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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

South China Morning Post- Hong Kong

ATV news staff may cease operation by December 30 if they are not paid, insider reveals
ATV's major investor Wong Ching would rather wind up the troubled broadcaster than settle for a buyer that doesn't meet his demands, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told the Post.
18 Dec 2014 - 8:37am
Hong Kong graft investigators swoop on unit of Chinese finance giant Guotai Junan
Graft-busters raided the Hong Kong unit of one of the nation's largest investment houses and took away its executive director, the company revealed yesterday as trading in its shares resumed after...
18 Dec 2014 - 7:23am
Hong Kong graft investigators swoop on unit of Chinese finance giant Guotai Junan
The constitutional affairs minister is under fire after claiming that Beijing alone promised to keep Hong Kong's way of life intact for 50 years, rather than forming part of its deal with Britain...
18 Dec 2014 - 9:25am
 
Hong Kong graft investigators swoop on unit of Chinese finance giant Guotai Junan
Customs officers have smashed the city's biggest illegal wood-smuggling case in a decade, seizing some 92 tonnes of an endangered species commonly known as Honduras rosewood.
18 Dec 2014 - 4:07am
 
Hong Kong graft investigators swoop on unit of Chinese finance giant Guotai Junan
The drowned man was a well-loved industry veteran and main breadwinner of his family, who was shooting for the movie Skiptrace starring Jackie Chan.
17 Dec 2014 - 4:33pm
 
CY Leung, senior Hong Kong officials snub UK inquiry into Joint Declaration
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has snubbed a British parliamentary committee's invitation to give evidence at its inquiry into the implementation of the Joint Declaration.
18 Dec 2014 - 2:53am
 
Some government sites set to be sold to private developers may be redesignated for public housing, Secretary for Development Paul Chan Mo-po has said.
18 Dec 2014 - 8:28am
 

OPINION

Complaints filed to the city’s graft buster the Independent Commission Against Corruption have fallen for the third consecutive year, the agency revealed today.
17 Dec 2014 - 11:38pm
The trouble-prone MTR saw problems again this morning with severe delays on the Kwun Tong Line, leading to some passengers having to wait five minutes just to get into the stations along the line...
17 Dec 2014 - 12:35pm
Hong Kong’s pollution levels are creeping back to “normal” following the clearance of the final occupied zone in Causeway Bay.
17 Dec 2014 - 11:04am
 
The government's new homes target for the next 10 years has been boosted by 10,000 - meaning a total of 480,000 public and private units are planned by 2025.
17 Dec 2014 - 7:40am
 
The city's largest power supplier will increase its tariff for next year by 3.1 per cent - far lower than the projected 11.8 per cent put forward in its development plan.
17 Dec 2014 - 8:06am
 
Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Nanjing and 14 other provincial capitals can expect this winter's chilliest morning on Wednesday, as a new cold front sweeps across the country.
17 Dec 2014 - 10:36am
Jurors in the city's highest-profile graft trial will carry over their deliberations into a third day to discuss the charges against former chief secretary Rafael Hui Si-yan and Sun Hung Kai...
17 Dec 2014 - 7:57am
An impressive feat of mountaineering today saw yet another giant banner hung up in Hong Kong, this time on Victoria Peak.
17 Dec 2014 - 10:28am
 
Property analysts and developers do not see any disruption in Hong Kong's housing market after the government's proposed move to increase the supply of private homes to 19,000 a year.
17 Dec 2014 - 8:31am
Half of Hong Kong's elderly smokers aged over 65 die from related illnesses such as lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases, a study has found.
17 Dec 2014 - 9:14am
The show will go on. The Tourism Board has vowed to continue its annual New Year countdown over Victoria Harbour despite political instability in the wake of the Occupy protests.
17 Dec 2014 - 2:08am
 
A judge refused former Birmingham City Football Club boss Carson Yeung Ka-sing's application for bail, pending appeal against his conviction and six-year jail term for laundering HK$721 million....
17 Dec 2014 - 8:34am
Running may be increasingly popular in Hong Kong but some say the government is dragging its feet when it comes to supporting key events and engaging the public.
17 Dec 2014 - 7:26pm
Every donor or beneficiary who takes part in Operation Santa Claus has a story to share. Institution or individual, they talk about what differences the year-end fundraising campaign made for them...
17 Dec 2014 - 4:25am
The insurance industry fears frequent claims by chronic patients may push up all premiums for the government's proposed voluntary health insurance scheme, representatives claim.
17 Dec 2014 - 4:25am
After a construction worker on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge died on Friday, leaders of the city's construction union called for heightened measures to avoid similar incidents in the future....
17 Dec 2014 - 4:25am
The justice secretary has defended himself against criticism from members of his alma mater that he has exploited the courts in handling the Occupy protests.
17 Dec 2014 - 4:25am
 
Three men who were cleared of blackmailing a former company chairman over a shares dispute are facing a new lawsuit related to a HK$135 million stock deal for the same firm, according to a High...
17 Dec 2014 - 4:25am
Hong Kong's exports will increase at a slightly slower pace of 3 per cent next year, the Trade Development Council (TDC) predicts.
17 Dec 2014 - 11:53am
Several human rights groups have set up a database to collect visual or written accounts of police violence as an alternative to evidence collected by the force's internal complaints mechanism,...
17 Dec 2014 - 12:51am
 

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