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  • High five in Hong Kong

    Dazzled by the glass and chrome of the very modern Hong Kong, stepping into the LockCha Tea House is like stepping into an old Chinese picture book. It’s all polished wood, hushed silences, and intricately carved screens. We are here for the tea lesson hosted by the elegantly beautiful Maria. With the gestures of a dancer, she presides over a large table, hands fluttering over an elaborate ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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The Last Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse)

The Last Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse)

Especially after her last film, the outrageously shocking and, some might say, pretentiously grating Anatomy of Hell (2004), Catherine Breillats The Last Mistress (Une vieille matresse) seems positively mainstream. Dressed up in the lavish ornamentation of a 1 ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Despite lousy weather initial Art Basel Hong Kong draws global collectors

    HONG KONG -- Despite severe thunderstorms and flooding that closed schools and suspended subway service, art collectors from across Asia and the world streamed into the Hong Kong Convention Center Wednesday for Art Basel’s first branded fair in this eastern megalopolis port. A $2 million wall-sized Yoyoi Kusama painting, a postcard-sized Gerhard Richter painting priced at $50,000, and ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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