves to modernise The Australian | CHINA has seriously cranked up the tempo in its efforts build a more modern economy with three landmark announcements. | They are a long-awaited blueprint to create a national he...
World trade fall hits Hong Kong shipping BBC News | Ships travel to and from the manufacturing and trading hubs of southern China through the Lamma channel, and it is still busy. | But the ships once sitting heavily in the water, ...
'Green cats' the bane of green policy The Star | A CAT has nine lives. Fat cats may have more, and each of these lives has a different colour. | During Chairman Mao's days, anyone who joined the radical factions could persecute other people. It was fashionable to be "red cats" then. | In the days...
Beijing losing the gambling battle Asia Times | By Stephen Wong | SHANGHAI - Beijing's efforts to crack down on gambling by Communist Party and government officials with public funds seem to have made little headway. While longer jail terms and the risk of losing their jobs fail to deter officia...
Nigerian To Be Executed In China Today Modern Ghana By Sanni Gombe, Abuja | At least 20 people were executed, an equal number condemned and hundreds put on trial as China marked a global anti-drug day with stark warnings of rising illicit drug use, state press said Friday. | The executions and trials ...
Google challenged in India Asia Times | By Raja Murthy | MUMBAI - The world's largest search engine is caught up in another Indian legal battle, one of many ongoing around the globe. A leading cardiologist from Mumbai is complaining to the city's High Court over 20 Google blogs he says defame him. | The cardiologist's case is timely, raising important questions about freedom of express...
Imelda Marcos: The best and worst life Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines — In true Imeldific fashion, she glided down a red carpet, surrounded by little girls in white dresses carrying bouquets of roses and trailed by tuxedo-wearing violin and flute players who rendered her favorite love song. | In a frantic, fuchsia terno designed by Oliver Tolentino, former First Lady Imelda Marcos celebrated her...
