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By By RANDY KENNEDY, on June 19th, 2013 In presenting Paul McCarthy’s “WS,” the Park Avenue Armory is signaling that it will not fear controversy.
Continue reading Here’s Snow White. Don’t Bring the Kids.
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong can learn from South Korea, where local industry has had a hand in developing its aspiring universities, says an editor of a new list ranking young universities worldwide. The annual list, inaugurated last year by London-based Times Higher Education magazine, ranks the world’s 100 best universities that are not yet 50 years old. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Only a handful of New Territories villagers have complied with demolition orders for illegal structures – despite 130 such orders being issued in a crackdown on unauthorised building work that began last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Few villagers heed orders to tear down illegal structures
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A series of events celebrating Hong Kong’s comics and animation will be held this and next month to mark the opening of the city’s first site dedicated to the popular culture. But while fans will enjoy a feast of exhibitions and film screenings, the reality is not as rosy as it seems. While welcoming the opening of the Comix Home Base at the Green House in Wan Chai next month, local comics and animation veterans say the small domestic market has made their lives difficult. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Comics fest hides the grim reality of animation world
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The security chief was trying to placate a worried public following Snowden’s claims in the media that US agencies have carried out hundreds of cyberspying operations in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hong Kong’s security chief orders around-the-clock protection for data network
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Canada, among the 10 least corrupt countries in the world the past six years, according to rankings by Transparency International, is mired in scandals. Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum was arrested by Quebec’s anti-corruption task force on Monday over fraud allegations, adding to controversies rocking political circles in Toronto and Ottawa that have taken the shine off Canada’s image as a squeaky-clean nation. Applebaum quit on Tuesday, saying he plans to focus on defending himself against the “unfounded” accusations. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Canada reels from corruption scandals
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the context of the war in Syria, the G8′s support for convening peace talks in Geneva “as soon as possible” and a pledge of US$1.5 billion in humanitarian aid are the diplomatic equivalent of motherhood and apple pie – a comforting reaffirmation of the decent and unobjectionable. But neither will do much to end the crisis any time soon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Fine words but no action from G8
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — China’s new leader Xi Jinping is commanding wayward Communist Party cadres to purify themselves of corruption, and he’s summed it up in a pithy slogan as Mao Zedong might have done: Look in the mirror, take a bath. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China’s Xi harks back to Mao in party ‘cleanup’
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Open University students are protesting against the selection of a pro-Beijing scholar as the university’s president, the second protest in a week by students angered over a lack of say in the choice of their institution’s head. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Appointment of pro-Beijing scholar stirs up students at OpenU
By Lloyd Grove, on June 19th, 2013 Is this outright hypocrisy from this deficit hawk—or just business as usual in Washington? By Lloyd Grove.
Continue reading John Cornyn, Triple Dipper
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Japan’s nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster. The new requirements for the first time make it compulsory that plants take steps to guard against radiation leaks in the case of severe accidents, install emergency command centres and enact anti-terrorist measures. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Japan formally accepts new nuclear safety requirements
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Edward Snowden would not be given preferential treatment if he were to apply for asylum in Hong Kong, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. “We would prioritise older cases,” said Nazneen Farooqi, a protection officer at the UNHCR office in Hong Kong, at a press conference on Wednesday ahead of World Refugee Day on Thursday. Farooqi added that she was speaking hypothetically as the UNHCR has a strict policy to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an individual asylum claim. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading No special treatment for any Edward Snowden asylum claim, says UNHCR
By By JEREMY W. PETERS, on June 19th, 2013 The House of Representatives approved a bill that would ban abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy in a largely symbolic vote.
Continue reading In Partisan Vote, House Approves Ban on Abortions After 22 Weeks
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Customs insists the city has not become a transit hub for drugs despite a 127 per cent rise in the amount seized in the first five months of this year – and two major busts by officers since then. Some 174.5 kg of illegal drugs worth HK$158 million were discovered up until the end of May, compared with 77 kg, worth HK$61 million, uncovered in the same period last year. Andy Hui Wai-ming, head of the Customs and Excise Department’s drug investigation bureau, said the increase was the result of improved detection. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Drugs-hub role denied as more smugglers busted
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Rare is the witness who takes the stand and immediately tells the court that he committed eight murders for which he has never been charged. But amid the stack of murders to which John Martorano confessed, those eight might have been lost anyway. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading ‘Executioner’ John Martorano details mob hits for James Bulger in trial
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong’s most iconic motor racing driver will be getting behind the wheel one more time as part of the Macau Grand Prix’s 60th anniversary. In 1964, Albert Poon became the first Hongkonger to win the race and he will be on the grid again this year in the Lotus Greater China Race. The last time 77-year-old Poon competed at Macau was 10 years ago at the event’s 50th anniversary. It’s a place that holds happy memories for him. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Once more round Macau’s Grand Prix circuit for Hong Kong racing icon
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a lonely corner of the Pacific, 1,740 kilometres south of Tokyo, a tiny but potentially crucial piece of Japanese territory is now rising from the waves. Photographs emerged this week showing that construction of a 160-metre dock on the atoll of Okinotorishima is well under way. The costly piece of infrastructure, which will dwarf the uninhabited land mass that it is designed to serve, is likely intended to help Japan argue for the extension of its exclusive economic zone a further 200 nautical miles into the Pacific. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Build-up on remote Japanese atoll raises strategic questions
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The leading developed nations have called for the creation of a global system to automatically funnel financial information about individuals and companies using offshore tax havens, but Switzerland does not want to co-operate. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Call for global information system to curb tax evasion
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Fire Services Department has decided to shelve a controversial programme that would have allowed teenagers to go out with ambulance crews on duty as observers. Responding to concerns that the youngsters could be exposed to dangerous or gruesome scenes the department has decided to conduct a training camp instead of the proposed “ambulance pioneers on-car attachment scheme”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Ambulance ride too rough for teenage observers
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The United States and the European Union launched talks on Monday to create one of the world’s most ambitious free-trade zones, as France again underscored its determination to protect its movies and culture. A trans-Atlantic free trade agreement was first considered three decades ago but was knocked down by France in the 1990s. Europe has now managed to get Paris onside, opening the way to a deal that could boost the EU and US economies by more than US$100 billion (HK$776.0 billion) a year each. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading EU, US leaders launch trade talks, France digs in on culture
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Hong Kong universities can learn lesson from South Korea
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong can learn from South Korea, where local industry has had a hand in developing its aspiring universities, says an editor of a new list ranking young universities worldwide. The annual list, inaugurated last year by London-based Times Higher Education magazine, ranks the world’s 100 best universities that are not yet 50 years old. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hong Kong universities can learn lesson from South Korea
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