Hong Kong Privacy Chief Pushes for Regulation
By JEFFREY NG | Hong Kong's outgoing privacy commissioner Friday urged the government to consider legislation to better regulate the actions of service monopolies such as Octopus Holdings Ltd., after ...
Dead to finally find some rest in crowded Hong Kong
| Hong Kong - Hong Kong is planning to build a new columbarium to store the ashes of the deceased in the now-closed border area, a media report said Saturday. | The project targeted for completion by ...
Guangzhou gears up for better security before Games
Armed police take part in an anti-terror drill on Tuesday, July 26, 2010, in Dongguan, Guangdong province, in preparation for better security ahead of the Asian Games, scheduled to be held in Guangzho...
Guangzhou shifts to top gear ahead of 2010 Asian Games
| GUANGZHOU - Security forces in the city are all geared up for the 2010 Asian Games, scheduled to kick off on Nov 12. | The Guangzhou garrison command has issued detailed requirements on security mai...
FPI Overnight Brief
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 3:50 pm | Press Release: Foreign Policy Initiative | FPI Overnight Brief | July 30, 2010 | ________________________________________ | Special Announcements | FPI seeks college ...
Hong Kong wants Lions match in 2013
HONG KONG, July 31 (Reuters) - TheHong Kong Rugby Football Union (HKRFU) has held preliminary talks about hosting a British and Irish Lions match before the tour of Australia in 2013, local media repo...
Google agrees to delete WiFi data collected in Hong Kong
| HONG KONG桮oogle has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its "Street View" mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city's privacy commissioner said was a first. | The Internet gian...
Labor unions to 'hire' leaders
| Beijing - Labor union leaders across the country will receive their salaries from higher-level unions instead of companies that employ them by 2011, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) ...
Man who withdrew cash from broken ATM released
| Sentenced to five years in 2008, Xu Ting now out of jail on parole | Beijing - A man who was sentenced to five years in jail in 2008 for withdrawing 175,000 yuan ($25,735) from a malfunctioning ATM ...
Hong Kong tycoon buys up UK electricity networks
| The octogenarian Asian billionaire first approached EDF in March, beating off a range of competitors including the National Grid, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and several Canadian pension fund...
Google agrees to delete WiFi data collected in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its "Street View" mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city's privacy commissioner said was a first. | The Internet giant...
Eco-disasters up by 98% in China
| Beijing: China, the world's largest polluter, said the number of environmental accidents rose 98 per cent in the first six months of the year, as demand for energy and minerals lead to poisoned...
Hong Kong tycoon to buy UK power grids for 拢5.8b
| London/Hong Kong: Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is to buy UK power grids from France's EDF for £5.8 billion (Dh33.2 billion), the biggest full European acquisition by a North Asian gr...
Reportlinker Adds Global Top 10 Emerging LNG Markets - Analysis of Capacity, Trade Movements, Supply - Demand and Competitive Scenario to 2015
| , July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: | Global Top 10 Emerging LNG Markets - Analysis of Capacity, Trade Movemen...
Japanese firms targeted in China strikes
| BEIJING--Workers at 43 foreign companies, including 32 Japanese ones, have gone on strike in China during the past two months, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed. | The 43 companies were forced to compl...
Google agrees to delete WiFi data collected in Hong Kong
| The camera of a street-view car, used to photograph whole streets for Google maps. Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its "Street View" mapping service in Hong Kong, in w...
Silvercorp Files Preliminary Base Shelf Prospectus
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jul 30, 2010 (Marketwire via COMTEX News Network) -- | Silvercorp Metals Inc. ("Silvercorp" or the "Company") (TSX:SVM)(NYSE:SVM), has today filed a pr...
Google agrees to delete WiFi data collected in Hong Kong
| HONG KONG (AFP) – Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its "Street View" mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city's privacy commissioner said was ...
Shenzhen Stock Market Indices Weekly Update: The A Share Market Continues to Advance
| , July 30 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The A share market continued to advance this week. The CNINFO A Share Index, offering a benchmark for evaluating overall market trends in , closed at 2841.7 poi...
Chinese miner goes from corporate star to villain
| BEIJING — A month ago, Zijin Mining Group was a Chinese corporate star, a profitable gold and copper miner with ambitions to further expand abroad. | Today, Zijin is an environmental villain t...
Hong Kong tycoon broadcasts news online, denied Taiwan TV licence
| Taipei - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai launched an online news channel in Taiwan Friday, after the authorities denied his news channel a television broadcast licence. | The National Communication...
Electricite de France gets $9 billion Hong Kong bid for UK networks, but profits dive
PARIS (AP) — Electricite de France announced a plunge in profits Friday but was boosted by a surprisingly high euro6.9 billion ($9.02 billion) bid by East Asia's richest businessman for the util...
