Electric carmaker enters US market by selling buses

The Chinese automaker that sold more electric cars last year than Tesla, Nissan or GM is taking a back road into the American market on a battery-powered bus. Detouring around the

Indonesia | New mill raises doubts about APP’s forests pledge

  A landmark commitment by one of the world’s largest producers of tissue and paper to stop cutting down Indonesia’s prized tropical forests is under renewed scrutiny as the company prepares

India | Heat wave kills more than 160

Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said on Tuesday, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still likely weeks

Pakistan | Gunmen kill 7 policemen in Karachi

Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed seven police officers yesterday in two separate attacks in the port city of Karachi, police said. The slain officers had been deployed to protect health

Japanese whisky at USD920 a bottle driving rice farmers to drink

Japan’s burgeoning whisky business is driving rice farmer Hiroshi Tsubouchi to hit the booze. With domestic rice consumption sliding, Tsubouchi, 36, says he’s getting on the whisky bandwagon - or,

Possible next Brazil leader is dealmaker and scandal-tainted

The man who may become Brazil’s next president is almost as unpopular as the leader facing impeachment now, and stained by scandals of his own. Vice President Michel Temer, who hasn’t

This Day in History | 1945 Red Army enters outskirts of Berlin

The Red Army approached the German capital from three directions, north, east and south-east. The northeastern suburb of Weissensee is the closest to the center being only three miles away. The

Offbeat | Missing ingredient for millennials: Down payment savings

Short of savings and burdened by debt, America’s millennials are struggling to afford their first homes in the face of sharply higher prices in many of the most desirable cities. Surveys

Cricket | Australia schedules day-night tests v South Africa, Pakistan

Cricket Australia (CA) has scheduled day-night test matches against South Africa and Pakistan in a revamped southern summer that will break with tradition by starting in Perth. CA yesterday released a

ITF president says hearing scheduled in Sharapova case

International Tennis Federation president David Haggerty says a disciplinary hearing has been scheduled in Maria Sharapova’s doping case, with a ruling possible before Wimbledon. Haggerty tells reporters the independent Tennis Integrity

Athletics | Doping law passed by Kenya parliament

  Kenya appears likely to avoid sanctions by the World Anti-Doping Agency after its parliament finally passed a law criminalizing doping on Tuesday. Sports minister Hassan Wario announced that the anti-doping bill

HK Observer | Don’t shoot the messenger

“Did you watch ‘Ten Years?’” “No... If I ever want low budget Dystopian Visions I watch Government announcements” That was how SCMP cartoonist Harry’s characters laughed off the brouhaha about

Thursday, April 21, 2016 – edition no. 2542

* Hong Kong malls search for new identity after golden decade ends * Renewed gallery opens with Tibetan art show * Further debate on controversial building * Mitsubishi falsified testing data   DOWNLOAD

The Buzz | Taiwan protests ejection from OECD steel talks

Taiwan says its delegation was ejected from a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s steel committee after China complained, part of an apparent hardening of Beijing’s attitude toward

Three arrested over killing of British teacher in Shenzhen

Chinese police say they have arrested a woman and two men suspected in the killing of a Hong Kong-based British language instructor found dead in southern China. Officers in the city of

World Briefs

CHINA is marking National Security Education Day with a poster warning young female government workers about dating handsome foreigners who could turn out to have secret agendas. CHINA President Xi Jinping

Tourism | Tam spearheads ‘mega promotion’ in Seoul

The Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam, led a delegation this week to organize what the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) describes as a “mega promotional event,” in

Zhuhai signs willingness to relieve Hong Kong flight burden

Zhuhai Jinwan Airport is bidding for a permit that would allow it to ease the international congestion of business jets and helicopters at nearby Hong Kong International Airport. The Zhuhai airport,

UM scholar becomes member of China’s Science and Technology Commission

Ben U Seng Pan of the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology, who is also the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal

Education | Child learning difficulties: Macau, HK parents insist on child development testing

Hong Kong experts have warned parents in the territory that they are still holding unrealistic educational expectations for their children. This comes after the HKSAR government and private agencies reported

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