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“I appreciated Mr Li's situation and his priority accorded to the overall interest of the community. I asked him to re-consider seriously his resignation. After serious consideration, he insisted to tender his resignation letter to me this evening”

Donald Tsang, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region , said in a statement Saturday that he had accepted David Li's resignation from the Executive Council of HKSAR. via Xinhuanet

“The police panicked with the arrest as a result of social pressure, but the justice system should still have tried to get the facts right first”

The image of Hong Kong's police took a battering yesterday when charges were dropped against the first man arrested in connection with a celebrity sex-photo scandal. via Asia News Network

Singapore, after reporting its biggest budget surplus in at least a decade, said it will give back S$5.4 billion to help consumers cope with rising food and energy prices. via Bloomberg.com - Asia

HONG KONG : Hong Kong's benchmark index jumped 3 percent in early trade Thursday, tracking gains in regional bourses after Wall Street rose overnight. via International Herald Tribune

“Looking at the trends in other countries, we find that markets without stamp duties encourage more trading”

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing chairman Ronald Arculli on Tuesday said the government should consider cutting or cancelling stock-trading stamp duty from in its upcoming budget. via South China Morning Post

“The fall has been widely expected for today, but the current level may attract some buying interest later”

HONG KONG : Hong Kong's benchmark index dropped in early trade Monday after the Lunar New Year holidays, tracking losses on Wall Street last week. via International Herald Tribune

“The ISM number really deepens the fear of a U.S. recession”

HONG KONG : Hong Kong's benchmark index plunged more than 5 percent in morning trading Wednesday, pulled down by a sharp decline on Wall Street overnight. via International Herald Tribune

An exhibition highlighting Hong Kong's creativity and the richness of its design industry opened Friday in Toronto of Canada, the Information Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ... via People's Daily Online

E-mail: eeawpoon{at}ust.hk , 2 The authors are with the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China. via IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Predictive validity of the Chinese version of the Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire: Psychometric properties and its short version. via American Psychological Association

The Fixed Penalty Bill 2008 was gazetted in Hong Kong on Wednesday, which seeks to deal more effectively with the offense of smoking or carrying a lit cigarette, cigar or pipe in a statutory no smoking area or ... via People's Daily Online

“We are very happy that he will be reunited with his wife and family for Chinese New Year. We look forward to meeting him as soon as possible, ”

China has freed a Singapore Straits Times reporter, who was jailed for spying for Taiwan. via Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“Our experience during this period of change has enabled us to add our own insights on the application of the principles of Hong Accounting Financial Reporting Standards.”

Deloitte recently published " Financial Reporting in Hong Kong". This book of over 2,000 pages provides more than just an outline of current accounting standards. via Huliq.com

“Hong Kong is on the knife's edge”

Hong Kong finds itself caught between two powerful and opposing forces. On one hand is China with its `hot' economy and rising inflation concerns, while on the other the United States is heading for a possible ... via The Standard

His Excellency Dr Omar Bin Sulaiman, Governor of the Dubai International Financial Centre today welcomed The Honourable Sir Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, ... via AME Info

“Upon receipt of other applications for the snowstorm victims in the Chinese mainland, the Committee will process them as expeditiously as possible”

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government approved on Friday a grant of 8 million HK dollars from the Disaster Relief Fund for the Hong Kong Red Cross to provide emergency relief to snowstorm victims ... via People's Daily

“The lesson book says that a jau ga is a restaurant. But then it says jau lau also means restaurant? "Yes, same”

The Eskimos, so they say, have 12 different words for snow. Well, in Hong Kong, we have a dozen or more ways to say: Eat Here! The variety of Cantonese words that mean "place to eat" is pretty amazing. via International Herald Tribune