Wednesday 16 January 2019
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Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya, in visit to Washington, seeks US help to combat Chinese cyberattacks
- scmp US lawmakers seek to ban chip sales to China’s Huawei and ZTE for ‘violating American sanctions’
- scmp Labour’s serial rebel Jeremy Corbyn fails to topple British PM Theresa May, but is strengthened by Brexit debacle
- scmp Totally fake editions of ‘Washington Post’ are handed out across US capital, with totally fake news of Donald Trump’s resignation, which didn’t happen
- scmp US congressman Ed Case says he’s ‘an Asian trapped in a white body’, sparking an online backlash
- scmp US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China’s death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenberg is ‘politically motivated’
- scmp A man in Australia was stabbed at Sydney’s Scientology church, and its leaders believe Leah Romini’s ‘poisonous’ TV show is to blame
- scmp Three family members accused of defrauding Hong Kong cosmetics retailer of HK$40 million and laundering the proceeds
- scmp Hong Kong’s pro-democracy and pro-Beijing camps join forces in Legislative Council to call for government U-turn on CSSA age limit change
- scmp Hong Kong university joins forces with top overseas institutions to set up city’s first international research centre on dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases
- scmp Hong Kong government may shelve proposed increases cross-harbour tunnel tolls after two Legco allies say they will not support it
- scmp Hong Kong’s struggling pay TV provider, iCable, enters China through deal with Guangdong CableTV Network in bid to revive fortunes
- scmp US defence agency says PLA ‘on verge of fielding some of the most modern weapon systems in the world’
- scmp Tributes flow for Hong Kong’s first Chinese prosecutor, Patrick Yu Shuk-siu, after death at 96
- scmp China’s military strength could encourage idea of Taiwan unification by force, says US official
- scmp Chinese man who spent five years ‘Breaking Bad’ caught cooking methamphetamine under the stairs
- scmp Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei on why he joined China’s Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army
- scmp Hong Kong coroner slams marathon organiser and ambulance service after first inquest into death of runner at event
- scmp ‘It’s been like hell’: Temperatures in Australian towns soar to nearly 50 degrees Celsius as heatwave worsens
- scmp No perceived bias in Leung Chun-ying UGL probe, so no outside legal advice, says Hong Kong justice minister Teresa Cheng
- scmp Hongkongers are financially unprepared for retirement and death, exposing the risks of living in the world’s most expensive city
- scmp Aiming to curb China’s influence, Australian prime minister agrees to kava imports from Pacific nations
- scmp China pork prices to rise but not before Lunar New Year as African swine fever battle continues
- scmp Sri Lanka considering US$300 million loan from Bank of China, with scope to borrow as much as US$1 billion
- scmp Laws to tackle aggressive sales tactics in Hong Kong could be expanded beyond gym and beauty salon industries, says commerce chief Edward Yau
- scmp Chinese dissidents in Taiwan airport limbo for 100 days are walking asylum tightrope and Taipei can’t help
- scmp Parents’ heartbreak as 2-year-old son Julen falls in a deep well in Spain, and rescuers can’t reach him
- scmp Prices of China’s new homes grow at the weakest pace in eight months as purchase curbs bite hard amid a slowing economy
- scmp Watch: family of British tourists deemed ‘trash, leeches, worse than pigs’ – now they’ll be deported from New Zealand
- scmp Shinzo Abe and Angela Merkel to headline Davos as Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron deal with domestic problems
- scmp Asia is ‘new hotbed of Christian persecution’ with situation in China worst since Cultural Revolution, report claims
- scmp UK PM Theresa May faces vote of no confidence after crushing Brexit defeat. How will it work?
- scmp Nasa wanted to use China’s spacecraft to plan a new American moon mission, top Chinese scientist says
- scmp Mega project for 9,500 private flats in Hong Kong countryside given go-ahead by Planning Department
- scmp Singapore is right to question university rankings fixation. Research has a social value, too
- scmp Tens of thousands in Hong Kong to have their DNA sequenced in government-backed genome project
- scmp Broadway icon Carol Channing, star of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’, dead at 97
- scmp Activists call for overhaul of CSSA, with Hongkongers on welfare payments struggling to get by
- scmp Belarus ‘sex trainer’ Anastasia Vashukevich, who said she had Trump election secrets, pleads guilty to soliciting in Thailand
- scmp Hong Kong’s backlog of torture claimants cleared a year early helped by pilot scheme with revised lawyer pay
- scmp What next for Brexit? Rocks and hard places abound as Britain faces three main scenarios, in wake of deal’s defeat
- scmp Here is British PM Theresa May’s statement to parliament, in full, after suffering crushing Brexit defeat
- scmp Saudi teen refugee Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, now safe in Canada, wants to fight for other women
- scmp Kim Jong-un’s envoy expected to personally deliver letter to Donald Trump after ‘strongly demanding’ meeting with US president
- scmp Hong Kong police launch internal investigation into allegation senior officer used safe house for trysts with his lover
- scmp International kindergarten closes after flu outbreak, as government monitors two public school similarly affected
- scmp Results of tests into strength of bars underneath scandal-hit station’s platform untrustworthy, engineering experts tell inquiry
- scmp Operation Santa Claus raises more than HK$17 million for Hong Kong’s needy in annual fundraising drive
- scmp Singapore healthcare cyberattack: Officials will not name hackers who targeted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
- scmp Councillor told his plan to ship wild boars to uninhabited Hong Kong islands won’t work ‘because they can swim’
- scmp Smartwatches and fitness bands by Suunto, Apple and Garmin can be inaccurate, Hong Kong Consumer Council says
- scmp Gyms and beauty salons could be made to refund unhappy customers as Hong Kong government proposes cooling-off period
- scmp Japanese Olympic Committee chief Tsunekazu Takeda maintains innocence as corruption probe casts shadow on Tokyo Games 2020
- scmp China issues travel alert telling citizens they could be ‘arbitrarily detained’ in Canada a day after Ottawa issued similar warning
- scmp Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei breaks years of silence amid continued US attacks on Chinese tech giant
- scmp A recipe for change: city’s bakers told to switch up ingredients after cookies and biscuits found to contain chemicals linked to cancer
- scmp China’s senior models find barriers have come down as fashion labels woo growing number of ‘silver spenders’
- scmp What is Hong Kong’s role in a new economic world order as supply chains shift amid US-China trade war?
- scmp How Pyongyang is taking advantage of rift between Tokyo and Seoul to dodge kidnapping inquiries
- scmp Three men on the run in Hong Kong after forcing victim to hand over bank card and withdrawing HK$38,000
- scmp Impact of China’s tax-cut stimulus is estimated at US$300 billion, or 1.2 per cent of output, according to JPMorgan’s economists
- scmp Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam blames CY Leung’s administration for controversial elderly welfare cutback
- scmp Chinese lunar lander’s cotton seeds lead the way as plant life germinates on far side of the moon
- scmp Desalination plants worldwide produce more toxic waste than fresh water, UN-backed study shows
- scmp Cambodia launches crackdown on passports after reports Yingluck Shinawatra used foreign document to flee Thailand
- scmp Government presses Hong Kong Airlines to further clarify finances, casting fresh doubts on troubled carrier’s business
- scmp Health officials investigate death of 60-year-old male patient after liver biopsy at Hong Kong hospital
- scmp Millions of Hindus gather for India’s Kumbh Mela festival, where toxic air is just one of the environmental concerns
- scmp Gong Yu Wei, who killed mother and stored dismembered body parts in fridge, ‘ashamed and sorry’ as he is sentenced in Hawaii
- scmp Fast food fan Donald Trump foots bill for White House burger and pizza feast as US shutdown bites
- scmp Canada warns citizens about China’s ‘arbitrary enforcement of laws’ after drug smuggling death sentence
- scmp Donald Trump tries to sell border wall, defend shutdown to American farmers hurt by trade war with China
- scmp Disgraced former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang freed after completing 12-month jail term for misconduct in public office
- scmp Senior North Korean official Kim Yong-chol reportedly bound for Washington to meet President Donald Trump
- scmp Upgrade us to deal with Uber war and bad image: taxi industry to Hong Kong government on premium franchise trials
- scmp Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Donald Trump consider security zone in Syria, finding common ground after US president’s threat to ‘devastate Turkey’
- scmp Hong Kong’s top judge Geoffrey Ma reveals plan for changes to procedures as soaring number of refugee claims puts extra strain on stretched courts
- scmp Ivanka Trump is helping choose World Bank president but is not a contender herself, says White House
- scmp Chinese workers may get 2½-day weekend to go shopping, but public services users aren’t buying it
- scmp Saudi Arabian Mohammed Zuraibi Alzoabi, charged with sexually assaulting woman in Canada, flees after embassy posts his bail
- scmp Anthony Scaramucci, briefly in the White House, enters the Celebrity Big Brother house instead
- scmp Jake Thomas Patterson saw Jayme Closs, 13, get on school bus and decided he wanted her – so he killed her parents and kidnapped her, US police say
- scmp US and China collaborated to move nuclear material from Nigeria, despite their rising rivalry
- scmp Furious Christians throw firebomb in protest against Israeli museum for showing ‘McJesus’ sculpture of crucified Ronald McDonald
- scmp Two suspected homosexuals tortured to death as dozens are detained in new Chechnya purge, activists say
- scmp Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr will testify it is ‘vitally important’ that Robert Mueller completes Russia probe
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China’s death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenberg is ‘politically motivated’
- scmpLabour’s serial rebel Jeremy Corbyn fails to topple British PM Theresa May, but is strengthened by Brexit debacle
- scmpJapanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya, in visit to Washington, seeks US help to combat Chinese cyberattacks
- scmpThree family members accused of defrauding Hong Kong cosmetics retailer of HK$40 million and laundering the proceeds
- scmpA man in Australia was stabbed at Sydney’s Scientology church, and its leaders believe Leah Romini’s ‘poisonous’ TV show is to blame
- scmpUS congressman Ed Case says he’s ‘an Asian trapped in a white body’, sparking an online backlash
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China’s death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenberg is ‘politically motivated’
- scmp Labour’s serial rebel Jeremy Corbyn fails to topple British PM Theresa May, but is strengthened by Brexit debacle
- scmp Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya, in visit to Washington, seeks US help to combat Chinese cyberattacks
- scmp A man in Australia was stabbed at Sydney’s Scientology church, and its leaders believe Leah Romini’s ‘poisonous’ TV show is to blame
- scmp US congressman Ed Case says he’s ‘an Asian trapped in a white body’, sparking an online backlash
- scmp Totally fake editions of ‘Washington Post’ are handed out across US capital, with totally fake news of Donald Trump’s resignation, which didn’t happen
- scmp US lawmakers seek to ban chip sales to China’s Huawei and ZTE for ‘violating American sanctions’
- scmp Most Popular (24 hours) Prices of China’s new homes grow at the weakest pace in eight months as purchase curbs bite hard amid a slowing economy
- scmp Parents’ heartbreak as 2-year-old son Julen falls in a deep well in Spain, and rescuers can’t reach him
- scmp Hongkongers are financially unprepared for retirement and death, exposing the risks of living in the world’s most expensive city
- scmp Mega project for 9,500 private flats in Hong Kong countryside given go-ahead by Planning Department
- scmp US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China’s death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenberg is ‘politically motivated’
- scmp Hong Kong’s backlog of torture claimants cleared a year early helped by pilot scheme with revised lawyer pay
- scmp Laws to tackle aggressive sales tactics in Hong Kong could be expanded beyond gym and beauty salon industries, says commerce chief Edward Yau
- scmp Belarus ‘sex trainer’ Anastasia Vashukevich, who said she had Trump election secrets, pleads guilty to soliciting in Thailand
- scmp Sri Lanka considering US$300 million loan from Bank of China, with scope to borrow as much as US$1 billion
- scmp Labour’s serial rebel Jeremy Corbyn fails to topple British PM Theresa May, but is strengthened by Brexit debacle
- scmp Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya, in visit to Washington, seeks US help to combat Chinese cyberattacks
- scmp China pork prices to rise but not before Lunar New Year as African swine fever battle continues
- scmp US defence agency says PLA ‘on verge of fielding some of the most modern weapon systems in the world’
- scmp Most Popular (a week) Japanese aviation industry alarmed by ‘laxity’ in US security screening after woman carried handgun onto international flight
- scmp Driver in multimillion dollar lawsuit admits to drinking before crash that left elite Hong Kong athlete paralysed
- scmp In Chinese court, Canadian drug smuggling accused’s defence is attack on the man he hired as translator
- scmp Japanese official fired over poor management of NGT48 pop idol Maho Yamaguchi’s home assault case
- scmp Furious Christians throw firebomb in protest against Israeli museum for showing ‘McJesus’ sculpture of crucified Ronald McDonald
- scmp Donald Trump tries to sell border wall, defend shutdown to American farmers hurt by trade war with China
- scmp Government presses Hong Kong Airlines to further clarify finances, casting fresh doubts on troubled carrier’s business
- scmp Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam blames CY Leung’s administration for controversial elderly welfare cutback
- scmp Three men on the run in Hong Kong after forcing victim to hand over bank card and withdrawing HK$38,000
- scmp What is Hong Kong’s role in a new economic world order as supply chains shift amid US-China trade war?
- scmp China issues travel alert telling citizens they could be ‘arbitrarily detained’ in Canada a day after Ottawa issued similar warning
- scmp Japanese Olympic Committee chief Tsunekazu Takeda maintains innocence as corruption probe casts shadow on Tokyo Games 2020
- scmp Gyms and beauty salons could be made to refund unhappy customers as Hong Kong government proposes cooling-off period
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