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World Scene: Malaysia
Jul 02, 2007 ... Bat virus offends state The Malaysian state of Melaka is upset that scientists have nameda new bat-borne virus after it, news reports said yesterday. Australian and Malaysian scientists announced last week theydiscovered a new virus likely carried by bats that can ...
World Scene: Turkmenistan
Jul 02, 2007 ... Leader's gold chain award Turkmenistan's new president was given a gold-and-diamond awardweighing around 1 kg by parliament on Friday to mark hisachievements, local media reported. Former Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov died in December. Newpresident, ...
Embracing a bigger picture
Jul 02, 2007; Liu Wei ... It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness. Dickens' classic lineapplies so appropriately to the film industry of Hong Kong, a cityknown as the "Oriental Hollywood". Recently, the Hong Kong FilmDevelopment Committee ...
New decade, new start
Jul 02, 2007 ... President Hu Jintao's visit to Hong Kong not only provided himwith an opportunity to witness the historic moments of the SpecialAdministrative Region's (SAR) 10th anniversary but also to sum up theimplementation of "one country, two systems" in the territory. Following the ...
Cakewalker finds slice of heaven
Jul 02, 2007; Xie Fang ... With all the charisma of a pop idol, Chiu Binghang's soft tuneslull his audience, whose members can't help but sing along as theyare drawn into nostalgia. Between crooning Cantonese classics of the1990s, Chiu addresses some 200 spectators at Eastern Culture Square,sharing snippets about ...
President Hu opens new border link
Jul 02, 2007; Teddy Ng ... The Shenzhen Bay Port and Shenzhen Bay Bridge was officiallyopened by President Hu Jintao yesterday. Also known as the Western Corridor, it will ease the heavy trafficflow at three other border crossings. Hu drove through the bridge and cut a ribbon at the boundarybetween ...
Water quality a major priority
Jul 02, 2007; Shan Juan ... The management of the country's fresh water supplies should now bea major national priority and handled as a "State project", PremierWen Jiabao said. Wen's comments come after a string of algae outbreaks tainteddrinking water supplies. Since May, blue-green algae outbreaks ...
Triumph of 'one country, two systems'
Jul 02, 2007; Le Tian ... HONG KONG: President Hu Jintao yesterday said the centralgovernment will adhere to the "one country, two systems" principleand stressed the importance of Hong Kong's economic development andimprovement in the life of its residents. Hu's remarks came after he administered the oath ...
Japan minister sorry for A-bomb remark
Jul 02, 2007 ... Japan's defense minister apologized yesterday for comments aboutthe 1945 US atomic bomb attacks on the country that outragedsurvivors and drew criticism from the ruling bloc ahead of a keyelection in July. Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said he had not meant to offend thevictims ...
Swan Lake Sharapova in Wimbledon rain row
Jul 02, 2007 ... LONDON: Maria Sharapova was plunged into a Wimbledon rain row onSaturday as torrential downpours meant that just two matches werecompleted and drenched fans saw only 75 minutes of action. The Russian pin-up defeated Japanese veteran Ai Sugiyama 6-3, 6-3on Court One which was ...
News maker
Jul 02, 2007 ... Buffett lunch sells for record $650,100 A bidder agreed to pay $650,100 to have lunch with billionaireWarren Buffett, surpassing last year's record for the annual charityauction. Mohnish Pabrai, an Irvine, California-based investor who modelshis investment style on ...
Why Willy's in a mainland state of mind
Jul 02, 2007; Mu Qian ... Hong Kong dancer Willy Tsao's first performance on the mainlandwas an event he will never forget. The audience walked out. Tsao's first trip to the mainland was in 1980, when the newlyfounded Hong Kong's City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) wasinvited to Guangzhou to give a ...
Hu hails Hong Kong as 'window and bridge'
Jul 02, 2007 ... Editor's note: President Hu Jintao made a speech yesterday at themeeting marking the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to themotherland and the inaugural ceremony of the third government of theHong Kong Special Administrative Region. The following is the fulltext: Fellow ...
News hound trades books for Olympic buzz
Jul 02, 2007; Lin Qi ... While his classmates enjoy last precious moments on campus, HongKong student Kwok Ka has grabbed the opportunity to be part ofBeijing's Olympic buzz. Kwok, a journalism major at the capital'sRenmin University, has been working as an intern at the BeijingOrganizing Committee for Games of ...
Pandas crowd pleasers
Jul 02, 2007; Lillian Liu ... Hong Kong people flocked to Ocean Park yesterday to see Le Le andYing Ying make their official debut. The giant pandas were a gift by the central government to HongKong to mark the 10th anniversary of the city's return to themotherland. "It is the perfect way for us to share ...
Railway line gets green tick
Jul 02, 2007; Xin Dingding ... The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest altitude railwayline, had caused little impact on the natural environment accordingto an evaluation report , the Ministry of Railways said. In a document issued ahead of the first anniversary of the line'sopening, the ministry said the ...
Tsang committed to people-based governance
Jul 02, 2007; Le Tian ... HONG KONG: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)government will remain committed to people-based governance, ChiefExecutive Donald Tsang said yesterday. Addressing the swearing-in ceremony of the SAR's third-termgovernment, Tsang said he wanted to build a ...
Israel transfers tax funds to Abbas
Jul 02, 2007 ... Israel said yesterday it had begun transferring to the PalestinianAuthority some of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds ithad frozen for 17 months, hoping to bolster President Mahmoud Abbaswhile isolating Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said steps taken by ...
World Scene: United States
Jul 02, 2007 ... iPhone owners divided Proud owners of Apple's iPhone raved about their first days withthe device over the weekend, but a glitch took the shine off thedevice for a few unlucky customers. Of 11 iPhone owners contacted by Reuters on Saturday, ninereported little or no trouble ...
More than the lake, water is the problem
Jul 02, 2007; YOU NUO ... As a citizen of Hong Kong, I thought about using my column on the10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty topraise the Special Administrative Region's rule of law and freedomand to praise the notion of "one country, two systems". However, precisely because the ...
