HONG KONG: The High Court Friday wiped out gains made earlier by Cathay Pacific flight attendants, and dismissed their entire case for increased holiday pay.

HONG KONG: About to become the first Hong Kong football player to attend training sessions in Premier League football clubs, Chan Siu-ki took it soberly. Expressing half of his mixed feelings, Chan lamented that the training session he was going to participate in with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (Hotspur) next month would last only around 10 days. He hoped it could be longer.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong police held their annual remembrance Friday, to honor members who died in the line of duty.

HONG KONG: Because of a reconsideration of current space utilization plans, the Cantonese opera center under construction in Yau Ma Tei is "very likely" to nearly double in size, said an advisory panel.

HONG KONG: The Urban Renewal Authority (URA), the government agency responsible for redeveloping old buildings, said it will accelerate the pace of its project launches, with plans to sell about 4,590 apartments in the next few years, URA Chairman Barry Cheung told Radio Television Hong Kong yesterday.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong property companies offer the most upside to investors among the four main Asian markets over the next two years, according to a Reuters poll.

HONG KONG: DBS Group, the Singapore-based biggest lender in Southeast Asia, beat market expectations by posting a 49 percent surge in third-quarter profit Friday, helped by strong interest rate margins and lower bad debt charges.

HONG KONG: As the local accounting industry remains stagnant amid the global economic recession, accounting professionals in Hong Kong are expected to take advantage of the resilient economic growth on the mainland by further extending their reach beyond the city.

Shotgun in hand, the uniformed bank guard was a scary, hovering presence in the small counter-service branch - until he uncradled his pump-action robber blaster, leaned it against a wall and walked away, out of sight, leaving that lethal power unattended. The year was 1982 and I, then a tourist, had just walked into a Macao bank.

No matter where you are as summer winds down, there's always room for a glass or two of the crisp, lightly fruity and refreshing wines from the north west of Portugal.

Hsu Lien-chun is a bridal photographer possessed of an almost missionary zeal in his commitment to ensure the future happiness of his clients. To him it's as important a mission as taking pictures is.

In a little over a decade, Park Chan-wook has become South Korea's pre-eminent auteur filmmaker, a visual stylist that makes his statements through blood, sweat and tears. Literally. Park has proved that he's adept at handling any number of genres and, almost as much as his compatriot Bong Joon-ho, mixing them together. JSA was a pitch-perfect mystery thriller with the barest political overtones. He really hit the big time with the Cannes favorite, neo-noir manga drama Oldboy. But he tripped himself up with the misguided I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, a bit of psychological sci-fi that wasn't nearly as clever as it should have been.