Hong Kong’s exports last month recorded their first year-on-year growth since the global financial crisis started to bite late last year, but businesses are cautious on the short-term outlook….

A woman who allegedly stabbed League of Social Democrats member Gavin Kwai Sze-kit carried out the attack only hours after she was released on bail after accusations of criminal damage and making a false fire report to police, Eastern Court heard yesterday….

Hong Kong will move a step closer to becoming an offshore centre for yuan business under a proposal to be studied by Beijing to allow mainland people and firms to use the currency for foreign direct investments in the city….

According to a schedule formulated by the departments in charge of environmental protection in the cities of Guangzhou and Foshan, streams running through the administrative areas of the two cities are to be made free of pollution by June, 2010. Additionally, recycling of oil vapors are to be completed by the two cities before the [...]

Phone calls between Shenzhen, Dongguan and Huizhou will no longer be long-distance calls after the implementation of a single area code under a new agreement signed at the weekend.
The three cities will adopt the plan under an agreement signed by the three governments on further cooperation for cities on the eastern bank of the Pearl [...]

Carbon dioxide emissions in the Pearl River Delta, China’s export engine, could be cut by up to 24 percent through low-cost, green technologies, according to a study released yesterday by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
In a pilot study on three factories making garments, plastics and electronics last July, the WWF found cuts in annual [...]

COPENHAGEN – Got 48 hours to spare in the Danish capital of Copenhagen amid the world leaders, scientists, demonstrators and skeptics in town this December to discuss measures for confronting global climate change?
Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors get the most out of a short stay in the laid-back yet stylish old Nordic city.
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PARIS – France’s Club Med aims to drive forward its shift upmarket next year with plans to enter China, after its new strategy helped fiscal 2009 profit at its holiday villages inch higher despite the economic downturn.
Restructuring costs and impairment charges pushed the group to a full-year net loss of 53 million euros ($78 million), [...]

Actor Gallen Law and actress Su Yan are seen at their wedding in Beijing on December 12, 2009.
Hong Kong actor Gallen Law married mainland actress Su Yan on Saturday in a star-studded wedding in Beijing.
The couple celebrated their big day with their celebrity friends, including Kathy Chow and Joe Ma.
Law, 47, and Su, 35, registered [...]

Many major automakers have unveiled vehicles at the L.A. Auto Show that are within a year or two of the showroom, but a lot has to change for such cars to be common sights in the U.S. private fleet.Anyone strolling about the exhibition floor of the L.A. Auto Show this week can be forgiven for [...]