Person Relation

Child victims spark concern over level of family support

1 Aug 2005

The incidence of domestic violence involving children has raised concerns about the provision of adequate support for at-risk families.

Brothers create a stir with taste of canada

1 Aug 2005

The joke goes something like this: How many Canadians does it take to scramble an egg? Five: one to hold the pan and four to shake the stove.

Funds sector urges wider double-taxation treaty

1 Aug 2005

The funds industry guild will lobby the government for a double-taxation treaty with other economies and a waiver of profit taxes on annuity products for pensioners, according to a senior...

Social workers say charity choices are politically selective

1 Aug 2005

Social workers have accused Donald Tsang Yam-kuen of being politically selective in his choice of 14 charities to which he donated $23.2 million in surplus election campaign funds last month.

Li-Young Lee

31 Jul 2005

Writers from China's diaspora

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Ms Leong may walk away from Vicwood

Angela Leong On-kei, wife of Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho Hung-sun, may walk away from a deal to buy Vicwood Plaza from Morgan Stanley and Pamfleet (HK).

Tsang praised for keeping the faith

He may have found the language difficult to speak, the spicy food hard to stomach and mainland provincial leaders difficult to convince, but Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen managed to find...

Beijing talks set to grow Sino-US relations

Vice-Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo will inaugurate a 'strategic dialogue' with his US counterpart Robert Zoellick in Beijing next week.

Chemist defends Kissel case method

A government chemist yesterday told a jury he did not report on the quantities of drugs found in Robert Peter Kissel, who was allegedly murdered by his wife, because it would have been...

Street smarts

THINK HONG KONG couture, and names such as Barney Cheng and Vivienne Tam probably spring to mind. A number of the city's homegrown designers have made their mark internationally in high-end...

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SUMMER BALLET COMPETITION

The Hong Kong Ballet Group is organising the 4th Hong Kong Young Ballet Stars Award this summer.