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Hong Kong Stockbrokers Protest ... Shorter Lunch Hour

It's being cut from 90 minutes to an hour

(Newser) - Occupy Wall Street, it ain't. About 1,000 stockbrokers in Hong Kong marched in protest today because their lunch hour is getting cut from 90 minutes to one hour, reports AP . Exchange officials say the move is necessary to bring Hong Kong's trading hours in line with other...

2 More Birds Found With Flu in Hong Kong

Concerns grow over H5N1 spread

(Newser) - Last month, two dead birds tested positive for the H5N1 virus, prompting Hong Kong authorities to kill some 20,000 more birds; now two more cases have been discovered. Two dead black-headed gulls—frequent winter visitors to the area and discovered separately—were found to have had the disease, fueling...

China Sees First Bird Flu Death in More Than a Year

Bus driver near Hong Kong dies

(Newser) - Let's hope it's an isolated case: A bus driver in southern China has died of the bird flu virus, the nation's first case in more than a year, reports Reuters . It's not clear how he contracted it: The 39-year-old apparently had no contact with poultry before...

Thousands Rally in Hong Kong
 Thousands Rally in Hong Kong 
Jun 5, 2011 8:18 AM CDT

Thousands Rally in Hong Kong

Group calls for human rights in China on Tiananmen Square anniversary

(Newser) - Tens of thousands turned out yesterday in Hong Kong to call for human rights in China and commemorate the June 4, 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, the Wall Street Journal reports. Organizers say 150,000 attended the gathering, while local media reports cite police figures—which are generally lower than...

US 'Milkshake Murderer' Re-Convicted in Hong Kong

Jury again finds Nancy Kissel guilty of killing her husband

(Newser) - American expatriate Nancy Kissel was convicted of murder once again today in Hong Kong, earning the so-called "milkshake murderer" another life sentence, the AP reports. Kissel was famously convicted in 2005 of drugging her husband's milkshake and then beating him to death with a statuette, but that conviction was...

8 Busted In Disguised Flyer Plot
8 Busted in
Disguised Flier Plot
Jan 13, 2011 4:12 AM CST

8 Busted in Disguised Flier Plot

Masked man was aided by Hong Kong airport worker

(Newser) - The young Chinese passenger who boarded a flight to Canada disguised as an elderly man had some help on the inside, authorities in Hong Kong say. An investigation into the case exposed a people-smuggling network believed to have sneaked at least eight others into Canada, authorities say. Eight suspects, including...

Nancy Kissel Retrial Begins in Hong Kong
Milkshake Murder
Retrial Begins
Jan 11, 2011 3:59 AM CST

Milkshake Murder Retrial Begins

Nancy Kissel pleads not guilty to Hong Kong murder

(Newser) - The retrial of American expatriate Nancy Kissel began in Hong Kong today, with the judge ordering jurors to forget everything they knew about one of the most sensational murders in the territory's history. Kissel, accused of clubbing her banker husband to death after serving him a drugged milkshake, received a...

Bird Flu Hits Hong Kong
 Bird Flu Hits Hong Kong 
Nov 18, 2010 3:37 AM CST

Bird Flu Hits Hong Kong

Territory confirms first case since 2003

(Newser) - Bird flu is once again causing a flap in Hong Kong. A woman who recently traveled to mainland China has been diagnosed with the territory's first confirmed case of the disease since 2003, the BBC reports. She has been quarantined in intensive care, and Hong Kong's government has raised its...

'Two-Faced' Flyer Has Security Agents Scrambling

Homeland Security chief wonders how man was able to board plane

(Newser) - The passenger who turned from an elderly white man into a young Asian man mid-flight is causing panicked authorities to scramble to update security procedures. Hong Kong authorities believe the man—who was wearing a mask sold online under the name "Jerry Attrick" and mimicked the movement of an...

One Airline Passenger, Two Faces

Disguised man slipped on to Air Canada flight

(Newser) - Staff on an Air Canada flight were presumably more than a little surprised when a passenger went into a toilet looking like Mr. Magoo and emerged looking like a young Asian man. The man filed a refugee claim and was taken into custody when the flight from Hong Kong arrived...

Hong Kong Is No. 1 in Trash
 Hong Kong Is No. 1 in Trash 
Oct 26, 2010 6:06 PM CDT

Hong Kong Is No. 1 in Trash

City produces 2,000 pounds per person per year

(Newser) - Hong Kong is now the trash capital of the world, producing more waste per capita than any other place, reports Time . The 7 million residents produce 6.45 million tons per year for the honor. The city's waste-heavy ways include a dependence on take-out food, along with all those plastic...

China Braces for Super Typhoon

Megi has already devastated Philippines, killed 19

(Newser) - Southern China is preparing for “super typhoon” Megi, which killed 19 people in the Philippines and is expected to hit the coastline east of Hong Kong on Saturday. Ports and oil terminals have shut down, hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, and thousands of fishing vessels have...

Hong Kong McDonald's Offers McWeddings

'Would you like a bride with that?'

(Newser) - Hong Kong couples can now celebrate their union at McDonald's, reports CNN . Starting in January, several branches will offer wedding packages complete with baked apple pie wedding cakes, party favors, bridesmaid dresses made of balloons (you read that right) and, presumably, the sweet, sweet smell of a Big Mac. Booze...

Champagne Spill Lands Peace Prize Supporter in Jail

Hong Kong woman arrested for accidental splash at Nobel celebration

(Newser) - A woman was arrested in Hong Kong yesterday for accidentally splashing a guard while she commemorated Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize win with some bubbly. Ip Ho-yee, 22, was celebrating outside China's main government office in Hong Kong when her celebratory champagne splashed an unsuspecting guard. "It was a...

How to Have a 20-Room Apartment in 350 Square Feet

(Newser) - People in Hong Kong learn to live in tight quarters. The city has 7 million people crammed in about 420 square miles—resulting in some creative thought on how to optimize living space. Gary Chang, a designer living in Hong Kong, says he learned "the art of living close...

China to Google: Stop Sending Users to Hong Kong

Google will give users a choice in hopes to appease Beijing

(Newser) - Google will stop automatically rerouting users of its China search site to its Hong Kong site, the company said today, after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license. Instead of automatically being switched to Hong Kong, visitors to Google.cn now see a tab that says...

It's Like Facebook for Dead People

 It's Like Facebook 
 for Dead People 

new site
Jun 11, 2010 10:15 AM CDT

It's Like Facebook for Dead People

Hong Kong government offers online memorial profiles

(Newser) - In Hong Kong, your online presence can begin when your earthly presence ends. The highly wired city has built a new website that enables the bereaved to set up commemorative online profiles of their departed loved ones. Users can choose among layout and background music options, supplement information about their...

Hong Kong Fines Merrill Lynch for Concealed Losses

$25 million loss hidden in trading account

(Newser) - Hong Kong regulators have fined two units of Merrill Lynch $450,000 after an executive's concealment of losses in a trading account went undetected by the investment bank for nearly a year, Hong Kong financial authorities announced today. A Merrill Lynch managing director falsely marked a trading book in exotic...

Hong Kong Cops Make $43M Coke Bust

26 boxes of cocaine found stashed on suburban rooftop

(Newser) - In their largest haul ever, police in Hong Kong have seized 820 pounds of cocaine that was reportedly part of a botched drug shipment sent to the southern Chinese territory by mistake. Officers discovered the stash—which has a street value of $43.4 million—on the roof of a...

Google Blames Own Glitch for New China Blockages

Users of Hong Kong search engine are getting errors

(Newser) - Internet users in China couldn't use Google today, but this time it looks to be the fault of a Google coding glitch. People using the search engine—now operating out of Hong Kong—reported getting error messages for all queries. Instant suspicion fell on Chinese authorities, but Google said the...

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