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Monday, June 23, 2014

Hong Kong- Southeast China Morning Post

The loss of marine habitat to a new airport runway will probably displace the population of Chinese white dolphins from north Lantau - but they will come back eventually.
Updated 24 Jun 2014 - 8:26am
Up to 40 per cent of cyberattacks on the website used to run Occupy Central's unofficial plebiscite on electoral reform came from computers registered to mainland firms in Hong Kong.
24 Jun 2014 - 7:28am
Hong Kong's former central banker Joseph Yam Chi-kwong has warned that the city could lose its status as China's top financial centre if political developments unnerve the country's leaders.
Updated 24 Jun 2014 - 8:31am
The authorities in Beijing had "noted the views" of Hongkongers about the flood of visitors from Shenzhen, the commerce minister said yesterday after talks.
24 Jun 2014 - 7:13am
Another former mainland representative in Hong Kong has dismissed the unofficial poll on Hong Kong's electoral reform in which more than 720,000 people have cast ballots.
24 Jun 2014 - 5:08am
It is high time the city ditched its "piecemeal" way of revitalising old areas and focused on the big picture by identifying urban slums for redevelopment, a veteran surveyor says.
24 Jun 2014 - 8:13am
Lawmakers have hit out at the MTR Corporation's 3.6 per cent fare rise and urged it to offer more concessions when the increase takes effect on Sunday.
24 Jun 2014 - 3:34am
The new head of the police watchdog has backed away from his predecessor's view that it should seek the power to start its own investigations.
Updated 24 Jun 2014 - 9:02am
The government and the Airport Authority have been accused of keeping the public in the dark by failing to put a price on the controversial third runway at Chek Lap Kok.
24 Jun 2014 - 7:45am
The deadly 1967 riots are seen by many as a watershed in Hong Kong's history - but for drama director Wu Hoi-fai, the days of havoc hold another message: resorting to violence won't help.
24 Jun 2014 - 5:13am
New People's Party leader Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee has made a U-turn on her call for Ng Leung-sing to step down as chairman of the Legislative Council's Finance Committee.
24 Jun 2014 - 4:25am
Clutching gigantic pens designed to look like chunks of cheese, six men in sober business suits and one dressed as a rat stand poised, ready to connect dots on a board.
24 Jun 2014 - 5:17am
In its 25th year, the Hong Kong Book Fair will include a record 570 exhibitors from 30 regions - with Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Israel and Kazakhstan represented for the first time.
24 Jun 2014 - 4:25am
A mainlander who used a miniature closed-circuit television set to monitor two houses in Sai Kung before burgling them was jailed for six years yesterday.
24 Jun 2014 - 5:14am
The issue of the size of Hong Kong juries - just seven people, usually, and why it should be reformed is one that needs further comment.
24 Jun 2014 - 4:25am
Police are investigating the disappearance of tens of thousands of dollars worth of the virtual currency bitcoin in a move that could open the floodgates for more potential victims to come forward...
23 Jun 2014 - 9:50am
More than 700,000 ballots have been cast in an unofficial poll on Hong Kong's electoral reform that a former top mainland official in charge of the city's affairs has dismissed as unrepresentative...
23 Jun 2014 - 5:16pm
The sovereignty and security of the nation take precedence over maintaining Hong Kong's prosperity, a former top mainland official in charge of the city's affairs said.
23 Jun 2014 - 5:34pm
People with Hong Kong passports are being denied the chance to travel because their documents are caught up in British bureaucracy.
23 Jun 2014 - 11:51am
'Most countries in the north' are developed, wealthy and free while 'southern countries' are poorer, with lower education levels, a lack of technology and more political censorship.
23 Jun 2014 - 11:54am
If, as they say, a week is too long in politics, then what does that say about a gap of eight years outside the corridors of power? For Ng Leung-sing, who quit politics for eight years before...
23 Jun 2014 - 4:57am
Nine out of 10 voters at Occupy Central's polling stations believe the public must have a say in who can run in the next chief executive election, a mini-poll by the South China Morning Post found...
23 Jun 2014 - 5:19pm
Weeks after the Occupy Central movement decided to stage the vote on electoral reform, the civil disobedience movement was in a serious crisis.
23 Jun 2014 - 6:05pm
Occupy Central organisers have hit back at those who tried to damage the credibility of the unofficial plebiscite on electoral reform after a pro-Beijing group admitted casting fake ballots.
23 Jun 2014 - 4:58am
As the so-called civil referendum on democratic reforms gathered steam yesterday, some Hongkongers chose to give it the cold shoulder. Some dismissed the campaign - which Beijing has called "...
23 Jun 2014 - 4:58am

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