Print E-mail By PAN PYLAS The Associated Press LONDON — Stock markets advanced Friday on hopes that Greece would soon get its crucial second bailout and following another batch of upbeat U.S. economic news. A man walks in front of the electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012....
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Hong Kong has closed 1.01 per cent higher, after a jump on Wall Street sparked by stronger US economic data. The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 214.34 points to 21,491.62 on turnover of HK$66.3 billion ($A7.93 billion) on Friday. Chinese shares were flat, as worries over Europe’s debt crisis and China’s slowing economy weighed...
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The last permanent stage for Cantonese opera in Hong Kong, Sunbeam Theatre, is to close on February 19 faced with huge rental increases. A last-minute bid to save the building offers some hope for its legion of local fans. But if that doesn’t pay off, punters will have to wait till the Yau Ma Tei...
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February 17, 2012, 4:08 AM EST By Kana Nishizawa Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Hong Kong stocks rose, with the benchmark Hang Seng Index extending its longest streak of weekly gains since 2010, as U.S. economic reports beat estimates and optimism increased that Greece will get a bailout. Techtronic Industries Co., a power-tool maker that...
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February 17, 2012, 4:57 AM EST By Rachel Evans (Adds details of company’s debt in sixth paragraph.) Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — China Overseas Land Investment Ltd., a developer with projects in 34 cities and regions in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, plans to increase its existing 4.875 percent dollar bonds, according to a...
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MOSCOW (AFP) – The eldest son of North Korea’s late leader Kim Jong-Il is having financial problems after being cut off by the Stalinist state for doubting his country’s succession policy, a Moscow newspaper said Friday. The Argumenty i Fakty weekly said in its Internet addition that Kim Jong-Nam was recently kicked out of...
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Washington, Feb. 16 (CNA) A Taiwanese chef took his award-winning beef noodles to the east coast of the United States Thursday, after wowing crowds in the state of California last week. Hou Chun-sheng, winner of the 2011 Taipei International Beef Noodle Soup Festival, presented his sumptuous braised spicy beef noodles for guests at the...
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SEATTLE, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – L L Energy, Inc. /quotes/zigman/116102/quotes/nls/llen LLEN -3.73% (“LL” or the “Company”), a U.S. based company since 1995 with coal mining and distribution businesses in southwest China, announced today Clayton Fong, Executive Vice President and Ed Moy, Vice President of LL presented at the RedChip Small Cap...
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