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Kidnapped in 1942, Chan Yuk-kwong returns to city to find his brothers Chan Yuk-kwong was abducted from occupied Hong Kong and sold to a Red Army guard PUBLISHED : Friday, 22 November, 2013, 5:23am UPDATED : Friday, 22 November, 2013, 5:23am Shirley Zhao [email protected] Chan...

'Deceived' investors want action after losing millions on mainland mall 500 Hongkongers want mainland authorities to act against company they say misled them into losing millions on shopping centre project PUBLISHED : Friday, 22 November, 2013, 5:23am UPDATED : Friday, 22 November, 2013...

Customs seize HK$1.7m worth of illegal cigarettes hidden in fake water heaters PUBLISHED : Friday, 22 November, 2013, 5:06pm UPDATED : Friday, 22 November, 2013, 5:06pm Clifford Lo [email protected] In the first 10 months of this year, customs have intercepted 22 big smuggling attempts...

Soaring rent forces Hong Kong district councillor into 'container office' PUBLISHED : Friday, 22 November, 2013, 3:21pm UPDATED : Friday, 22 November, 2013, 4:08pm Tony Cheung Stanley Ho Ngai-kam, Eastern District councillor, uses a cargo container as his office in Heng Fa Chuen. Photo...

Gamers queue for 'Call of Duty' latest AFP November 5, 2013, 9:39 pm New York City (AFP) - Hordes of excited gamers descended on shops across the globe on Tuesday to get their hands on the latest release from the blockbusting "Call of Duty" video game franchise. Devotees of the decade-old...

New documentary explores Indonesian practice 'pasung' ABC Kate Arnott for Newsline - November 6, 2013, 1:31 am <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5K20t83G7vI?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> An Indonesian practice known as 'pasung', used around...

Skydivers jump to safety after planes collide in midair By Jay Hart, The Slideshow, Yahoo! News November 5, 2013, 3:03 pm<object id="flashObj" classid="clsid:D <embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"...

<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WmKEaGNgrTE?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe> Scores arrested in violent Brazil transportation demo AFP October 27, 2013, 6:44 am Sao Paulo (AFP) - Protesters went on a rampage in Brazil's largest city...

Exclusive - Aiming to avoid Facebook chaos, NYSE runs Twitter IPO test Reuters October 27, 2013, 8:13 am A man walks past a Twitter banner while leaving JP Morgan headquarters, before the firm's IPO in New York, October 25, 2013. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) -...

German spy chiefs to head to US as snooping row widens AFP October 27, 2013, 8:11 am Berlin (AFP) - German spy chiefs will travel to the United States next week to demand answers following allegations that US intelligence has been tapping Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone, as a row...

Ex-Olympic Thai pistol shooter gunned down in Bangkok AFP October 20, 2013, 6:32 pm Bangkok (AFP) - A former pistol-shooting champion who twice represented Thailand at the Olympics has been killed in Bangkok by attackers who fled on a motorcycle, police told AFP. Jakkrit Panichpatikum, 40...

Second Japanese minister visits controversial war shrine AFP October 20, 2013, 1:45 pm Tokyo (AFP) - A second Japanese cabinet minister visited a controversial war shrine on Sunday but said he had no intention of provoking neighbouring countries, which see it as a painful reminder of Japan's...

Guardian scoops online journalism awards for NSA coverage AFP October 20, 2013, 2:32 pm Atlanta (AFP) - Britain's The Guardian scooped up two awards for online journalism on Saturday for its coverage of the National Security Agency (NSA) leaks from former US intelligence contractor Edward...

Published on Oct 17, 2013 <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/DZqPexqByK4?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe> Russian divers on Wednesday retrieved the largest fragment so far of the Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over the southern Urals city on...

Published on Oct 16, 2013 <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/eJeSHJ0gkw4?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe> Hundreds of flood victims protest in eastern China, trashing a local TV satellite truck and SWAT police vans over what they saw as biased...

Bad weather blamed for Laos Airlines crash, 49 passengers and crew killed Published on Oct 17, 2013 <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/H3QUWGqlkSM?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="480"></iframe> Oct. 17 - Bad weather is being blamed for the crash of a Laos...

India cyclone survivors return home to destruction AFP October 14, 2013, 10:34 pm Gopalpur (India) (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of people who fled India's strongest cyclone in 14 years returned home to scenes of devastation Monday, as survivors stranded at sea during the storms were finally...

Facebook opens office in Israel AP October 14, 2013, 10:46 pm Facebook says it s opening its first office in Israel after acquiring an Israeli technology startup. PAA Facebook says it's opening its first office in Israel after acquiring an Israeli technology startup. Facebook says it is...

Moscow tries to calm tensions after anti-migrant riot AFP October 14, 2013, 11:55 pm Moscow (AFP) - The Moscow authorities on Monday scrambled to calm intercommunal tensions after the Russian capital was rocked by some of its worst ethnically-fuelled rioting in years, sparked by the killing...