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NSR today released its newest market survey and forecast report: "China Satellite Markets: Assessment of Commercial Satellite Transponder Demand in China, Hong Kong and Macau." This study offers the most in-depth and detailed assessment of commercial C- and Ku-band transponder demand in China available to the industry and drills down into the details of the major market and application trends in the region. The report outlines the many regulatory and market hurdles facing the mainland China...

Israel-based renewable energy developer SDE has signed an agreement for developing sea wave power plants across China. Construction of the power plants will be financed by investors from Hong Kong and China. Two joint venture companies, formed in Hong Kong by SDE and the investors for the implementation of the agreement, will build an initial model in the Guangzhou Province in southern China. In the event the model proves to be successful, they will launch the establishment of sea wave...

Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 9 July [Report by Ng Tze-Wei: "HK Activists Speak Out on China"] Hong Kong protesters among the thousands of activists in Sapporo to oppose the G8 summit say they want to tell the other side of China's development story. "Globalisation is also causing problems for China, for example, in relation to food security," said Au Loong-yu of Globalisation Monitor, a group that was actively involved in the anti-World Trade...

Hong Kong's outward processing fall 2 pct in Q1 HONG KONG, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's total exports to the Chinese mainland for outward processing dropped 2 percent to 101.5 billion HK dollars (about 13 billion U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of 2008 year on year, the Census and Statistics Department said here Thursday. The value of domestic exports to the Chinese mainland for outward processing also fell 8 percent to 3.4 billion HK dollars ( 436 million U.S. dollars) while...

South China's Guangdong Province was facing the threat of serious flooding as two swollen rivers converged in the Pearl River Delta on Monday [16 June], resulting in a flood equivalent to a worst in 50 years. The runoff in Xijiang River was 46,800 cubic meters per second and in Beijiang River 15,200 cubic meters per second before they met each other in Foshan City, according to the Guangdong provincial headquarters of flood control and drought relief, which said this was far higher than...

By Susan Fenton HONG KONG (Reuters) - The fabled green and white Star ferry service is one of few relics from Hong Kong's past to have survived the territory's modernization. But soon, the ferries will leave their downtown terminal and move to new premises on Hong Kong island, making way for land reclamation and construction of a road bypass. Swish new terminals on either side of Victoria Harbor with shopping and dining facilities will make the ferries a bigger tourist attraction, says...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain discussed raising the threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation to dissuade China from attacking its Hong Kong colony at the height of the Cold War, previously secret papers revealed on Friday. Dismissing Hong Kong as strategically irrelevant, highly vulnerable and indefensible by conventional means, the British government nevertheless decided that it did have a vital symbolic role as the country's sole frontier with the Communist world. "For political reasons we...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has admitted that measures to tackle "serious" water pollution in the southern booming province of Guangdong are not working, state media reported on Wednesday. Water quality in both coastal waters and inland estuaries remained poor, the China Daily said, citing Chinese experts. The drainage of land pollutants to the sea was a key reason for the poor sea quality and poor ecological environment, the China Daily quoted Zhong Jianqiang, an environmental...

By Tan Ee LynHONG KONG -- Mark Williams, one of Hong Kong's top marathon runners, has had enough of the city's dirty air and is leaving for New Zealand with his wife and two young children in July."I'm glad I am going. The air's not going to improve. In the eight years I have been here, it's got worse," the 35-year-old school teacher told Reuters."When I go running, I have to run in places that are not polluted ... and there are fewer and fewer places to run," he said,...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to set up its first reserve for the endangered white dolphin off the coast of the southern city of Zhuhai in the southern Guangdong province, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. The city has allocated 460 sq km (178 square miles) for the reserve, to be located near Qiao Island in the Pearl River estuary, Xinhua quoted Chen Jialin, director of the reserve, as saying. Construction on the reserve will begin this year and will focus first on...