Hong Kong News
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Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety takes its mission very seriously in ensuring that food sold in Hong Kong is safe and fit for consumption. The regulations governing preservatives, pesticide residues and bacterial contamination are strictly enforced.
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Rope skipping is a long-standing technique for undertaking physical exercise. To hit one hundred in a few minutes is regarded as a sign of good fitness. To break the world record, though, requires something special.
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Fearing violent protests, authorities in Hong Kong have glued down bricks onto pavements in order to prevent the same activities that occurred during the New Year when officials from mainland China visited.
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Hong Kong remains the most connected place in the world, according to a recent study conducted by the GfK Connected Consumer Index.
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Over the past three years, more residents of Hong Kong are fleeing the Chinese autonomous territory to escape the rising social tensions and low job prospects with the United States their preferred destination.
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Police in Hong Kong raided the offices of Uber, the ride-sharing mobile app, and five drivers were arrested after accepting fares from undercover officers.
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Scientists in the U.S. are calling for a ban on the import of live salamanders to save their wild brethren from a deadly fungus that has wiped out their populations in the Netherlands and caused a rapid decline in salamander populations across Europe.
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‘Wild City’ director Ringo Lam returns to the world of gritty Hong Kong cinema in this tale of corruption and conscience, which screened at the Fantasia Film Festival.
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Innovative DNA technology is now able to put a face on what has always been an anonymous crime. Litter bugs beware, especially if you live in Hong Kong, where garbage tossers could see their faces plastered on electronic billboards.
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When wildlife officials needed help identifying several species of turtles and tortoises whose shells and shell fragments were sent unlawfully to an Ontario herbal supply company, they knew paleontologist Don Brinkman was their man.
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A 29-year-old yoga teacher performed yoga non-stop over 40 hours in his Hong Kong studio to set a new Guinness World Record.
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A baby girl born in a Hong Kong hospital was found to be carrying her twins. The extremely rare birth, called fetus-in-fetu, only occurs in one in 500,000 cases. The child underwent surgery at three weeks of age to remove the fetuses.
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One restaurant in Hong Kong has gotten rather feisty with its wait staff and listed strict new rules that they must follow, and if they don't they will be punished with stiff fines or even possibly be fired.
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Despite concerns about the subsiding of Blackberry, CEO John Chen and the company have completed the first phase of their two-year turnaround plan.
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A Chinese restaurant owner in northern Shaanxi province had admitted to lacing his popular food with opium, so his customers will keep coming back. He was detained by police for 10 days after his admission.
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has joined up with Chinese billionaire Wang Jing in literally slicing Nicaragua in half in the construction of a rival to the Panama Canal. The $49 billion project is expected to break ground in December of this year.
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Hong Kong based iBerry launches two more KitKat-based devices set to gain a greater presence in the Indian markets. The Auxus Linea L1 smartphone and Auxus AX04 tablet are set to be sold online on June, 25.
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A group of smugglers tried to get a whopping 32 cases of luggage filled with ivory through Hong Kong customs. They were caught and lost $7.9 million HK in smuggled ivory, the equivalent of $1 million USD.
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IBM has successfully started one state of the art data center in the Hong Kong for its SoftLayer cloud computing service providing division. This is part of IBM's strategy to strengthen its cloud computing business operations across the globe.
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China has many cities, and each has a certain sense of style that is reflected in hotels ranging from traditional Chinese to Japanese to Western.
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Dozens of trade union members, labor rights groups and student groups marched in the streets Thursday, protesting against low pay and the use of temporary workers.
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Dressed in Maoist garb, protesters staged a parody of a communist rally in one of Hong Kong’s busy commercial centers, where tourists from mainland China often come to purchase items unavailable on the mainland.
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Long-awaited welfare changes to affect thousands of refugees, have come into effect this weekend in Hong Kong. But not everyone is satisfied with them.
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Billionaire entertainment mogul Run Run Shaw, who founded Shaw Brothers Studios and is credited with bringing the kung fu or martial arts genre of movies to a mainstream audience, has died at home, aged 107.
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Lufsig, an IKEA stuffed toy wolf, has become a best-seller and symbol of solidarity and protest after being thrown as a sign of dissent at Hong Kong's territorial leader Leung Chun-ying.
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In the International Financial Center mall on Hong Kong Island, a modern Apple Store rises in glass and steel above the busy streets as a monument to technology.
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To get my working visa for China, I took a quick trip to Hong Kong which is part of China but is also considered a separate country with a British heritage.
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Due to the severity of the oncoming typhoon Usagi, more than 400 flights have been cancelled from Hong Kong. Ferry services have also been suspended due to rough waters.
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In ‘Drug War,’ a man turns informant to avoid the death penalty after being arrested for running a methamphetamine lab in China.
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A tropical cyclone warning gives a bustling Hong Kong an ominous ambiance. It means the ever-present glow of the noonday sun is interrupted by grey, ashen clouds, rain on one end of the sidewalk, the sun on the other and Hong Kong’s signature humidity.
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Hong Kong celebrates the start of 2013 with a firework display. YouTube
Fresh shark fins drying on sidewalk in Hong Kong. Cloneofsnake
Protest against the new education system in Hong Kong, July 29, 2012. Video screen capture
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Outside a Hong Kong mall, lights wish all a Merry Christmas
The Evergreen Hotel serves a nice, reasonably-priced breakfast in its cafe
A mall in Hong Kong displays a Christmas tree also
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Protest in Hong Kong on January 1st, 2013. Courier Mail
Inside the New York-style bar
Apple experts gathered near the glass windows
Hong Kong Cleanup and an ad firm hired a lab to test the DNA left on litter and then projected a digital image of what the culprits might look like. Newsy
Two Hong Kong ferries collide near Lamma Island. Video screen capture
Hong Kong Lunar New Year Fireworks 2007. KC Kong
Chinese Baby Born 'Pregnant' With Twins In Abdomen Due To Fetus-In-Fetu Condition. YouTube
Inside the Turkish restaurant located near Victoria Bay in Kowloon
Hong Kong Cleanup and an ad firm hired a lab to test the DNA left on litter and then projected a digital image of what the culprits might look like. Newsy
Japanese Army attacked North Point. The chimneys belong to North Point Power Station 1941 Mainichi Newpaper, Japan
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