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Hong Kong - Nearly 77,000 Chinese people a day visit Hong Kong as the former British colony welcomes record numbers of cross-border travellers, according to government figures released Friday.

The study by Hong Kong's Urban Planning and Design Department showed an 18-per-cent year-on-year jump in the number of mainland Chinese crossing the border to Hong Kong in 2007 to an average of 76,800 daily.

Hong Kong - A pirate radio station in Hong Kong has been ordered to halt broadcasts after a show for gay youngsters interfered with air traffic control transmissions, a news report said Thursday.

The Wednesday night broadcast of Love Ark on rebel radio channel Citizens' Radio was picked up on the frequency of air traffic controllers last month, the South China Morning Post reported.

Hanoi  - Vietnam turned over a Chinese-American man wanted for embezzling millions of dollars to Hong Kong police, a Vietnamese police officer said Wednesday.

Jimmy Tochin Wu, 41, was transferred to Interpol Hong Kong at the Ho Chi Minh City airport on Tuesday, said Nguyen Anh Tuan of Interpol Vietnam.

In 1994, Wu established the Dor Shing Vietnam Company in the central city of Danang, and asked its parent company in Hong Kong for 4.9 million dollars to fund its operations in Vietnam, according to the newspaper Cong An Nhan Dan.

After sending Wu 2 million dollars, the parent company, Dor Shing Hong Kong, learned that he had not used the money as agreed, but had instead transferred it to his personal bank account and disappeared.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong stocks fell more than 2 per cent Wednesday, sliding toward the 20,000 mark as oil and commodities stocks fell along with the prices of those goods.

The Hang Seng Index ended the day down 457.4 points, or 2.17 per cent, at 20,585.06. Turnover was relatively light at 56 billion Hong Kong dollars (7.1 billion US dollars).

Hong Kong shares have shed more than a third of their value in a 10-month bear run since the Hang Seng peaked at almost 32,000 at the end of October.

Hong Kong - A 25-year-old woman was taken to hospital after being mugged by a monkey for a box of egg tarts at a bus stop in Hong Kong, police said Monday.

The primate struck seconds after the woman got off a bus for a Sunday picnic in rural Sai Kung Country Park in Hong Kong's New Territories near the Chinese border.

The monkey scratched her arm as it grabbed the box of egg tarts, police said. The shocked victim was taken to hospital for treatment for minor injuries, a spokesman said.