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Hong Kong
- Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific banks on cargo to bring in the cash as 2017 losses forecast at US$357 million
- Caring for the carers: calls for Hong Kong to ease restrictions on allowance scheme
- ‘Constitutional order’ in Hong Kong maintained, leader of China’s legislature says
- Hong Kong democrats fail to win back Legco veto foothold in by-election
- What happened to the disqualifications backlash? Five takeaways from Hong Kong’s Legco by-election
- Shortfalls found in public services for Hong Kong’s ethnic minorities
- Cyberport’s plan to make Hong Kong an e-sports hub: if you build it, they will come
China
- How tech firms are using China’s social media addiction to teach English
- Why has Cantonese fallen out of favour with Guangzhou youngsters?
- ‘Constitutional order’ in Hong Kong maintained, leader of China’s legislature says
- China sets up new super agency to fight corruption
- China’s goal in Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un talks is to make sure they don’t collapse
- China’s state media defend changes to constitution removing presidential term limits
- Chinese man who smashed up clamped car owed US$5,700 in unpaid fines
- China’s slow steel industry cuts unlikely to satisfy Trump’s demands
- Chinese woman ‘marries’ her ailing grandad so he doesn’t have to miss her big day
- China’s largest private oil group was scrambling for loans even as authorities were swooping in
- Chinese woman has tapeworm removed from her breast 5 years after eating live frogs
- China's attendance at Vatican organ trafficking conference welcomed as sign of better ties
World
- Hen’s night horror: tycoon’s daughter Mina Basaran and friends among 11 killed in private plane crash in Iran
- Pope decries barriers for foreigners and fears of globalisation as he honours charity for refugees
- Elon Musk expects SpaceX to launch Mars spaceship in 2019
- All five passengers dead, but pilot escapes, after helicopter plunges into New York’s East River
- High on drugs, Kaylee Muthart gouged out both her eyes with bare hands to get closer to God
- In Syria’s battered Ghouta enclave, the bodies pile up as the government’s barrel bombs rain down
- Told a hijacked plane filled with passengers was headed for Sochi Olympics, Putin says he ordered it shot down
- ‘Unnatural, immoral, foreign’: controversy blows up over sex dolls in Zambia
- Chile’s billionaire president Sebastian Pinera uses inauguration to declare war on ‘stagnation’
Asia
- Myanmar: satellite images show helipads and military installations built on burned Rohingya land
- Weird things have happened to ‘BBC Dad’ in year after hilarious video went viral
- Japanese officials doctored documents at heart of cronyism scandal, deleting references to PM Abe, wife, minister
- Churning political storms collide: what will prove decisive in Malaysia’s election?
- Man who held Japanese teen girl captive two years as ‘experiment’ is jailed for nine years
- East Timor: Xanana Gusmao given hero’s welcome at airport after striking sea border deal with Australia
- South Korean politician quits after woman accuses him of unzipping her pants in karaoke bar
Business
Companies
- China’s race for the mother of all supercomputers just got more crowded
- Global super rich are booking profits and slashing risk following February’s harsh shakeout, says Citi private bank
- Beijing’s overture to tech firms triggers a tug of war between mainland and Hong Kong bourses
- PwC testing a blockchain analytics tool for tracking the global footprint of ICO tokens
- Trump’s own ‘Wag the Dog’ moment reveals mounting strains on his presidency
- Europe has to break free of German policy domination
- Should dual-class shareholding firms be allowed into the Hang Seng Index?
- Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange offers US$250,000 bounty for hacker tip-offs
Markets
Mutual Funds
Global Economy
- Global super rich are booking profits and slashing risk following February’s harsh shakeout, says Citi private bank
- Beijing’s overture to tech firms triggers a tug of war between mainland and Hong Kong bourses
- PwC testing a blockchain analytics tool for tracking the global footprint of ICO tokens
- Chart of the day: Russian stocks on upward trend
- Europe has to break free of German policy domination
Money
- Andy Lau accident sparks rush for insurance cover by Asian film studios
- Global super rich are booking profits and slashing risk following February’s harsh shakeout, says Citi private bank
- Beijing’s overture to tech firms triggers a tug of war between mainland and Hong Kong bourses
- Chart of the day: Russian stocks on upward trend
- Should dual-class shareholding firms be allowed into the Hang Seng Index?
- China’s largest private oil group was scrambling for loans even as authorities were swooping in
Banking & Finance
- Andy Lau accident sparks rush for insurance cover by Asian film studios
- Global super rich are booking profits and slashing risk following February’s harsh shakeout, says Citi private bank
- PwC testing a blockchain analytics tool for tracking the global footprint of ICO tokens
- Europe has to break free of German policy domination
- Should dual-class shareholding firms be allowed into the Hang Seng Index?
- China’s largest private oil group was scrambling for loans even as authorities were swooping in
Commodities
China Business
- How tech firms are using China’s social media addiction to teach English
- China’s race for the mother of all supercomputers just got more crowded
- Andy Lau accident sparks rush for insurance cover by Asian film studios
- Global super rich are booking profits and slashing risk following February’s harsh shakeout, says Citi private bank
- Beijing’s overture to tech firms triggers a tug of war between mainland and Hong Kong bourses
- Hong Kong stocks post best finish in a month as US jobs data eases interest rate concerns
- Trump’s own ‘Wag the Dog’ moment reveals mounting strains on his presidency
- Should dual-class shareholding firms be allowed into the Hang Seng Index?
- China’s largest private oil group was scrambling for loans even as authorities were swooping in
Comment
Insight & Opinion
- Bad language is now the norm, I swear
- Donald Tsang case raises questions over judicial system
- Move by the United States to woo Vietnam is a flawed strategy
- Europe has to break free of German policy domination
- Would you give the government your DNA? That may be a step too far in the quest for a hi-tech future
- Should dual-class shareholding firms be allowed into the Hang Seng Index?
- Trump’s steel, aluminium tariffs may well backfire, giving China the upper hand
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A lawyer forced his eldest daughter to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) twice at the family’s London home as a “punishment”, a court heard on Monday.
Updated 13 Mar 2018 - 4:44am
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