The Shenzhen factory of Stanley Black & Decker, a major US tool and household hardware maker, has closed up shop and laid off all of its 1,000 workers after 25 years of operations – reflecting the changing business environment in the world’s second-biggest economy.
Last week’s closure of the American company’s wholly-owned China unit, Stanley Black & Decker Precision Manufacturing (Shenzhen), marked the latest retreat by a manufacturing business from Shenzhen amid rising labour and land costs in the booming town just across the mainland border from Hong Kong.
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If you’ve never met a porn star now is your chance, as Hong Kong steps into the unknown by hosting the city’s first consumer adult show on the Central harbourfront.
Inside two giant purpose-built tents, in the shadow of the Hong Kong government headquarters and PLA’s Central Barracks, 18+ Central will feature a host of erotic, acrobatic and artistic performances – including an artist who paints with his penis – alongside sex-related workshops, a sex toys marketplace and more.
The younger sister of Hong Kong veteran unionist Elizabeth Tang Yin-ngor has been jailed for six months for removing potential evidence in a national security police investigation into her elder sibling.
Marilyn Tang Yin-lee, 63, was escorted back to West Kowloon Court on Thursday after her bail was revoked upon pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice earlier this month.
Magistrate Patrick Tsang Hing-tung said that while a term of immediate imprisonment was inevitable, the court had grounds to exercise leniency based on the little impact the offence had on the ongoing police inquiry and the defendant’s low risk of reoffending.
Claude Monet, the French Impressionist painter born in Paris in 1840, is the subject of an exhibition at the Heritage Museum in Sha Tin that will last until July 11. A perfectionist, if he wasn’t satisfied with how a painting was turning out, he would simply paint over it. Monet suffered from cataracts, which, scientists claim, account for his distinctive blurry style. The 2004 documentary Monet’s Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny examined the connection between fine art and fine cuisine, and was narrated by Meryl Streep …