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Made Popular Nov 13 2009
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Hong Kong is a new target of U.S. prosecutors pursuing a global campaign against evaders of federal taxes, spurred by data acquired in their crackdown on Swiss banks.

Prosecutors are trying to determine what role financial professionals in Hong...

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Infants who have been giventhe common pain reliever paracetamol may have a higher risk of developing asthma and eczema by the time they are 6 or 7, a large study...
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WHEN a robber pulled a knife on takeaway shop owner Hong Ling and his chef Yang Yang, they weren’t in the least impressed.
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Many an adolescent boy, hormones raging, has succumbed to the siren song of a hump-able inanimate object (the mattress cushion, a toilet paper roll or in one cinematic...
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he Hong Kong International Airport was named the world’s best for the seventh year in an annual survey of passengers, with Asian airports dominating the top...
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HONG KONG — “Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” truly scared “The Dark Knight” off his perch in Hong Kong. “Mummy” earned a...
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Hong Kong and Chinese flags were raised together on Tuesday ahead of an annual street protest calling for democracy as the territory marked the 11th anniversary of its...
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elected areas of Asian cities including Taipei, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul plan to turn off their lights for one hour later Saturday to promote energy...
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Hong Kong is a city alive with contradictions: Vendors sell dim sum from street carts while talking on cell phones, and businessmen practice tai chi in the park before...
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Looks like Hutchison (aka 3) snagged the iPhone for distribution in Hong Kong and Macau, which will be coming “later this year.” Like the rest, this was...
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If ever the substance of that cliché - where East meets West - is to be thoroughly understood, one place to start is in the Shanghai of the 1920s and 1930s. The city...
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May 1 2009 by AP0 Comments

Hong Kong quarantined hundreds of hotel guests and workers Friday after a tourist from Mexico tested positive for swine flu, Asia’s first confirmed case of the disease. With memories of 2003’s deadly SARS outbreak still fresh, the government moved quickly

 
 
May 1 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Mexican tourist visiting Hong Kong has become Asia’s first confirmed swine flu case, authorities said Friday, as they quarantined about 300 people at a hotel where he stayed and began searching for those he may have contacted.

 
 
May 1 2009 by AP0 Comments

Hong Kong’s leader says the territory has detected a case of swine flu, in Asia’s first confirmed instance of the disease.

 
 
May 1 2009 by AP0 Comments

Hong Kong leader says territory has detected swine flu, in Asia’s first confirmed case.

 
 
Apr 27 2009 by AP0 Comments

Casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. declined to comment Monday on a Hong Kong newspaper’s report that Sands might sell the first foreign-owned casino in the Chinese island of Macau under a leaseback arrangement worth $1.3 billion.

 
 
Apr 27 2009 by AP0 Comments

Casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. is declining comment on a Hong Kong newspaper report that it could sell the first foreign-owned casino in the Chinese island of Macau under a lease-back arrangement worth $1.3 billion.

 
 
Apr 27 2009 by AP0 Comments

Hong Kong said Monday it has assigned a team of scientists to develop a test that will hopefully cut the time it takes to diagnose the new swine flu strain from a few days to a few hours.

 
 
Apr 23 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Hong Kong tycoon abandoned his controversial $2 billion plan to take over the city’s biggest telecom company Thursday after a court blocked the deal, handing regulators and minority shareholders a high-profile victory.

 
 
Apr 22 2009 by AP0 Comments

Most Asian markets faltered again Wednesday, with China and Hong Kong shares tumbling almost 3 percent, as positive comments from the U.S. Treasury chief failed to reassure many investors about the health of the financial system.

 
 
Apr 21 2009 by AP0 Comments

Asian stock markets tumbled Tuesday, with benchmarks in Tokyo and Hong Kong down 3 percent or more, after news of mounting bad loans at Bank of America rekindled worries about the financial system and halted Wall Street’s six-week rally.

 
 
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