Beef

State Council promises farmers more support to boost meat supplies

9 May 2013

The State Council met for the second time in a week yesterday, vowing harsher punishment for producers of fake meat while highlighting the challenges facing the agricultural sector, which it...

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Wholesale price for marbled beef rises 4.5pc

6 May 2013

Diners may have to dig deeper into their pockets if they want to tuck into quality beef as the territory's sole fresh beef distributor, Ng Fung Hong, yesterday announced a 4.5 per cent increase in...

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Butcher introduces bespoke dry-aged beef

26 Apr 2013

Hong Kong food fanatics are familiar with choosing rib-eye or sirloin, medium-well or rare. But what about wet- or dry-aged? The soon-to open Butcher's Club, a butcher's shop combined with a...

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Most 'beef' sold at Hangzhou market is pork, report finds

26 Mar 2013

Five in eight products labelled as beef at a Hangzhou market were discovered to have no beef content in them at all, according to random sampling tests conducted by a Zhejiang newspaper.

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City Digest, March 9, 2013

9 Mar 2013

A three-year-old Australian girl died after she fell from the window of her second-floor bedroom at block two of Pacific View, Stanley at about 6pm last night.

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City Digest, February 4, 2013

4 Feb 2013

Food and health secretary Dr Ko Wing-man said yesterday the supply of fresh beef from the mainland was steady, amid concerns over the rising price of the meat.

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Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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Supply of mainland meat comes under probe

An investigation into the supply of meat from the mainland is under way in an attempt to break a monopoly on wholesale beef, with a result expected in three months, the health minister said...

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Calls to break monopoly of wholesale beef supplier Ng Fung Hong

Meat retailers have called on the government to break Ng Fung Hong's monopoly of wholesale beef, as they expect a quarter of the 500 players in the business to go bust after the Lunar New Year as...

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Ng Fung Hong ups beef prices by 6pc in year's sixth hike

Hongkongers will now have to pay even more for beef, after the city's sole mainland beef distributor Ng Fung Hong announced its sixth wholesale price increase in the year.

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MONITOR TOM HOLLAND

Hong Kong should have a beef with its dodgy meat monopoly

I am grateful to the reader who drew my attention to the letter in Monday's edition of the South China Morning Post headed "HK's economy benefits from beef monopoly".

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Letters to the Editor, November 26, 2012

HK's economy benefits from beef monopoly

There have been calls, because of rising prices, for the scrapping of the monopoly of the sole distributor of mainland cattle in Hong Kong, Ng Fung...

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Letters to the Editor, November 22, 2012