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Galaxy fans on top of world after launch
Samsung Electronics launched its latest Galaxy S smartphone in Europe yesterday, with the third-generation model expected to be even more successful than its predecessor, which helped the South Korean firm topple Apple as the world's top smartphone maker. It launches tomorrow in Hong Kong. 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=21&art_id=122942&sid=36550659&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
Free and easy for passengers
More than 300,000 residents, or more than 4 percent of the population, enjoyed free tram and Star Ferry rides yesterday as the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 151st birthday. 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=21&art_id=122941&sid=36550658&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
Complaints of note at bank AGM
Bank of China (Hong Kong) bosses may well have been expecting some fireworks at yesterday's AGM after the fiasco over its commemorative banknotes. 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=21&art_id=122940&sid=36550657&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
Frozen pay on Leung's menu
It seems Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying is taking a different tack as he fights over his government restructuring plan. 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=21&art_id=122939&sid=36550656&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
No lifeline yet
Stocks shot up here and elsewhere because of an analysis report by Credit Suisse chief economist Tao Dong. Mary Ma 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=49&art_id=122938&sid=36550655&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
'Despicable' manhunter guilty
Businessman Jerome Lau Ting-sing has spent his first night behind bars after being convicted of what the judge called "illegal and despicable acts almost akin to blackmail." Staff reporter 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=122937&sid=36553684&con_type=3&archive_d_str=20120530
Just $1 more
Catering sector lawmaker Tommy Cheung Yu-yan, who set off public anger in 2010 by suggesting a minimum wage of HK$20 an hour, is making waves again as pay is reviewed. Kelly Ip 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=122936&sid=36553683&con_type=3&archive_d_str=20120530
Killer fish bacteria strikes again
An 84-year-old woman who cut herself while descaling a fish has died from water-borne vibrio vulnificus bacteria, the Centre for Health Protection said last night. 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=122935&sid=36553059&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
Boffins share Shaw medicine prize
Two scientists whose research has contributed to the understanding of certain diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease won the 2012 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, Asia's equivalent to the Nobel Prize. 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=122934&sid=36550938&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
Tai O past gets unstilted narrative
The old Tai O police station on Lantau opened as a heritage-themed hotel this year. 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=122933&sid=36551535&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
i-Cable seeking clear picture on TV permits
i-Cable Communications yesterday denied it wanted to slow down the much-delayed process of allowing more free-to-air television stations operating in Hong Kong. Victor Cheung 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=122932&sid=36554077&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
'Slip' spins drama in the skies
A "slip of the tongue" placed two passenger planes carrying about 600 people on a collision course in Hong Kong airspace two weeks ago, an investigation by The Standard reveals. Phila Siu 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=122931&sid=36551476&con_type=3&archive_d_str=20120530
Experts reveal bigger pollution problem
Coarse particulate pollutants, such as road dust and sea salt, send nearly 900 sufferers a year to emergency rooms. Kenneth Foo 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=122930&sid=36550455&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
Cheaper drugs relief for cancer sufferers
Some 200 cancer patients a year will benefit from a new HK$42 million pilot scheme to subsidize expensive drugs. Candy Chan 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=122929&sid=36551634&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
Cadres urged to come clean on crackdown roles
The truth of June 4, 1989, may soon be known if more people are willing to speak of the roles they played, according to a former senior government official who was jailed for opposing the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Winnie Chong 5/30/2012
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/archive_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=122928&sid=36549561&con_type=1&archive_d_str=20120530
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