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...Chun Him Cheung, a strategist at Bank of America, said geopolitical uncertainties were the “biggest drivers of portfolio outflows” from Taiwan’s stock market, which at $14.6bn this year are already close...
...Tang Yu-chun, 72, is another “cardboard granny” who collects cardboard almost every day, starting at the break of dawn and often working until early evening....
...Ronick Chan Chun-ying, a Hong Kong legislative council member, also called out State Street for setting “a bad precedent”, according to local media reports....
...The Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong’s top court, ruled that it was discriminatory to bar Leung Chun Kwong’s husband from accessing spousal benefits....
...The style of funerals has changed, said Chan Chi-chun, an expert on Taoist funeral music, who added that the form has simplified and the “duration of the ritual is getting shorter”....
...The lawsuit was also filed against China Forestry, its chairman Li Kwok Cheung and its chief executive Li Han Chun....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Cheung...
...Emotions ran high when Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong walked free on bail set at 10m Hong Kong dollars ($1.3m) on July 12....
...Wong Ting-kwong, one of the legislative council members promoting the project, said it would “reduce the nuisance brought by excessive mainland tourists and relieve the traffic inside the city”....
...Billionaire Li is the man behind Hong Kong blue chips Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong (Holdings)....
...At the foot of the gleaming Cheung Kong centre, home to Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg and the offices of billionaire Li Ka-shing, hundreds of striking dock workers have set up camp....
...During his election campaign, Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong’s chief executive, pledged to make housing more affordable and promised to intervene in the free market if necessary to improve people’s livelihood...
...The government headed by chief executive Chun-ying Leung, who assumed office in July, had signalled that it was willing to intervene more in the city’s economy, which has the highest income disparity in...
...“The peg is here to stay, with no appealing alternative,” said Frances Cheung of Crédit Agricole....
...Protesters are calling for the resignation of Leung Chun-ying, who is scheduled to be inaugurated as Hong Kong chief executive on Sunday, over concerns that he misled the public about several illegal structures...
...Leung Chun-ying, the man who beat Mr Tang to office in March, says he will change this....
...Taiwan’s Yang Shu-chun had a 9-0 lead about a minute her match against Vietnamese opponent Vu Thi Hau....
...The company said Cheung Ping Kwong, who was last year sacked as chief executive of the joint venture, Idea Valley Group Limited, had sold development land in Guangdong province and a landscaping business...
...The company said the employee, Cheung Ping Kwong, sold the assets – which included a hotel and development land – in spite of a Chinese newspaper advertisement issued by the joint venture warning that he...
...Lui Chun-kwong, an abstract artist who has headed several arts societies in Hong Kong, bought a studio in the building in 2001, for HK$260,000 (£21,000)....
...Hsueh Shu-chun, who said her whole family had perished in the mudslide except for herself and her husband, said: “Praying for the victims brings relief not only to them but to survivors like me.”...
...In the end, a truce was brokered by family matriarch Kwong Siu-hing, who has taken over as chairwoman of Sun Hung Kai. Most Hong Kong tycoon families keep a lower profile....
...The deposed Cheung Ping Kwong, so M&C claims, was able to execute the sale because he made off with company “chops”, or seals, which serve as the company signature....
...Huang Chun-hsiung, the third-generation scion of a family of famous puppeteers, started creating new characters and new plays and, in a bold move, set them to the popular music of the time....
...With the blessing of local authorities, Kwong Wui Chun, founder chairman, secured a revised financing package from two Chinese lenders to slash its $200m-a-year debt burden....
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