March 2007 in Hong Kong

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Holidays

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2007-03-02 (Friday)

• Australian champion jockey Christopher Munce was jailed for 30 months after being convicted of accepting cash rewards in return for racing tips. This is the first time in Hong Kong's racing history a jockey has been charged in connection with a tip-for- bets scam, according to the prosecution.1

2007-03-03 (Saturday)

• Police constable Leung Shing-yan was shot five times - all from the back and at close-range judging from his wounds, a Coroner's Court was told Friday. Leung was responding to a noise complaint on the fifth floor of Shek To House, Shek Wai Kok Estate, on March 14, 2001, when he was killed.2

2007-03-06 (Tuesday)

• "Black Monday" for the Hong Kong equity market sent the Hang Seng Index plunging more than 700 points - its lowest since 9/11.3

2007-03-09 (Friday)

• Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing posted net profit of HK$2.52 billion in 2006, a jump of 88 percent over HK$1.34 billion the previous year, surpassing market forecasts of a 75 to 80 percent improvement.4

2007-03-14 (Wednesday)

• The Airport Authority has failed in its second attempt to lobby the Tuen Mun District Council to back its plan to build the world's biggest aviation fuel depot in the district - right next to a steel mill's high temperature smelter.5

2007-03-20 (Tuesday)

• The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will give top priority to replacing the banknotes issued by HSBC in 2000 and 2002 that seem to be a favorite target of counterfeiters but has stopped short of ordering a recall.6

2007-03-22 (Thursday)

• Incumbent Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen vowed Wednesday to come up with a solution once and for all to the universal suffrage controversy during his next five-year term.7

2007-03-25 (Sunday)

• Donald Tsang has won the third-term Chief Executive election, with 649 votes, or 84% of the total valid votes.8

2007-03-31 (Saturday)

• Hong Kong women do not suffer as much abuse as women in 10 other jurisdictions around the world, according to a comparative survey conducted along United Nations guidelines. But the results, announced Friday, do show that much abuse in Hong Kong goes unreported because the sufferers either believe it is not sufficiently serious, they can handle it on their own or do not want to see their abusers arrested.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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