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...quite frequently" with questions like, "How many points did I score here?" or "When did we go to the Boston Marathon?" so said tome promises to thrill connoisseurs of inconsequential details about sports • speaking engagement is accepted by to address a conference of global investors in Hong Kong, but it's not till Sept. 23, so there's still plenty of time to cancel and deny having known anything about it, especially since the invitation is believed to be something of a practical joke on • Vanity Fair article by father of grandchild of contains dozens of juicy tidbits...
...crowds gathered in the city center on Thursday in an attempt to prevent further violence. "To a large extent it seems that the protest (Thursday) was peaceful. If the government starts to respect the rights of people to demonstrate peacefully, we welcome this," says Nicholas Bequelin, a Hong Kong - based researcher for the NGO Human Rights Watch. "But it shows the ongoing tensions and distrust that reign in Urumqi...
...become stuck while climbing only once, while ascending the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong in April 2008. On the building's 59th floor, the windows became taller, exceeding his wingspan. After a while, Robert figured out a way to nudge himself...
...Hong Kong's Hang Seng China Enterprises Index is probably a more realistic reflection of expectations about the direction of China's economy. It advanced only 45.8% from January to July this year. The sell-off in Shanghai trimmed that gain to 35.6% as of Aug. 31 - a strong gain, but hardly the stuff of bubbles...
...Stanley star analyst Andy Xie, now an independent economist, questions the quality of China's recent growth. "The present economic 'recovery' began in February as inventories were restocked and was pushed up by the spillover from the asset-market revival," he contends in a recent opinion piece in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper. "These two factors cannot be sustained beyond the third quarter...