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        <description><![CDATA[Home-News-Hong Kong]]></description>
        <pubDate>2008-05-09 20:20:05</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reformed banks get their books in order]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The US Treasury's sanctions on a Macau lender three years ago spurred changes across the former enclave's banking system.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[High levels of mercury found in shark fin]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tests have found that the mercury content in Asian shark fin exceeds safe levels, posing a health risk, especially to infants.
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            <title><![CDATA[Report finds three lawmakers at fault over re-imbursement claims]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Three lawmakers had not complied correctly with procedures for submitting reimbursement claims on operating expenses in Legislative Council, a report released by the Legco concluded on Friday.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dissident's family in plea for medical parole]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The family of jailed dissident Wang Bingzhang plan another effort to secure his release on medical parole, saying his health has deteriorated.
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            <title><![CDATA[Clara Chong set to return HK$140,000 of benefits]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Clara Chong Ming-wah,  the former Hong Kong Tourism Board executive director at the centre of a medical-&nbsp;insurance  controversy, is expected to avert a potentially damaging police investigation and costly litigation by offering to return about HK$140,000 in health care benefits to which she was not entitled. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Lovers' tiff ends in deadly road accident]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A woman was hit and killed by a delivery truck when she ran into the road in the middle of a row with her boyfriend in Hung  Hom  yesterday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Planners pan scheme  to save Central  market]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A plan put forward by conservationists to save a 140-year-old street market in Central has failed to  win approval from government planners, despite  public support.
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            <title><![CDATA[Overseas firms to get HKEx nod 'in weeks']]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[In its latest bid to enhance its international profile, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) will allow foreign firms to begin listing in the city via depositary receipts within weeks.
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            <title><![CDATA[Struggling cleaner takes pay fight to Exco]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A cleaner will meet an aide to Executive Council convenor Leung Chun-ying today in an attempt to get a pay rise.
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            <title><![CDATA[Michael Tien still undecided]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation chairman Michael Tien Puk-sun  yesterday said he would decide within the next two months whether he would contest the Kowloon West constituency in September's Legislative Council poll.
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            <title><![CDATA[HSBC boss apologises  to customers]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[HSBC's Hong Kong boss, Vincent Cheng Hoi-chuen,  yesterday apologised to customers affected by the loss of a computer server containing details of 159,000 accounts from its Kwun Tong branch.
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            <title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Digest]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A wrap up of all the main stories and editorials in Hong Kong’s Chinese-language newspapers.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[In Brief]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers raised concerns over 23 hectares of public open  space in the government's proposed  plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District. At a Legco subcommittee meeting yesterday, chairman Alan Leong Kah-kit  and engineering sector legislator Raymond Ho Chung-tai  said they were worried the 23 hectares might be split  into small areas not conveniently accessible to the public.
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            <title><![CDATA[Bizarre antics pay off for 'the king of protesters']]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Macau's &quot;king of  protesters&quot;, who has been taking to the streets almost every day for five years, has won a legal battle against his former employer, a US insurer.
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            <title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Faces]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[When Robert Lee Shiu-keung finally met the late, great philosopher Karl Popper in 1991, he was surprised to find the mind that revolutionised the theory of science was in fact contained in a very small body.
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            <title><![CDATA[Small site in Sai Kung sells for HK$16.5mn]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The first land auction of the fiscal year – a small site in Pak Sha Wan in Sai Kung – was sold for HK$16.5 million at a public auction held by the Lands Department on Friday afternoon.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[File-sharing applications pose risks: expert]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Internet users should be aware of the security risks before installing free file-sharing applications such as Foxy  on their  computers, an expert said.
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            <title><![CDATA[TV watchdog curbed free speech: judge]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Broadcasting Authority restricted freedom of speech by making a discriminatory ruling against an RTHK television programme on homosexuals, a High Court judge said yesterday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Immigration data leak latest in privacy gaffes]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Immigration Department and Privacy Commissioner are investigating how a newly recruited immigration officer mistakenly leaked classified information on the internet.
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            <title><![CDATA[Old pier awaits a new roof]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A temporary storage shed will be built to protect dismantled parts of Queen's Pier, which are now stored on Lantau Island, government officials said during a visit to the storage area yesterday.
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            <title><![CDATA[Man charged with murder of girl, 16, but no body found]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A man was charged yesterday with murdering a 16-year-old girl who had been missing from her Tai Po home since April 27. The 24-year-old man was one of two arrested on Tuesday night in connection with the disappearance of Wong Ka-mui, a former elite student said to have quit school to help support her family. The man, with the surname Ting, will appear in Kowloon City Court this morning.
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            <title><![CDATA[Man charged in connection with murder of missing girl ]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Hong Kong man appeared in the Kowloon City Magistrate’s Court on Friday charged with the murder of 16-year-old Wong Ka-mui.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[In Brief]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Marine police seized HK$1.29 million worth of smuggled computer hard disks on board a speedboat after it ran aground off Ping Chau in Mirs Bay in an anti-smuggling operation at about 4.45am yesterday. A man on board managed to escape. Police said another three speedboats got away into mainland waters.
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            <title><![CDATA[Hospital computer systems to get upgrade after patient data losses]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Hospital Authority is to replace old computer systems at its hospitals and ensure they are all connected to a single network.
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            <title><![CDATA[Government rejects calls for food aid]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The government has turned down calls by welfare groups for extra short-term grants to help pay for meal services amid rising food prices.
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            <title><![CDATA[DAB urged to field two lists of contenders in HK Island battle]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong will stand a better chance of winning two seats in Hong Kong Island if it fields two lists of contenders in the Legislative Council election in September, party legislator Choy So-yuk  said.
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            <title><![CDATA[The pick of what's on]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Clarinetist Raphael Severe  performs Weber's Clarinet Concerto with the Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra. Sunday,  4pm, 4/F Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Centre, Largo da Torre de Macau,  50 patacas. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Jewellery tycoon Tse Sui-luen receives jail sentence]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the dramatic culmination in the trial of one of Hong Kong’s most well-known jewellery tycoons – Tse Sui-luen – the 70-year-old and his 38-year-old son were sentenced to jail on Friday in the District Court.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How should Wan Chai market be preserved?]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Candy Tam's  letter (Talkback, April 29)  draws attention to two important public facilities that developers are coveting for high-density development projects in Wan Chai - the market (Urban Renewal Authority) and  5,000 square metres of public open space (Hopewell Holdings).
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            <title><![CDATA[All In]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[MGM Grand Paradise was the last of Macau's six licensed casino operators to open a resort. The 50-50 joint venture between Las Vegas casino developer MGM Mirage and Pansy Ho Chiu-king  launched its US$1.25 billion MGM Grand Macau in December.
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            <title><![CDATA[Road safety measures in place after death crash]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Safety measures will be implemented from today along New Hiram's Highway to ease concerns after the bus crash in Sai Kung last week that left 19 dead.
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            <title><![CDATA[In Brief]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Robbery and drug-dealing cases rose  in the first quarter, according to statistics released yesterday from the Public Prosecutions Office.  A total of 4,097 criminal cases were opened at the office in the quarter, up 7 per cent year on year. Robbery cases rose 34.7 per cent year on year to 97 in the quarter, while drug-dealing cases soared 41.6 per cent to 51 in the quarter. The office prosecuted 892 people in the quarter, including 449 Macau residents, 370 mainland residents and 36 Hong Kong residents.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Legislator to continue battle]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Legislator Leung Kwok-hung  vowed to take a minimum wage case to the city's top court yesterday after he lost an appeal in the Court of Appeal.
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            <title><![CDATA[Islanders want to trash incinerator plan]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Residents of Cheung Chau protested last night against a proposal to build a waste incinerator nearby, saying it would ruin the outlying island's  clean air and its tourism industry. 
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            <title><![CDATA[Report finds three lawmakers at fault over re-imbursement claims]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Three lawmakers had not complied correctly with procedures for submitting reimbursement claims on operating expenses in Legislative Council, a report released by the Legco concluded on Friday.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[HK faces urgent landfill problem: Tsang]]></title>
            <pubDate>2008-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Hong Kong faces an urgent waste management problem – because three of its landfills would be full within four to eight years, Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen said on Friday.]]></description>
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