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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Hong Kong- South China Morning Post

A prominent political economist has put forward a new compensation scheme for villagers displaced by development.
28 Jun 2014 - 3:41am
Lawmakers last night finally approved the government's request for preliminary funding for work on controversial new towns amid chaotic scenes and vows of legal action from pan-democrats, who said...
28 Jun 2014 - 4:11am
A record number of lawyers took to the streets yesterday to protest against Beijing's white paper that they say jeopardises judicial independence, a value that sets Hong Kong apart from the rest...
28 Jun 2014 - 4:18am
Li Ka-shing has revealed he is having trouble sleeping. Widening inequality, an intensifying scarcity of resources and a decline in trust are some of the issues keeping him awake at night.
28 Jun 2014 - 9:37am
The city's four biggest accounting firms have joined in a statement condemning Occupy Central for its planned civil disobedience action.
28 Jun 2014 - 3:01am
They were responding to unconfirmed reports that a limit of 52 trips per year on holders of multiple-entry permits had been raised at a meeting between Hong Kong officials on Monday.
28 Jun 2014 - 5:09am
While some hail the economic power of mainland visitors, others decry their behaviour and say they have a negative impact. Is there an answer?
28 Jun 2014 - 5:10am

Opinion

The central government's liaison office posted photographs on its website late on Thursday showing its director, Zhang Xiaoming, visiting Sheung Shui and talking to shopkeepers and residents.
28 Jun 2014 - 3:17am
Threatened dolphins will return to their habitat when disruption from the building of the airport's third runway ends, an international expert said confidently yesterday, citing two examples from...
28 Jun 2014 - 5:12am
A former Law Society president staged a small-scale demonstration of mostly non-lawyers in Central yesterday to counter a march by about 1,800 legal professionals voicing their discontent with...
28 Jun 2014 - 3:41am
Police will not open an extra eastbound lane for protesters on Hennessy Road during this year's July 1 march, despite an appeal committee pressing for the decision to be left open.
28 Jun 2014 - 3:41am
Hong Kong is a stronghold for traditional marriage and family values, with up to 75 per cent of parents holding negative views on gay-rights issues, research by a conservative Christian group...
28 Jun 2014 - 5:15am
The soccer manga artist whose work has spilled over into the real world was in Hong Kong yesterday.
28 Jun 2014 - 3:41am
As the antique tram trundled along the timeworn route from Sai Wan to Causeway Bay, Joseph Ting Sun-pao transported his fellow passengers back to days long gone.
28 Jun 2014 - 3:41am
Temperatures in typical urban areas of the city are expected to rise by two to three degrees Celsius in the next three decades, according to findings unveiled by the Polytechnic University...
28 Jun 2014 - 3:41am
A captain involved in the National Day ferry collision that killed 39 passengers almost two years ago has received court permission to hire a Queen's Counsel to fight his case against manslaughter...
28 Jun 2014 - 5:17am
Allan Chiang Yam-wang called on Google to pioneer a "borderless service" and adopt a "non-discriminatory approach" to applying the privacy right.
27 Jun 2014 - 10:03am
Lawyers organising today's march in defence of judicial independence received fresh impetus yesterday as a retired judge and two leading law deans stood by critics of Beijing's white paper.
27 Jun 2014 - 7:37am
A long-time friend of Rafael Hui did not ask questions before helping him transfer funds because he believed Hui would never engage in illegal activities, the Court of First Instance heard.
27 Jun 2014 - 5:55pm
A University of Hong Kong team is working on a way to merge footage from different angles into a three-dimensional reconstruction of the scene.
27 Jun 2014 - 7:56am
Mainland customs officers have confiscated a shipment of materials intended for use in Occupy Central's unofficial referendum, disrupting the preparation of nine new polling stations.
27 Jun 2014 - 5:42pm
A security flaw in internet-payment firm PayPal's system may heighten fears about cybersecurity in jittery Hong Kong.
27 Jun 2014 - 8:39am
Police are investigating the death of a woman who lost consciousness after undergoing liposuction at a private clinic specialising in hair transplants yesterday.
27 Jun 2014 - 8:34am
Charging individual households for the volume of waste they produce is the preferred method for people living in buildings with property management services, a public consultation has found.
27 Jun 2014 - 2:54am
Students at City University have threatened to take "radical action" after accusing the university of having kept them in the dark on its plan to sell its popular Community College.
27 Jun 2014 - 2:56am
Cynthia Ip says troubles of chief executive's daughter, who posted photos indicating she had cut her wrists, remind her of her own hardships.
27 Jun 2014 - 2:34am
A Sri Lankan torture claimant has been given another chance to have his application reviewed after Court of Appeal judges found an adjudicator was unfair in not giving him an oral hearing before...
27 Jun 2014 - 2:59am

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