HK Electric, CLP Power face cut in earnings and prospect of.
He urged the government to raise the proportion of renewables in the mix and step up research on small-scale power generation. POWER SHIFT. After 2018: Cut CLP Power and HK Electrics permitted annual return to 6pc��.
Mers may go nationwide in South Korea, warns expert, as.
UPDATED : Monday, 08 June, 2015, 11:25am. Elizabeth. spread further. The government would step up monitoring on those placed under observation, including tracking those at home via their mobile phones, Choi said.. China on guard against Mers despite lack of travel warning: experts. 9 Jun 2015 - 11:. The Ticwatch will go on sale later this month, with prices starting at 999 yuan �� Social and... Hong Kong workers spared as HSBC cuts 25,000 jobs worldwide.
Mers outbreak: Hong Kong travellers may not get refunds.
Tourists expected to bear brunt of cost as health chief advises against visiting South Korea but does not issue formal travel warning.. PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 09 June, 2015, 2:38am. UPDATED : Wednesday, 10 June, 2015, 5:46pm. Hong Kong workers spared as HSBC cuts 25,000 jobs worldwide �� Two new. Travel Industry Council executive director Joseph Tung Yao-chung said consumers should not expect full refunds even if the government issued an official travel alert.
China on guard against Mers despite lack of travel warning.
South Korea is motivated to fight against the epidemic, and more than 2,000 people in close contact with the Mers patients are now under self-supervision or isolation. So South Korea is not so dangerous, Lu said. Although��.
Hong Kong to scrutinise passengers from Seoul for Mers.
UPDATED : Tuesday, 02 June, 2015, 5:49pm. Hong Kong health authorities will step up surveillance on visitors arriving from Seoul with flu-like symptoms after their South Korean counterparts failed to release a list of facilities where Middle East respiratory syndrome. Deputy Guangdong governor Deng Haiguang chaired a conference in which provincial health experts said the risk of a large-scale local outbreak caused by the Korean patient was extremely low.
Wedding photo becomes symbol of S. Korea MERS scare.
Seoul (AFP) - A South Korean couples special day has become an unexpected symbol of the countrys MERS health scare, after a joke wedding photo with their guests wearing surgical face masks went viral. The picture that��.
Politicians should stop crying ���fire!��� - Reuters
Local politicians who bring this up ��� most firefighting employment is by city or county government ��� may be perceived as attacking motherhood and apple pie. Theres no doubt that firefighters are heroic ��� this was true long��.
Dont panic over Mers, Hongkongers urged as all suspected.
Dont panic about Middle East respiratory syndrome, Hong Kongs Centre for Health Protection urged this morning, as it announced it would provide twice daily updates on tests of suspected cases. The centre this. The WHO task force also demanded a step-up of infection prevention and control measures across South Korea, and better scrutiny of the contact between suspected cases and Mers-affected patients, medical facilities or countries. ���The exchange of��.
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Hong Kong has issued a red alert warning against travel to South Korea, which is battling an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome(Mers) The warning means South Korea is considered to pose significant threats to tourism, and. add impetus and renewed vigour to the fight against terrorism, a military statement said. A military advance team began work in Maiduguri on Monday, the statement said, as part of plans to move the command and control centre from Abuja.[2]��.
UPDATE 2-S.Korea cuts rates to record low as govt steps up fight against MERS
SEOUL, June 11 (Reuters) - South Koreas central bank on Thursday slashed borrowing costs to a record low as policymakers raced to limit the economic damage wrought by an outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease. The rate cut, predicted by a slim .
Mers inspections tightened at Hong Kong airport as Leung.
Ko said the World Health Organisation had advised against issuing any travel warning for South Korea, meaning some travel companies would not provide compensation for holidaymakers on pre-booked trips to the country. He said he had met. The South Korean government revealed that Pyeongtaek St Marys Hospital, 65km southwest of Seoul, was the institution that treated the first Korean Mers patient when the case was confirmed more than two weeks ago.
Punish travellers who lie about their health, Sars expert urges
The two South Korean travellers were picked up in Causeway Bay yesterday afternoon and taken to the Lady MacLehose Holiday Village in Sai Kung to be quarantined for 14 days. They are liable to a fine of HK$5,000 and��.
Hong Kong travel agencies cancel 600 tours to South Korea.
Travel agencies say trips for up to 12000 Hongkongers will not go ahead.. UPDATED : Wednesday, 10 June, 2015, 5:35pm. Timmy Sung, Lai Ying-kit. All 600 tours to South Korea organised for this month by local travel agencies will be cancelled following the issue of a red alert against travel to the Mers-hit country, industry representatives agreed yesterday. Up to 12,000. Hong Kong hospitals step up inspections against Mers as suspected cases rise in the city.
Red alert: Hong Kong warns against travel to South Korea.
Photo: Reuters. Hong Kong today issued a formal warning against travel to South Korea amid an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome that has claimed seven lives. The Security Bureau has announced a ���red��� travel��.
Hong Kong issues South Korea warning in serious response
Hong Kong raised its health response level against Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) yesterday from alert to serious as the government urged the public to avoid visiting South Korea given the rising death toll and surge in infections there. Secretary for. Mers. Three of the five University of Hong Kong medical students in South Korea have cut short their training sessions and returned home, while the other two will leave this week, a HKU spokeswoman said.
S. Korean delegation continue with HK travel expo plans.
Meanwhile, Cathay Pacific Airways has seen a drop in bookings from Hong Kong to cities in South Korea, where Mers cases have risen, chief executive Ivan Chu said. He made. In response to the Hong Kong governments decision to issue a red alert advisory against non-essential travel to South Korea, Chu said: The handling of information is not done very well. He said. Hong Kong hospitals step up inspections against Mers as suspected cases rise in the city.
Could America turn out worse than Japan? - Reuters
Despite multiple fiscal and monetary stimulus programs ��� indeed, record breaking ones ��� the economy has failed to recover decisively from the sharp contraction that followed the global financial crisis.. Photos, top to bottom: An employee of a foreign exchange trading company passes a graph showing the movement of the Japanese yens exchange rate against the U.S. dollar, at a dealing room in Tokyo October 31, 2011. Japan... Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 1:10 pm.