POSTS FROM THE PAST

2019

Hong Kong launches its largest pig cull in more than 50 years to prevent an outbreak of African swine fever, while pork traders are hopeful supplies of the meat may be partially resumed. About 6,000 pigs at the Sheung Shui abattoir are planned to be slaughtered, according to the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.

2014

Macau casinos will receive a deadline to get rid of illegal China UnionPay mobile swipe card devices or face a crackdown on the city’s multimillion-dollar illegal cash-transfer business, insiders say. The news comes after it emerges tighter curbs on the card being used to circumvent currency controls are on the way.

2009

Hong Kong calls on the United States to screen outgoing air passengers to avoid exporting swine flu cases – after a Hong Kong resident, who returned from San Francisco, was confirmed as the city’s second swine flu case. Thirteen people who have been in contact with the man are placed in quarantine for a week.

2004

Moderate democrats are poised to visit Beijing to discuss a proposal for political reform in Hong Kong with central government officials. A dozen moderate democrats, most of them social workers, will propose a “one man, two votes” formula when they go to the capital next month or in early July.