Society

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Donald Tsang said here Monday that he was concerned about the impact of rising fuel costs on the society, vowing to explore ways to enhance transparency in fuel prices.

Chicken farmers may release live poultry into the streets of Hong Kong to protest against anti-bird flu measures that will shut down their businesses, a news report said Saturday.

Hong Kong officials scoured farms and wholesale markets on Thursday, searching for the source of an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus that forced the culling of thousands of birds across the wealthy city.

Hong Kong plans to slaughter all live poultry in the territory's markets following the appearance the H5N1 strain of bird flu. As Naomi Martig reports from Hong Kong, this is the most serious outbreak of the virus in the city where it was discovered in five years.

Hong Kong has ordered the slaughter of all poultry in the city's markets and shops, after an outbreak of bird flu was detected in markets last week.

Hong Kong police said a man's body was discovered floating near a beach where expatriates and locals celebrated the annual dragon boat festival at the weekend.

Authorities here slaughtered 2,700 birds and banned live poultry imports from mainland China for as long as 21 days after a routine inspection Saturday found chickens in one of the city's poultry markets infected with the dangerous H5N1 bird-flu virus.

An estimated 1,000 people marched through Hong Kong Sunday to mark the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.

The entire showbiz community of Hong Kong on Sunday staged another fund-raising concert for victims of the Sichuan earthquake.

Hong Kong and Chinese customs have cracked an audacious smuggling operation that saw goods worth millions of dollars ferried along a long cable straddling the border, reports said Thursday.