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Corporate crusader David Webb exposes 'secrets' in fight against director rule

13 Feb 2013

The launching of the list - which included the two sons of tycoon Li Ka-shing, Victor Li Tzar-kuoi and Richard Li Tzar-kai, as well as Sun Hung Kai Properties chairman Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong and...

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No good can come of new company director rule

13 Feb 2013

The proposals to restrict disclosure of directors' residential addresses and identity card numbers will compromise the principle of limited liability, which has been a central principle of modern...

3:33AM

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Hong Kong must retain open access to company data

3 Feb 2013

The government's attempt to shield the identity of company directors under the guise of protecting privacy is not merely an invitation to fraud and corruption; it reveals a basic misunderstanding...

3:20AM

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Journalists firm on gaining full access to data

30 Jan 2013

Journalists have rejected a counter-offer by the government over the proposal to bar access to key personal information of company directors, insisting on the status quo of unlimited access for...

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Wikipedia to stay free due to reader donations

8 Jan 2009

Users of Wikipedia have seen off a threat that the website would be forced to carry advertisements or charge for access, after one of the most successful online fund-raising campaigns ever.

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Big numbers add up to make storage sexy

22 May 2006

The digital era is throwing up some mind-boggling statistics: 62 billion e-mails are sent every day; 1 billion songs are shared via peer-to-peer every month; 1.5 billion terabytes of data is...

6:12PM

Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Metadata returns to haunt careless companies

Hidden information in all types of file can be exposed and this puts businesses - and even the US military - at risk of revealing far too much

11:32AM

Scales to match the world of data

Information meant to be stored is growing at such a fast pace it comes as no surprise that the small priesthood of scientists in the storage industry has put precise words to match certain...

7:59PM

Control debatable as media benefit as well as pose threat to society

There is no doubt that the media pose a threat to society. They always play up sex and violence and even 'cook up' stories to boost their sales.

1:51AM

Progress keeps us in touch

There are many forms of communication which help us keep in touch with what's happening in the world.

Moreover, communication can act as a channel to exchange ideas or...

12:54PM

Internet age brings conflicting messages

We are constantly being told we live in an information age. The speed and volume of communications ratchets up month by month as the Internet and digital television turn the world into a village...

5:57AM

Cargo group approves EDI

Cargo 2000, which has 36 members including new participants BALtrans (Hong Kong) and BAX Global, has approved a range of electronic data interchange (EDI) and bar-code labelling criteria for...

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