FORMER president and now Rep. Gloria Arroyo may have evaded embarrassment by not attending the first state of the nation address of her successor yesterday, but...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Roderick Woo said on Friday Google has agreed to erase all the Wi-Fi payload data collected in the city and the watchdog decided not to launch a formal investigation to the leading search engine. Google...
London/Hong Kong: Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing is to buy UKpower grids from France's EDF for £5.8 billion (Dh33.2 billion), the biggest full European acquisition by a North Asiangroup. The tycoon's investment vehicles Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI)...
Taipei - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai launched an online news channel in Taiwan Friday, after the authorities denied his news channel a televisionbroadcast licence. The National Communications Commission had expressed concern over the graphic content of...
PARIS (AP) — Electricite de France announced a plunge in profits Friday but was boosted by a surprisingly high euro6.9 billion ($9.02 billion) bid by East Asia's richest businessman for the utility's Britishelectricity grid. EDF,...
FIGURES RELEASED by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) show an outright record of 272,978 Indian visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in the first six months of 2010. The figure represented not only a year-on-year increase of 58.4%, but also the highest half-yearly...
A consortium controlled by Li Ka-Shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, offered Friday to pay more than $9 billion for a power grid in Britain owned by Électricité de France, a move that would further extend the Asian group’s overseas reach. Cheung Kong Infrastructure and...
A consortium of companies led by Asian's richest businessman has won a bid to buy the UK arm of the Frenchelectricity provider EDF for £5.8bn. Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing beat off rival bids from Scottish and Southern Energy as he aims to give his empire a...