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Hong Kong’s stock exchange opened for afternoon trading after a storm dumped as much as 200 millimeters (8 inches) of rain on the city and forced most services to shut down for the morning.
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Hong Kong recorded more than twice as many hours of very high roadside pollution in the first quarter, blaming an increase in sunshine for contributing to the smog in the city’s financial and shopping districts.
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Hong Kong will rectify marine safety rules after an investigation into the city’s deadliest ferry collision in four decades found “serious problems” with the control of local passenger vessels, according to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.
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Hong Kong’s air pollution index reached the “severe” level for the third time this year, triggering a government warning, as pollutants from China were trapped by the lack of air flow.
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Hong Kong Observatory said it may issue the Strong Wind Signal No. 3 “overnight,” according to a statement on its website. It issued the Standby Signal No. 1 at 12:15 p.m. today.
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Hong Kong police laid 39 manslaughter charges against each of the two captains of ferries involved in a collision off its shores in October, the the city’s worst marine disaster in four decades.
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Hong Kong arrested seven people and started a criminal investigation after at least 38 people were killed in the city’s worst maritime disaster in four decades.
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Hong Kong recovered the boat that was partially sunk in a crash that killed at least 38 people, and started an inspection to find the cause of the city’s worst maritime disaster in four decades.
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Hong Kong recovered the boat that was partially sunk in a crash that killed at least 38 people, and started an inspection to find the cause of the city’s worst maritime disaster in four decades.
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Taiwan warned of floods and landslides as the second super typhoon in two weeks ripped through the East China Sea and headed for islands where Chinese and Japanese vessels are in a territorial standoff.
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