28 Dec

28thDecember 1. The local market rallied for the third consecutive session, in what dealers said was a rare flurry of activity - Internet connections may be or running slow following Tuesday’s powerful earthquake off Taiwan that damaged undersea communication cables - The banling and finance industry here particularly vulnerable because of its heavy reliance on the Internet for real-time trading and transactions. - The Hong Seng Index closed 276 points or 1.4% up - End the day at 20,001 - Turnover for the day was a whopping $54 billion 2. Health officials are investigating the deaths of two pig farm this year, after they came down with pneumonia-like symptoms raising fears they have not been able to determine the deadly H5N1 bird flu - Despite working with officials on the main, they have not been able to determine the cause of their deaths - Two deaths six months apart may not be an outbreak 3. Our sewage fees look set to go up under a 10-year plan to more than qouble changes - Environmental groups welcome the proposal but say that the government should do more to educate people on Waste disposal - The government hopes its will help relieve some of the city’s sewage pollution problems. 4. Telecoms operators are warning that even though phone and Internet services are slowly returning to normal following the Taiwan earthquake that that Vnocked at fire-optic cables customers cab expect disruptions to last five days - local telecoms officials said six out if the seven major cables serving Hong Kong were snapped by Tuesday’s powerful quake, keeping thousands from surfing the Internet or culling overseas. 5. Sai Lung police today arrested a man for the murder of his wife who was found hanged at their village home. - The victim’s husband claimed he found her having from a tree and he immediately took her down.