Hong Kong - Hong Kong's struggling Disneyland theme park, the smallest Disney park in the world, is to be expanded in an effort to lure more visitors, a news report said Wednesday.
Disney plans to fund the expansion of the loss-making 120-hectare theme park after persistent criticism that it is short on attractions and does not have enough rides to occupy a full day.
Hong Kong - Corruption cases in Hong Kong fell by 5 per cent in the first 11 months of 2008 despite the city's ailing economy, anti-graft investigators said Tuesday.
However, the former British colony's Independent Commission Against Corruption said it was bracing itself for a new wave of sophisticated financial crime as the global economic crisis deepens.
The commission logged 3,121 reports of corruption in the city of 6.9 million between January and the end of November, compared with 3,278 cases in the same period last year.
Hong Kong - An alleged fixer for Chinese prostitutes was on trial in Hong Kong Tuesday, accused of claiming to be able to bribe consulate officials to speed up visas for women to work in Australia.
Yeung Sum-ching, 40, was accused of telling an undercover policewoman that she was able to pay bribes to staff in the Australian consulate in Hong Kong to allow the officer to work in the sex trade in Melbourne.
She was arrested in a police sting after advertisements were placed in Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong in December 2006 recruiting women "to make quick money in Australia."
Hong Kong - The amount of cargo shipped through Hong Kong International Airport fell by 18.7 per cent year-on-year in November, officials announced Monday.
The airport handled 296,000 tons of cargo during the month and 3.8 million passengers, a 5.6 per-cent compared to November 2007.
The Hong Kong Airport Authority blamed the steep fall in cargo volume to the global slump and said the biggest declines had been in the North America market, followed by Europe.
Falling passenger numbers were attributed to a weaker tourism market and the one-week closing of Bangkok's main airport which led to the cancellation of 230 flights.
Hong Kong - A city-wide manhunt was underway Monday for the attacker who threw bottles of acid onto crowds of year-end shoppers in Hong Kong.
Forty six people suffered burns to their legs, arms and faces when the two bottles of hydrochloric acid were hurled into a busy shopping area in the city's Mongkok district.
All the victims were rushed to hospital where they were treated for mostly minor injuries and burns before being discharged, a police spokesman said.
Police searched high-rise tower blocks overlooking the scene of the attack on Saturday and Sunday but failed to trace the attacker and now fear there may be another attack.
Hong Kong - Hundreds of women from the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand working as live-in maids for Hong Kong families marched in a protest calling for higher wages Sunday.
They also demanded the scrapping of a 50 US dollar monthly levy on employers of foreign domestic helpers and called for better labour conditions for overseas maids working in Hong Kong.
Eman Villanueva, one of the march organizers, said the Hong Kong government had to protect the interests of foreign domestic helpers as well as local workers during the economic slowdown.
Hong Kong is home to more than 200,000 foreign domestic helpers mostly from the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand who earn a government-set minimum wage of around 450 US dollars a month.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong's struggling Disneyland theme park, the smallest Disney park in the world, is to be expanded in an effort to lure more visitors, a news report said Wednesday.
Hong Kong - Corruption cases in Hong Kong fell by 5 per cent in the first 11 months of 2008 despite the city's ailing economy, anti-graft investigators said Tuesday.
