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  1. Olympic horse waste plant ready to roll in Hong KongRead the original story

    1 hr ago | Shanghai Daily

    HONG Kong had set up an animal waste composting plant and was ready to handle the horse-stable waste from the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic equestrian events here from August to September, said Hong Kong's ...

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  2. Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Neisseria meningitidis, FranceRead the original story

    6 hrs ago | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    ... (MIC>0.06 mg/L) and has been reported only in sporadic cases in Greece, France, Australia, Spain, Argentina and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China ( 25 ). However, recent reports have described ...

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  3. Chinese mainland, HK to sign new economic accordRead the original story

    7 hrs ago | China Daily

    The fifth phase of the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement will be signed on July 29, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Donald Tsang said on Friday.

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  4. Asian stocks tumble on US economic fearsRead the original story

    10 hrs ago | Daily Times

    * Japan falls nearly 2% and Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore slip 1.5% or more HONG KONG: Asian shares tumbled Friday with Australia suffering heavy falls of more than three percent on fresh worries of US economic woe due in part ...

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  5. Police manhandle HK journalistsRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | South China Morning Post

    The violence, during which a South China Morning Post photographer was detained, was strongly condemned by Hong Kong media groups.

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  6. Fifth-phase signingRead the original story

    15 hrs ago | Shanghai Daily

    THE fifth phase of the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement will be signed on Tuesday, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Donald Tsang said yesterday.

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  7. CCID Consulting Analyzes Characteristics of 2008 China Flash Disk MarketRead the original story

    20 hrs ago | PR Newswire

    BEIJING, July 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong , recently analyzed ...

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  8. Dragon Boat Fest has new boatsRead the original story

    21 hrs ago | Queens Courier Online

    The 18th annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York, a major free event in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, is going to have two new boats in the race.

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  9. Hong Kong stocks drop sharply after Wall Street's weakness; energy stocks hit hardRead the original story

    23 hrs ago | International Herald Tribune

    HONG KONG : Hong Kong stocks dropped sharply Friday, tracking Wall Street lower as investors sold energy-related stocks.

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  10. S&P: 76 Chinese firms to be world-class giantsRead the original story

    Yesterday | China Daily

    ... the major part of the list. The Chinese mainland tops the list with 76 hopefuls. In addition, 14 companies from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region are also included on the list. The attributes used to identify the companies are share price ...

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  11. HK's Q3 business expected to surgeRead the original story

    Yesterday | China Daily

    Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's volume of business and output in all sectors is expected to surge in the third quarter, according to Hong Kong Census Statistics Department's quarterly business ...

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  12. HK journalists forced to leave restricted area in BeijingRead the original story

    Yesterday | South China Morning Post

    ... journalists filming and photographing chaotic scenes as thousands queued for tickets. Wong and a reporter from a Hong Kong-based television network were among several journalists and photographers from the city who were forced to leave a restricted ...

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  13. Tsang deeply concerned about Cheung scandal (World) (2 hrs 56 mins...Read the original story

    Yesterday | The Standard

    Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen has expressed deep concern over the scandal surrounding former Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation commissioner Cheung Kam-kay. Cheung has been accused of using ...

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  14. Hong Kong exports fallRead the original story

    Yesterday | Daily Times

    HONG KONG: Hong Kong's exports dropped 0.6% in June y-o-y, official figures showed Thursday, as the slowing global economy and soaring commodity prices hit demand.

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  15. Asian stocks up despite Japan export fallRead the original story

    Yesterday | Daily Times

    * Tokyo bourse closed 2.18% higher as investors shrugged off data showing exports slipped 1.7% HONG KONG: Asian stocks closed mostly up Thursday on lower oil prices and moves to shore up the US housing market, with Japan rising more than two percent ...

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  16. 'Hot money' mystery in investmentRead the original story

    Thursday | Shanghai Daily

    HALF Hong Kong investment in the mainland nearly doubled in value from a year earlier, the Ministry of Commerce reported yesterday, although it was unclear how much of this investment was actually speculative ...

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  17. Hot Money and Inflation Risks Still Being Downplayed in ChinaRead the original story

    Thursday | The China Stock Blog

    In the first half of 2008, according to a Ministry of Commerce release Thursday, investment flows from Hong Kong to the mainland rose by 95% over the same period last year, to $23.4 billion.

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  18. Hong Kong index gives up early gains to close lower on selling in resources, oil issuesRead the original story

    Thursday | International Herald Tribune

    HONG KONG : Hong Kong's stock market fell Thursday, dragged down by selling in oil and resources companies.

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  19. PrePrint: Cost-Based Predictive Spatio-Temporal JoinRead the original story

    Thursday | IEEE Security & Privacy

    Wook-Shin Han , Kyungpook National University, Daegu Jaehwa Kim , Kyungpook National University, Daegu Byung Suk Lee , University of Vermont, Burlington Yufei Tao , Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong ...

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  20. HK's mainland investment up 95% in H1Read the original story

    Thursday | China Daily

    First-half Hong Kong Special Administrative Region investment in the Chinese mainland nearly doubled in value from a year earlier, the Ministry of Commerce reported on Thursday, although it's unclear how much ...

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