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Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

Report due on foreign direct investment

InvestHK will announce the results of the latest World Investment Report 2011, released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. The report will highlight Hong Kong's foreign direct investment performance last year and make forecasts.

Status report on hepatitis B and liver cancer

Centre for Health Protection controller Dr Thomas Tsang Ho-fai will update the latest hepatitis B and liver cancer figures for the city on the eve of World Hepatitis Day on Thursday. Hong Kong has about 500,000 chronic hepatitis B patients. A quarter of them will eventually die of liver-related complications such as cancer and cirrhosis.

North Korea readies Yellow Sea exercise

North Korea is preparing a rare military exercise involving its army, navy and air force that could be launched this week in the Yellow Sea, according to reports in South Korea. A government source quoted by the South's Yonhap news agency said the North had assembled about 20 naval vessels, including landing craft, off the western port of Nampo and deployed MiG-21 fighters to Onchon air base in the same area. It is the 58th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean war.

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