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HKRFU needs to rethink its Sevens ticketing policy

As the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union asks for public money for a new stadium, it will provide fewer Sevens tickets for the public next year.
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HKRFU needs to rethink its Sevens ticketing policy

As the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union asks for public money for a new stadium, it will provide fewer Sevens tickets for the public next year.
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Howard Winn
See the 'Barbarian Suppressing and Pacifying General'

There is a new attraction on the Central waterfront. No, it's not another shopping mall, bar or restaurant.
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Tom Holland
Iceland's harsh cure would be a better medicine for Cyprus

A week after the European Union's first disastrous attempt to solve Cyprus's debt crisis, a new rescue package emerged yesterday.
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Enoch Yiu
Wrecker's ball fails to beat down Asiania

China's late leader Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s famously promised Hongkongers that even after the handover in 1997, both "horse racing and dancing will continue".
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Alex Lo
Court's ruling enforces semi-apartheid

Hong Kong now has full judicial backing to continue treating foreign domestic helpers as a special class of people to be excluded from many basic rights accorded to legal...
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Greg Torode
Worse to come in Myanmar's religious strife

Myanmar is an ethnic and religious powder keg as its people emerge from under the jackboot of military rule. Any number of simmering internal conflicts have the potential to...
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Stephen Vines
History shows intervening in currency crises is not the only solution

Early last week the value of the euro tumbled in response to the financial turmoil in tiny Cyprus, which triggered worldwide stock market plunges.
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Wang Xiangwei
Long-standing myth of double standards haunts multinationals

A long-standing myth among mainlanders holds that Japanese car makers have secretly maintained three quality standards - the cars sold in Japan have the highest quality,...
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George Chen
Unintended consequence of property price curbs: more stock market speculation

The Hong Kong government has been keen to curb fast-rising property prices since late last year, but all its efforts may be creating a new problem: more speculation in the city...
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Alice Wu
An aspiring China

As vague as Xi Jinping has allowed his dream of a Chinese renaissance to be, it has raised a lot of expectations, and sometimes fear. For all the rhetoric about "Chinese...
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Philip Bowring
Justice ill-served by prosecutions in money-laundering schemes

It is a grotesque injustice that the small cogs in alleged money laundering schemes are now not only being prosecuted, but are given sentences greater than almost any ever...

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