Hong Kong  - Newspapers have been blamed for a rise in youth gambling, especially on football matches, a media report said Monday.

Singapore - Hong Kong is seen as having the fairest and most transparent tax system out of six major developed economies, followed by Singapore, a study said on Monday.

Hong Kong - About 500 fishing boats took part in a waterborne demonstration through Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong Saturday in a protest against high fuel prices which fishermen said was hurting the

Hong Kong  - The number of US-dollar millionaires in Asia surged in 2007, with India having the fastest growing population of individuals holding at least 1 million US dollars in financial assets,

Hong Kong  - A wine school, a wine museum and even wine tourism are among the plans being considered by the government to make Hong Kong into a wine hub for the region, a media report said Friday.

Hong Kong - Twenty-one people have been arrested and 12,000 pirated discs seized in an operation against a DVD-making syndicate in Hong Kong, customs officers said Wednesday.
The syndicate smuggled pirated DVDs into Hong Kong from neighboring mainland China and then sold them through computer shops and other outlets, making more than
2,500 US dollars a day, investigators said.
In a two-day operation Monday and Tuesday, officers raided 17 locations, including apartments, shops and a restaurant, and arrested 14 men and seven women aged 16 to 70, a customms spokesman said.
Some 12,000 pirated DVDs, two cars, 14 computers, and cash and valuables worth more than 50,000 US dollars were seized in the operation. Some suspects were later released on bail.