The Bard’s plays are not always a heavy slog. “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged”, playing in Hong Kong until September 20 proves just that – zipping through the complete works in just an hour and a half.
Already owning 29% of Premier league team Birmingham City, Hong Kong tycoon Carson Yeung, bought the rest of the English club Monday for 66 millions euros, promising new opportunities and new players.
Hong Kong's economy clawed its way out of recession in the second quarter as GDP jumped 3.3% from the previous quarter, helped by the recovery in mainland China.
Hong Kong's health department has detected a case of the human swine influenza virus that is resistant to Tamiflu, the main antiviral flu drug. Only two other cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 have been found so far, in Denmark and Japan.
An advert for the French film Coco Before Chanel, which shows the actress Audrey Tautou posing with a cigarette breaks laws in Hong Kong restricting tobacco advertising, said an anti-smoking campaign group on Friday.
Up to 5,000 protesters marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Attendance at this year's protest was much higher than in 2008.
When Lehman Brothers went bankrupt 40,000 Hong Kong residents' lives were ruined financially. Moreover, about one hundred of them, who were disabled and illiterate, claim to have been knowingly abused by their financial institutions.
The first case of influenza A (H1N1) in Asia has been confirmed in Hong Kong after a Mexican man who arrived via Shanghai tested positive. More than 300 people at the hotel where the man had stayed were placed under quarantine for seven days.
Back in 2003, Asia - and Hong Kong in particular - were struggling to contain the highly contaminating disease SARS. Six years later, their experience is helping them to fight the swine flu outbreak.
On the Web: reactions to the Phnom Penh trial of "Duch", the first former Khmer Rouge leader to be tried.. Also: bloggers highlight an rally against religious extremists in Hong Kong and Queen Elizabeth updates her website.
