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A Hong Kong newspaper reported that Swire Pacific was in advanced negotiations that would see Cathay Pacific taking over Dragonair.
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Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.
They would not be pleased to have it published back home that they planned a frolic in Paris or Hong Kong at the Treasury's expense.
Then Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, India, Pakistan, Damascus, Beirut, and to Rome, London, and Paris `` to look over wonderful talent ''.
`` Science In Action '', San Francisco's venerable television program, will be seen in Hong Kong this fall in four languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chiuchow and English, according to a tip from Dr. Robert C. Miller.
Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.
Hong Kong, India and Pakistan have been limiting exports of certain types of textiles to Britain for several years under the `` Lancashire Pact ''.
The Japanese want to increase exports to the U.S. While they have been curbing shipments, they have watched Hong Kong step in and capture an expanding share of the big U.S. market.
Hong Kong interests loudly protest limiting their exports to Britain, while Spanish and Portuguese textiles pour into British market unrestrictedly.
he wore a brown tweed sports jacket obviously tailored in Hong Kong, and he was of an age that marked him as a lieutenant.
This deprived him of liberty in Hong Kong, but he told Boats McCafferty that Hong Kong was a book he had read before, and the Navy would always bring him there again, some day.
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* Aberdeen, Hong Kong
* Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( Hong Kong Anglican Church ( Episcopal ))
Buddha's Birthday is celebrated in April ( here is pictured the Tian Tan Buddha in Hong Kong )
* 1971 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
* 1936 – Patrick Tse, Hong Kong director
* 1974 – Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor and director
* 2003 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer ( b. 1956 )
* 1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
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He edited the periodical Literary Front and the literary page of the newspaper Libao in Hong Kong and worked as a teacher.
He finally died in November 1969, but the outside world was not aware of this until a Hong Kong newspaper reported his death in 1974.
IHT began transmitting electronic images of newspaper pages from Paris to Hong Kong via satellite in 1980, making the paper simultaneously available on opposite sides of the planet.
After Cheung's death, Cheung's family published a full-page obituary in a Hong Kong newspaper, in which Tong was listed as a surviving spouse ( 未亡人 ).
For almost one month, Cheung's death dominated newspaper headlines in Hong Kong and his songs were constantly on the air.
Apple Daily's popularity as Hong Kong's second best selling newspaper, according to AC Nielsen, is derived from its concentration on celebrity coverage, brash news style, sensationalist news reportage and its anti-government political positions.
It is the first free newspaper in Hong Kong.
According to the Hong Kong Audit Bureau of Circulations in September 2002, the daily circulation of the newspaper was 302, 197 copies, making it the third largest daily newspaper in Hong Kong.
Ming Pao () is a Chinese language newspaper published by Ming Pao Group in Hong Kong.
According to a Media Credibility Survey conducted by Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006, Ming Pao was selected as the most credible Chinese language newspaper.
The homepage of Ming Pao was set up in 1995, one of the earliest newspaper websites in Hong Kong.
One of these was mistakenly printed in a Hong Kong newspaper as the real execution.
Oriental Daily News () is a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong.
In 1995, as the Hong Kong handover approached, Lai founded Apple Daily, a newspaper start-up that he was forced to finance with $ 100 million of his own money due to investor fear of association with a prominent critic of the Beijing government.
Sudden Weekly and Next Magazine rank first and second in circulation for Hong Kong ’ s magazine market while Apple Daily is the No. 2 newspaper in Hong Kong.
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Apple Daily was the first newspaper to use the massive graphics, bold headlines and full colour pages now common to all best-selling papers in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The loose regulation over the establishment of a newspaper makes Hong Kong home to many international media such as Asian Wall Street Journal and FEER, and publications with anti-Communist backgrounds such as The Epoch Times which is funded by Falun Gong.
The Holy See, who does not have an official diplomatic tie with China, publishes Kung Kao Po, a weekly newspaper published by the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.
* The Sun ( Hong Kong ), a Chinese-language newspaper
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Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.
An Australian journalist reported that several business deals in Hong Kong and Shanghai were lost by Australians because of local reactions.
In early 2012, it was reported that Ernst & Young has 10, 000 staff in mainland China and Hong Kong, which has quadrupled in a decade.
In Hong Kong, jumping is the most common method ( from any location ) of committing suicide, accounting for 52. 1 % of all reported suicide cases in 2006, and similar rates for the years prior to that.
Chop suey is widely believed to have been invented in America by Chinese immigrants, but in fact comes from Taishan ( Toisan ), a district of Guangdong Province ( Canton ), which was the home of many of the early Chinese immigrants to the U. S. The Hong Kong doctor Li Shu-fan reported that he knew it in Taishan in the 1890s.
On 6 July Hong Kong media carried headlines that Jiang was " critically ill ", while TV station ATV reported that Jiang had died in Beijing.
His reported favorite movie franchises included Friday the 13th, Rambo, Godzilla, and Hong Kong action cinema, and any movie starring Elizabeth Taylor.
* Rock carving located near Tung Wan Beach were reported by geologists in 1970, and are declared monuments of Hong Kong.
Reportedly, some members of the audience in Hong Kong and Taiwan repeatedly bought tickets and watched the feature in cinema over and over again in 1962, with some watching it over 20 times, a phenomenon also reported for features such as the Titanic ( 1997 ) and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) in the West.
Early in 2005, a research team at the University of Hong Kong reported finding a fifth human coronavirus in two pneumonia patients, and subsequently named it HKU1.
A similar outbreak of a mysterious respiratory disease is reported among healthcare workers in Hong Kong.
On March 20, WHO reported that several hospitals in Vietnam and Hong Kong were operating with half the usual staff, because many workers stayed home out of fear of getting infected.
The Hong Kong match, which drew a crowd of 39, 000 to see the All Blacks ( which had already clinched the Bledisloe Cup ) defeat the Wallabies 19 – 14, proved to be a financial success for the two unions, generating a reported £ 5. 5 million.
Some banks in Hong Kong were reported to be considering relocation if the proposed Article 23 is passed, out of the fear that the laws would restrict the free flow of information.
On 7 December 2002, it was reported in the press that ten foreign banks had told the government privately that the introduction of Article 23 would have disastrous consequences for Hong Kong, threatening its demise as Asia's financial capital.
The number of species of birds in Hong Kong is one third of that in China while the number of butterflies species is also one sixth of the total butterfly species in China according to surveys reported.
* On 18 June 1972, for the first time the use of electronic news gathering equipment, TVB reported Hong Kong's Tsui Ping Road landslide.
It was reported that, as early as 10 January, 2006, the Lam's family was in negotiation with Richard Li ( head of Hong Kong-based telecommunication giant PCCW ) and another local mass-media company for the sale of the newspaper.
RTHK reported that, four separate public surveys had been conducted in 1997, 2001, 2006, 2009, by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Wen Wei Po is ranked near bottom on the media credibility scale in all four occasions.
Then on September 23 it was reported by the Hong Kong-based news agency China News Service that the launch was tentatively scheduled for 03: 00 UTC on October 13.
Hong Kong newspapers, including Appledaily, Mingpao, Hong Kong Economic Times, Singtao and Takungpao ( the latter funded by the Chinese government ), have also reported the ants have been found in both Shenzhen and Wuchuan in Guangdong province.
She later reported the war from Finland, Hong Kong, Burma, Singapore, and Britain.
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