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news According to Professor Chen of Tongji University School of Transportation Engineering, the city is now investing heavily in public transport.
Since the mid-1990s, it has built an extensive metro system, with five lines, now used by 1.8 million people per day, and it is now planning six new lines.
If it carries out all its plans, the length of the system will exceed London’s, the world’s biggest.
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news There are two main sources of air pollution in Hong Kong.
In terms of sheer tonnage, most of the air pollution comes from factories in the Pearl River Delta across the border, and it is the particulates they emit that cause the haze. But this comes in concentrated spurts.
The rest of the time it is local sources – vehicle emissions, power plants and marine traffic – that are at the root of the problem.
Christine Loh, head of the think tank Civic Exchange, says this means that blame cannot just be shifted over the border, and that the government has been slow to act.
“So far, the government is in denial. It’s not that the government is not doing anything. It’s a question of whether it is doing enough, fast enough,” she said.
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news Every day before the news, Hong Kong television broadcasts Chinese national songs. Many people mentioned this to me with some bemusement.
A vibrant sense of local identity has remained.
People talk about their love of Cantonese opera, their pride in Hong Kong’s home-grown film industry and their fears for the fate of the Cantonese language in Hong Kong when Mandarin is of increasing significance.
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news Hong Kong’s constitution, the Basic Law, provides for the development of democratic processes. However, Beijing can veto changes to the political system and pro-democracy forces have been frustrated by what they see as the slow pace of political reform.
China controls Hong Kong’s foreign and defence policies, but the territory has its own currency and customs status.
Hong Kong’s economy has moved away from manufacturing and is now services-based. The region is a major corporate and banking centre as well as a conduit for China’s burgeoning exports. Its deepwater port is one of the world’s busiest.
Companies based in Hong Kong employ millions of workers in the neighbouring Chinese province of Guangdong.
China ceded Hong Kong island to Britain in 1842 after the First Opium War. Britain later added parts of the Kowloon peninsula and the many smaller islands surrounding Hong Kong to its holdings.
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Uncategorized Born in 1959, the BNP leader comes from a wealthy family with a history of involvement in right-wing politics.
His father, Edgar, was a longstanding member of the Conservative Party, but was expelled in August 2001 over his links with the BNP.
He took his son to his first National Front meeting at the age of 15.
After attending a private school in Suffolk, Mr Griffin went to Cambridge University in 1977, where he studied history and law at Downing College.
While there, he founded the Young National Front Students and gained a lower-second-class degree and a boxing blue.
Mr Griffin, who is married to a former nurse and has four children, rose through the ranks of the party, becoming national organiser in 1978.
The National Front gradually fell apart in the late 1980s and Mr Griffin was instrumental in founding one of the more obscure factions to come out of the split.
It was called “the International Third Position”, which advocated a right-wing cross between socialism and capitalism.
In 1990, Mr Griffin had an accident that left him blind in one eye. He then experienced financial difficulties in 1991 after a business project he was involved in went badly wrong.
Mr Griffin joined the BNP in 1995 and ousted John Tyndall as leader four years later.
He has since attempted to emulate the electoral success of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the leader of France’s right-wing National Front, who came second in the country’s presidential election in 2002.
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Uncategorized Microsoft and Nokia have announced an alliance to bring the software giant’s services to smartphones made by the world’s biggest mobile phone firm.
The deal means that the latest versions of Microsoft’s range of products, such as Word and Excel, will be made available on Nokia handsets.
The tie-up is specifically designed to take on Blackberry, the current leader in the smartphone sector.
The two firms said they would start “collaborating immediately”.
“These solutions will be available for a broad range of Nokia smartphones, starting with the Nokia E series. The two companies will also market these solutions to businesses, carriers and individuals,” a joint statement said.
The new partners will also develop “new and innovative” services, they added.
Microsoft applications will start appearing on Nokia phones next year.
“This is giving some of our competitors – let’s spell it out, Research in Motion [maker of the Blackberry] – a run for their money,” said Robert Andersson from Nokia.
“I don’t think Blackberry has seen this kind of competition we can provide them now.”
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Uncategorized Peter Lilley, a fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Banking and author of various books on hacking and business crime, said some hackers attack computer systems just to prove the point that the system is insecure.
But he told BBC News Online that account holders of the hacked credit cards could still be at risk.
“To gain access to 5 million different accounts is a lot.
The bottom line is, when somebody has access to 5 million numbers, it puts those accounts at risk in the future.
“Strictly speaking, the only way to eradicate the risks would be to reissue all 5 million account holders with new cards.”
But he also admitted that scenario posed all sorts of logistical problems.
The Visa and Mastercard credit cards are issued by numerous financial institutions.
“And each institution could end up taking a different approach,” Mr Lilley said.
spokeswoman for Visa in the UK could not comment on any plans to reissue the compromised cards in the US.
But a UK spokesman for Mastercard said that decision was up to the card issuers.
“Although fraud is at an all time low, high profile companies, government agencies, internet programs and websites will always be targeted by criminals – Visa and our vendors are no exception.
“It is for this purpose that Visa has global fraud prevention, detection and avoidance programs and is extending secure payments in the virtual marketplace,” Visa said in a statement.
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Uncategorized Brazilian police have arrested a man alleged to be one of Colombia’s most wanted traffickers, officials say.
Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia was captured near Sao Paulo as part of a major drugs investigation.
Mr Ramirez Abadia, known as Chupeta or Lollypop, is suspected of ordering hundreds of murders in Colombia and the US, the US authorities say.
The US state department describes him as one of the most powerful and elusive Colombian drug traffickers.
Brazilian federal police said Mr Ramirez Abadia’s arrest followed a two-year investigation into a Colombian drug trafficking gang that sent huge amounts of cocaine to the US and Europe and laundered the proceeds by buying up property in Brazil.
He was detained during a dawn raid on a luxury flat in the town of Aldeia da Serra as part of an operation across six Brazilian states, a police statement said.
Several other arrests were made as police searched some 30 properties.
Mr Ramirez Abadia, 44, has been accused of involvement in the illegal drugs trade since 1986. He surrendered to a Colombian court in 1996 but was released from prison in 2002.
The US authorities say he has continued his drug trafficking activities and is one of the leaders of Colombia’s powerful Norte del Valle drug cartel.
The state department says his personal wealth is alleged to have reached more than $1.8bn (900m), although he is also said to be in debt to several other traffickers.
The American authorities regard him as extremely violent and he is suspected of organising hundreds of killings of both police officers and informants in the US and Colombia.
It was not immediately known whether he would be sent to the US to face charges, returned to Colombia or would face charges in Brazil.
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