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HONG KONG News, Dec 25, 2013

Telstra to Sell Hong Kong Mobile Unit for $2.43 Billion
Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg News. The Hong Kong government this year announced plans to take back a third of the 3G spectrum held by four existing license holders ...
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Economic Times

Hong Kong Telecom's Party LineWall Street Journal
Hong Kong's mobile market is getting less competitive as a top foreign player pulls out. That is welcomenews for the remaining incumbents.
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Everbright Bank Falls in Hong Kong After $3b Share SaleBloomberg
By Bloomberg News 2013-12-20T02:19:37Z ... (6818) shares declined in their Hong Kong trading debut after the lender raised $3 billion in the city's ...
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The West Australian

News of a children's commission will bring good cheer to Hong KongSouth China Morning Post
God bless us, every one," said Tiny Tim, in A Christmas Carol. Although Christmas is a time of joy and giving, there are many people in Hong Kong ...
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Beijing Enterprises Water Slides Most in Six Months in Hong KongBusinessweek
By Bloomberg News December 20, 2013 ... systems, fell the most in six months in Hong Kong trading after hitting a 12-year high last week. The stock ...
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Chungking Mansions: Inside Hong Kong's favourite 'ghetto'BBC News
By Helier Cheung BBC News, Hong Kong ... Mansions, a building complex that is seen as both a foreign island in Hong Kong and an important part of ...
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BBC News

Hong Kong Confirms Support For SMEsTax-news.com
by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong. 19 December 2013. In reply to a question in the Legislative Council, Hong Kong's Secretary for Commerce ...
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Hong Kong jails woman for smuggling baby formulaZee News
Hong Kong: A Hong Kong court has jailed a woman for smuggling baby ... HongKong barred people from taking more than than 1.8 kilogrammes of ...imprisonment," a government spokeswoman told a news agency Tuesday.
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BBC News

HSBC fined over Hong Kong dark poolFinancial News
In a statement provided to Financial News, HSBC said: “HSBC regrets the failures identified by the Securities & Futures Commission, which relate to ...
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Financial News

Ship emissions blamed for worsening pollution in Hong KongNEWS.GNOM.ES
“What we know in Hong Kong is that up to 50% of pollution sources come from marine vessels,” said Gina McCarthy, administrator at the U.S. ...
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NEWS.GNOM.ES

Hong Kong stocks end 0.48% higherGlobalPost
The news came after a decision by the Federal Reserve to trim its stimulus programme by $10 billion to $75 billion a month from January, citing a ...
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Business Recorder

Hong Kong Television Surges on Mobile Services: Hong Kong MoverBusinessweek
Tens of thousands of people took the streets of Hong Kong in October in ... Hong Kong Television Network Ltd. (1137), the broadcaster that failed to get a ... Cantonese channel and another offering news, according to the statement.
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Hong Kong air quality worse this year than lastInternational Environmental Technology
The air quality in Hong Kong has not improved on last's years readings, ... The news provider reports this is a 7.6 per cent increase in the number of ...
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13 Hong Kong couples tie the knot on GuamPacific Daily News
News · Local News. ADVERTISEMENT. Thirteen couples from Hong Kong were married in special group wedding ceremonies earlier this month.
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Chinese Businessman Who Bought French Vineyard Kept Low ProfileWall Street Journal
... though Hong Kong Daily News reported he studied engineering in Yunnan, a province in southwestern China, and spent seven years in the military, ...
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Washington Post

Hong Kong stocks end 1.13% higherGlobalPost
Hong Kong stocks rose 1.13 percent on Tuesday, taking the lead from a ... Chinese telecom stocks rose on news of fee reductions by regulators.
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Telegraph.co.uk

Hong Kong Stocks Climb as China Injects Funds After Cash CrunchBusinessweek
Hong Kong stocks rose, with the benchmark index paring this week's drop, after the People's Bank of China injected funds amid the worst cash crunch ...
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Rare Black-faced Spoonbills spotted in Candaba swampGMA News
The birds were supposed to be in Hong Kong or the Chinese mainland. But here they were in Candaba, ...KDM, GMA News. We welcome healthy ...
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Telstra to sell stake in Hong Kong's CSLiT News
Subject to shareholder and regulatory approval, the sale of Telstra's 76.4 percent interest in the Hong Kong-based cello to HKT Limited should net ...
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Asia Investment Banking Fees Fall to Lowest Since 2008Wall Street Journal
HONG KONG—Investment banking in Asia has suffered its worst year since 2008, even as economic growth in the region continues to outstrip much of ...
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International Business Times UK

Hong Kong Nov Headline CPI Up 4.3% on Year; In Line With ...NASDAQ
By Dow Jones Business News, December 23, 2013, 04:07:00 AM EDT ... HONG KONG--Hong Kong'scomposite consumer price index in November ...
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GE Aviation signs deal with Hong Kong airlineCincinnati Business Courier
... a demonstration of its confidence in our new wide-body engine technologies,” GE Aviation President and CEO David Joyce said in a news release.
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AFP

PRESS DIGEST- Hong Kong - Dec 24Reuters
Dec 24 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Hong Kong ... after a Beijing News article said the chairman Bai Xiaojiang sold assets to ...
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China Promise Clashes With Clampdown on Foreign BusinessBusinessweek
By Bloomberg News December 23, 2013. China Apple. Women look at their iPads inside the Apple store in Hong Kong. Photographer: David Paul ...
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NSA leaker: 'Mission's already accomplished'Philly.com
... The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden says his "mission's already ...
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Philly.com

Brazilian senator urges asylum for SnowdenTheNewsTribune.com
FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. ... The Folha de S. Paulo newspaper on Wednesday quoted Ferraco as ...
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TheNewsTribune.com

Boeing books Cathay Pacific order for 21 777XsSan Antonio Express
Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific is buying 21 of the planes, which Boeing will build later this decade. The 777X will be an updated version of ...
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Running Boom Hits ChinaOutside Magazine
When a marathon in Hong Kong opened its online registration in October, the ...Marathon on December 1, according to the People's Daily newspaper.
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Outside Magazine

McCann Hong Kong Channels Classic John Woo to Bid Adieu to ...mediabistro.com
Chances are, this is literally the most gangsta advertising news you'll read today. Employees at McCannHong Kong paid tribute to their old office in a ...
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Asian markets higher after Wall Street recordsGMA News
HONG KONG - Asian markets extended gains on Tuesday following another ... Thenews added to a run of recent figures showing a pick-up in the US ...
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Sky News Australia

Luxury-Bag Seller Milan Station Forecasts 'Significant' Net LossBusinessweek
Milan Station Holdings Ltd. (1150), a Hong Kong-based retailer of ... That compared to a median estimate of 7.3 percent in a Bloomberg News survey ...
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Hong Kong stocks join post-Fed-taper gainsMarketWatch
News that Hong Kong's government would auction off 12 new land sites early next year helped boost several real-estate developers in the territory, ...
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Boeing and Cathay Pacific Airways Announce Order for 21 777-9XsNEWS.GNOM.ES
HONG KONG, Dec. 20, 2013 /NEWS.GNOM.ES/ – Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Cathay Pacific today announced the airline's decision to become Asia's first ...
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Chicken off festival menu for manySouth China Morning Post
... adding that she had made the decision after news of the first death from the ..."There's no [outbreak of] bird flu in Hong Kong and we have checks at the ... been 143 confirmed cases on the mainland, in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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Toronto Star

Obama's brother writes about abuseLas Vegas Sun
HONG KONG — President Barack Obama's half brother is publishing an ...Ndesandjo spoke ahead of a news conference to launch the book in ...
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New York Daily News

Surprises, snubs in Oscars foreign film shortlistGMA News
LOS ANGELES -- Oscars organizers shortlisted nine movies including Palestinian, Danish and Hong Kong films Friday for best foreign language prize, ...
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Sky News Australia

Buoyant stockmarkets lift year's share offerings by 24 percent to ...NEWS.GNOM.ES
LONDON/NEW YORK/HONG KONG (NEWS.GNOM.ES) – This year has been the biggest for equity fundraising globally since 2010, thanks to ...
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Debevoise advises AIA in bancassurance partnership with CitibankThe Lawyer
The Hong Kong and London offices of Debevoise & Plimpton are advising HongKong-based life insurer AIA Group, in a transaction where AIA and ...
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Wall Street Journal

New Products: Natera's Panorama; GPS's CardioGene SetGenomeWeb
Hong Kong-based molecular diagnostic company DiagCor is now offering Natera's Panorama test for noninvasive detection of fetal aneuploidies.
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Asian markets mixed, dollar touches five-year highGMA News
HONG KONG – Asian shares were mixed on Friday and the dollar touched a new five-year high against the yen after the Federal Reserve said it ...
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Capital FM Kenya

Snowden 'an indoor cat' in Moscow, says he's 'won'Bryan-College Station Eagle
FILE - This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. ... revelations first appeared in the Post and the Guardian newspaper.
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Bird flu outbreak at China poultry farm confirmed as H5N2: state mediaNBCNews.com
By Eric Baculinao, NBC News Producer. Facebook ... Chickens for sale are seen in a cage in Hong Kong, China, in this file photo from Dec 4. BEIJING ...
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WantChinaTimes

Telstra to sell CSL businessBusiness Spectator
... Telecommunications. Shares push higher in afternoon trade on news telco will offload Hong Kong-based mobiles business to HKT Limited.
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AP PHOTOS: Christmas celebrated near and farKFDA
AP National News VideoMore>> ... There are Christmas lights in Hong Kong, midnight Mass in Bethlehem, and even Santa parades in South Korea.
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Washington Post

Largest Ever Marintec China 2013 Hits New Records Over 1700 ...NEWS.GNOM.ES
HONG KONG, Dec. 23, 2013 /NEWS.GNOM.ES/ – Marintec China 2013, organised by UBM Asia and the Shanghai Society of Naval Architects and ...
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eTurboNews

Lawmakers grapple with how to expand 2017 election committee's ...South China Morning Post
Despite the deadlock between pan-democrats and Beijing loyalists over whether theHong Kong public should be allowed to choose candidates for ...
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Xinhua

GIVE US THE BAD NEWS TOO, BEIJING ORDERS SAR CHIEFSHong Kong Standard
The central government has ordered the chief executives of Hong Kong and Macau to report on inadequacies in their governance and identify ...
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Hong Kong Standard

China's $50 billion move to avert cash crunchKETK
HONG KONG (CNNMoney) -- — China's central bank has been forced to pump nearly $50 billion into the financial system to prevent a second ...
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Finding love in the right placesSouth China Morning Post
So, Hong Kong cricketers want to feel the love. A stalwart of the city's team, Roy Lamsam, told an international news agency last week that despite ...
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SuperSport

Border police find secret smuggling tunnel in Hong Kong - China ...SINA.com
Border police find secret smuggling tunnel in Hong Kong. ... and other electronic devices from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland. ... Related News.
English headline news from SINA.com

Ship emissions blamed for Hong Kong pollution | News - Home
Smog is a common sight in Hong Kong, with the amount of polluted days increasing by 28 percent to 303 so far this year.
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Hong Kong's new air quality health index shows changes at four out ...
This was a measure that Beijing had already taken and Hong Kong should consider, she added. Roy Tam.... www.greenaironline.com/news.php?
www.scmp.com/.../hong-kongs-new-air-quality-health-index-s...

Hong Kong Stocks Join Post-Fed-taper Gains | Fox Business
News that Hong Kong's government would auction off 12 new land sites early next year helped boost several real-estate developers in the territory, ...
www.foxbusiness.com/.../hong-kong-stocks-join-post-fed-tape...

Hong Kong's Best, 2013—Lars Nittve - News - Art in America
Lars Nittve is the director of the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, which is slated to open in 2017 in a $642-million Herzog & de Meuron-designed building.
www.artinamericamagazine.com/.../hong-kongrsquos-best-20...

Linklaters - Hong Kong: News
Hong Kong: News. 18 December 2013. Court makes first restoration orders in insider dealing case to compensate trade counterparties.
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