May 2007 in Hong Kong

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Holidays

May 1st - Labour Day
May 24th - Buddha's Birthday
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2007-05-03 (Thursday)

• The government collected a record HK$155 billion in tax revenue during the 2006-07 fiscal year, it was revealed Wednesday.1

2007-05-04 (Friday)

• An advertising light box at New Town Plaza in Sha Tin burns at the morning. More than 1,200 shoppers and staff were evacuated as smoke billowed from the building. Firemen took an hour to extinguish the blaze. No one was hurt in the accident. 2

2007-05-05 (Saturday)

• Hong Kong's image as a shoppers' paradise has not been overly damaged by recent scandals, with the number of visitors for the first six days of the Labour Day Golden Week soaring 20 percent, the Tourism Commission said Friday.3

2007-05-10 (Thursday)

• The aging Queen's Pier in Central was Wednesday given a temporary stay of execution when the Antiquities Advisory Board declared it a grade one monument, capping a day of ferocious debate on the issue with the government standing firm on its plans to relocate it.4

2007-05-12 (Saturday)

• Canadian-born Cantopop star Edison Chen Hing-wah was Friday put on a one-year good behavior bond for kicking and denting a taxi in a moment of anger.5

2007-05-15 (Tuesday)

• Ma Lik caused huge public furore when he denied that clampdown of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was a "massacre".6

2007-05-16 (Wednesday)

• A Hong Kong emigrant has been shot dead in a robbery at a Chinese restaurant in the United States. Ray Ng Wai, 28, died of a single gunshot wound when a robber opened fire after storming into his family's restaurant Sunday in Tamarac, Florida, before fleeing with cash.7

2007-05-21 (Monday)

• A secret working group set up by Britain and China was responsible for setting a fixed exchange rate between the Hong Kong and US currencies even before the Sino-British joint declaration was signed in 1984, according to Lu Ping, former director of the State Council's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.8

2007-05-24 (Thursday)

• Pavements along Mong Kok's famous Tung Choi Street — one of Hong Kong's most popular open bazaars - are to be widened under an ambitious program to improve and upgrade major shopping areas in the district.9

2007-05-30 (Wednesday)

• Three alert Hong Kong residents have helped find a 10-year-old girl in Shenzhen, more than 20 hours after she had gone missing in Yau Ma Tei.10

News collections and sources

• Wikipedia:News collections and sources.
• Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.

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