https://www.scmp.com/rss/153946/feed Founded in 1909 in Ohio, Platts provides energy and metals information and benchmark price assessments. McGraw-Hill bought it in 1953. Authorities raided the London bureau of Platts in Canary Wharf and the offices of Statoil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP in May 2013 in the biggest trading probe since the Libor scandal. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com International oil prices may have declined to multi-year lows, but Hongkongers continue to pay elevated prices for petrol. In fact, Hong Kong has the dubious distinction of having the highest pump prices in the world. Industry observers say this is mainly due to surging land costs for building fuel stations, which have increased by more than 400 per cent in the past decade, thanks to Chinese oil companies’ rampant expansion. Even as crude prices remain depressed amid an all-out price war between... https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3081593/why-do-hongkongers-pay-sky-high-prices-petrol-when-international-oil?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3081593/why-do-hongkongers-pay-sky-high-prices-petrol-when-international-oil?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Apr 2020 06:29:52 +0000 Snowdrops by A.D. Miller Atlantic (e-book) A.D. Miller is one of two debut novelists on this year's Man Booker shortlist. Perhaps more importantly, he is the second genre(ish) writer to make the grade in recent years, after Tom Rob Smith's Child 44. Like Smith's breakthrough, Snowdrops is a thriller set in Russia. Miller selects contemporary Moscow, a place he knows well as a reporter for The Economist. English lawyer Nicholas Platt meets Maria Kovalenko on Revolution Square. Narrated in sure... https://www.scmp.com/article/981272/snowdrops?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/981272/snowdrops?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000 As the host of The Amazing Race, Phil Keoghan is best known for putting up roadblocks and creating near-impossible challenges for contestants as they race around the world in pursuit of a US$1 million bounty. While Hong Kong viewers haven't seen The Amazing Race for some time (we are yet to see even the series that features celebrity Survivor couple Amber and Boston Rob), Keoghan has been keeping busy with a project closer to his heart. No Opportunity Wasted (premiering today on Discovery... https://www.scmp.com/article/513006/channel-hop?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/513006/channel-hop?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:00:00 +0000 Top Italian coach Eugenio Fascetti has called on Italy's soccer authorities to get rid of Sampdoria's would-be coach David Platt. Fascetti, whose Bari team beat Sampdoria 3-1, said after the Serie A match that he had nothing personal against the ex-England skipper, but insisted that he was not entitled to coach here. Platt does not have the requisite qualifications to be an official Serie A coach, and is therefore having to work behind the scenes as a 'supervisor' alongside the team's official... https://www.scmp.com/article/269586/top-italian-coach-says-get-rid-sampdorias-david-platt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/269586/top-italian-coach-says-get-rid-sampdorias-david-platt?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:00:00 +0000 Last night's incident-packed fifth event could work out to be an important race for form students with any number of promising runs. But it was the efforts of Winning Smart and Good Pal that stood out from the pack in this 1,200-metre, Class Four contest won in good style by John Moore's gutsy three-year-old Strong Win. The Ricky Yiu-trained Winning Smart (10-1) was the unluckiest of the dozen runners as he received a serious check from Eastern Reserve leaving the back straight. Jockey... https://www.scmp.com/article/214524/hard-luck-stories-worth-closer-look?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/214524/hard-luck-stories-worth-closer-look?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 1997 16:00:00 +0000