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HONG KONG, China (Reuters) — Dozens of colorful handmade aircraft attempted to fly off Hong Kong’s old airport runway before plummeting into the iconic Victoria Harbor on Sunday (November 27). The majority of the 41 funky and wonderful air crafts in shapes of cartoon characters, foods and animals plunged straight into the water without flying more than a meter. One of the contestants, Sylvia Tang, was inspired by a character from the famous ”Angry Birds” […]
HONGKONG, China (Reuters) — The oldest giant panda living in captivity, 38-year-old Jia Jia, was euthanized in Hong Kong after rapidly deteriorating health over the past two weeks, her owners Ocean Park said on Sunday. Jia Jia, whose name means “good”, had been gifted to Hong Kong in 1999 along with another panda, to mark the second anniversary of the city’s handover from former colonial ruler Britain. In recent weeks Jia Jia’s food consumption had […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hordes of angry passengers stranded after Typhoon Nida pummelled Hong Kong crowded the airport on Tuesday, desperately seeking flights as the city emerges from lockdown while the storm swept across southern China. Hundreds of flights were cancelled, schools and shops shut and the stock market closed for the day as the storm brought violent winds and torrential showers. Gusts of 151 kilometers (93 miles) per hour whipped the city and […]
BEIJING , China (AFP) — Top Chinese Communist Zhang Dejiang, currently visiting Hong Kong, studied economics in North Korea and went on to run China’s richest and most populous province before ascending to the highest levels of the ruling party. Now 69, he was born in Liaoning in the northeast and was “sent down” to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution — which was declared 50 years ago on Monday. After his studies at Kim […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – The largest oval fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at an auction shattered Asia’s jewelry auction record in Hong Kong on Tuesday (April 5) evening. The internally flawless blue diamond, weighing at 10.10 carats, was sold to an anonymous phone bidder at US$31.8 million at Sotheby’s Spring Sales after a couple minutes of bidding. Before a 12 percent buyer’s premium was added, the diamond’s hammer price of US$28.38 […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) – A painting by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian sold for nearly $35 million (24.54 million pounds) at an auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday (April 5), the most one of his works has ever fetched, underscoring strong demand for quality Chinese art despite an overall slowdown in the market. The two-meter (6.5 feet) long scroll inkbrush painting “Peach Blossom Spring” more than tripled its expected price at a spring Sotheby’s […]
Hong Kong issued a “red alert” advisory on Tuesday (June 9) against non-essential travel to South Korea, where eight new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) were reported bringing the total to 95 with seven fatalities. The Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong has cancelled all tours to South Korea that were scheduled to set off between now and June 30, excluding cruises. “I think for the month, whole month of June we have […]
