'Pocket it first!", the supporters' slogan for the current electoral reform package, always makes me think of pocket money. In my early teenage years I used to get the princely sum of 25 pence (about HK$3) to spend every week as I pleased.
It is widely believed that zongzi, or rice dumpling, is the traditional symbol that has remained attached with the Dragon Boat Festival.
The US decision to send more troops to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State is not a strategic but a tactical shift, which is not expected to alter the battle against the terrorist group.
On Monday morning, the partial collapse of a residential building, built two decades ago, led to four deaths in the city of Zunyi in Southwest China's Guizhou province. It is the second incident of its kind in the city and the fifth nationwide within a month; a total of 22 people were killed in these collapses.
Germany has offered the world convincing evidence in both word and deed that it has learnt the lessons of its past.
A farmer in Qinghe county in North China's Hebei province was cheated out of 7.8 million yuan ($1.3 million) by a wool buyer in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, in 2003.
The Guangdong provincial bureau of transportation recently published its 2014 accounting of toll roads in the province, which revealed a loss of 2.9 billion yuan ($467 million) and a 5.5 billion yuan rise in management costs. Comments:
The urban management bureau in Malong county in Southwest China's Yunnan province has reportedly "outsourced" its traffic enforcement to a private company, whose staff have clashed with local drivers many times.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government will submit its constitutional reform plan to the Legislative Council on Wednesday.
Despite not having any territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea, Japan has been interfering in the issue.
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