In this episode of China Money Podcast, returning guest and veteran investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, talked with our host Nina Xiang on his reading of China's third plenum meeting, why China should open its financial markets completely "this afternoon", and what Chinese stocks he has been buying lately. Read an excerpt below, […]

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Director of the Chief Executive's Office Edward Yau and Secretary for Security TK Lai met visiting Philippine Cabinet Secretary Jose Rene Almendras to discuss the follow-up to the Manila hostage-taking tragedy today.

The two sides issued a joint statement which reported in-depth and constructive exchanges were made at the meeting. 

As the Philippine Government's representative, Secretary Almendras updated the SAR Government on progress in finding a satisfactory response to the victims' and their families' four demands.

Philippine President Benigno S Aquino III had also instructed Secretary Almendras to deliver a token of solidarity to cover the cost of surgeries for Yik Siu-ling, made possible by donations from Filipino business people as a humanitarian gesture, without prejudice to the ongoing discussions.

Both sides are confident that through continuous efforts, the discussions will achieve the objective Chief Executive CY Leung and President Aquino set out. They also reaffirmed the agreement to report the outcome to their people when they have achieved substantive progress.
 

A 52-year-old van passenger was killed in a traffic accident in Tsing Yi today.

At about 6.10pm, the van was travelling inside Container Terminal 6 when a gantry crane knocked three containers down onto the vehicle, trapping the passenger inside.

He was certified dead at the scene after firefighters rescued him. The van’s 59-year-old driver was sent to Princess Margaret Hospital with head and hand injuries.

Witnesses are urged to call 3661 1300.

Local Chinese governments are moving services to the cloud, and Inspur Group is making gains in this area. Inspur Group and the municipal government of Jinan just signed an agreement for the joint construction of an administrative cloud computing center, making it the first comprehensive service outsourcing e-government cloud platform in China. Financial terms of […]

Local Chinese governments are moving services to the cloud, and Inspur Group is making gains in this area. Inspur Group and the municipal government of Jinan just signed an agreement for the joint construction of an administrative cloud computing center, making it the first comprehensive service outsourcing e-government cloud platform in China. Financial terms of […]