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Fourth ship to join search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 By ROD McGUIRK Jan. 12, 2015 2:15 AM EST CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A fourth ship with specialized underwater equipment will join the search for a Malaysia Airlines jet 10 months after it vanished under mysterious circumstances off...

Families of MH370 passengers must cope with lack of answers Staff Reporter 2015-01-11 A digital billboard at a shopping mall in Beijing on March 11, 2014, counting the hours and minutes since flight MH370 disappeared. (File photo/CNS) After hope and despair have sapped their spirits...

Families of MH370 passengers must cope with lack of answers Staff Reporter 2015-01-11 A digital billboard at a shopping mall in Beijing on March 11, 2014, counting the hours and minutes since flight MH370 disappeared. (File photo/CNS) After hope and despair have sapped their spirits...

Schoolgirls in China paid large sums to donate eggs to infertile couples on black market Young women are undergoing intensive procedures in exchange for tens of thousands of yuan - but could end up infertile, medical experts warn PUBLISHED : Sunday, 11 January, 2015, 5:19am UPDATED : Sunday...

Hong Kong police arrest four as part of Jakarta drugs bust Police nab 4 alleged associates of the suspected international drug lord held following HK$800m swoop by Indonesian authorities PUBLISHED : Friday, 09 January, 2015, 2:17am UPDATED : Friday, 09 January, 2015, 2:17am Bryan Harris...

25 jailed for food, drug safety cases in north China Xinhua, January 6, 2015 Twenty-five people were given sentences terms ranging from six months to 20 years in 11 food and drug safety cases in north China's Hebei Province on Tuesday. Song Hexin was sentenced to 20 years for selling 322...

Defiant protesters holding another anti-immigrant rally in German city of Dresden Date January 6, 2015 - 1:38PM Mass protest: Thousands of activists gather in the east German city of Dresden on December 22 for a rally of "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West". Photo: AP...

Hong Kong youngsters unfit, overweight and weaker than international peers, study says PUBLISHED : Monday, 05 January, 2015, 2:44pm UPDATED : Monday, 05 January, 2015, 4:40pm Shirley Zhao [email protected] Students take part in a physical fitness test. In a 2011 government report, only...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h A group of activists from the North East New Territories campaign outside the Legco car park in 2013. Photo: Nora Tam Protesters block Connaught Road Central in Admiralty as Occupy Central begins in...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h The Hong Kong Shark Foundation holds a flash mob in Admiralty urging people to stop eating shark fin soup in 2011. Photo: Sam Tsang Passengers queue up for free rides to mark the...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h Police bomb disposal officers destroy an unexploded second world war bomb unearthed by a construction worker at the new government headquarters site at Tamar in 2008. Photo: Sam Tsang The Committee For...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h Twenty-five elderly couples take wedding pictures together at Hong Kong Park in Admiralty in 2006. Photo: Dustin Shum A pedestrian looks at a graphic display of the government headquarters during its...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h The Tamar site at Admiralty in 2006. Photo: Robert Ng Members of the press get close to a taxi carrying former Chief Secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang in Admiralty in 2006 as she leaves the July 1...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h Revellers enjoy the carousel at the World Carnival at the Tamar site, Admiralty on Christmas Day 2003. More than 100,000 visitors attended. Photo: Robert Ng A woman sleeps in a bed placed in the the...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h Britain's Union flag is lowered at the handover ceremony on June 30, 1997 at the Convention and Exhibition Centre. Photo: Robert Ng A stroll around the Convention Centre seems a little less picturesque...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h Couples queue at the Admiralty Marriage Registry to ensure their happy day falls on October 22, 1995, one of the most auspicious days of the lunar calendar that year. Photo: SCMP Pictures Reclamation...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h About 130 second world war naval shells were unearthed at a construction site in Admiralty in 1991. Photo: SCMP Pictures Brian Chau Tak-hay (left), Secretary for Trade and Industry, uses a mobile phone...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h Hong Kong's first woman double-decker bus driver, Cheng Tong Siu-ying, started on Citybus' busy Admiralty-Ocean Park route in 1987. Photo: SCMP Pictures About 60,000 people march along Queensway to...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h Turnstiles at a new MTR station keep turning as the Island Line formally opens in 1985. An MTRC spokesman said more than 136,000 people travelled on the line between Chai Wan and Admiralty on the first...

Re: 50 years in Admiralty : from naval dockyard to Hong Kong's (occupied) political h Immigrants from China waiting at Victoria Barracks to register for local identity cards in 1979. Photo: Chan Kiu Construction workers celebrate the completion of the tunnelling work for the MTR Island...