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NEWS ABOUT: Hong Kong

Hong Kong stories: 69 news summaries

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TJX Data Breach Exposed 94M Credit Cards

Still no arrests after up to $83M is spent with stolen numbers

Oct 24, 07 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cyber thieves have pinched 94 million credit cards from a discount retailer—double the last estimate—and spent up to $83 million as far as Hong Kong and Sweden, the AP reports. Banks are now suing the retailer, TJX Cos., to recover their losses. But those losses keep growing: "... More »

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Hong Kong • Sweden • credit card • TJX • hackers • Visa • MasterCard

Asian Markets Soar After
 Fed's Rate Cut

Stocks see biggest jump in 5 years as panic
gives way to optimism

Aug 20, 07 1:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The global equities sell-off ground to a halt today as Asian stocks had their biggest gains in five years. Responding to Friday’s cut in the US Federal Reserve’s discount rate, Japan’s Nikkei 225, Hong Kong's Hang Seng and South Korea's Kospi indexes all saw huge gains as... More »

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South Korea • Japan • Federal Reserve • Hong Kong • stocks • Singapore • Nikkei • Hang Seng • Asian markets • global market • Kospi index

Asian Stocks Take a Dive

Prices plunge in response to US subprime mortgage crisis

Jul 27, 07 7:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Share prices plummeted throughout Asia  today in response to the yesterday's sell-off on Wall Street and the escalating crisis in the US housing market. After the 300-point plunge in the U.S., the Tokyo Market closed at a three-month-low, and markets in Seoul, Hong Kong, and Sydney also took serious... More »

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stock market • Seoul • Asia • housing market • Hong Kong • stocks • Merrill Lynch • Tokyo • Mumbai

$600 Coffee 'Processed'
by Civets

Java-lovers' treat plucked from droppings of animals who gorge on beans

Jul 13, 07 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, Starbucks. Hyper coffee connoisseurs are coughing up $600 for a pound of the world's priciest coffee, a blend plucked from the droppings of a civet, a small Indonesian mammal that forages for fresh coffee beans. Fans describe the taste of kopi luwak as earthy, with a note of... More »

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Indonesia • coffee • Hong Kong • kopi luwak • delicacy • drinks • beverages • civet • chocolate

Thousands March for Democracy
in Hong Kong

Residents demand universal suffrage

Jul 1, 07 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hong Kong observed the 10th anniversary of the handover to China today as tens of thousands took to the streets for the now-traditional annual pro-democracy rally. Beijing appears no more amenable to universal suffrage, however—Hu Jintao was in town to swear in the territory's new chief executive and his... More »

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China • democracy • Asia • Hong Kong • suffrage • Hu Jintao

Hong Kong Poised to Become Asia's Big Apple

Port city turning into financial capital

Jun 30, 07 7:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hong Kong is in decline as Asia's premier shipping hub, but the dip in dockyard activity is nothing to fret over, Newsweek reports. The city is on the brink of becoming one of the world's financial capitals—on par with London and New York. Economic shifts are reconfiguring the political... More »

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China • stock market • democracy • economics • Hong Kong • business • trade • finance • market capitalization • investment

World's Top 50 Business Centers

Jun 14, 07 8:20 PM CDT
(Newser) -
  1. London
  2. New York
  3. Tokyo
  4. Chicago
  5. Hong Kong
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London • Chicago • New York • Hong Kong • business • list • top business centers • Tokyo

China Eases Up Slightly
on Tiananmen Anniversary

Government allows memorials for the first time

Jun 5, 07 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - As part of its campaign to attract Western visitors to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China allowed Tiananmen Square memorials this year for the first time since the protests of June 4, 1989. The government maintains that the uprising was a counterrevolutionary riot and refuses to release details; a security crackdown... More »

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China • Hong Kong • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • 2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • political reform • Olympic Games

(Newser) - The SEC has filed its first suit for insider trading involving Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy the Wall Street Journal's parent company. The agency alleges a Hong Kong couple knew about the offer when they bought $15 million of Dow Jones stock in April and sold it for an $8.... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • insider trading • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • Hong Kong • SEC • News Corp

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