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HONG KONG News, Nov 14, 2012

Hong Kong shares rebound from one-month low, China slips again
Reuters
HONG KONG, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares rebounded from a one-month low on Wednesday, buoyed by strong gains for metal producers after Chinese state media confirmed a Reuters report that Beijing had resumed stockpiling metals in a move ...
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Hong Kong thriller 'Cold War' touted in Taiwan
New York Daily News
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — After years of shooting big-budget movies in mainland China, actors Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Ka Fai returned to their native Hong Kong to make a police thriller that they say captures the flavor of home. Leung and Kwok, in ...
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McIlroy delights in Hong Kong return after fantastic year
Reuters
FANLING, Hong Kong (Reuters) - Rory McIlroy could be forgiven for taking his foot off the gas at this week's Hong Kong Open after securing the money list titles on both sides of the Atlantic with a third-place finish in Singapore on Sunday. However ...
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Hong Kong Tops New York as Most Expensive Retail Location
Businessweek
Hong Kong ended New York's 11-year reign as the home of the world's most expensive district for retailers as luxury-brand companies competed for space to sell goods to mainland Chinese tourists. Average annual rents at Causeway Bay on Hong Kong ...
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Hong Kong Government Audit Slams Air Quality
Wall Street Journal (blog)
For years, Hong Kong residents fed up with choking fumes have slammed the city's lackluster efforts to fight air pollution—and as it turns out, the government's own audit office agrees with them. The government's audit commission found that Hong Kong ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Hong Kong shares have worst day in 3-1/2 mths, China also slumps
Reuters
HSI -2.4 pct, H-shares -2.7 pct, CSI300 -1.8 pct. * Losses came in higher turnover vs Wed, HK highest since Sept 24. * Chinese oil majors under pressure after oil prices dive. * Rail sector bucks weakness, new govt investment expected. By Clement Tan ...
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Hong Kong's sukuk bill on track but local interest dim
Reuters
DUBAI Nov 14 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's bill to facilitate the issuance of sukuk, or Islamic bonds, is expected to be ready early next year but initially at least, it may attract little interest among issuers. In March, the government asked for industry ...
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Rory McIlroy hoping to make history by retaining Hong Kong Open title
Washington Post
HONG KONG — Only one golfer has successfully retained the Hong Kong Open title in 53 years. Rory McIlroy wants to be the second. McIlroy drilled a brilliant bunker shot on the last hole a year ago to win the title by two strokes, becoming the ...
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Hong Kong set to overtake shrinking City
Telegraph.co.uk
The former British colony is expected to employ close to 248,000 financial services workers by 2015, compared to 237,000 in London, representing a massive shift in the balance of power between Hong Kong and its former colonial master. As recently as ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Hong Kong Financial Chief Rejects Calls for Review of Dollar Peg
Bloomberg
Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang rejected calls from lawmakers to review the city's 29- year-old dollar peg amid rising concern asset prices are being driven to unsustainable levels by record-low borrowing costs. The exchange-rate system ties ...
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Bloomberg
Hong Kong nibbles the hand that feeds it
Asia Times Online
HONG KONG - Fifteen years after the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule, it wasn't supposed to be like this: ever-rising resentment against mainlanders and their authoritarian leaders, nostalgia for the once-maligned British of the ...
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Harper marks Remembrance Day in Hong Kong
CTV News
11, 2012 6:25PM PST. HONG KONG -- Canadians should live their lives worthy of the freedom, democracy and justice they enjoy as a tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice defending those values, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday.
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CTV News
Hong Kong pricks property bubble
CNN
Like I dislike this. Add to. Share Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Nov 12, 2012 by CNN. Hong Kong issues a 15% tax on all foreigners, which has upset some, as Ramy Inocencio reports.
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Hong Kong shares close down 1.1 pct, at lowest in 4 weeks
Reuters UK
HONG KONG Nov 13 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares closed at a four-week low on Tuesday, dragged lower by Chinese shares on fears that the ongoing Communist Party congress would spawn little change in economic policies. The Hang Seng Index ended ...
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Indentured Servitude in Hong Kong Abetted by Loan Firms
Businessweek
Thousands of women in Hong Kong with similar stories, most from Indonesia and the Philippines, are working off debt by turning over almost all of their pay for months to loan companies and agencies that place them with families, according to interviews ...
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PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - Nov 8
Reuters
Bank of China (Hong Kong), one of the largest retail banks in the city, would launch private banking services for customers with at least $2 million to invest, as demand for such services is increasing on the mainland and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific ...
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Hong Kong's priciest pad sold for $60 million
Salon
HONG KONG (AP) — A luxury Hong Kong apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed building has sold for an eye-popping price of nearly $60 million, the property developer said Tuesday, the latest sign of the city's overheated housing market. Swire Properties ...
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Hong Kong to cut Iranian ships from register: letter
Reuters
LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong will stop allowing 19 ships linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) from operating under its flag, a government letter showed, in the latest blow to Tehran's sanctions-hit global trade.
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ETF Securities plans Hong Kong,Singapore gold ETFs
MarketWatch
"The [Hong Kong] market knows we're here and they're expecting us to come out with products," Fred Jheon, head of Asia Pacfic, said Monday. "Singapore is also on our radar for development and down the road we'll look to offer products in that market ...
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Stephen Harper marks Remembrance Day in Hong Kong
Toronto Sun
16, 1941, Ken Pifher arrived in Hong Kong, a member of the Royal Rifles of Quebec, one of two battalions volunteered by the government of prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to help protect what was then the British colony of Hong Kong from an ...
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Hong Kong Stocks Decline as Energy, Property Shares Drop
Bloomberg
(Corrects date of low in fifth paragraph.) Hong Kong stocks fell, with the benchmark index headed for the lowest close in four weeks, as property companies and energy shares declined. Shimao Property Holdings Ltd., which develops real estate projects ...
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Hands Off Hong Kong's Judiciary
Wall Street Journal
Beijing's leadership transition has led to the usual speculation about whether new President Xi Jinping and the rest of his crew will offer any more quarter to democracy than their predecessors have done. To judge by the evidence from Hong Kong, don't ...
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Wall Street Journal
Hong Kong and the Gold Trade
Asia Sentinel
Hong Kong, sitting China's flank and on the route to India, appears to be the nexus for a huge amount of gold moving around the planet, with as much as 60 metric tons of the precious metal crossing through in some months, worth US$3.32 billion at the ...
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Hong Kong Taipan Rebuffed by China Digs Into US Natural Gas
Businessweek
In his 18th-floor office in Hong Kong, the executive chairman of Noble Group Ltd. keeps a photo of himself with Bill Clinton, a hunk of coal from an Australian mine and two abstract paintings by Chinese artists. The billionaire attributes part of his ...
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Hong Kong's Causeway Bay world's priciest retail area: survey
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's Fifth Avenue ended its 11-year run as the world's most expensive retail area, dethroned by Hong Kong's Causeway Bay, according to a survey by real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield. The average retail real ...
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Hong Kong stocks rise after sell-off, with banks strong; Hang Seng ...
Hong Kong stocks rise after sell-off, with banks strong; Hang Seng Index up 0.4% http://t.co/z5xtkDHQ.
Breaking news - www.breakingnews.com
Hong Kong stock exchange Hacker sentenced ... - The Hacker News
By noreply@blogger.com (Mohit Kumar)
Tse Man- lai, 28-year-old businessman, owner of an information technology company, launched denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on Hong Kong stock exchange last year on August 12 and 13 , was sentenced to nine months in jail on Friday.
The Hacker News [ THN ] - World's...
Hong Kong stocks fall, but off lows after data - @MarketWatch ...
Hong Kong stocks fall, but off lows after data - @MarketWatch.
Breaking news - www.breakingnews.com
World Maritime News - UANI Hails Hong Kong's Decision to Stop ...
By World Maritime News
In an October 30 letter to Leung Chun-ying, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, UANI called on Hong Kong to end its “business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and reflagging of IRISL ...
World Maritime News
TOC News » Social welfare per capita: Hong Kong spends 76 ...
By Leo Khaw
Social welfare per capita: Hong Kong spends 76% more than Singapore? Published by The Online Citizen on November 11, 2012. By Leong Sze Hian -. I refer to the article “HK commission to tackle poverty” (Straits Times, Nov 10).
TOC News
Demonoid tracker back online, servers moved to Hong Kong – Tech ...
By James Plafke
Nov. 12, 2012 - Back in August, Demonoid, the most popular private torrent community, was suddenly removed from the face of the Internet in the wake of a DDoS attack and a.
Geek.com
Dredging Today – CCCC Among 2012 Top 100 Hong Kong Listed ...
By Dredging Today
On November 5, the award ceremony for 2012 Top 100 Hong Kong Listed Companies took place inHong Kong. ... Posted on Nov 12th, 2012 with tags $100, 2012, among, Asia, CCCC, China, companies,Hong, Kong, Listed, News, top.
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Denise Ho, Cantonese Pop Star, Comes Out During Hong Kong's ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
... some time. But during Hong Kong's fourth annual LGBT Pride Parade this weekend, the singer officially came out, calling herself "tongzhi," a Chinese slang word for gay. ... Pop star Denise Ho comes out atHong Kong Pride | Gay Star News ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
UBS Hong Kong Open Golf Betting Odds and Preview - Online ...
By Lee A Jackson
UBS Hong Kong Open Golf Betting Info This is the penultimate tournament on the European golf calendar for this term. Attention and most of ... McIlroy aims to build on great prior form in Hong Kong .... Premier League team news Nov 10 + 11 ...
Online Betting News
Air New Zealand drops London route via Hong Kong as market ...
By anna.aero
... one of its two routes to London, now only operating via Los Angeles. But how has the London - Hong Kong market developed. ... anna.aero - Airline Network News & Analysis · Subscribe to the anna.aero newsletter · Follow us on Facebook ...
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BBC News - Wrightbus wins Hong Kong bus order
A Hong Kong-based bus company order 50 new double-deck buses from the County Antrim firm, Wrightbus.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20296707
Contrasting politics of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, all societies rooted in Chinese culture, have developed very different ways of selecting their leaders and ...
news.yahoo.com/contrasting-politics-china-hong-kong-taiwan...
Hong Kong's priciest pad sold for nearly $60 million | Fox News
A luxury Hong Kong apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed building has sold for an eye-popping price of nearly $60 million, the property developer said Tuesday, ...
www.foxnews.com/.../hong-kong-priciest-pad-sold-for-nearly...
Hong Kong may take more measures to cool property prices - Yahoo ...
News Singapore. HONG KONG, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Hong Kong may take furthermeasures to control runaway property prices but the Asianfinancial centre is likely ...
sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-may-more-measures-cool-pro...
MOVIE REVIEW: Hong Kong homage - San Jose Mercury News
The moment the opening credits for "The Man with the Iron Fists" start to roll, you can tell exactly what kind of movie it is.
www.mercurynews.com/.../movie-review-hong-kong-homage
Cebu Pacific starts Iloilo-Hong Kong flights | ABS-CBN News
MANILA, Philippines – More than 140 passengers boarded a Cebu Pacific plane for the first international flight from Iloilo to Hong Kong on Saturday night.
www.abs-cbnnews.com/.../cebu-pacific-starts-iloilo-hong-kon...
Hong Kong Tops New York as Most Expensive Retail Location ...
Hong Kong ended New York's 11-year reign as the home of the world's most expensive district for retailers as luxury-brand companies competed for space to ...
www.bangkokpost.com/.../hong-kong-tops-new-york-as-most...
Title of Hong Kong's Favorite Brand Goes to… - Asia Business News ...
Hong Kong may be synonymous with designer boutiques and luxury retail outlets , with names such as Louis Vuitton and Prada crowding the city, but local ...
www.cnbc.com/.../Title_of_Hong_Kong_s_Favorite_Brand_G...
Former chief justice says Hong Kong must decide its ... - LexisNexis
Home >News > Hong Kong Legal News Former chief justice says Hong Kong must decide its future long before 2047. * Required fields. Recipient's name:* ...
https://law.lexisnexis.com/.../Former-chief-justice-says-Hong-...
Hong Kong's priciest pad sold for $60 million - News - Boston.com
HONG KONG (AP) — A luxury Hong Kong apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed building has sold for an eye-popping price of nearly $60 million, the property ...
www.boston.com/news/world/asia/2012/11/.../story.html
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