Hong Kong Informer

Dock workers strike continues for second day About 200 dock workers continued to strike on Friday, vowing to stay at the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals until their wage demands were met. The dock workers’ union and supporting organisations called on the public to donate tents, water, food, clothes and other materials to the workers. Full [...]

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Hong Kong’s unemployment rate was 3.4 per cent in February, the same level as in January, the government said on Monday. The underemployment rate, which measures the number of people who cannot find work of 35 hours per week, fell to 1.5 per cent from 1.6 per cent. Job losses over the period mainly occurred [...]

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A report on the illegal wildlife trade of tigers across Asia shows that between 2000 and 2012, greater China had the most seizures of tiger parts after India. There were a total of 654 seizures across the region with parts from an estimated 1,425 tigers. Full News here – Hong Kong feed

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Hong Kong's offshore Renminbi ( RMB) deposits, excluding Certificate of Deposits (CDs), could account for over 25 percent of total deposits in the city by 2015, making RMB deposits the second- … Full News here – Hong Kong News latest RSS headlines – Hong Kong News.net

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The high speed of the ferry Sea Smooth had helped it punch a second hole in the stricken Lamma IV, the inquiry into the National Day ferry tragedy heard on Monday. Full News here – Hong Kong feed

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Bank of Japan policy decision today. Sunac slumped 6.4 percent on a share-sale plan. China Haisheng Juice Holdings Co. fell 7.4 percent after the maker of juice concentrates warned of a loss. … Full News here – Hong Kong News latest RSS headlines – Hong Kong News.net

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Police cordoned off an area of Mount Davis after a wartime bomb was discovered there on Friday afternoon. Full News here – Hong Kong feed

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Abacus Kowloon push forward again in their convincing win over Newedge Club by 41 points to 26 in the HKRFU Premier League match at King's Park on Saturday Jan 12. (Bill Cox/The Epoch Times) … Full News here – Hong Kong News latest RSS headlines – Hong Kong News.net

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Image © AFP Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia returns the shuttlecock, during the men's singles final against Du Pengyu of China in the Yonex Denmark Open 2012 Badminton in Odense, Denmark, … Full News here – Hong Kong News latest RSS headlines – Hong Kong News.net

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A University of Science and Technology team has beaten top international competitors in a contest to calculate a complex satellite trajectory around Jupiter’s four main moons. The four Hongkongers’ entry took second place in the 6th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, jointly organised by Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA), beating teams of aerospace researchers [...]

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World No.3 shuttler Saina Nehwal went down to China’s Ling Wang in straight games in the women’s singles second round of the $ 250,000 Hong Kong Open Super Series at the Hong Kong Coliseum here … Full News here – Hong Kong News latest RSS headlines – Hong Kong News.net

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The Long Term Housing Strategy Steering Committee held its second meeting today.   Speaking to the media after the meeting, Secretary for Transport & Housing Prof Anthony Cheung said members were briefed on the existing housing policies as a prelude to future discussions on the subject.   They also agreed on key issues to be [...]

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London Olympics badminton bronze medallist Saina Nehwal made short work of Aprilla Yuswandari of Indonesia to move into the women’s singles second round of the $ 250,000 Hong Kong Open Super Series … Full News here – Hong Kong News latest RSS headlines – Hong Kong News.net

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The motorbike of the Portuguese Luis Filipe de Sousa Carreira, who died in qualifying for the Macau Grand Prix, is towed away. Photograph: SCMP/AFP/Getty … Full News here – Hong Kong News latest RSS headlines – Hong Kong News.net

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Hong Kong named top financial centre for second year LONDON, Oct 31 — Hong Kong was named the world's top financial centre for the second year running by the World Economic Forum (WEF), thanks to the strength of its business environment, infrastructure and a favourable tax regime. The WEF's annual … Full News here – [...]

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