Hong Kong graffiti sells for record $65,000 at auctionOctober 7th, 2009 HONG KONG - A piece of graffiti by Hong Kong's self-proclaimed "King of Kowloon" has sold for a record 500,000 Hong Kong dollars ($65,000), auction house Sotheby's confirmed Wednesday. The piece by the late Tsang Tsou-choi, featuring rows of Chinese calligraphy on canvas, attracted fierce bidding in Sotheby's Asian art auction Tuesday.
Suicide rate in Hong Kong goes downSeptember 9th, 2009 HONG KONG - Hong Kong, once one of the world's suicide hot spots, has in the past six years seen a steady decline in the number of people taking their own lives, figures released Thursday showed. More than 1,200 people in the high-rise city of seven million killed themselves in 2003, a rate of almost four a day.
Bank launches world's first $150 note in Hong KongSeptember 8th, 2009 HONG KONG - A bank Wednesday marked its 150th anniversary in Hong Kong by launching what it claimed to be the world's first 150-dollar bank notes. Standard Chartered Plc, one of three note-issuing banks in the wealthy city of seven million, has printed 1 million of the 150-Hong-Kong-dollar notes, worth $19.35 each.
11 injured in Hong Kong acid attackSeptember 7th, 2009 HONG KONG - Eleven people were injured when a man threw acid during an altercation Sunday in a bustling market district, the fourth such attack in Hong Kong this year. Local television reports said victims had to be carried on gurneys to ambulances, their heads covered in bandages.
Century-old tea on sale in Hong KongAugust 13th, 2009 HONG KONG - A 109-year-old tea has gone on sale at Hong Kong's first international tea fair, a media report said Thursday. Just 10 grams of the pu-erh tea, which takes its name from Pu'er county in Yunnan province in south-west China, costs 8,000 Hong Kong dollars ($1,025), the South China Morning Post newspaper said.
US Treasury official presses Hong Kong to help curb NKorean bank accessJuly 9th, 2009 HONG KONG — A top U.S. Treasury official met with Hong Kong regulators Thursday as part of an effort to keep North Korea from using the international financial system to fund its nuclear program and other illicit activities.
Passengers harassed as Cathay Pacific cancels flightJune 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nearly 220 passengers, many of them with small children, were subjected to hours of ordeal at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here Monday night after Hong Kong based airline Cathay Pacific suddenly cancelled its New Delhi-Hong Kong flight (CX-752). All the passengers had checked in for boarding and were waiting to board the aircraft when the airline staff arrived to say that the flight stood cancelled.
Three injured as helicopter crash-lands into Hong Kong coachMay 1st, 2009 HONG KONG - Three people were reportedly injured when a helicopter crash-landed into a coach as it tried to take off at Hong Kong's old airport site Friday. The helicopter was taking off at a private flying club on the site of Hong Kong's former Kai Tak international airport in the city centre Friday morning.
Liverpool makes 'outrageous' demands to play in Hong KongApril 29th, 2009 HONG KONG - English football premier league team Liverpool was Wednesday accused of pricing itself out of the market making 'outrageous' demands to play in Hong Kong. A Hong Kong Football Association source told the South China Morning Post the team's planned exhibition at the Hong Kong Stadium in July had been scrapped because of the financial demands.
Rare champagne sets world record at Hong Kong wine auctionMarch 29th, 2009 HONG KONG - A bottle of rare champagne fetched 164,560 Hong Kong dollars ($21,097) at a wine auction here, setting a new world record for the price of any bottle of champagne sold at an auction. The auction collected an impressive 35 million Hong Kong dollars ($4.5 million), with 96 percent of the stocks sold to buyers from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Indonesia, among others.
Life not worth living without Internet, Hong Kong youngsters sayMarch 20th, 2009 HONG KONG - Life would be meaningless and not worth living without the Internet, nearly one in seven Hong Kong youngsters said in a survey released Friday. Just under 14 percent of 1,800 respondents aged 12 to 25 insisted they could not live without the Internet while 80 percent described it as essential.
Cigarette consumption rises in Hong Kong after smoking banJanuary 30th, 2009 HONG KONG - Cigarette consumption in Hong Kong is up almost 14 percent since a smoking ban was introduced in the city two years ago, a news report said Saturday. Government figures quoted by the South China Morning Post show that 3.79 billion cigarettes were bought in 2008, compared to 3.33 billion the previous year.
Hong Kong shares fall three percentJanuary 20th, 2009 HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares fell by almost three percent Wednesday as overnight losses on Wall Street and profit warnings from Chinese companies listed in the city deepened market gloom. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index ended the day down 376.14 points, or 2.9 percent, at 12,583.63.
'Hong Kong is world's freest economy'January 12th, 2009 HONG KONG - Hong Kong Tuesday was ranked the world's freest economy for the 15th consecutive year in a survey by the US think-tank the Heritage Foundation. Singapore was again ranked second in the annual study, followed by Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.
Ailing Jankovic cuts her Hong Kong lossesJanuary 9th, 2009 HONG KONG - Women's tennis star Jelena Jankovic has cut her losses, withdrawing from a high-powered Hong Kong tune-up for the Australian Open Saturday and flying straight to Melbourne suffering with the flu. The Serb will now be well short on match practice for the Grand Slam which starts a week from Monday.
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