Hong Kong - A green group will call for a consumer boycott against Prada if the luxury fashion chain fails to dim its illuminated sign boards, a media report said Monday.
Friends of the Earth said the sign board at Prada's flagship store in the central business district was needlessly illuminated from dusk until dawn, the South China Morning Post reported.
Hong Kong - Up to 2.5 million people could lose their jobs in the Pearl River delta, covering Hong Kong and parts of southern China, by January as a result of the global economic slowdown, a media report said Sunday.
The financial crisis could also bankrupt one-fourth of Hong Kong-owned small and medium-sized enterprises in the next three months, the South China Morning Post quoting the local business group, the Federation of Hong Kong Industries.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong shares fell 4.4 per cent Friday on their third-consecutive day of heavy losses triggered by growing fears of a prolonged global recession.
The blue-chip Hang Seng Index lost 676.31 points to end the day at 14,554.21, one of its lowest levels in three years. Turnover was
59.3 billion Hong Kong dollars (7.64 billion US dollars).
Friday's losses followed 5-per-cent falls Wednesday and Thursday, stripping away gains made early in the week when bank guarantee schemes were announced worldwide.
Hong Kong - Police officers in Hong Kong on Friday launched a high-tech campaign to raise their pay levels, sending out DVDs and issuing an online warning that force morale is at an "all-time low."
A 10-minute DVD produced by police staff associations and arguing for new pay scales that would add an average of 230 US dollars a month to pay packets was sent out to 27,000 Hong Kong officers and broadcast online.
Hong Kong - Phone users in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are Asia's most enthusiastic senders of text messages, according to a survey released Thursday.
More than 97 per cent of mobile phone users in Singapore have sent text messages in the past month, followed by 96 per cent of people in Kuala Lumpur and 94 per cent of people in Seoul, the survey found.
More than 87 per cent of people in Melbourne and Sydney said they had sent texts in the past month while the region's lowest rate of text messaging were recorded by Hong Kong (85 per cent) and Bangkok (69 per cent).
The survey was conducted by the market research company Synovate, which studied the habits of more than 5,000 mobile phone users in seven Asian-Pacific markets.
Hong Kong - A green group will call for a consumer boycott against Prada if the luxury fashion chain fails to dim its illuminated sign boards, a media report said Monday.
Hong Kong - Up to 2.5 million people could lose their jobs in the Pearl River delta, covering Hong Kong and parts of southern China, by January as a result of the global economic slowdown, a media report said Sunday.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong shares fell 4.4 per cent Friday on their third-consecutive day of heavy losses triggered by growing fears of a prolonged global recession.
Hong Kong - Police officers in Hong Kong on Friday launched a high-tech campaign to raise their pay levels, sending out DVDs and issuing an online warning that force morale is at an "all-time low."
