September 2007 in Hong Kong

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Holidays

26 September - Day following Mid-Autumn Festival
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2007-09-01 (Saturday)

  • Talks aimed at ending the 24-day bar-benders' strike ended in disarray after four hours last night with workers' representatives walking out in anger, claiming they were being led on a wild goose chase.1

2007-09-06 (Thursday)

  • A young mother, whose three sons were found to be battered and seriously malnourished, has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to three counts of child negligence.2

2007-09-07 (Friday)

  • The Government announced that it had increased its stake in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange from 4.41 percent to 5.88 percent.

2007-09-08 (Saturday)

  • A 26-year-old mother who admitted leaving her daughter alone and without food was placed on probation at Tuen Mun Magistracy on Friday, she is the second mother to be put on probation on charges of cruelty to children within a week.3

2007-09-10 (Monday)

  • The Hong Kong government has given the green light to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre Phase III extension, a move analysts said would help the city better compete with the emerging threat from Macau.4

2007-09-13 (Thursday)

  • Three people were burned to death and two others critically injured when the car in which they were traveling struck a road divider, flipped over on its side and burst into flames in Kowloon Bay early yesterday.5

2007-09-19 (Wednesday)

  • Exactly one year after its grand opening, the operator of Ngong Ping 360 has seen its 20-year contract torn up and one of its staff sued for criminal negligence.6

2007-09-21 (Friday)

  • MTR Corp has apparently avoided compensating Skyrail-ITM over termination of its 20-year contract to manage the Ngong Ping 360 cable-car system by buying the Australian company and taking over management itself.7

2007-09-22 (Saturday)

  • A pregnant teenager - who led a gang blasted by a judge as "cruel, spineless cowards" in torturing a schoolgirl over a trivial matter - has been jailed for three years.8

2007-09-27 (Thursday)

  • Singer Jacky Cheung Hok-yau, one of Cantopop's biggest acts, has been barred by Filipino officials from hiring any more maids from the Philippines after he fired too many of them.9

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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