The smallest things in life are always the most overlooked. While we're ignoring them, we don't realise how much they're costing us. The face value of our 10- and 20-cent coins is less than what...
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Michael Chou is fairly sure this is the one.
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19 May 2009
It's quite a spectacle to see a judiciary so much at odds with itself as ours has been in the controversial PCCW buyout saga. Nothing is wrong with the deal, says a High Court judge. Everything is...
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28 Apr 2008
You have been reading too many pirate stories recently. Last Saturday you spent a couple of hours digging the beach with your friends to find a treasure.
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1 Oct 2000
I am an active member of a hospital fund-raising committee.
For many years, our committee and many other fund-raising organisations have had to depend upon the Social Welfare...
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14 Feb 2000
Our Monetary Authority chief just offered the following advice to the citizens of Hong Kong: Take a magnet. Suspend it above all your one dollar coins from 1993. See if any coins stick. If one of...
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CANTON (August 7): THE silver yuan certificates are holding their own despite military reverses and attempts of certain suspected Communists to push down their value.
To-day they...
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The New Zealand dollar rose yesterday from the 12-year low it reached on Wednesday after the Australian dollar gained as investors and exporters took the chance to buy the aussie cheaply. 'There's...
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On the morning of Saturday, July 26, I was tending to some minor bank business for several stores I am responsible for, simple deposits and change run (the person normally responsible was on...
4:10AM
The Bank of Korea intervened in Seoul's interbank won-dollar market yesterday to slow the won's fall against the dollar, dealers said.
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I READ with interest Dolf L. Goldsmith's suggestions in his letter headlined 'New coin' (South China Morning Post, January 24).
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TAIWAN'S foreign-exchange reserves fell to US$92.98 billion at the end of August, a sharp drop of $5.98 billion from the previous month, the central bank reported yesterday.
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