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IHT Rendezvous The Art Hong Kong Really Loves ‘Rubber Duck’
The Dutch artist Florentijin Hofman’s giant rubber duck in Victoria Harbor. Here is the art-related news that the average Hong Kong resident cared about most this week: The giant rubber duck has been revived. Billionaire collectors may have arrived for the ...
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Three mainland Chinese charged in HK mercantile exchange probe
View Photo A security guard stands at the entrance as an office worker walks inside the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange in Hong Kong May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Bobby ...
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Cheung Sha Wan food factory closed
The Food & Environmental Hygiene Department has ordered a food factory in Cheung Sha Wan, which repeatedly breached the Food Business Regulation by illegally extending the food business area, to suspend business for 14 days.Located at shop C on the ground floor of Career Court at No. 56-58 Tonkin Street, it was convicted in July last year and this February. It was fined $4,100 and registered ...
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16 beaches rated good
Water quality at 16 beaches has been rated 'good' for this weekend, and 'fair' at 21, the Environmental Protection Department announced today.Compared with last week, Discovery Bay was upgraded from fair to good, while Trio Beach was downgraded from good to fair.The changes are generally within the normal range of fluctuation of the beaches' bacteriological water ...
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CS to take leave
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam will take leave from May 28 to 31.Secretary for Labour & Welfare Matthew Cheung will act as Chief Secretary during her ...
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Supplementary company laws gazetted
Four pieces of subsidiary legislation to provide for administrative, technical and procedural matters for the implementation of the new Companies Ordinance were gazetted today.The Companies (Model Articles) Notice prescribes model articles for companies to adopt, while the Company Records (Inspection & Provision of Copies) Regulation stipulates the arrangements on access to company ...
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Hong Kong shares slide to 4-week low on China growth concerns
Fri May 24, 2013 5:09am EDT * HSI -0.2 pct, H-shares -0.2 pct, CSI300 +0.6 pct * Hong Kong shares extended losses to lowest in almost a month * China shares posted fourth-straight weekly gain * China property weak on fears of China's slowdown By Yimou Lee HONG KONG, May 24 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares extended losses to fall to their lowest in almost a month on Friday with the property ...
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Singapore Dim Sum Debt Planned as Yuan Clearing Spreads
HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) and DBS Group Holdings Ltd. are planning the first-ever sales of yuan-denominated bonds in Singapore as the city competes with Hong Kong and Taiwan as an offshore hub for the currency. HSBC, Europe's largest bank, will manage an offering by its Singapore branch of the securities, a person familiar with the matter said today, asking not to be identified because ...
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Electoral reform hot topic for Hong Kong
Hong Kong is going through more growing pains, perhaps even the most uncomfortable since the city was handed back to Beijing by Britain. Pro-democracy advocates want to be able to vote for the entire legislative council, a direct challenge to Beijing.
Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997. At that time, Beijing made an agreement with Britain that under a law called the Basic Law, all the civil liberties which were existent in Hong Kong at the time of the hand over would remain in place for at least 50 years, by which time it is envisioned, by the pro-democracy camp at any rate, that the Special Administrative Region will be fully democratic at any rate. Read more
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