Apple's iPhone 4S was on sale on Hong Kong's grey market at the weekend, attracting hundreds of fans paying up to six times official prices to get their hands on the latest model.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 16, 2011
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As Hong Kong seeks to expand its international airport and with a major new bridge project under way, campaigners warn that the dwindling number of much-loved pink dolphins in surrounding waters may disappear altogether.
Ecology
Nov 29, 2015
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Hong Kong's roadside air pollution reached life-threatening levels one in every eight days last year, a report said Monday, citing figures obtained from the government.
Environment
Jan 4, 2010
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High up in the hills above Hong Kong, Yip Ki-hok uses nothing but his bare hands to remove a honey-filled nest of swarming bees—a remarkable skill he learned after the hardship of China's famine years.
Ecology
Apr 14, 2019
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Researchers in Fiji have used the recently developed COVID-19 based global "fear index" to investigate the impact of the pandemic on nine major Asia-Pacific countries, specifically: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, ...
Economics & Business
Jan 7, 2022
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Take a trip around Lantau island in Hong Kong and you might see something surprising: a pod of pink dolphins. Technically, they're known as Chinese or Hong Kong white dolphins and are a variety of the Indo-Pacific humpbacked ...
Ecology
Dec 2, 2015
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Flying birds molt their feathers when they are old and worn because they inhibit flight performance, and the molt strategy is typically a sequential molt. Molting is thought to be unorganized in the first feathered dinosaurs ...
Archaeology
Dec 9, 2020
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In jade waters off Hong Kong's eastern shoreline, scientists are thrilled to spot a cuttlefish protecting her eggs inside an artificial, 3D-printed clay seabed helping to restore the city's fragile coral reefs.
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2021
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Hong Kong's first environmentally-friendly prison has stirred up a debate in one of the world's most densely populated cities where many live in dingy and overcrowded high-rise flats.
Environment
Nov 14, 2010
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Philipp Mattheis knew his gaming app was addictive when he realised he kept checking his phone—hooked by the brightly-coloured reminders telling him to play again or risk falling from the triple-figure level he had reached.
Software
Jan 30, 2015
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