New Life in Old Hong Kong - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
WAN CHAI used to be best known among foreigners as an area crowded with seedy bars and massage parlors, but it remained popular for locals, filled with historic tenement blocks, old-fashioned street markets by day and youngsters shooting hoops after ...
Celebrate the Tin Hau festival in Hong Kong - AsiaRooms ... - PR Leap
( PRLEAP.COM ) AsiaRooms.com highlights people who are making the trip to Hong Kong in April will find that the city comes alive with colourful and vibrant celebrations to mark the festival of Tin Hau. The festivities will be most prominent in the ...
Surfacing: New Life in Old Hong Kong - New York Times
At the forefront of this revival is the Pawn (62 Johnston Road; 852-2866-3444; thepawn.com.hk ), a gastropub, housed in a renovated three-story colonial building dating back to 1888. The Pawn is a bit of an oddity in a city where buildings rarely ...
Hong Kong seeks Brunei help on Islamic finance - Investors Business Daily
On a four-day visit here, Mar 21, 2010 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- [By James Kon] Hong Kong is seeking the cooperation and expertise of Brunei Darussalam to work together in putting Islamic Finance on par with conventional finance for the special ...
Shanghai's Rise Threatens Hong Kong - BusinessWeek
(Bloomberg) — Donald Tsang, consider yourself shanghaied. It happened on March 5, as Hong Kong's chief executive visited Beijing. There, local media confronted Tsang with a Bloomberg News article pointing out that Shanghai's economy exceeded the ...
HSBC hosts dinner for Hong Kong Financial Chief - Borneo Bulletin Sunday
HSBC Brunei last night hosted a dinner reception in honour of Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang. Tsang's three-day stop in Brunei Darussalam aims to foster understanding and economic ties between Hong Kong and the Sultanate. The reception ...
Filmart kicks off in Hong Kong - Variety
HONG KONG -- The galloping Chinese box office and 3D top the list of what the Asian biz will be buzzing about at Hong Kong's Filmart, which runs March 22 to 25. A majority of the top 10 Chinese-language box office hits in China were Hong Kong movies ...
Hong Kong Wins No Weekend Respite as Air Worsens for ... - BusinessWeek
March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s air quality worsened for a fourth day, even though the Central business district was largely closed for the weekend. Pollution reached 140 at 1 p.m. on the government’s gauge in Central, a “very high” level ...
Hong Kong Film Close-Up - Wall Street Journal
Images from films participating in the festival. But others are courageously optimistic about its ability to adapt. And Hong Kong has seen some notable triumphs over the past decade. The "Infernal Affairs" trilogy of 2002-03—a critical and ...
Boost for business ties with Hong Kong - Borneo Bulletin Sunday
Pehin Orang Kaya Laila Setia Dato Seri Setia Hj Abd Rahman, Minister of Finance II, (R) and John Tsang Chun Wah, the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, exchanging the signed agreement. Photos: James Kon Pehin Orang Kaya Laila Setia Dato Seri Setia Hj ...
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Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in West Bank
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