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Friday, November 14, 2014

South China Morning Post - Hong Kong


US legislators tabled a bipartisan bill to Congress on Thursday to monitor "democracy and freedom" in Hong Kong. 
15 Nov 2014 - 4:10am
Hong Kong’s economy grew by 2.7 per cent in real terms year-on-year in the third quarter of this year, the government said today.
15 Nov 2014 - 5:00am
The Court of Appeal will decide today whether Mong Kok occupiers have grounds for appeal against an injunction ordering clearance of their protest site, which allows police to help bailiffs...
15 Nov 2014 - 2:58am
Thomas Kwok saw Rafael Hui as being like a "rare piece of artwork" and was willing to spend millions for his services, the ex-chief secretary's counsel told jurors in his trial for graft yesterday...
15 Nov 2014 - 8:08am
A proposal to increase the construction density of the West Kowloon arts hub has been approved with six conditions, amid doubts over a claim that only "minor" amendments to the previous plan were...
15 Nov 2014 - 4:10am
The tip of the runway at the now-closed Kai Tak airport will transform into a series of green islands featuring sport and cultural activities if the government fully adopts a winning design...
15 Nov 2014 - 4:10am
Student leaders of Occupy Central will take their democracy demands to the capital this afternoon, even though they failed to get help from Rita Fan, to set up talks with state leaders.
15 Nov 2014 - 8:09am

Opinion

Financial chief John Tsang Chun-wah was part of the "high wall" that a League of Social Democrats member aimed to hit with an egg, a magistrate ruled yesterday, before finding the secretary...
15 Nov 2014 - 3:41am
A 19-year-old student with severe disability due to cerebral palsy, Lung Kin relies on that extremity alone to control a joypad on his electric wheelchair to get around.
15 Nov 2014 - 4:10am
While sentencing a 70-year-old man yesterday for laundering HK$2.2 billion over three months, a High Court judge said the man had engaged in a serious crime dealing with huge amounts of money in...
15 Nov 2014 - 4:10am
Hundreds of residents in Kwai Chung were evacuated in the early hours of this morning after a fire broke out at a flat on a public housing estate.
15 Nov 2014 - 3:42am
A High Court judge yesterday refused to delay an injunction that will allow the police to assist bailiffs in clearing Occupy protest areas in Mong Kok and even arrest people who obstruct them.
14 Nov 2014 - 5:16pm
Collusion, secrecy, exploitation and abuse of office - that summed up the corruption involving former chief secretary Rafael Hui and the co-chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the lead prosecutor...
14 Nov 2014 - 5:23pm
Hysan Group yesterday won its battle with the Town Planning Board (TPB) over building restrictions on its sites in Causeway Bay.
14 Nov 2014 - 5:35pm
Three Federation of Students representatives will go to Beijing tomorrow to lodge a protest over the central government’s restrictive ruling on political reform.
14 Nov 2014 - 10:06am
Academics and politicians took issue with a global study of English-language skills that ranked Hong Kong adults marginally lower than residents of major mainland cities including Shanghai,...
14 Nov 2014 - 11:53am
Five villagers from Ping Yeung in Ta Kwu Ling, braving strong winds and imported red fire ants, hiked up the 300-metre Wo Keng mountain yesterday to unfurl their yellow banner with the words: "No...
14 Nov 2014 - 4:58am
About 100 people marched to police headquarters to protest over the arrest of two Occupy Central marshals after they subdued three men who threw animal innards at Jimmy Lai.
14 Nov 2014 - 10:12am
Occupy activists are transforming old T-shirts into works of art with a practical purpose - providing a little comfort for protesters sleeping on Hong Kong's hard streets.
14 Nov 2014 - 4:58am
The MTR's 10-station Sha Tin-Central Link could be opened in stages to get around project delays caused by the discovery of thousands of relics in To Kwa Wan, where one of the stops is being built...
14 Nov 2014 - 9:10am
Hospitals serving many of the city's elderly are facing a chronic manpower shortage as the winter flu season nears after losing 155 staff in just six months when they were already struggling.
14 Nov 2014 - 5:01am
The 10-day-old daughter of Wu Kai and Ao Chengli was diagnosed with a series of potentially fatal diseases.
14 Nov 2014 - 1:41pm
A property owner is seeking compensation from the engineering contractor tasked with maintaining a lift that plunged down its shaft in North Point last year, injuring seven passengers.
14 Nov 2014 - 5:42am
More than half of Hongkongers think that the retirement age at their companies should be extended, with many saying that 65 or over would be appropriate.
14 Nov 2014 - 10:01am
A fire officer, whose sister is an acclaimed martial arts master, wept yesterday as she was cleared of perverting the course of public justice.
14 Nov 2014 - 4:58am
The medical watchdog has found a private doctor guilty of two charges of professional misconduct for printing unauthorised information on his professional name card.
14 Nov 2014 - 4:58am
Forty years ago on November 14, 1974, the Hang Seng Index fell to 179 points. The index was down from its peak of 1,774 in March 1973, having lost some 90 per cent of its value in 20 months.
14 Nov 2014 - 4:58am

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