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- The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will give top priority to replacing the banknotes issued by HSBC in 2000 and 2002 that seem to be a favorite target of counterfeiters but has stopped short of ordering a recall.[3]
- The Airport Authority has failed in its second attempt to lobby the Tuen Mun District Council to back its plan to build the world's biggest aviation fuel depot in the district - right next to a steel mill's high temperature smelter.[4]
- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing posted net profit of HK$2.52 billion in 2006, a jump of 88 percent over HK$1.34 billion the previous year, surpassing market forecasts of a 75 to 80 percent improvement.[5]
- Police constable Leung Shing-yan was shot five times - all from the back and at close-range judging from his wounds, a Coroner's Court was told Friday. Leung was responding to a noise complaint on the fifth floor of Shek To House, Shek Wai Kok Estate, on March 14, 2001, when he was killed.[7]
- Australian champion jockey Christopher Munce was jailed for 30 months after being convicted of accepting cash rewards in return for racing tips. This is the first time in Hong Kong's racing history a jockey has been charged in connection with a tip-for- bets scam, according to the prosecution.[8]
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