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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In a continuing effort to address concerns that reporters at Bloomberg News looked at terminal subscribers’ data, parent company Bloomberg appointed Samuel Palmisano, a former chairman and chief executive of IBM, to review its privacy and data standards. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Time was running out for New Year celebrations in a darkened Kwun Tong housing development a few years ago. Electricity supply to Tsui Ping Estate had been cut shortly after 9pm when smoke was seen coming from switches in the ground-floor transformer room. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A nurse who was ordered to pay her ex-boyfriend almost HK$1 million in compensation for harassing him for six years failed to appear in court on Thursday and cannot be found. Joey Yip Lai-kuen, 34, failed to attend Thursday’s High Court hearing in which her ex-boyfriend Lau Tat-wai, 30, was seeking court orders for the disclosure and freezing of her assets so that he could be paid the HK$946,673 she was ordered in April to pay him. Her assets include the proceeds from the sale of her HK$2.8 million property in Tsang Kwan O, the court heard on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Google chief executive Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally, but he says he remains fit enough to run the internet’s most influential company. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Consumer Council warned Hongkongers on Wednesday to beware of the deceptive tactics used by some salespeople trying to entice them into buying or renewing hotel or dining club memberships. The consumer watchdog said that it had received 124 complaints dealing with club memberships last year, down from 132 in 2011. And despite fewer complaints, the watchdog said, the nature of the sales practices had worsened from merely misleading to bordering on deceptive. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country’s tallest hydroelectric dam despite acknowledging it will have an impact on plants and rare fish. The dam, with a height of 314 metres, will serve the hydropower project on the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province. To be built over 10 years by a subsidiary of state power firm Guodian Group, it is expected to cost 24.68 billion yuan (HK$31.17 billion) in investment. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Experts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan’s west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima crisis. Mothballing the reactor at Japan’s oldest nuclear station would be the most stringent measure adopted in Japan since the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station north of Tokyo exposed failings in nuclear oversight. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Taiwanese woman has been charged with human trafficking after allegedly sending hundreds of Cambodians to work in slave-like conditions on fishing boats off Africa, police said on Wednesday. Lin Yu Shin, owner of the now defunct Giant Ocean International Company, was arrested in the tourist hub of Siem Reap last Friday, according to Chiv Phally of the interior ministry’s department tackling human trafficking. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A jury on Tuesday dealt another defeat to casino mogul Sheldon Adelson in his nine-year fight with a Hong Kong businessman, awarding the former consultant US$70 million for helping Las Vegas Sands secure a lucrative gambling licence in Macau. But Las Vegas Sands says it won’t be paying up anytime soon. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LAS VEGAS — A Hong Kong businessman hit a $70 million court-awarded jackpot Tuesday when a jury agreed that he had helped the casino empire run by billionaire Sheldon Adelson get a gambling foothold in the People’s Republic of China. This is the second time in five years that jurors have awarded consultant Richard Suen a sizable sum in the bitter dispute. A jury’s 2008 finding for Suen was thrown out on appeal. Adelson’s lawyers vowed Tuesday to appeal the latest verdict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> As many as 30 miners were trapped underground on Tuesday after a tunnel caved in at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, police said. The accident happened on Tuesday morning at the Grasberg mine in remote Mimika district, said Papua police spokesman Colonel Gede Sumerta Jaya. A search was underway, but the fate of the trapped workers was unclear, he said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The High Court on Monday rejected broadcaster TVB’s bid for a judicial review of government deliberations on the issuing new licences for free-to-air television stations. In his ruling, Mr Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung said on Monday the court should not intervene now because the government had not made a decision on whether to grant new licences. TVB said in court filings in January that the Communications Authority made an “unlawful” recommendation in July when it supported licence applications from three companies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Saturday to oppose plans for a lithium battery factory, highlighting growing social tension over pollution. Police stood by as residents marched peacefully along a busy street in the Songjiang district of the city, gathering at an intersection near the site of a Carrefour hypermarket, chanting and holding signs saying “No factory here, we love Songjiang.” Many wore matching t-shirts with an image of a smoky factory enclosed by the red “no” symbol. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It was supposed to be one of the highlights of Richard Wagner anniversary celebrations, but a controversial Nazi-themed production of his Tannhäuser has been cancelled after it caused some audience members to seek medical help and prompted others to walk out in anger. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US Treasury yesterday set sanctions on a Taiwan company and its chief executive for their ties to an effort to supply arms-related equipment to North Korea. The Treasury named Trans Multi Mechanics of Taichung, Taiwan, and chief executive Tony Chang Wen-Fu as having sanctions imposed under laws aimed at freezing the assets of those designated “proliferators of weapons of mass destruction” and their supporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Apple is evading taxes in China and spreading pornography, said a Chinese consumer protection group in Beijing on Friday. The China Association of Consumer Protection Law, in a report published by the Legal Daily newspaper, accused Apple’s online stores in China of not paying import taxes for software that they sell to mainland consumers. The accusations come amid a global debate on how online retailers should be taxed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least eight people were feared dead after a container ship smashed into a control tower in Italy’s busiest port in Genoa. The 50-metre high, glass-topped tower was destroyed when the Jolly Nero ploughed into the dock during the night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least three people were killed and six injured when a container ship rammed a control tower in the northern Italian port city of Genoa late on Tuesday, harbour officials quoted on local television said. “It is a terrible tragedy,” the head of the Genoa Port Authority Luigi Merlo told local Genoa television station Primocanale. “At the moment there is no explanation for the accident.” Two of the dead were harbour officials and the third was one of the pilots, local Primocanale quoted officials as saying. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three German tourists and their Filipino tour guide were killed yesterday when the Mayon volcano exploded into life, spewing massive boulders “as big as cars” and a giant ash cloud. Another tourist is missing and presumed dead. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) spokeswoman Jessie Cheng Ching-man said bbTV’s contract with HKTV ends on August 31 and the pay-TV service would not be renewing it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Bloomberg appointee to scrutinise data privacy
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