The following keynote speech given by former finance minister and Gua Musang parliamentarian Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah at the 4th...
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Greatest Race set for big Hong Kong finale (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – The Greatest Race on Earth (GROE) is set to reach a thrilling climax this weekend with the fourth and final Hong Kong leg on Sunday.
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John Woo: Master of the explosive epic (CNN)
With the late evening sun casting a dramatic light across the 65th floor of an empty Hong Kong office block, everything was primed for a spectacular entrance from Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo.
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PCCW investors approve Richard Li’s buyout (National Post)
PCCW Ltd. shareholders approved the HK$15.9-billion (US$2.05-billion) buyout offer led by Chinese-Canadian businessman Richard Li, allowing the-billionaire to take Hong Kong’s biggest phone company private after the stock slumped.
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"Over Twitter" To Find Out What’s Orbiting Over Your Head (Universe Today)
If you enjoy satellite spotting and are a fan of the social networking mini-feed Twitter here’s something just for you. Robert Simpson at Orbiting Frog has created a Twitter feed that reports upcoming visible transits of interesting objects orbiting over several cities in the world, such as Amsterdam, Belfast, Chicago, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Moscow,...
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Cosmoprof Asia expo a real beauty (Sunshine Coast Daily)
The following three Sunshine Coast businesses attended the Cosmoprof Asia beauty industry expo in Hong Kong as part of a Queensland trade mission on November 12-14.
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Netanyahu: The One to Beat on Feb. 10 (Baltimore Jewish Times)
On the fourth day of the recent war in Gaza, Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu hurried from one Jerusalem studio to another, doing more than a dozen TV interviews with networks from Hong Kong to New York within the space of 12 hours.
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CCID Consulting Reviews China’s IT Service Market in 2008 and Outlook for 2009 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CCID Consulting, China’s leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong , recently released its article reviewing the IT service market in 2008 and outlook for 2009.
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‘LEDs Asia 2009′ Conference Announced; Industry Leaders, Technology Experts to Meet in Hong Kong (Nasdaq)
Hong Kong, Jan 27, 2009 – (ACN Newswire) – Building from successes in the photonics and solid state lighting sectors, global conference producer IntertechPira is pleased to announce LEDs Asia 2009 conference and exhibit, taking place March 31 through April 2, 2009 at the Eaton Hotel Hong Kong.
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Canadian cattle producers see renewed opportunity in Asia (National Post)
The odour of tripe cooking in the markets of Kowloon is enough to turn the stomach of long-time cattleman Brad Wildeman, president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association
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Hong Kong markets closed for Lunar New Year break (Miami Herald)
Hong Kong’s financial markets were closed starting Monday for the three-day Chinese New Year public holiday. They will reopen Thursday.
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