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Asian stock markets tumbled Friday after Wall Street plunged overnight and crude oil spiked above $140 a barrel for the first time, reigniting fears of a global economic slowdown
Hong Kong plans to launch a new exchange to trade fuel oil and other commodities in an effort to capitalize on the booming market for raw materials in China, officials announced Wednesday.
It's small, affluent, tech-savvy and it has a very obvious pollution problem -- Hong Kong is arguably an ideal destination for electric cars.
Greenpeace said Saturday its activists boarded a cargo ship in Hong Kong to block it unloading a container allegedly carrying toxic electronic waste from the United States.
Hong Kong officials say they plan to slaughter all live poultry in the territory's street markets after detecting the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.
Perveen Crawford became Hong Kong's first female pilot in 1995 and is soon to be Hong Kong's first female astronaut when she blasts off to sub-orbital space as a paying customer on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne.
New restrictions in visa requirements for China angers and perplexes the business community in Hong Kong
The Olympic torch relay wound its way through Hong Kong without incident Friday, beginning a series of runs on Chinese soil after stops in other nations that sometimes triggered protests.
Hong Kong prepared Friday to stage the Olympic torch relay, the first time the event will be held on the soil of the host of this year's Summer Games.
This is an anti-preaching site. No preaching. No self-righteousness.
Asian stock markets tumbled Friday after Wall Street plunged overnight and crude oil spiked above $140 a barrel for the first time, reigniting fears of a global economic slowdown
Hong Kong plans to launch a new exchange to trade fuel oil and other commodities in an effort to capitalize on the booming market for raw materials in China, officials announced Wednesday.
It's small, affluent, tech-savvy and it has a very obvious pollution problem -- Hong Kong is arguably an ideal destination for electric cars.
Greenpeace said Saturday its activists boarded a cargo ship in Hong Kong to block it unloading a container allegedly carrying toxic electronic waste from the United States.
Hong Kong officials say they plan to slaughter all live poultry in the territory's street markets after detecting the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.
Perveen Crawford became Hong Kong's first female pilot in 1995 and is soon to be Hong Kong's first female astronaut when she blasts off to sub-orbital space as a paying customer on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipOne.
New restrictions in visa requirements for China angers and perplexes the business community in Hong Kong
The Olympic torch relay wound its way through Hong Kong without incident Friday, beginning a series of runs on Chinese soil after stops in other nations that sometimes triggered protests.
Hong Kong prepared Friday to stage the Olympic torch relay, the first time the event will be held on the soil of the host of this year's Summer Games.
The Olympic torch returned to Chinese soil after a turbulent 20-nation tour, landing in Hong Kong where officials deported at least seven activists before the flame's arrival
First it was instant messaging during office hours that gave us the thrill of passing notes in class. Then it was ogling ourselves on Web cams, ranting our minds on blogs, uploading our baby photos on Flickr and poking each other on Facebook. These days, as corporate records show, we choose to spend our lunch breaks watching YouTube, if not chatting over Skype.
Hope has nearly faded for 18 Ukrainian sailors trapped in a tugboat that sank after hitting a Chinese cargo ship three days ago, officials said Tuesday.
The common flu has hit Hong Kong hard this year, leading to a massive school shutdown, overcrowding in hospitals -- and memories of SARS
Hong Kong officials gave kindergarten and primary school kids an early break for the Easter holiday in the midst of a widespread flu outbreak.
Hong Kong's government ordered Wednesday that all kindergartens and primary schools be closed for two weeks amid a flu outbreak, shutting down classes for more than a half million students
The KCR train sped north through Hong Kong's New Territories, on its way to the city's border town crossing with mainland China.
For years, Grant Thatcher rattled around Asia gathering wisdom about where to find the perfect martini in Bali, how to buy furniture in Bangkok, or who makes the smartest tweed jackets in Hong Kong. When friends started pestering him for tips, he decided to launch the Luxe City Guides in 2002. Now available for 22 cities in Asia, Europe, and North America (luxecityguides.com), the Luxe Guide is a three-by-six-inch, 20-panel accordion-pleated guide that will fit in a shirt pocket. "I want them to be sharp, acerbic, cheeky-like a smack in the mouth," says Thatcher, who edits each one himself. We caught up with Thatcher recently in Hong Kong for his always colorful take on travel.
People often ask me just how scary it is talking to "millions of viewers" all over the world.
Ah Kuan vividly recalls the day she was granted residency in Hong Kong. The 32-year-old woman had been longing to settle in the city ever since she married a Hong Kong construction worker four years ago. But status as a resident from mainland China meant she first had to join a long queue.
Citing her emotional problems, a Dutch diplomat couple gave their adopted Korean daughter back to Hong Kong's social welfare bureau, sparking outrage in Asia and Europe
Hong Kong's veteran stuntman and special effects expert Bruce Law is busy coordinating car stunts and pyrotechnic effects on the Shanghai set of the new Hollywood production "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" -- or "Mummy 3" for short -- starring Jet Li.
Analysis: A Thanksgiving Day snub to the US aircraft carrier shows that China's diplomacy still has worrisome elements of both vindictiveness and indecisiveness
Popular ex-civil servant Anson Chan wins a hotly contested legislative seat by promising to push for greater democracy in Hong Kong
China has refused nine U.S. Navy ships and one Air Force jet entry to Hong Kong in the past month, U.S. military officials said Friday.
The United States has filed a formal protest with China over the decision to deny port visits to a U.S. aircraft carrier and two other ships last week, an incident a Pentagon spokesman Wednesday called "baffling."
Concern about the economy plagued U.S. stocks at Wednesday's open, with the major indicators significantly lower.
In the decade since the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China, local movie-makers have faced daunting changes in the industry. A trend of fewer films being produced each year in Hong Kong at the time of the handover has continued into the 21st century.
AR: Hello, welcome to Talk Asia. I'm Anjali Rao. This week, as China marks the 10th anniversary of its rule over Hong Kong, we speak with the territory's Chief Executive Donald Tsang and look back at this year's historic election.
Chinese e-commerce portal Alibaba.com debuted on the Hong Kong stock market Tuesday, with its shares soaring 122 percent to 30 Hong Kong dollars ($3.87) from its issue price of 13.50 Hong Kong dollars ($1.74).
Environmental saviors can turn up in the most unexpected places. For the answer to our global waste management crisis, we need only look as far as our back gardens, for example.
Hong Kong has weathered much in the past 10 years: the Asian financial crisis, SARS, growing pollution woes and continuing questions about democracy.
Hong Kong police have arrested two men accused of trying to smuggle more than 7,000 live pet turtles to mainland China, the government said Friday.
The clouds on Sunday threatened to rain cats and dogs, as it has been in recent days -- a perfect echo of the weather exactly 10 years ago when Hong Kong became China's after 156 years of British rule.
Well, we were wrong.
A photographer, a cartoonist, a painter and a writer: Four artists whose works are tied to Hong Kong, recently reflected with CNN.com on the city, the 10th anniversary of its handover to China and the future of their region:
It was the skyline that he couldn't see that caused Joe DiSorbo to change his mind about moving from Singapore to Hong Kong.
One year ago Alina Huo traded her New York apartment for a bedroom at her parents' home so she could return to her native Hong Kong.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday released passengers on board a flight from Hong Kong after determining that the flu-like symptoms in some of them were normal.
At first glance the closed-off cluster of buildings in central Hong Kong seem quaintly out of place, a bricks and mortar time stamp of the city's British colonial heritage.
Pulsating with neon, powered by commerce and dripping with cash, Hong Kong's crowded streets form a frenetic, freewheeling gateway to Asia, improbably perched on a barren rock by the shores of the typhoon-plagued South China Sea. While once a golden land of opportunity for anyone able to ink their name at the foot of a contract and willing to work without sleep from dawn until a dusk several years later, times are changing fast for the former British colony. The return of sovereignty to Beijing in 1997 has cast a pall of political uncertainty over Hong Kong's six million people, while China's economic rise and the galloping spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome have added to their woes. At times the dripping heat of summer, the semi-permanent shroud of pollution drifting in from mainland Chinese factories and the pitch dark shadows cast by a concrete jungle of tower blocks can prove unbearable. But from the Blade Runner world of Mong Kok -- where Triad gangsters still hold sway -- to the Zen Buddhis
Few places in the world pack so many contrasts in such a small space as Hong Kong.
When Hong Kong's notorious Kai Tak airport closed in 1998, frequent fliers breathed a collective sigh of relief at the thought that they would no longer have to endure a perilous right-angled landing through mountains and residential tower blocks.
Do you have an inside tip on the Chinese city? Send us your suggestions and ideas below.
The Scene meets Hong Kong-based cinematographer Christopher Doyle to discuss how his adopted city has inspired him in his work.
The Scene visited Hong Kong to meet cinematographer Christopher Doyle. Do you have a favorite hangout in the Chinese city? What's your favorite Christopher Doyle film? Send us your suggestions and ideas and we'll post your comments below.
Check out The Scene's recommendations for the Chinese city and send us your own suggestions and ideas below.
Today Hong Kong's international airport is bustling with activity -- a sign the good economic times are back in this territory that sits on China's southern coast.
One of Asia's busiest borders might be sealed if the deadly H5N1 bird flu starts spreading from human to human, according to a media report.
Below is a list of key questions and answers regarding the bird flu that is sweeping across Asia and has arrived on Europe's doorstep.
Next time you are in Hong Kong for business, you may want to take a tour of the city using your mobile phone.
The main Hong Kong stock market index lost 300 points, or more than 2%, on Thursday on profit-taking as well as rotation out of energy stocks.
It is a hot and humid mid-summer's day in Hong Kong, with the temperatures hitting 31 degrees Celsius (87.8 Fahrenheit), but my toes, ankles and legs are freezing and my shawl is barely keeping me warm.
In Hong Kong, get ready to join the business fast track.
Hong Kong smokers beware -- your legislators haven't finished with you just yet.
Horse racing is the stuff of legend.
Airdate: March 12th, 2005
The dollar rallied for a third straight session Monday, boosted by speculation over faster interest rates hikes and statements from Hong Kong cautioning Asian central banks against boosting euro holdings at the expense of the greenback.
When the Discovery channel's television show Animal Planet unveiled its line of pet food products at a Chicago trade show in October 2004, the real surprise was that all 35 of the tasty consumables...
As the tremendous extent of the damage caused by the Asian tsunamis becomes apparent, a number of performers are stepping up to help.
At least 390 non-nationals are confirmed to have been killed in the tsunamis of December 26, and thousands more are missing. Thai officials, however, say at least 1,300 of their 5,300 dead are non-nationals.
On Sunday morning, shortly before killer waves reached Sri Lanka and India, a report was transmitted to a monitoring station in Hong Kong.
As warnings mount that a major outbreak of bird flu is a matter of when, not if, concerns that Hong Kong will be among the hardest hit areas from such a scenario are growing.
Hong Kong's main pro-democracy candidates have made disappointing gains in legislative elections, adding just three seats to their tally.
On any given day, trillions of dollars' worth of cash changes hands around the world. Most transactions involve traditional forms of currency--paper money and coins--but a growing number occur via ...
A strong storm system has closed down Hong Kong, bringing with it heavy rain and forcing millions of people to rush home after the government issued its third highest weather warning.
China has begun its review of Hong Kong's constitution, hours after police clashed with protesters, ejecting dozens who were rallying outside the territory's government headquarters.
Police in Hong Kong have forcibly removed protesters after an overnight vigil protesting Beijing's plans to issue a binding ruling on the territory's election laws.
Below is a list of key questions and answers regarding the bird flu that is sweeping across Asia.
China has asked the United States to "stop interfering" in its internal affairs, following calls by Washington for more democracy in Hong Kong.
The cheery cries of "Welcome!" from the front-desk clerk at Hong Kong's Metropole Hotel give nary a hint that this three-star inn was ground zero for the deadly SARS outbreak. But it was on the hot...
As a deadly virus spawned in China rages from Toronto to Thailand, readers in Beijing are snapping up copies of "SARS Is Not Terrible." The 28-page booklet assures mainlanders that they can avoid c...
There may be war in Iraq, but only one story matters here in Hong Kong--killer bugs. The city feels like something out of a Camus novel. Everyone is wearing masks; the pharmacies are sold out of t...
In spite of Gillian Anderson, I'm not much of a fan of The X-Files, or of conspiracy theories in general. I've met some of the world's leaders, and they seem a lot like the rest of us: Most of the ...
Don't tell anyone, but I've come up with a nifty financial scheme. First, a few of my billionaire speculator friends quietly take a short position in Microsoft stock. Then we spread the rumor that ...
THIS MONTH:
Our analysis of the funeral industry in September's "The Final Payment" drew some of the angriest mail we've received in months. The article explained that funeral prices typically include markups ...
Delicate Song porcelain, Ming dynasty furniture, Shang bronzes, richly embroidered ancient silk robes: Hong Kong is the hub of world trade in Chinese antiques, many of them smuggled out of the mai...
Hong Kong stocks are on a roll, up 27% this year vs. a 3% rise for all non-U.S. markets. Nonetheless Hong Kong is still one of the cheapest markets in East Asia--its price/earnings ratio of 13 seem...
Not too many years ago Hong Kong was a corruption-ridden colonial enclave. Today it's a leading international financial center with a reputation for integrity. And tomorrow? That question is on a l...
When China's dictatorship of the proletariat exercises its right to rule Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, there likely won't be chaos or military suppression. Instead, look for an unusual form of polity:...
Foreign stock markets are suddenly back. Bourses from Hong Kong to Brazil have already posted double-digit returns this year--even surpassing the scorching Dow--and beguiled U.S. investors are once...
THE FATE OF HONG KONG
Yeah, right, the convergence of computers and telecommunications, blah, blah, blah. What does that mean for me? How about the cheapest phone calls you've ever made in your life?
As befits a man born in Holland, the first foreign stock Maurits E. Edersheim bought when he was a young investor on Wall Street was Royal Dutch/Shell. That was in the late 1940s, when only the int...
THEM that's got, shall get, Billie Holiday crooned, and that pretty much says it for the world's richest folk. The most prosperous, unlike the rest of us in these difficult economic times, have mor...
Cash-rich Asian buyers, led by Chinese investors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, are on a spree buying U.S. office buildings, hotels, and condos. Unlike the wave of Japanese who paid premium prices for ...
SMART-LOOKING SHOPS along Xizheng Street sell Japanese cameras, Reebok shoes, French cognac, Motorola mobile phones, and M&M candy. After hours, people pour into karaoke sing-along bars, coffeehous...
The Hong Kong stock market, up 41% since January, has topped all the world's bourses this year. One reason: The British colony's stocks are the best way for adventurous investors to place bets on n...
Western companies will have to hurry to catch up in Asia. Every three days a new Japanese factory opens in Thailand. Hong Kong multibillionaire Li Ka-shing already broadcasts television programs, w...
With so many business people beating a retreat from Britain's crown colony before China takes over in 1997, plenty of laid-off Wall Streeters seem to think it's the place for a job. Headhunters say...
I think the 1990s will be the most glorious period in world history. Why? Scientific research is improving the quality, variety, and richness of life. And there are no major wars between nations. W...
It is a Wall Street truism that the best time to buy is when everyone else is selling. If so, there's no better place to be stocking up on shares than Hong Kong. Panicked by political chaos in the ...
WHEN ARE YOU coming back?'' implore the telexes, faxes, and phone calls from China to foreign partners. In raising the question -- and in their hurried, nervous efforts to reassure Western investor...
THEY ARE the latest business buccaneers to mix it up in freewheeling Hong Kong. Tailored and sophisticated, with French cuffs just right, they command seemingly unlimited cash to snap up prime real...
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