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  • HK Our Home activities to be held

    A host of activities for the 'Hong Kong: Our Home' Campaign will be staged this week, including art exhibitions, the HSBC Share-To-Care Volunteer Campaign, and the Cohesion of Youth Carnival.From May 22, two free exhibitions will run concurrently at the new Visual Arts Exhibition & Activity Centre on Oil Street, North Point.The 'Embark! Beyond the Horizon' exhibition, ...

  • Health chief begins German visit

    Secretary for Food & Health Dr Ko Wing-man (right) listens to the briefing by the Chief Executive Officer of a Chinese medicine clinic in Ktzting Anton Staudinger on the facilities and operation of the clinic during a visit in ...

  • Air traffic movements up 5.1

    Passenger trips and air-traffic movements at Hong Kong International Airport rose 1.1% and 5.1% year-on-year in April, to 4.9 million and 30,530, while cargo volume increased 4.5% to 342,000 tonnes.The Airport Authority said today that for the first four months of the year, the airport handled 19.2 million passengers, 1.28 million tonnes of cargo, and 119,025 flight movements, representing ...

  • Art Basel to bring international flair to Hong Kong

    Art lovers, collectors and gallerists will gather on Thursday for Hong Kong's inaugural edition of Art Basel, sealing the city's status as an international art hub and Asia's leading art destination. The four-day annual show is the world's premier art fair and has until now only been held in Switzerland and the United States each year. More than 2,000 international artists ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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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  • 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 ...

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