be inundated the next day. You'll be able to go back and see it from 8,000 other angles.' Hong Kong firm i-Cable is among a group of companies, including US giant NBC, Japan's NHK and China's CCTV, to snap up the Olympics' first ever new media
The stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region were trading mostly lower on Wednesday, despite Wall Street's moderate gains overnight on the back of a better than expected report on manufacturing and positive data within the automotive sector. Investor
line with the economy as a whole,' said Sun Mingchun, an economist with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc in Hong Kong. The index of new export orders declined to 50.2 from 53.4. A reading above 50 reflects an expansion, below 50 a contraction. Those for new
More than 14 million people visited Hong Kong during the first half of this year, up 9.1 per cent on the same period last year. Tourism Board executive director Anthony Lau Chun-hon said that up to Sunday,
of the top ten search properties are regional engines, including China's Baidu.com and Korea's NHN. Internet users in Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Australia spend the most time online in the region, but still spend less time than the
Topix index, meanwhile, fell 1.1% to 1, 305.60, after dropping in eight of the previous nine sessions. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index declined 1.2% to 21,841.39 and the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index shed 1.9% to 11,688.90. China's Shanghai