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  • Venezuelan Take Five Medals at Intl Wushu Match in Hong Kong

    Caracas, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan athletes won five medals at the World Traditional Wushu Championship held in Hong Kong, as part of the development of the discipline in the country, official sources reported today. According to the Sports Ministry, Venezuelan Jenny Neng and Jorge Perez won two gold, two silver and one bronze medal. Perez won the two gold medals after his performance in ...

  • Man arrested for using false instrument

    Police have arrested a 55-year-old man after receiving a referral from the Securities & Futures Commission about the suspected use of a false instrument involving a commodities trading company.He has been detained for ...

  • Barry Cheung takes leave

    Chief Executive CY Leung has accepted Barry Cheung's request to take leave of absence from all public service positions, including the Executive Council and the Urban Renewal Authority.The Chief Executive's Office said the request had been received from Mr Cheung this evening. He asked to take leave as Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange is being investigated by Police.Mr Leung said the ...

  • Chapman brothers unveil diabolical art in Hong Kong

    HONG KONG (AFP) - The Chapman brothers presented their latest epic installation featuring thousands of little figures in violent conflict Tuesday at the sidelines of Art Basel in Hong Kong, but dismissed the renowned fair as a "shop"."The Sum of all Evil" by Jake and Dinos Chapman builds on previous works such as "Hell" (1999) which showcased innumerous miniature ...

  • UBS Securities fined in Hong Kong

    Hong Kong's securities watchdog, Securities & Futures Commission, has reprimanded and fined UBS Securities Hong Kong 1.6 million HK dollars (205,655 U.S. dollars) for regulatory breaches and internal control failings relating to position limit failures, the Commission said Tuesday in a ...


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Straw Dogs (1971) [Blu-Ray]

Straw Dogs (1971) [Blu-Ray]

Sam Peckinpahs Straw Dogs is a great and troubling masterpiece, a film of such simultaneous depth and crudeness that it has elicited some of the most conflicting responses of his or any other filmmakers career. For every critic who found it the work of a great and terrible genius, there ... ...

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  • Hong Kong hails return of the duck

    Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats near Ocean Terminal at Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour May 2, 2013. The 16.5-meter-high inflatable sculpture, which made its first public appearance in the territory on Thursday, will be shown at the Ocean Terminal for a ...

  • Community arts centre opens

    Artists will have a new space to experiment with their ideas of artistic creation as Oi! opens today.Located at 12 Oil Street in North Point, Oi! is a new art space with two exhibition galleries and a lawn of about 300 square metres for displaying outdoor works.Speaking at the opening ceremony, Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-shing said Oi! is a starting point for aspiring artists to unlock ...

  • Baby treated for Hib infection

    The Centre for Health Protection has received a report of an invasive Haemophilus influenzae type B infection case involving a five-month-old baby girl.She is currently in stable condition and her home contacts are asymptomatic.The girl showed flu-like symptoms on May 18 and was admitted to hospital the following day. She was diagnosed to have septicaemia and her blood culture grew Haemophilus ...

  • Cancelled ExCo meeting not new

    The cancellation of Executive Council meetings on non-recess days has precedents and is not uncommon.This was the message from the Executive Council Secretariat in response to media enquiries on ExCo's meeting arrangements.It said more than 10 regular Tuesday meetings were cancelled from 2007 to ...

  • UBS Securities fined $1.6m

    The Securities & Futures Commission has reprimanded and fined UBS Securities Hong Kong $1.6 million for regulatory breaches and internal control failings relating to position limit failures.The disciplinary action follows an investigation into UBS holding, on behalf of its client UBS AG London, 175,697 contracts in China Construction Bank stock options, in breach of the prescribed position ...

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