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  • Hong Kong Police Probe Mercantile Exchange at SFC Request

    Police began probing the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange Ltd., the failed commodities market set up by a member of the city's cabinet, after the securities regulator said it found suspected financial irregularities. The police action after the May 18 closure of the exchange prompted its ...

  • Bonhams Hong Kong shines the spotlight on exquisite Chinese literati objects at its 2013 spring auctions

    Bonhams Hong Kong will be offering Objects of Refined Virtue: A Private Collection of Scholar’s Objects, a single-owner collection of 45 fine and rare Chinese works of arts originally commissioned for the Imperial court and literati elite. The collection maintains a high level of craftsmanship, including a diverse range of materials and subject matter, including fans painted by famous modern ...

  • NZHong Kong Feature Film Eternity at Shanghai Film Fest

    Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 2:12 pm Press Release: Joint Press Release 22 May 2013New Zealand/Hong Kong Feature Film Eternity Wins Official Selection to the 16th Shanghai International Film FestivalEternity, the feature film by New Zealand director Alex Galvin, has been officially selected into the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) which this year runs from 15-23 June ...

  • Hong Kong to open for afternoon as rains ease

    LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong's stock market was due to open at 1 p.m. local time for the afternoon session after the Hong Kong Observatory dowgraded its rain warning to "amber" from "black," indicating easing rains. The morning session was cancelled due to the ...

  • My Hong Kong with Johnson Chang and Yana Peel

    1. My favourite place to relax in Hong Kong is...There is no worse enemy for relaxing than a hot and hip joint. I go to my two favourite restaurants, which have been around for ever (in life-span terms): the China Club (Old Bank of China Building, Central) and the Luk Yu tea house (Stanley Street, ...


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The Village

The Village

Around this time two years ago, I wrote about M. Night Shyamalan's Signs, "Those expecting a Sixth Sense-style twist will invariably be disappointed. This is probably for the best, though, as Shyamalan's future success as a filmmaker rests on his ability to get out from under th ... ...

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  • Heavy Rain in Hong Kong Delays Opening of Markets Offices

    Hong Kong issued a "black" rainstorm warning, the highest level, because of rainfall expected to exceed 70 millimeters an hour, delaying the opening of the city's markets, offices and schools. ...

  • Dow Jones industrial average posts 22nd high of the year

    Federal Reserve presidents and sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its 22nd high of the year Tuesday. Regional Fed Presidents James Bullard ...

  • Kerry Logistics Deploys Hybrids in Hong Kong

    The vehicles operating in Hong Kong are using a combination of fuel and battery-powered electricity. For two years, the logistics service provider will operate three conventional trucks in parallel to the new hybrid trucks, and a research team from Hong Kong Polytechnic University will compare performance, diesel consumption, and maintenance cost of the two ...

  • Treat Hong Kong for HKs sake or the karma will never end

    /enpproperty--> Richard Hughes's Borrowed Place, Borrowed Time: Hong Kong and Its Many Faces must be one of the most mentioned books among the city's intelligentsia. Few take the trouble to read it, but we have all heard of it because the title and especially Hong Kong's "many faces" both past and present are so full of diversified meanings that it is forever ...

  • Former kuk HQ sold for $178m

    The sale is certain to add to the chagrin of locals already upset over the behavior of our monied cousins from across the border. But the 12,957-square-foot property on Cumberland Road was on the market for years, with the latest, an auction in November, fetching bids as low as HK$172 million that the kuk, led by lawmaker Lau Wong-fat, found unacceptable given that its reserve price was HK$188 ...

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