Heritage preservation grips Hong Kong amid building boom
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In the dim confines of the time-worn Wing Woo grocery, a short hop from Hong Kong's gleaming financial towers, Kwan Moon-chiu, 73, quietly arranges supplies of salted-fish and eggs, knowing his store's days are numbered.
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Hong Kong&#39;s top share index hit a seven-month high on Monday, with both blue chips and China stocks gaining ground as markets rallied throughout the region.
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Director Johnnie To aims to preserve  something of the old Hong Kong in new film "Sparrow" before his  native city changes forever.
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LONDON, ENGLAND.- For the first time in 350 years of Jewish life in Britain, the Jewish community has a dedicated agency to care for its cultural heritage.
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An earthquake has rattled Hong Kong causing skyscrapers to shake and sending people running into the streets in rural areas.
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Anxious about dwindling crowds and shorter attention spans, museums and historical sites are turning to special effects to tell their stories
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Hong Kong students are piling loans and family savings into a volatile stock market, a growing trend that worries social workers in a city known for its derivatives-savvy grandmothers and stock-tipping taxi drivers.
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A project to build a cultural complex in Hong Kong has become the center of a bitter local and international debate in the last few weeks.
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By Tan Choe Choe  THE breathtaking Halong Bay, a Unesco world heritage site with over 1,900 islands, was gouged out by a dragon on its way to the sea. Or so the story goes, writes TAN CHOE CHOE.  One cannot be said to have visited Hanoi if one has not been to Halong Bay.
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Arts & entertainment: English Heritage makes a small addition to the nation's collection of protected buildings
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The 124-year-old Hong Kong Jockey Club, whose racetrack revenues are one of the secrets of the territory's economic success, is facing a decidedly modern threat: glitzy casinos being built by Las Vegas operators in nearby Macau.
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The streets in Hong Kong have become even more crowded since the territory was handed over to the People&#39;s Republic of China in 1997 after being ruled by Great Britain for more than 150 years.
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BEIJING  - It's the ultimate in home repair: hundreds of rooms, a century of fire damage and neglect and steadily mounting wear and tear from seven million visitors a year.
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Chinese are proud a global poll has named the Great Wall a wonder of the world, but some worry that tourism and neglect are destroying the crumbling fortification designed to defend against foreign invaders.
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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Hong Kong shares closed at a seven-month high Monday, led by China-related and local property stocks, with recent Wall Street gains boosting sentiment.
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A suburban basement where The Beatles played some of their earliest gigs was given protected heritage status by the British government Friday.
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Chinaâs rush to build megacities is part of a major push to spread Chinaâs economic boom to the vast interior.