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  • Tiger Airways launches Hong Kong-Jakarta service

    HONG KONG - Tiger Airways brings in valued travel options to Indonesia with its launch of direct service between Hong Kong and Jakarta. From 25 July 2013, Tiger Airways will fly to the capital of Indonesia four times weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with an increase to daily flights from September onwards. "We are excited that Tiger Airways is the first low cost carrier ...

  • Dispatch Hong Kong Age Group Athlete Bill Ng

    More Than Sport's donation of a sanitary water filtration system and spent an afternoon playing games with the students therein. The Ng's joy for the project was obvious, yet their optimistic attitudes also carried throughout every race week activity. Each time I saw them I was greeted with smiles and welcoming warmth as their passion for triathlon and for sharing their knowledge of ...

  • Real Gold Mining Says Unit Made ‘Irregular’ Loan Pledges

    Real Gold Mining Ltd. (246) , suspended from Hong Kong trading for two years after a report it filed two sets of accounts, said its Rich Vision Holdings Ltd. unit made 18 "irregular" pledges of bank deposits to back loans. The former sole director of Rich Vision had the unit pledge as much as HK$317.3 million ($40.9 million) to Ping An Bank Co. as security for borrowing by ...

  • HK talent needs a home CE

    Hong Kong needs more land to build a better living environment to retain the city's young talent, and the key to meeting this target lies in compromise, Chief Executive CY Leung says.He was speaking at a youth forum on housing today, and called for a concerted effort by the community to work for a better living standard.He said Hong Kong needs land as big as Sha Tin district every 10 years ...

  • Kate Moss Hits Hong Kong For an Artsy Party

    Kate Moss popped up in China to take part in the festivities surrounding the inaugural Art Basel show in Hong Kong, which opens today. Kate wore an LBD to link up with Russian socialite Dasha Zhukova and Wendi Murdoch at the artsy Dior-hosted party. Kate will be celebrating a history-making event since Hong Kong is serving as Art Basel's only Asian outpost. Her trip to China is the latest ...


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That Thing You Do!

"That Thing You Do!" is a movie that remembers with sharp clarity a time in America when cars had fins, pea green and orange were stylish colors, a mop top was the haircut to have, clock radios were the size of small TVs, sunglasses were a new innovation, and kisses still meant something. In his first stint in the director's chair, actor Tom Hanks has made a snappy little ode to a time when Americ ... ...

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  • Hong Kong Biggest drop in 7 weeks

    STOCKS were lower yesterday with the benchmark index capping its biggest drop in seven weeks, after a preliminary survey showed China's manufacturing unexpectedly contracted. Concern that the US Federal Reserve will scale back stimulus also dragged shares lower.The Hang Seng Index slid 2.5 per cent to 22,669.68, its steepest drop since April 5. Jiangxi Copper Co, the country's biggest ...

  • Rusal’s new director entangled in Hong Kong trading scandal

    Russia and the global economy Rusal, the world's largest aluminum producer, is without the company's independent non-executive director Barry Cheung Chun-Yuen, who has taken a leave of absence following an investigation into the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) which he chairs. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures ...

  • Quacking Up in Hong Kong

    Rubber Ducky, you're so fine/ And I'm lucky that you're mine/ Rubber ducky, I'm awfully fond of you. It is difficult to say just what made Hong Kong, of all places, fall absolutely in love with the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's giant yellow rubber ducky, which was towed into Victoria Harbor three weeks ago. But fallen in love it has. Indeed there was a palpable ...

  • HGC Establishes Point-of-Presence in Myanmar

    Strategic step strengthens HGC's presence in Greater Mekong Subregion HONG KONG, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hutchison Global Communications Limited ...

  • Woman ill with drug-resistant infection

    The Centre for Health Protection is investigating a confirmed case of invasive community-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus involving a 90-year-old woman.She fell ill on May 3 and was admitted to hospital on May 7.She tested positive for CA-MRSA.She is stable.She has no recent travel history, and her home contact is normal.The centre called on the public to use antibiotics ...

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