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Hong Kong

Type: Country

Name: Hong Kong

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 11 Documents (in Politics)

Tiananmen Square protest leader put on trial

A student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has been put on trial by China, one day after Barack Obama departed from Beijing.Zhou Yongjun, 42, faces a third prison term in China after being handed over to the mainland by the police in Hong ... [Telegraph - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Human Rights, China, Beijing

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 4 Documents

MarketWatch Inc

MarketWatch First Take: Hong Kong warns it's time to ease off the gas

Commentary: Hong Kong warning signals it's time to ease off the gas‹ Previous ColumnFirst Take ›Story Comments Screener (23)Alert Email PrintLONDON (MarketWatch) -- Friday's warning from Hong Kong's central bank that an asset bubble is looming illustrates ... [MarketWatch - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Hong Kong, MarketWatch Inc, Norman Chan

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 7 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Politics)

Donald Tsang

Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy

Hong Kong on Wednesday released a political reform blueprint for electoral arrangements in 2012 for its legislature and leader that will have a key bearing on the city’s progress towards universal suffrage in 2017. After a three-month consultation, a ... [The Saudi Gazette - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Hong Kong, Beijing, Donald Tsang

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 10 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

Minsheng Bank raises $5.4b in HK IPO

HONG KONG - Minsheng Banking Corp, China's first privately-owned lender, raised HK$30.1 billion ($5.4 billion) in its Hong Kong initial public offering, even as private equity firm Hopu Investment Management decided against buying into the deal, sources ... [Today Online - 11/20/2009]

Entities: China Minsheng Bank, IPO, Hong Kong, Private Equity

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Time shifts to Hong Kong as Sydney and...

HONG KONG - Time magazine will transfer its operations in Sydney and Auckland to its regional office in Hong Kong in January 2010. A new sales structure will be announced shortly. In a statement, Time said it would maintain its separate advertising editions ... [Media Magazine - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Sydney (Australia), Hong Kong, Auckland

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents (in Politics)

Democrats reject Hong Kong 'democracy blueprint'

Pro-democracy politicians in Hong Kong have rejected a new government proposal to change the way it chooses its leader and legislators.They say the so-called 'democracy blueprint' unveiled by Chief Administration Secretary Henry Tang, falls short of the ... [ABC Radio Australia - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Hong Kong, Democratic Party (HK), Fred Li, Beijing

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 3 Documents

Nomura Holdings Inc

Wonder Auto to Present at Nomura Green Month Conference in Hong Kong

JINZHOU CITY, China, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Wonder Auto Technology, Inc. ("Wonder Auto" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of automotive electric parts, suspension products and engine components in China, today announced that the ... [FinanzNachrichten.de - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Nomura Holdings Inc, Wonder Auto Technology Inc, Hong Kong

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 20 hours ago - 5 Documents

Hong Kong dollar steady despite weak stocks

HONG KONG, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The following is a snapshot of the Hong Kong foreign exchange and money market on Friday.Latest Previous DayHK$ SPOT 7.7500/01 7.7500/01FORWARDSThree-month -53/-49 -51/-48Six-month -109/-101 -107/-102One-year -237/-227 ... [Sharenet - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Hong Kong, US Dollar, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 17 hours ago - 3 Documents

HK cen bank warns of asset bubble risk, fund inflows

HONGKONG/HKMA (UPDATE 2):UPDATE 2- (Refiles to remove extraneous quote)* Record $73 bln fund flows into HK raise asset bubble fears* C.bank head says rising Asian rates could aggravate inflows* Surging inflows pose problems for many emerging mkts (Adds ... [Forbes.com - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Hong Kong, Norman Chan, US Dollar, Manoj Kumar

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Economy)

Hong Kong's October underlying CPI falls 0.3%

HONG KONG, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The underlying consumer price index of Hong Kong for October fell 0.3 percent year on year, statistics authority said Friday.The composite consumer price index rose by 2.2 percent year on year, representing a larger growth ... [Xinhua News Agency - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Spl Admin Region, Census

First Reported 22 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 7 Documents (in Market News)

World stocks and dollar both gain

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian shares slipped on Friday, but recovered some early losses, while the dollar was steady after U.S. data raised fears that a global economic recovery could lose momentum.European shares, however, were expected to bounce back ... [Reuters Canada - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Hedge Fund, United States, Nikkei Index

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Is an Asset Bubble Forming in Hong Kong’s ETF?

You are currently following Tom LydonStop FollowingYou are no longer following Tom LydonAbout this author:Font Size:PrintEmailAfter a slew of measures and policies that pumped world economies full of money, a lot of cash found its way into Asia, and Hong ... [Seeking Alpha - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Hong Kong, Tom Lydon, Norman Chan, International Monetary Fund

Quotes

Lee Porter, Asia-Pacific managing director at Liquidnet in Hong Kong, says: "When you have a monopoly [on trading and execution] in a market, you can do what you like with pricing, and that's what has happened. [As a result], you haven't seen proliferation of trading venues happen yet in this region, but it will come, and when it does, jurisdictions will need a legal framework in place."

Liquidnet courts Asia-Pacific regulators [Asian Investor - 1 hour ago]

...A newspaper of 17 June 1941 survives. "Ernest Hemingway Says China Needs Pilots as Well as Planes to Beat Japanese in the Air" its headline records. By December, he could have said that about Hong Kong

Robert Fisk’s World: Scars of the past reveal Britain's doomed empire in Hong Kong [The Independent - 2 hours ago]

Mr Siu said the handover is another milestone in the preparations for the Shanghai Expo, adding construction work will start as soon as possible. "We will then move to the interior fitting out and installation of exhibits. All work is due to be finished by March, in time for a trial run in April" he said. Hong Kong's exhibition theme is Smart Card, Smart City, Smart Life...

HK's Shanghai Expo site handed over [ISD.gov.hk - 2 hours ago]

"We believe that China's wealth market offers an attractive window of opportunity for banks" Frankie Leung, a BCG partner in Hong Kong, told reporters in Beijing...

World banks in a race for Chinese wealth of $7.6 trillion [Ecommerce Journal - 4 hours ago]

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Blogs

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Sackboy Gets Furried By Sonic The Hedgehog [Dow... [Kotaku - 4 hours ago] Sonic the Hedgehog fans looking for something 2D and side-scrolling to tide them over until Sega's "Project Needlemouse" pokes its way to consoles can spend some ...
Photographs of residents in their tiny flats in... [Boing Boing - 6 hours ago] Michael Wolf took 100 photos of people living in Hong Kong's oldest public housing estate. Each flat is 100 square feet. Almost every room has the same kind ...
Beth Nonte Russell: "Oba-Mao", What D... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 7 hours ago] Just before Christmas in 1999, I got off a flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco with a frail, 13-month-old baby girl in my arms. Until a week before, ...
Highlights of Day 2 at GSMA Mobile Asia Congres... [Communities Dominate Brands - 10 hours ago] I gave my review and comments on Day 1 of the GSM Association's big Mobile Asia Congress that was held ere in Hong Kong this week. I gave Twitter updates also about ...
Will Tomorrow’s Millionaires Come From China an... [WSJ.com: The Wealth Report - 10 hours ago] The wealth headlines of the past few days tell a stark tale: The U.S. has slow growth and higher taxes. In India and China, the population of billionaires and millionaires ...

Audio/Video

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Handbags as loan collateral [CNN.com - Video - 11/19/2009]
Rubinstein Says `Tide Has Turned' Against Tax E... [Bloomberg - YouTube - 11/13/2009]
Strong winds for China power IPO [Reuters - YouTube - 11/10/2009]
Strong winds for China power IPO [Reuters Video: Business - 11/10/2009]
Spending big in Hong Kong [CNN.com - Video - 11/10/2009]

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