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  • Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange to Shut Down Monday Cash Settlements Plans new renminbi-denominated precious contracts

    The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) announces today it has decided to voluntarily surrender the authorisation to provide automated trading services ...

  • Eastday-Hong Kong introduces its first electric taxis

    HONG Kong saw its first electric taxis hit the streets yesterday, in a step toward reducing the city's high levels of roadside pollution.The cars have been rented by the Hong Kong Taxi and Public Light Bus Association, which is testing them over the next six ...

  • Hong Kong lawmakers fail to get answers from Tong

    The former head of Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Timothy Tong has appeared before legislators looking into claims he misused public money during his time in office, but the meeting was cut short after one and a half hours, with members of the Public Accounts Committee complaining they failed to get any useful information out of him.During the session, Tong, ...

  • Retired hot dog buses reborn

    Many of Hong Kong's unairconditioned buses, nicknamed 'hot dog' buses in Cantonese due to their heat in summer, were retired years ago after serving local passengers for decades.Kowloon Motor Bus Company (KMB) has provided parts from these buses to the Hong Kong Design Institute to give students material to transform into useful and creative products.The project helps students ...

  • Exposs of Chinas Elite a Big Lure in Hong Kong

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Food, Inc.

Food, Inc.

Robert Kenners disturbing and important documentary Food, Inc. is like an episode of Unwrapped, that late-night Food Network staple in which former Double Dare host Mark Summers cheerfully takes us behind the scenes of how our favorite foods are produced, recast as a horr ... ...

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  • Adrian Cheng updating a Hong Kong family empire for a changing China

    HONG KONG: He has trained on Broadway and been a Wall Street banker. Now, Adrian Cheng, 33-year-old scion of the world's largest jewellery retailer and one of Asia's leading property developers is gearing up for his latest challenge - modernizing his family's $25 billion empire for what he calls a "new era". The grandson of Hong Kong billionaire Cheng Yu-tung, who built ...

  • Hong Kong Big vistas and even bigger ambitions

    When Batman flew by helicopter over Hong Kong harbour five years ago, he made minor movie history. Film aficionados will know that the scene ...

  • CS urges food waste reduction

    Chief Secretary Carrie Lam (in yellow), Secretary for the Environment KS Wong (second left), and other guests officiate at the Food Wise Hong Kong Campaign ...

  • $60m in smuggled goods seized

    Customs officers have seized $60 million worth of unmanifested goods, including electronic products and endangered species specimens, smuggled aboard a river trade vessel.They stopped the Mainland vessel, heading for Humen, Guangdong, off Black Point on May 16.They found three 45-foot containers declared to contain "polyethylene balls". However, inside were 4,200 cameras and lenses, ...

  • Gregory So attends Zhengzhou expo

    Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Gregory So attended the Expo Central China 2013 opening ceremony and the expo's Summit Forum in Zhengzhou, Henan, today.The expo theme is "continuous transformation, harmonious development and promoting rise".Mr So visited the Hong Kong exhibition area, and had a lunch meeting with Hong Kong enterprises in the province.He will ...

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