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HK stocks climb for 2nd day to end at 1.7%

Business | Securities
2009-11-17

HONG Kong stocks rose for a second day yesterday due to Friday's gains on Wall Street, and went up 1.73 percent to end at a more than 15-month high of 22,943.98. The benchmark Hang Seng Index opened 1.05 percent...

Making music

National
2009-11-15

MORE than 6,000 Hong Kong music lovers gathered at Happy Valley Racecourse Recreation Playground on Friday to break the world record for the largest harmonica ensemble. About 6,200 people played a simple melody with...

Cathay Pacific loses labor suit

Business | Lawsuits and scandals
2009-11-12

A HONG Kong court ruled yesterday Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd unfairly fired 18 pilots amid a labor dispute in 2001 and ordered the airline to pay their former staff nearly US$8 million. The ruling is a blow to...

Pigs Test Positive

National
2009-11-6

TWO samples taken from pigs two weeks ago at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse have tested positive for the H1N1 virus, health authorities said yesterday. The samples did not show mutations, and the virus remained genetically...

Island Drug Bust

National
2009-11-2

HONG Kong police have arrested 10 foreigners, including Britons, Australians and Filipinos, in a drug bust on sleepy Lamma Island. Police spokesman Michael Kwan said officers found 137 grams of marijuana and 30...

Pearl River delta bridge a step closer

National
2009-10-29

A FEASIBILITY report on the construction of a bridge linking Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, was approved by the State Council yesterday in Beijing. The construction of the bridge will forge stronger...

Pregnant women make rush on HK hospitals

National
2009-10-22

PREGNANT women from China's mainland are cramming privately run Hong Kong hospitals. The trend follows the special administrative region's hospital authority shutdown last week of delivery services at public...

HK jobless rate drops

National
2009-10-20

HONG Kong's labor market has begun to improve as the latest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate recorded its first drop since the outbreak of the global financial turmoil last year, the Hong Kong Special Administrative...

Scientists in cancer discovery

Metro | Science
2009-10-16

CITY scientists announced yesterday that they had found a genetic material that can predict whether liver cancer will recur in patients. The discovery was published in the latest edition of the New England Journal...

HK Airport Authority Eyes Stake In Partner

Business | Airlines and airports
2009-10-16

THE Hong Kong airport authority is keen to buy a stake in its Shanghai counterpart but the two sides haven't held talks about the issue, said a senior official of the Shanghai Airport Authority yesterday. "The...