Billboard

Taylor Swift scoops eight Billboard Music Awards

21 May 2013

Taylor Swift was the red-hot winner at the Billboard Music Awards. Swift won eight of 11 awards on Sunday, including top artist and top Billboard 200 album for Red. She told the Las Vegas crowd: "...

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Shenzhen ad agency gets flak for billboard with nude children

24 Dec 2012

A Shenzhen advertising firm has come under fire for using the image of four naked boys on an eight-metre-high billboard dominating a busy highway on the border with Hong Kong.

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Officials fumbling in the dark on light pollution problem

7 Feb 2012

Each night, if we look up at the sky from our urban areas, it's almost impossible to see the twinkling stars because the lights in the city centre are up to 500 times brighter than those in our...

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Landlords make a killing as the 'billboard jungle' takes root

5 Oct 2009

Hong Kong landlords are famous for squeezing revenue out of every last square inch of their buildings. For some, that means renting not just the horizontal surfaces, but the vertical ones as well...

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Profane warning signs at bus station leave police red-faced

23 Jan 2009

They may have got the message across, but red-faced Shenzhen police have ordered staff at a bus terminal to remove three official public warning signs littered with profanities, mainland media...

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Billboards in dangerous condition, study finds

9 Jan 2009

About 86 billboards in six densely populated districts are dangerous and might hurt pedestrians if they collapse, a study by the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong...

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

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

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City needs more enlightened approach to nightly neon blaze

The brighter the lights in our city and the longer they shine, the hotter and dirtier it will become. Excessive use of lighting for shops, advertising billboards and building decorations is fast...

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HK officials have done little to promote Olympic Games

I would like to know what the Hong Kong SAR government is going to do about the upcoming Olympics.

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Advertisers ordered to drop models with non-Malay faces

The Malaysian modelling and advertising industries are in shock after the government announced it was reviving a ban on the multiracial Asian faces that dominate billboards and magazines.

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Explosive!

It's not exactly Minority Report but you can catch a glimpse of what the future holds for billboard broadcasting and advertising in Hong Kong at the Polytechnic University (PolyU) this afternoon...

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Dual strategy essential for business success in Vietnam

WITH a market that is clearly driven by consumption and not investment, Vietnam is a golden opportunity for exporters.

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