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/ 13 November 2007
South Africa’s Retief Goosen is determined to win the UBS Hong Kong Open this week to erase the memory of missing the cut last year. The two-time United States Open winner said he is looking to improve on a top-20 finish at last week’s HSBC Champions tournament in Shanghai.
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/ 28 October 2007
An All Stars team containing some of the greatest names in world cricket was beaten in the final of the Hong Kong Sixes on Sunday by a team of little-known Sri Lankans. Over two days of carnival cricket, the All Stars — featuring captain Shane Warne, Brian Lara, Glenn McGrath and Anil Kumble — had produced explosive cricket.
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/ 27 October 2007
Cricketing greats Shane Warne, Brian Lara and Glenn McGrath on Saturday starred on the opening day of the Hong Kong Sixes — one of the sport’s most colourful tournaments. They led an All-Stars team competing in a weekend of quick-fire matches with innings of only five overs a side — a format that demands non-stop boundaries from the batsmen.
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/ 22 September 2007
A prison clerk in Hong Kong who dated inmates’ girlfriends by hacking into a computer to get their phone numbers has been sentenced to community service, a news report said on Saturday. Ng King-tong (30) used the computer system at the Lai Chi Kok jail to track down pretty female visitors and phone them for dates.
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/ 16 September 2007
A woman threw herself into battle with a giant snake after it tried to strangle her pet dog to death, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Sunday. Catherine Leonard was walking in a country park when the 4,5m-long Burmese python attacked her beloved Poppy.
Paul Lee got his liver from an executed Chinese prisoner; Karam in Egypt bought a kidney for his sister for  300; in Istanbul, Hakan is holding out for  700 for one of his kidneys. They are not so unusual: a dire shortage of donated organs in rich countries is sending foreigners with end-stage illnesses to poorer places like China, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Colombia and the Philippines to buy a new lease of life.
One of the world’s top chefs has warned that environmental degradation and an explosion in fine dining worldwide is set to have a drastic effect on the food trade. Habitats are being destroyed, killing off wild fish stocks and making some vegetables and fruits so scarce that a number of dishes will have to be dropped and restaurants will be forced to close, warns Pierre Gagnaire
Colonial-era war graves in Hong Kong have been left riddled with schoolboy spelling errors including ”China” spelt ”Cihna” and ”Hong Kong” spelt ”Honc Honc” after a renovation project, a news report said on Wednesday. The tombstones have been renovated to counter the effects of 150 years of weathering.
A male tiger was being airlifted from China to South Africa on Tuesday in an effort to save the world’s rarest tiger breed from extinction. The four-and-a-half-year-old from Suzhou Zoo in far-eastern China is one of fewer than 100 remaining South China tigers and is to join a breeding programme in South Africa.
Relieved by an overnight recovery on Wall Street, Asian markets bounced back on Thursday from their previous day’s plunge amid easing concerns about a slowdown in the United States economy. Investors who had dumped stocks a day earlier in the wake of sharp decline in the US market snapped up shares in a broad rally.
With the exercise boom in full swing, a record number took part in this weekend’s Hong Kong marathon, shrugging off heat, humidity and a soulless course for the good of their health — or was it? With air pollution soaring, questions are being asked about the benefit of exercising here.
By any standards, this year’s most-talked-about movie in Hong Kong is short, poorly filmed and grainy. However, what it lacks in production values, the 10-minute home-made clip — candidly shot of an elderly man berating a youngster on a bus — makes up for in drama, dialogue and humour.
Typhoon Chanchu barrelled towards Hong Kong and southern China on Tuesday after claiming at least 41 lives in the Philippines and becoming the strongest storm on record to enter the South China sea in May. In Hong Kong, officials have cautioned people to take precautions against strong winds and flooding.
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/ 27 January 2006
Massive waves of humanity were travelling on Friday for the Chinese New Year holiday — an annual movement of hundreds of millions of people that’s much larger than the migration inspired by the Muslim hajj. Travellers were streaming into airports, train stations and highways in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China.
Indian star Sania Mirza has hit out at the obsession with her religion, saying more attention should be paid to her tennis than her Muslim faith. The 19-year-old is regarded as a trailblazer for Indian and Muslim women, but she said people should stop confusing her profession and beliefs.
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/ 21 December 2005
There were no jingle bells, just the clank of handcuffs as Hong Kong police on Wednesday took away a man dressed as Father Christmas who staged a political protest that brought the city centre to a near standstill. Demonstrator Matt Pearce was bundled into the back of a police van following his three-hour spectacle.
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/ 15 December 2005
The United States and the European Union spurned calls to end the stalemate in global trade talks as six days of negotiations in Hong Kong began on Tuesday, with Brussels and Washington at odds over support for farmers. The director general of the World Trade Organisation, warned trade ministers that they had to be ”open-minded if the talks were to be concluded successfully next year.
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/ 13 December 2005
World trade ministers on Tuesday began talks to salvage free-trade negotiations amid little hope for a major breakthrough, as thousands of protesters denounced the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as an enemy of the poor. Ministers will spend the next six days trying to salvage the Doha Round of trade negotiations.
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/ 13 December 2005
Thousands of anti-globalisation activists gathered in Hong Kong on Tuesday watched by a huge security operation aimed at preventing a repeat of violence which has rocked previous World Trade Organisation (WTO) meetings. Knots of heavily armed police patrolled the march route.
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/ 12 December 2005
Developed countries have to bite the bullet and dig deeper to make this week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade talks a success and bring an end to world poverty, the head of the 53-nation Commonwealth said on Monday, on the eve of six days of trade talks in Hong Kong.
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/ 11 December 2005
Thousands of anti-globalisation activists — some dressed like chickens and others carrying a big spider — held on Sunday their first protest march ahead of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Hong Kong. Overseas activists have been flooding into Hong Kong ahead of the WTO’s meeting from December 13 to 18.
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/ 9 November 2005
A Boeing 777 Worldliner took off from Hong Kong on Wednesday in a bid to set the record for the longest flight by a commercial jet, 23 hours to London flying east over North America, a company staffer said. The record bid comes with the company battling with European rival Airbus for control of the long-range aeroplane market.
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/ 25 October 2005
A luxury Hong Kong hotel is offering a new twist on the traditional Christmas food hamper for its well-heeled guests — a basket of festive goodies worth a cool HK-million (about R852 500). ”It does indeed all come packed in a hamper, so you can hand over a million-dollar gift at Christmas,” a Ritz-Carlton spokesperson said.
An infestation of flesh-eating flies have been found in the mouth of an elderly Hong Kong woman who later died, health officials confirmed on Thursday. Maggots of the parasite were discovered after the 79-year-old developed symptoms of chills and bleeding from the mouth.
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/ 13 September 2005
A day after opening its ,5-billion Hong Kong theme park, Disney was on Tuesday already facing a lawsuit from a disgruntled visitor. Hung Wah-fung (45) says the queues were so long when he visited with his wife and two sons on a rehearsal day for the park on September 4 that he was unable to get on some of the rides.
A Hong Kong official said one of the territory’s tiny islands could make a killing with a novel theme park based on its unsavoury reputation as a suicide spot, a media report said on Tuesday. The morbid suggestion to create a ghost-town attraction where guests were dared to spend the night in ”haunted flats” came at a meeting of local leaders on little Cheung Chau island.
China’s state television broadcasts were interrupted for nearly 15 minutes by a video about the banned Falun Gong spiritual group on Sunday evening. Falun Gong — which China has labeled an ”evil cult” and tried to suppress — denied tampering with the programming beamed across the country.
A 78-year-old grandmother landed on top of another grandmother aged 85 after falling from a fourth-floor apartment window in Shanghai, a news report said on Thursday. The younger of the two grandmothers, named as Granny Zheng, accidentally toppled out of the window of her apartment and bounced off an awning on her way to the ground.
Hundreds of workers and tourists have lodged complaints about ”icy” air conditioners in hotels, offices and shopping malls around Hong Kong, a news report said on Monday. While summer temperatures climb into the high thirties, the temperature in one Kowloon Bay restaurant toilet was just 16C, the Hong Kong Standard reported.
A wealthy American banker was drugged with a spiked strawberry milkshake and then bludgeoned to death by his wife, a court in Hong Kong heard on Wednesday, at the start of one of the most talked-about murder cases in the territory’s recent history.
Jockey Felix Coetzee makes no bones about how good his record-breaking mount Silent Witness is. ”He’s the best horse you could ever hope to ride,” says the South African. ”I’ve ridden close to 3 000 winners and I will never ride anything like him again. He’s a superstar, a supreme athlete. He’s just a once-in-a-lifetime horse.”
United States celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is visiting Hong Kong — one of the world’s culinary capitals — and says the dish he likes the best is the suckling pig. ”Oh my God, that was a religious experience,” The South China Morning Post on Thursday quoted Bourdain as saying when he described the pork dish.