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September 28th, 2009 TWICKENHAM, England - On 29 September, 2009 a vision of the future was fulfilled with the launch of the Chengdu Blades Academy. The state-of-the-art, 147,352 square meter academy is located in the Shuangliu area of Chengdu city in the Sichuan region of China.

September 17th, 2009 SOUTHAMPTON, England - - Southampton Boat Show VocaLink, the international payments specialist, have appointed Mike Perham as corporate social responsibility (CSR) ambassador to further their shared objective of inspiring and supporting young people around the world. This follows a successful joint visit to Hong Kong where Mike presented to 500 young people at the Island School and the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club on Wednesday 16 September.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - VocaLink, the international payments specialist, announced today that it will be supporting the Oxfam Unwrapped campaign at this year's Sibos conference in Hong Kong. VocaLink aims to donate GBP10,000 (HK $130,000) to Oxfam Hong Kong, an Oxfam International affiliate, to support the work of the office local to the conference.

July 29th, 2009 PARIS - Charles Chaumin has been appointed President of Suez Environnement Asia and member of the Executive Committee. Based at Suez Environnement Asia Headquarters in Hong Kong, he will supervise Suez Environnement's operations and business lines development in the region.

July 1st, 2009 HONG KONG - Law and accountancy firms from the US and Europe have long considered Asia a prime market, particularly given the maturing markets of the west and the ongoing credit crisis. Unfortunately, transplanting marketing practices in Professional Service Firms (PSFs) from the west into the Asian business context is a recipe for disaster and many PSFs from Western markets have struggled in Asia or pulled out altogether.

June 16th, 2009 ST HELIER, Jersey - CPA Global, the world's leading provider of intellectual property (IP) management services and outsourced legal support, is targeting further expansion in Asia, with a particular focus on the growing China market. The company, which already has a significant presence in India and successful business alliances in Japan and Korea, today announced the opening of a new Hong Kong office to spearhead its business development in North and South East Asia.

May 31st, 2009 HONG KONG - Foundation Specialists Must Work Together With Authorities to Optimise Designs Optimisation of foundation designs is the surest way to dramatically reduce material usage and guarantee that new developments are delivered in a shorter timeframe at minimal cost. But it can be difficult to employ innovative foundation designs or alternatives to standard piling techniques.

May 11th, 2009 ATLANTA - New Blade Geometry Enables Longest Lasting Blades on the Market Newell Rubbermaid's (NYSE: NWL) Lenox(R) brand of premium industrial products including power tool accessories, hand tools, torches, solder and band saw blades, today announced the introduction of T2 Technology Reciprocating Saw Blades and Hacksaw Blades - the longest lasting blades on the market. The revolutionary new T2 reciprocating blade design delivers up to 100 percent longer blade life and 25 percent faster performance in metal cutting applications versus the prior generation of Lenox blades, creating a new standard of excellence.

May 6th, 2009 LONDON - Top Asian universities have been evaluated in the first regional ranking from QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, the compilers of the Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings. Five countries dominate the top 10 places in the QS.com Asian University Rankings: Rank Institution Country 1 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 2 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 3 University of Tokyo Japan 4 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 5 Kyoto University Japan 6 Osaka University Japan 7 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & South Korea Technology 8 Seoul National University South Korea 9 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 10= National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 10= Peking University China Top Asian universities in the remaining six countries featured in the QS.com Asian University Rankings: Rank Institution Country 22 National Taiwan University Taiwan 30= Indian Institute of Technology Bombay India 30= Mahidol University Thailand 39 Universiti Malaya Malaysia 50 University of Indonesia Indonesia 63= University of the Philippines Philippines Nunzio Quacquarelli, Managing Director of QS explains: "The results of the QS.com Asian University Rankings focus on regionally relevant measures of excellence, with the top performing universities distinguished not only by quality, but also by high productivity of research, compared to their regional peers." Ben Sowter, Head of Research at QS adds, "The advantage of these regional rankings is in the richer picture we can create when comparing universities at a regional rather than global level, through the inclusion of additional factors.

March 17th, 2009 SINGAPORE - Walkers, the global offshore law firm of choice for leading financial market participants and international law firms announced today it has expanded its new Singapore office. Amid expectations of an increase in offshore legal work in Singapore, particularly with regard to distressed hedge funds, debt restructuring, and public-to-private deals, Walkers has transferred senior funds attorney Laura Rogers from its Hong Kong office to build on the team already in place in Singapore.

April 22nd, 2009 Hong Kong appeals court blocks PCCW dealHONG KONG — A Hong Kong appeals court has blocked a controversial $2 billion deal for leading telecom firm PCCW. PCCW says in a statement Wednesday the territory's Court of Appeal overturned a lower court's decision approving a buyout led by company Chairman Richard Li.

January 13th, 2009 HONG KONG - The Hong Kong pop star at the centre of a sex photos scandal is to testify in Canada against the man accused of downloading pictures from his computer, a news report said Wednesday. Edison Chen, 28, has refused to return to Hong Kong for court proceedings surrounding the pictures showing him with a string of naked young starlets that circulated on the Internet early last year.

September 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.

January 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.

September 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.

June 30th, 2009 Disney, Hong Kong reach $465M expansion dealHONG KONG — The Walt Disney Co. and Hong Kong's government have reached a deal to expand the territory's Disneyland theme park at a cost of about $465 million, officials announced Tuesday.

August 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.

March 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.

January 4th, 2009 HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks continued their positive start to 2009 Monday with a second day of gains, rising by almost 3.5 percent. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index climbed 520.5 points, or 3.46 percent, to close at 15,563.31.

April 23rd, 2009 HONG KONG - Hong Kong lawmakers Thursday approved a tax on every plastic bag handed out by supermarkets in the city as of July in a move to cut the mountain of waste created by the bags. The tax of 50 Hong Kong cents (6 US cents) will be levied from July 1 in a total of 2,000 shops, including every major supermarket, in the high-rise city of seven million.