HONG KONG (Reuters) - As hundreds of millions of Chinese counted down to the Year of the Dragon, the clock was also ticking for thousands of mainland women scrambling to deliver "lucky" babies in Hong Kong, putting pressure on medical facilities and stoking protests in the city. Lured by residency rights and in a bid to avoid China's one-child policy, Hong Kong has seen a surge in the number of ...
Toxic Spill in South China Halted Before Tainting City Water
Officials in southern China said they’ve contained a toxic metal spill that threatened water for 1.5 million people and contaminated a tributary of the Pearl River, which supplies Hong Kong and Macau.
The city's government has proposed creating three man-made islands off its coast and reclaiming land at 10 other locations in an effort to ease land shortage for housing, local media reported. One of .....
NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing, today named nine professionals as new managing directors, including the promotion ...