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  • Shuttler Sai Praneeth upsets second seed in Singapore

    After sending Taufik Hidayat into retirement, India's B. Sai Praneeth caused another big upset by defeating second seed Yun Hu of Hong Kong in the men's singles first round of the Singapore Open Super Series here Wednesday. The 20-year-old Sai, ranked 61 in the world, thrashed World No.4 Hu 21-9, 21-10 in exactly half an hour at the Singapore Indoor Stadium to level his head-to-head to ...

  • CS opens new sports facilities

    Chief Secretary Carrie Lam opened new home venues for four elite sports at the Hong Kong Sports Institute's Fo Tan headquarters today.It is one of the signature events under the Vibrant Hong Kong theme in the "Hong Kong: Our Home" Campaign.The new facilities are the rowing boathouse and the multi-purpose sports hall, which houses the squash courts, tenpin bowling centre, and wushu ...

  • Housing supply target set

    Secretary for Transport & Housing Prof Anthony Cheung briefs the media on the projected total housing supply target for 2013-14 to ...

  • Woman charged with attempted murder

    Police today charged a 46-year-old woman for the attempted murder of her daughter in Tsuen Wan.She was arrested yesterday after her 11-year-old daughter fell from a height on Sai Lau Kok Road on June 12.The case will be heard in her absence at Tsuen Wan Magistracy ...

  • Hong Kong Exchanges May List Cash-Settled Commodity Contracts

    Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. (388) , the world's second-largest bourse operator, said it plans to list commodity futures that are settled in cash. The new contracts may ...


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Movie Review

The Gingerbread Man

Whenever writer/director Robert Altman works in a specific genre, he has the tendency to rewrite it on his own terms. He made the West dirty in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" (1971), he parodied hard-boiled detective stories in "The Long Goodbye" (1973), and he transformed a cartoon into flesh and blood with "Popeye" (1980). The same holds true for his most recent film, "The Ginge ... ...

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  • $6m in smuggled goods seized

    Customs officers have seized $6 million worth of electronic goods in an anti-smuggling crackdown in Tuen Mun. They found five men moving goods from a van onto a high-power speedboat at the landing steps on Ho Hoi Street yesterday.The suspects fled in the speedboat when the officers took action.A search is ongoing.Eighty-two cartons containing 1,147 tablet computers, 599 digital cameras, 114 ...

  • iBond applications set record

    Subscription and allocation results were released today for the third inflation-linked iBond, which will be issued on June 24.A total of 520,823 valid applications were received for more than $39.6 billion in the principal amount of the bond, setting new records in the local retail bond market.All valid applications will be allocated one unit of bond first. Those applying for more than one unit, ...

  • Hong Kongs inflation slows to 3.9 pct in May

    Hong Kong's Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to 3.9 percent year-on-year in May from 4.0 percent in April, mainly due to the smaller rise in the prices for fresh vegetables, the city's statistics department said here on Thursday.Netting out the effects of the government's one-off relief measures, the year-on-year CPI in May was 3.8 percent, compared to 3.9 percent in April.Amongst ...

  • Total exports up 8.6

    The volume of total goods exports and imports in April increased 8.6% and 7.9% compared to April last year, the Census & Statistics Department said today.The volume of Hong Kong's goods re-exports increased 8.9%, while that of domestic exports decreased 7.1% year-on-year.Comparing the first four months of 2013 with the same period in 2012, the volume of Hong Kong's goods re-exports ...

  • Consumer prices up 3.9

    Overall consumer prices rose 3.9% year-on-year in May, compared to the corresponding 4% increase in April, the Census & Statistics Department said today.Netting out the effects of the Government's one-off relief measures, the year-on-year rate of increase in the Composite Consumer Price Index in May was 3.8%, compared to 3.9% in April.The department said the change was due to the slower ...

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