Food Prices

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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Letters to the Editor, April 28, 2013

28 Apr 2013

Your comment columns and editorials frequently hail the concepts of freedom and free trade.

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High security to protect Java's garlic fields of gold

15 Apr 2013

Central Java's farming villages are tight-knit and communal. But trust in one's neighbours has wavered over the past month as food prices have soared, turning crops like garlic and shallots into a...

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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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Poor Tin Shui Wai has priciest food

12 Feb 2013

Tin Shui Wai - one of the city's poorest areas - has the highest grocery store food prices, with pork and beef prices more than 50 per cent higher than in other districts, a Labour Party survey...

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Hong Kong food prices rise more than 100pc since 2007

11 Feb 2013

The prices of some common foods such as rice and beef have surged by over 100 per cent across Hong Kong since 2007 – far outpacing the 18-per-cent growth in income of public housing residents in...

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

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3:47AM

Expensive cuisines more a matter of price and prejudice

Some friends and I had a discussion on what cuisines were "worth" high prices. I've pondered this often.

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City Digest, February 4, 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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High-end fruit out of reach for most shoppers

For most shoppers, luxury fruit is a novelty or, at the very least, not something that can be enjoyed every day.

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CHINA DIGEST

China Digest, January 28, 2013

A woman was hit and killed by a train while crossing railroad tracks near the Lishui Bridge subway station in Beijing on Saturday, The Beijing News reports.

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ECONOMY

Cold winter pushes up mainland inflation

Inflation on the mainland rose last month for the second consecutive month amid the coldest winter in nearly three decades, although economists believe prices will remain under control in the near...

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FOOD

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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