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CHEUNG Kong Holdings Ltd, the developer controlled by Asia's richest man, is canceling the sale of HK$1.4 billion of hotel rooms after Hong Kong's securities regulator began a probe into the transactions.

Shares in Severn Trent today leapt more than 15% after the FTSE 100 water supplier received a foreign takeover bid which could value it at more than A 5 billion.

Often referred to as "Superman" in Hong Kong because of his business prowess, Li Ka-shing is the richest businessman in Asia, and chairs conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong Holdings, a property group.

Hong Kong licks port-strike wounds By Kent Ewing HONG KONG - After 40 days of rancor and acrimony, one of this city's longest-running and most bitter labor disputes is over, but the repercussions will be felt for years to come.

Facebook , owner of the world's most popular social-networking service, is in talks to acquire mobile-mapping application provider Waze Inc.

Hong Kong stocks fell on Thursday, snapping a four-day winning streak, led by declines in property developers.

A group of directors appointed by Telecom Italia SpA to review a potential merger with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.

Husky Energy Inc. said Tuesday it's getting ready to assemble its massive Liwan offshore platform in the South China sea, with natural gas expected to start flowing late this year or early next.

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Hong Kong shares may start higher on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street's strength on solid earnings and a brighter economic outlook.

Port workers at billionaire Li Ka- shing's Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.

May 3, 2013 -- Li Ka-Shing, the richest man in Asia, has given $31 million to Oxford University in England to fund a new drug discovery and healthcare delivery institute.

Hong Kong dockworkers have accepted a 9.8 percent pay increase, ending a 40-day strike that slowed traffic at one of the world's busiest ports.

The many economical and ecological benefits to using human excrement and urine as fertiliser are not to be sniffed at.

Striking dock workers at billionaire Li Ka-shing 's Hongkong International Terminals Ltd.

New Century Hotel Group, China's biggest privately-owned hotel chain operator, plans to raise up to $300 million in the first initial public offering by a real estate investment trust in Hong Kong in two years, IFR reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the plans.

Born to Hong Kong parents, Nathanael Wei is the youngest member of Britain's House of Lords.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron waits to speak in the newly opened 'Li Ka-shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery' at Oxford University in Oxford, southern England May 3, 2013.

Protesters chant slogans and display an effigy of Li Ka- shing, chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.