Issue: August 28, 2008   (Archive)
Tuesday, May 21, 2013   



Celebs caught out by dresses
Celebrity watchers and photographers have been having a field day, what with a clutch of wardrobe malfunctions making their work compelling stuff.

Battery gizmo puts girl in charge
Tech giant Google is excited about a California teen for her potentially revolutionary invention which charges a phone in 20 seconds flat.

Golden tracks under the Sahara
While Hong Kong's much touted mass transit railway or MTR, as it is commonly known, is renowned for its cleanliness and efficiency, it nevertheless looks very modest and humdrum against the proposed network that will be built under the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

Weather deflates duck hopes
Fans were disappointed when Rubber Duck was not able to return to Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday.

Back to biz for rehab duck
Sighs of relief as our duck is back in action. It will be causing the usual flap among snap-happy tourists and locals off Harbour City today.

Try counting in this numbers game
Dream time again, musing on how to spend HK$4.6 billion if such a sum landed out of the blue. Well, some lucky person in Florida is thinking real hard because it's no dream: one ticket has taken a record Powerball jackpot of US$590.5 million.

Golden years shine for former inspector
The former Hong Kong Police Inspectors' Association chairman has a new job.

Goal at last for SAR hockey fans
It's been a 26-year wait but Hong Kong can now compete with the best in the world at ice hockey.

Li plays it cool amid media heat
Just as the media is chomping at the bit to grill him about recent controversial business dealings, Li Ka-shing, pictured, has decided to skip for this year his practice of meeting the press after tomorrow's annual general meetings of his flagships Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa.



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