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Chinas role in NSA snoopgate leak questioned by GOP politician
Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers said that China's role is questionable in light of Edward Snowden's leaking NSA secret intelligence and his subsequent fleeing to Hong Kong despite its extradition treaty with US. Defending the NSA spy programme as an essential and life saving tool in the war on terrorism, Rogers said that Snowden is a traitor and not a hero, Washington Times ...
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Hong Kong says it will follow law in Snowden case
The government of Hong Kong, headed by Leung Chung-ying, said it will conduct itself in accord with the laws in the case of US former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who is believed to be in hiding at an unknown location in the coastal enclave. Leung said in a statement that China's special administrative region will handle the case according to its established procedures, an allusion to the ...
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Passengers aboard flight from Hong Kong to New Jersey bound paranoid mans hands feet after poison claims
A battle is brewing between the federal government and the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association over the issue of making fuel economy labels on new vehicles ...
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Hong Kong stocks off as China banks property down
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks on Tuesday pulled back after a two-day rally amid uncertainty over the pace of the U.S. Federal Reserve's bond purchases, with Chinese property developers dropping after another strong monthly increase in home prices on the mainland. The Hang Seng ...
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Man Involved in Hong Kong Assault Had Ties to Communist Front Group
A man suspected of beating an elderly man with a chair was ordered into a Hong Kong prison on Monday. Prior to that, he admitted that he was working under the aegis of the Hong Kong Youth Care Association, a front group associated with an extralegal agency run by the Chinese Communist Party. Guan Ziang, 39, was charged for being one of four men to assault a 53-year-old Mr. Chen on June 6, when ...
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Hong Kong shares to open down 0.6 pct GCL-Poly Energy plunges
HONG KONG, June 18 | Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:25pm EDT HONG KONG, June 18 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares were poised to start lower on Tuesday, with GCL-Poly Energy Holdings diving 11.4 percent, more than the 9.1 percent discount from its Monday close on news that a substantial shareholder priced a stake sale. The Hang Seng Index was set to open down 0.6 percent at 21,102.6 points. The China ...
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Hong Kong flight with passenger who claimed everybody poisoned lands in NJ police greet plane
NEWARK, N.J. - A flight from Hong Kong on which a man claimed everyone was poisoned landed safely Monday at Newark Liberty Airport, and the man was taken off the plane under a heavy police presence. The man stood up during the flight to make the claim but there was no indication that any passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 116 were actually poisoned, an FBI spokesman said. After the ...
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Jiaolong completes dive in South China Sea
, or Sea Dragon, begins a trial mission in the South China Sea on Monday. It set a Chinese record after reaching 7,062 meters in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench in June last year. Photo by Zhang Xudong / ...
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Trial begins despite Lau no-show
A Macau court has charged billionaire Joseph Lau Luen-hung and businessman Steven Lo Kit- sing with one count of bribery and one count of money laundering. Lau declined to attend the ...
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China North Korea to discuss possible talks with United States
China's Foreign Ministry said Monday it would meet with North Korean officials Wednesday ahead of possible talks with the United States. Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said discussions between Beijing and Pyongyang would focus on bilateral relations and the situation on the Korean peninsula, Xinhua reported. On Sunday, North Korea announced it had proposed high-level talks with the ...
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Portuguese teachers boycott exams in anti-austerity strike
1 of 3. High school students wait near a banner for the arrival of their teachers to conduct their university entrance exams at Camoes secondary school, during a teachers strike against austerity policies, in Lisbon June 17, ...
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Manned sub to explore South China Sea
A manned Chinese submersible is ready for a 113-day mission to the depths of the South China Sea and parts of the Pacific Ocean. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown ...
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Chinese party official removed from post after public outcry
A Communist Party of China official, Liu Qiong, was removed from her post after protests on the Internet about how she got the job, officials said. Qiong was the party's deputy secretary in Shimen County of Hunan ...
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Probe into Hibor manipulation widens in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has widened an investigation into possible manipulation of the city's benchmark inter-bank lending rate that initially targeted only Swiss bank UBS ...
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Video Wheres Edward On Snowdens trail in Hong Kong
Hong Kong been waiting for Edward Snowden to emerge ever since the ex-CIA worker who leaked details of U.S. surveillance took shelter in the city. Tara Joseph looks at the efforts to track him ...
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Snowden test for Hong Kong’s ties with China
A poster supporting Edward Snowden, a former contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA) who leaked revelations of US electronic surveillance, is displayed at Hong Kong's financial central district June 17, 2013. Snowden reportedly flew to Hong Kong on May 20. He checked out of a luxury hotel on June 10 and his whereabouts remain unknown. Snowden has said he intends to stay in Hong ...
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UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup
Belmont Park We said in this week's advance story that Saturday's $150,000, Grade III Hill Prince Stakes for 3-year-olds was a wide-open affair and the $4,808 trifecta payoff bears that out. Notacatbutallama rallied five-wide into the stretch and won by a neck over 37-1 chance Play It Loud. Chamois was third at 12-1 and the favorite, Red Rifle, settled for fourth in the 12-horse ...
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Hong Kong IPO Pipeline - June 17
HONG KONG, June 17 (Reuters) - The following are some of the major companies planning initial public offerings and new listings on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Please contact Elzio Barreto at elzio.barreto@thomsonreuters.com or (+852) 2843-1608 to submit entries for this diary. Click on the square bracket for the latest story. ** Denotes new entry or update ^ Information based on local media ...
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Snowden challenges Hong Kong
Former spy Edward Snowden has exposed not only US cyber-espionage but also political fault lines in Hong Kong that are deepening as the territory, a proud bastion of free speech and protest, chafes under Chinese rule. In retreating to Hong Kong and vowing to fight any extradition attempt, the former CIA analyst is testing its civil liberties and will set a landmark on whether the city can ...
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Yuan trade eclipses Hong Kong dollars for first time
HONG KONG, June 17 (Reuters) - Daily average trading volume of yuan in Hong Kong jumped to a record in May, exceeding the volumes of Hong Kong dollars for the first time ever, indicating the yuan's growing importance in international trade. Average daily yuan trading volume rose to a record 390 billion yuan ($63.61 billion) last month in Hong Kong, according to data from the Hong Kong ...
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Hong Kong tycoon buys Dutch waste-to-energy company
A consortium led by Asia's richest man Li Ka-shing said Monday it had agreed to buy a Dutch waste management company, in a deal worth more than $1billion. The HK$9.7 billion ($1.25 billion) acquisition of AVR Afvalverwerking B.V. (AVR), which specialises in turning waste into energy, is the second waste processor investment made this year by Li's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings ...
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Hong Kong stocks up 0.18 at open
HONG Kong stocks have risen 0.18 per cent at the open in cautious trade ahead of a closely watched US Federal Reserve policy meeting this ...
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Hong Kong stocks rise modestly ICBC drops
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks rose modestly early Monday as property developers extended gains, although caution ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary-policy meeting later this week and a sharp fall in shares of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. capped gains. The Hang Seng ...
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Hong Kong shares may start weaker Chinese resource sectors in focus
HONG KONG, June 17 | Sun Jun 16, 2013 9:13pm EDT HONG KONG, June 17 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares could start weaker on Monday, tracking Wall Street losses as investors await the outcome of a policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve later this week. Chinese resource sectors could come under some pressure after China's cabinet approved new measures to combat air pollution last ...
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THE BUZZ Dib to fight on Manny Pacquiao’s Macau comeback
Australian featherweight boxing star Billy Dib is in line to make his first appearance in Asia, on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao’s comeback bout against Brandon Rios in November. According to the Australian media, Dib will fight in Macau, provided he defeats his next opponent, Mike Oliver, in Connecticut on July 5. "This is a huge opportunity for me to right some wrongs, I am ...
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Macau economy punches way above its weight
Macau’s economy is set for a continued period of rapid growth over the next decade as Asia tops the charts in terms of revenue gained through gaming industries, but there is more to our little city-state than just casinos and hotels.
Macau is the Monaco of Asia. Although legally part of the Peoples Republic of China, this small little territory, just 29 kilometers squared and one of the most densely populated in the world, exists under the ‘one country, two systems’ policy of the Chinese government and therefore has its own internal legal system and political makeup. It is this which has enabled Macau, a tiny city-state with no natural resources, to develop one of the highest GDPs per capita in Asia, after Singapore. Read more
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