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Issue: May 04, 2012 (Archive)

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Screams of delight at auction record The only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's The Scream - one of the most recognizable paintings in history - set a world record when it sold for US$119.9 million (HK$935.22 million) at Sotheby's in New York. Tsang has no yen for Japan trip Once burned, twice shy? Surely, not our chief executive! 'Gimme five' wave looms For those of you who shudder when show-offs use the "high five" form of greeting or congratulation in supposedly respectable places, there's bad news. Torch bearer carries the flame Steven Cheung will be representing much more than his borough when the young Londoner starts his run as Olympic torch bearer on July 21. HK fans go Gaga Music fans let their hair down last night as they paid colorful homage to US pop diva Lady Gaga, who played the first of four concerts at Asiaworld Expo. The eccentric star, who has a record number of almost 22 million followers on Twitter, next heads for Japan, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia as part of her "The Born This Way Ball' tour. AFP Cashing in on good ideas Wanted, bright ideas - and there's a reward of up to HK$300,000 for the winning projects under the Li Ka Shing Foundation's "Love Ideas, Love HK." Harnessing the power of pig poo Seven hundred million pigs produce a lot of poo, and the mainland's love of pork presents a mountain of a problem for the environment. A whip-round for the bankers Bankers deserve to be lashed for the way they've played with the green: that's the message from Occupy Wall Street activist Money Bunny as she offers licks on New York's Broadway.

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