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Investors race to give Cool Carl money for Nothing

HONG KONG TECH leaders are betting big on a top secret transparent smartphone to be announced in two weeks. But business reporters are struggling with the company’s name: “Nothing”. Here’s the story: Phones which are NOT iPhones come and go: but occasionally a brand sticks around and outsells the Apple phone in several markets. Samsung…

March 10, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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China to regulate deepfake technology

CHINA IS CREATING news laws on “deepfakes”. This is a new development in technology which enables people to create entire videos of individuals without their involvement. You basically use artificial intelligence to “paste” someone’s face – usually that of a celebrity – onto the body of someone else. If it is done carefully enough,…

March 9, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Seven things to know about what's happening as the virus sweeps through Hong Kong 1) YOU WILL HATE THIS As Covid sweeps through Hong Kong, workers have worked day and night to create temporary isolation centers at high speed – but they are NOT luxurious. They are basically container-sized boxes with three beds in…

March 1, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong legal system to go beyond 2047: Teresa Cheng

HONG KONG'S BRITISH-STYLE legal system will carry on past 2047, the city’s legal chief said yesterday. It will not switch to the civil law system used by mainland China and most countries around the world, Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah said last night. “The ‘one country, two systems’ [policy] will continue, and with it,…

February 26, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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Wave of pledges as Hong Kong people pull together

YOUNG PEOPLE, property tycoons, pop stars and truck drivers are pulling together to fight the Omicron wave in Hong Kong. There was a wave of pledges yesterday. Here are 12 things that people are doing. Hong Kong youth groups said they’d co-ordinate a free transportation service to move nurses, doctors, and medical goods Property tycoon Peter Lee Ka-kit…

February 19, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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New strain of Covid is stalking, killing people in this town

Forty-six sudden deaths leave community in shock New BA.2 strain producing worrying results in trials Health officials’ worst fears have emerged in densely populated city A KILLER HAS COME TO TOWN. In Hong Kong, 46 lives have been snatched at high speed by a strain of Covid in a shocked city which has been astonishingly free of…

February 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Recycled stadiums helped Olympics keep tight budget

SPEND LESS, ACHIEVE MORE – that was the aim of the financial controllers of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and so far it looks like they’ve done it. The total budget has come in at US$3.07 billion, making it usually good value, since the 2018 games cost US$12.2 billion. How did they do it? To answer…

February 18, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Trading in a Floating City: the secret of Hong Kong’s success

People in the city on the southern coast of China got rich by moving goods without them ever touching the ground The community's extraordinary trading skills were highlighted by former Hong Kong leader CY Leung in a new business show, Friday Beyond Spotlights Hong Kong has become the "super-connector" between the rest of China and…

February 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Bitcoin ‘heist’ suspect Heather Morgan lived in Hong Kong

Cash from huge, unsolved crypto theft has finally been found, investigators say One time Hong Kong resident juggled careers, tried to be rap star The ultimate techy couple hid in the glare of publicity, her face on billboards Theft was from Hong Kong company – and so was part of the laundering operation A GAWKY…

February 10, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Athletes are new target for Aussie cartoonist Badiucao

PARTICIPANTS IN THE Winter Olympics are the latest target for Australia-based Badiucao, Western media’s favorite anti-China cartoonist. His latest “jokes” show sports people committing murder, spreading the coronavirus and so on. As with much criticism of China, the artist claims to oppose only the Chinese government but in practice attacks Chinese people in general. …

February 8, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Investors race to give Cool Carl money for Nothing

China to regulate deepfake technology

Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Hong Kong legal system to go beyond 2047: Teresa Cheng

Wave of pledges as Hong Kong people pull together

New strain of Covid is stalking, killing people in this town

Recycled stadiums helped Olympics keep tight budget

Trading in a Floating City: the secret of Hong Kong’s success

Bitcoin ‘heist’ suspect Heather Morgan lived in Hong Kong

Athletes are new target for Aussie cartoonist Badiucao

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