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45 arrested for breaking milk formula quota

4 Mar 2013

They included 26 Hong Kong residents and 18 mainlanders. One person had a foreign passport. Eight of those arrested were cross-border drivers.

HK curbs on milk formula spark debate on social media

3 Mar 2013

“Hong Kong is always championing its free market laurels. Do they think about all the fresh water, vegetables and grain [the mainland] supplies to them?” a microblogger wrote referring to the new...

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Milk traders able to skirt checks at border town

3 Mar 2013

Traders of contraband milk formula are shifting their operations to a historic street in the border town of Sha Tau Kok, which lets them skirt tighter checks on parallel exports that began on...

Talking points

1 Mar 2013

Four drug traffickers, including Golden Triangle kingpin Naw Kham, will be executed in Kunming , Yunnan province, according to state media. Naw Kham and three accomplices were convicted of...

Three arrested at border 'attempting to smuggle HK$24,940 of baby formula'

26 Feb 2013

Customs and Excise Department detained a 23-year-old driver at the Lok Ma Chau border after 60 cans of formula were found hidden behind the back seat of his seven-seater van.

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Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Hongkongers can take a leaf out of London shop owner's book

Would shop owners in Hong Kong be caring enough and willing to sacrifice their profits to ensure that local needs are met? No one can say for sure.

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What's being said on facebook.com/southchinamorningpost

On a hotline to help Hong Kong mothers get baby formula receiving over 5,000 calls ...

Letters to the Editor, February 14, 2013

Government proposals to implement the new Companies Ordinance and reinforce the privacy company directors already enjoy have aroused a lot of opposition from the media.

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Letters to the Editor, February 12, 2013

Religion is probably not the first thing that comes to mind for most people when thinking of Hong Kong. But for the three of us, as leaders in our respective religious communities, religion...

Right to breastfeed deserves support

The government is to be commended for attending to the needs of non-breastfeeding mothers so that their infants do not lack formula milk.

Political wisdom, not infant formula, in short supply in Hong Kong

We often see people trying to divert attention from their inadequacies by stirring up trouble and using conflicts and setbacks to their advantage. The baby formula shortage in Hong Kong is a...

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