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To: ms.smartest.person who wrote (180)	1/30/2001 12:17:50 AM
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PRESS DIGEST - HONG KONG - JAN 30 These are some of the leading stories in Hong Kong newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. HONG KONG ECONOMIC TIMES - HSBC Holdings reached an intraday high of HK$122 per share and ended at HK$121 on Monday. - A price war is looming among network operators as Hutchison Global Crossing starts to offer a three-month discount to subscribers of its mainland/Hong Kong International Private Leased Circuit which translates to rates 44 percent lower than its rival New World Telephone. APPLE DAILY - An Yves Saint Laurent perfume poster advertisement showing model Sophia Dahl without clothes has been classified an indecent item by censor authorities in Hong Kong and is being banned from public display. - The Security Bureau said the number of emigrants leaving Hong Kong last year totalled 11,900 people, was at the lowest level in two decades. MING PAO DAILY NEWS - Industry sources say i-Cable's Cable TV may be losing its English premier soccer broadcast rights to ESPN. The station is to discuss with Star TV about carrying the ESPN channel. - OneAsia.com, an audio-visual product website 31-percent owned by tom.com , has ceased operations. Tom.com now faces a provision as large as US$4.2 million for the investment. SING TAO DAILY - The Hong Kong government has decided to send four representatives in a sudden move to attend a speech by exiled Nobel writer Gao Xingjiang, who is having a short tour in the territory. - Gross new mortgages made last month fell sharply by 38.1 percent to HK$5.9 billion. SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST - Pacific Century CyberWorks will bid for a third-generation mobile telephone network licence in Hong Kong and also consider bidding for another in Singapore, according to chairman Richard Li. - The potential supply of new flats this year is expected to reach 29,000 units as developers slow down production to keep future supply in balance, according to Morgan Stanly Dean Witter. HONG KONG GLOBE - Standard Chartered Bank China region chief executive Stanley Wong says the renminbi market will be gradually opened to free trading and the float is predicted to be within a five-percent spread to start. HONG KONG ECONOMIC JOURNAL - Hongkong Post and Baltimore Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding to help the post office to develop a wireless digital certificate service for authenticating corporate and individual mobile phone transactions. HONG KONG DAILY NEWS - Hutchison Whampoa is to acquire a 30-percent stake in Telekom Cellular under Telekom Malaysia, according to reports. A Hutchison spokesperson has declined to comment. TA KUNG PAO - The economic boom in the Guangdong province has attracted workers from other areas to look for their opportunities. Trains from outside provinces are fully packed with people by the thousands daily after the Lunar New Year. special.scmp.com