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McDonald's Hong Kong boss jailed for taking bribes
Hong Kong - The former managing director of McDonald's in Hong Kong was jailed...
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China Mobile buys 12 per cent stake in Taiwan's Far East Tone
Taipei - China Mobile, China's largest cellphone company, signed a strategic alliance agreement...
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McDonald's Hong Kong boss took 330,000 dollars in bribes
Hong Kong - The former managing director of fast food chain McDonald's in...
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Mobile data use surges 14-fold in two years in hi-tech Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Hong Kong people sent 14 times as much mobile data in January than...
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US ratings agency Moody's to quit Taiwan
Taipei - Taiwan confirmed Friday that US ratings agency Moody's plans to quit the country in...
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China authorities reject Coca Cola takeover of soft-drink maker
Beijing - Chinese authorities on Wednesday rejected the takeover of China Huiyuan...
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Wine Still A Good Investment In Hard Times, Say Experts
Hong Kong - When James Christie held his first auction in 1776, bottles of wine were among the...
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Wine Experts Say Bordeaux Is Safe Port In Economic Storm
Hong Kong - Wine experts may disagree on most things, but one thing they all appear to agree...
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Half of Hong Kong businessmen expect recession to last two years
Hong Kong - Half of Hong Kong businesses expect the city's recession to drag on for at least two...
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Hong Kong Stocks End Higher after Another Volatile Day
Hong Kong - Hong Kong stocks end another day of volatile trading just in positive ground at 0.8 per...
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Hong Kong Stocks Rise 14% One Day after Record Loss
Hong Kong - Hong Kong stocks staged an astonishing recovery Tuesday, rebounding by more than 14 per...
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Asian-Pacific Stocks Rising on South Korea Financial Rescue Package
Tokyo - Asia-Pacific stocks rose on Monday after South Korea announced a more than...
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Global slowdown threatens millions of jobs in China
Hong Kong - Up to 2.5 million people could lose their jobs in the Pearl River delta, covering Hong...
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Financial Clouds Keep China's House Buyers at Home
Beijing - As house sales and prices tumble in China amid heightened uncertainty brought by the...
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Global Meltdown Set to Hit Hong Kong's Luxury Market Hardest
Hong Kong - It is home to some of Asia's wealthiest and most successful people - a city where...
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Asian Markets Up after Rescue Plans Unveiled
Tokyo - Asia's stock markets jumped Tuesday after the governments of the world's leading industrial...
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Asia-Pacific Markets Fall Sharply Wednesday
Tokyo - Stock markets throughout Asia and the Pacific fell sharply Wednesday in response to Wall...
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Carrier-less iPhone Offered In Hong Kong
Apple is considering new approaches to its business by
releasing an unlocked version of its 3G...
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Apple Sells Unlocked iPhones In Hong Kong
Apple made it easier for millions of iPhone fans. The Hong Kong lovers of Apple’s iPhone could...
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Motorola Sues Former Executive Who Joined Apple
Motorola, the US largest phone maker, has filed a
lawsuit against Michael Fenger, a former...
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Apple Only Needed A Few Days To Sell One Million iPhones
Apple is on the right track with its 3G iPhone release, as
it has just announced today that it has...
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Chinese Oil Giant Buys Norwegian Awilco for $2,5 Billion
China’s
largest offshore oil-services provider, China National Offshore Oil Corp., has
signed a...
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Microsoft's Xbox 360 Console Might Get A New Price Tag
For the past few weeks several rumors have been circulating
about Microsoft’s plans to reduce the...
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Palm Aims To Sell 2 Million Palm Centros
While announcing its new deal with Verizon Wireless
regarding Palm Centro, the company has also...
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China’s Unicom to Acquire Netcom for $23.9 billion in Stock
China Unicom Ltd has reportedly made official its intention of acquiring China Netcom Group Corp....
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China Mobile Posts 31.9% Profit
China Mobile Communications Corporation, the world's largest mobile phone operator with over 376.38...
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China's Yahoo Arm, Alibaba, Ponders Microsoft Deal
Alibaba, the China, Hangzhou-based e-commerce/e-auction company, is allegedly trying to be heard by...
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Fed Makes Emergency Rate Cuts To 3.5 %
The Federal Reserve cut down its
benchmark interest rates by 75 basic points, from 4.25% to 3.5%,...
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MGM Mirage Plans To Open $1.2 Billion Casino In Macau
MGM Mirage and venture partner Pansy Ho, daughter of the
gambling mogul Stanley Ho, announced...
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James Murdoch Appointed As CEO For Europe And Asia
News Corp, the company of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch,
announced today that Murdoch’s son and...
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Technology
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Hong Kong arrests third BitTorrent user for sharing movies online
Hong Kong - Customs officers in Hong Kong said Wednesday they arrested an...
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Computer technician on trial in Hong Kong celebrity sex photo case
Hong Kong - A computer technician went on trial Monday accused of stealing the...
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Life not worth living without internet, Hong Kong youngsters say
Hong Kong - Life would be meaningless and not worth living without the...
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Third undersea cable planned to bring faster internet to Asia
Taipei - Several Asian countries plan to jointly build a third Asia-Pacific...
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Microsoft’s IE Keeps Being Caught with Its Pants Down
The web browser used by 69 percent of users all over the world continues to be at the mercy of...
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HP Offers New Batteries and a Greener Life
Hewlett-Packard promised to its customers that the notebooks they produce will also be available...
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Microsoft Releases Last 8 Security Bulletins Of The Year
In the last security bulletin round of this year, Microsoft
security experts address multiple...
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YouTube and Classical Music: Welcome to the Real World!
YouTube plans to bring culture to the masses and
undiscovered talents to the most notorious...
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China Re-Invents Tom-Skype’s Privacy Policy
During the Olympic Games in Beijing, 2008, journalists faced countless problems transmitting...
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Apple Changes Policy: Sells Unlocked iPhone 3Gs in Hong Kong
Apple Inc. has launched an unlocked version of the iPhone 3G in Hong Kong. The version allows users...
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Cameras monitor your every step in China's most watched city
Shenzhen, China - It's nightfall in China's most watched city. Women nervously draw tight their...
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Motorola Sues Ex Executive Who Joined Apple
Motorola, the US largest phone maker, has filed a
lawsuit against Michael Fenger, a former...
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The Launch of The 3G iPhone Plagued By Setup Problems
It seems like Friday was a busy day for Apple as the launch
of its eagerly awaited 3G iPhone was...
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Konnichiwa iPhone 3G! Crowds Take Over Cities Across Asia-Pacific
How does a launch day for next-gen iPhone 3G look like? Friday
morning, Japan, hours before...
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McAfee Exposes Riskiest Web Domains
Consumers should be aware of a
number of things when surfing the net, and among them, domains such...
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Beware of .hk Domains
McAfee, an antivirus and security company, has made public
its report on internet security for...
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Skype Announces Cheap Unlimited PC-to-Phone Plans
Skype announced unlimited SkypeOut plans, which allow a user to call phone numbers. The plans are...
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Windows Vista SP1 Now Speaks 36 Languages
Almost one month after the
release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) in five languages –...
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Mobile Giants Agree on Long Term Evolution (LTE)
World's largest mobile technology companies have agreed upon a framework regarding the emerging...
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China's No.1 Search Engine Baidu Sued For Copyright Infringements
Baidu.com, China’s No.1 search engine,
is facing yet another copyright infringement lawsuit, this...
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Yahoo! Search Available on Nine Asian Mobile Operators
Yahoo Inc. announced today, on their portal, that they will provide
mobile search services to nine...
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Yahoo Execs Summoned before House Committee over False Statements
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee asked two top officials of Yahoo! Inc. to come and respond...
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Health
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Swine flu tally is 2,384 cases in 24 countries: WHO
Geneva/Stockholm - The World Health Organization increased Friday the number of...
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WHO confirms 1025 flu cases in 20 countries
Geneva - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 1025 officially reported cases of influenza...
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Mexican health officials raise swine-flu deaths to 19
Mexico City - Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova have raised the number of confirmed...
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Asia's first swine-flu case confirmed in Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Asia's first case of swine flu has been confirmed in Hong Kong,...
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Three test negative for swine flu as Hong Kong goes on guard
Hong Kong - Three patients tested negative for swine flu in Hong Kong as the...
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Scientists Develop HIV Strain that Infects Monkeys
Scientists succeeded in creating a strain of the human AIDS virus that can infect and multiply in...
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Forum Calls for Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Asia
On Friday, after three days of debate during a health forum, representatives at health...
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More Hong Kong Birds Test Positive for H5N1
Three of the 21 dead birds that were recently discovered on Hong Kong’s shores tested...
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Scientists Announce Breakthrough in Flu Vaccine Development
A team of researchers working under Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has...
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Hong Kong’s Government Does Not Want to Admit Bird Flu Outbreak
Hong Kong has not officially reported any cases of bird flu since December, but a Hong Kong...
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Hong Kong Warns Of Bird Flu Outbreak In China
China has reported the country’s eighth case of bird flu this year, the most in a single...
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Reduced Air Pollution Adds Years To Your Life
Pollution has always been thought to reduce survival due to its noxious effects on people’s...
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Boy, 16, Dies of Bird Flu in China! Stronger Prevention and Supervision Programs Are Needed
A 16-year-old boy has died of bird flu in central China, becoming the third victim in China in...
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Bird Flu Makes More Victims: Vietnam Announces Second Human Case of Bird Flu
Health officials earlier this week confirmed Vietnam’s first human case of bird flu since...
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China Confirms Beijing Woman Died of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Smoking News - More And More Bans, But What's The Effect?
The hi-tech smoking rooms may be allowed in Hong Kong bars when a total ban on cigarettes...
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Bird Flu Found In China Too
Chinese agriculture officials have recently announced
that they have found poultry infected with a...
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Bird Flu Outbreak In Hong Kong
A new outbreak of the bird flu in Hong Kong shows the
disease still poses a major threat. A World...
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WHO Warns Governments to Keep Guard Up For Bird Flu
Thursday a World Health Organization official warned Asian
governments to be vigilant for bird...
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Hong Kong to Cull 80,000 Chickens amid Bird Flu Scare
More than 80,000 chickens will be culled in Hong Kong after bird flu was detected in a poultry...
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FDA Finds Traces of Melamine in Sample of Baby Formula
The Food and Drug Administration said it found traces of the toxic contaminant melamine in one of...
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Trace Of Melamine Found In US Infant Formula
Health officials have detected traces of melamine in samples
of infant formula put on the market...
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Baby formula makers target Asian mothers after melamine scare
Hong Kong - An attractive, smiling, healthy-looking couple pose with their thumbs up in front of a...
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US Infant Mortality Rate – Definitely Not Improving, CDC Says
Infant mortality rate is continuously decreasing in the
United States, dropping to 29th in the...
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Distinguished Biochemist Robert Tjian Elected as President of Howard Hughes Institute
Robert Tjian, a distinguished UC Berkley biochemist
and gene researcher, has been named president...
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Products With Traces Of Melamine Pulled By Cadbury, Kraft Foods and Mars
If your "poison" is the cocoa bean, then you should definitely
keep reading....
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Cadbury Candy Affected By Asian Melamine In Milk Scandal
The famous British candy maker Cadbury stated that several types of chocolate products were taken...
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Pollution to Blame for Asia's Growing Number of Sneezes
Hong Kong - It starts with a sneeze, a runny nose and a cough. You think it's a cold but when the...
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China’s Toxic Milk Crisis Spreads Fear in Other Parts of the World
China’s tainted milk crisis that killed four infants and sickened 53,000 babies across the country...
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Exposure to Air Pollution Harms Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Exposure to traffic fumes increases the
risk of heart attack, or strokes and potentially fatal...
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World
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Newborn Danish prince leaves maternity ward with proud parents
Copenhagen - Princess Marie and Prince Joachim, the younger son of Danish Queen Margrethe II, left...
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Hong Kong celebrity sex-photos scandal suspect found guilty
Hong Kong - A computer technician Wednesday was found guilty of stealing explicit...
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Corrupt Macau minister jailed for a further 28 years
Hong Kong - A former top minister in the Chinese gambling resort of Macau already...
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Economic slump a real headache for migraine sufferers in Hong Kong
Hong Kong (dpa) - The economic slowdown has brought pain to Hong Kong in more ways than one with...
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Dalai Lama absent as China hosts World Buddhist Forum
Beijing - The Dalai Lama was a notable absentee on Friday as religious leaders...
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Australian oil spill bigger than first thought
Sydney - Oil from a damaged ship has washed up on 60 kilometres of beaches on...
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China's eateries might be benefiting from Hong Kong monkey poaching
Hong Kong - Wild monkeys in Hong Kong are being hunted and killed in a trade that...
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Deadly tide of birds fuels fears of bird flu cover-up
Hong Kong - For more than a week now a deadly tide has been washing out of...
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Beijing Woman Dies Of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Baby girl hospitalized in Hong Kong with mild form of bird flu
The infant, who normally lives in Shenzhen in southern China, was diagnosed with the H9N2 strain of...
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Taiwan Succumbs To China's Panda Diplomacy
Taipei - For six decades, China tried in vain to recover Taiwan with military force and political...
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Mixed Feelings In Taiwan Over Transport Links With China
Taipei - Forty years ago, then-president Chiang Kai-shek called on Taiwan's...
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Hong Kong steps up border checks to halt bird flu outbreak
Hong Kong - Customs officials were on Friday stepping up the number of random checks on vehicles...
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Hong Kong Airlines Faces Crew Rebellion
Hong Kong - Hong Kong's flagship airline Cathay Pacific is dealing with significant problems, as...
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Another glitch for Australian airline Qantas
Sydney - A Qantas Airways jet aborted a flight to Singapore and returned to the Australian west...
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Crisis Means Good Deals In Asia For Flashpackers
Hong Kong - "It's a buyers market," Malcolm O'Brien said. "There's bargains out...
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Somali pirates reduce Saudi tanker ransom demand, move ship
Mogadishu - Somali pirates have reduced their ransom demand for a hijacked Saudi supertanker to 15...
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China's "richest tycoon" detained, state media says
Beijing - Chinese authorities have detained a consumer electronics' tycoon reputed to be the...
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India’s Navy to Hunt Some Pirates
The Indian navy has received formal approval from the United
Nations to track down and destroy...
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Pirates hijack another cargo vessel near Somalia, US Navy says
Washington - A cargo vessel operated by an Iranian firm has been hijacked off the Somali coast,...
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Britain revokes visa for former Thai premier
Bangkok - Britain has revoked tourist visas for fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
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Taiwan, China Sign 4 Pacts on Expanding Ties
Taipei - Taiwan and China, taking another step towards peaceful co-existence, on Tuesday signed...
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Melamine Found in Chinese Eggs, Authorities Make First Arrest
Beijing - Authorities made a fist arrest in the evolving scandal over melamine-contaminated eggs, a...
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Hong Kong Bars Win Court Battle to Allow Smokers Back Inside
Hong Kong - Three popular bars in Hong Kong won a court ruling that may
allow them to let smokers...
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Hong Kong to attract short-term tourists as Halloween city
Hong Kong - Hong Kong is to promote itself as a Halloween destination for young tourists from...
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Chinese Milk Products Banned in South Korea
South Korea
on Thursday banned the import of Chinese milk and milk powder products, blamed
for...
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More Countries Ban Imports of “Made in China” Diary Products
China’s melamine-tainted milk products, which intoxicated as much as 53,000 infants in the Asian...
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China Struggles to Control Toxic Milk Crisis
Chinese authorities withdrew more than 7,000 metric tons of dairy products from the market in an...
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58 Injured as Typhoon Hagupit Hit Hong Kong
More than 58 people were injured when Typhoon Hagupit hit Hong Kong Wednesday, grounding flights...
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Hong Kong Braces for Typhoon Hagupit
Hong Kong cancelled dozens of flights and ferry services on
Tuesday ahead of Typhoon Hagupit after...
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Specials
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Court hears Hong Kong tycoon tricked into giving away fortune
Hong Kong - Asia's richest woman signed a will giving away her entire...
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Hong Kong pop star takes leave from industry after drugs arrest
Hong Kong - Hong Kong pop singer Kelvin Kwan plans to leave the entertainment...
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Bird Flu Outbreak in China Raises Concern Over Human Transmission
Chinese authorities announced on Tuesday that they had begun destroying and vaccinating...
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China Culls Chickens after Bird Flu Outbreak
More than 370,000 chickens have been culled
in China’s eastern Jiangsu province after
finding the...
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Miss World finals in Johannesburg give city needed nip-tuck
Johannesburg - Johannesburg's pre-World Cup nip-tuck continues this weekend.
The city, which has...
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Update: The Efficacy Of Hong Kong’s Bird Flu Vaccine Questioned
This week’s bird flu outbreak is the first
incident of this type on a Hong Kong farm
since 2003,...
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New Bird Flu Outbreak Reported In Hong Kong
Commonly known as the “bird flu” or “avian flu,” avian influenza is a type of influenza caused by...
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YouTube Plays Up Classical Music
YouTube is moving to bring classical music to a larger
audience by holding an online contest where...
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Christie's to host first wine auction in Hong Kong in seven years
Hong Kong - Christie's was preparing Friday to host its first wine auction in Hong Kong in seven...
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Shipping For The Nokia 5800 XperssMusic Has Started
Nokia, the largest and most popular mobile phone manufacturer in the world, has announced that its...
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Wine lovers defy recession to pay up to 40,000 dollars a bottle
Hong Kong - Wine lovers from across Asia showed their love for a fine vintage is recession-proof...
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Maternity Tourist Boom Brings Midwife Crisis to Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Like most things from the cradle to the grave in Hong Kong, it used to be simply a...
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Hong Kong Shows Halloween Spirit to Lure in Short-Haul Visitors
Hong Kong - Hong Kong has been named many things: Asia's world city, former British colony, the...
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WoW Expansion “Wrath of the Lich King” to Be Released in November
The moment all World of Warcraft fans have been waiting for – the release of the video game’s...
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New Lander To Reach Mars In Search of Indirect Proof Of Life
After years of hoping to find direct evidence of ice on
Mars, and after three failed missions, the...
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Look Who's Blogging Now!
The latest Honk Kong's bloggers are no others than the two
giant pandas who arrived from...
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