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Hong Kong will sign an accord with Shanghai next week to establish a cross-border gold trade clearing system, a move the financial chief says will bolster the city’s push to become an international gold trading hub. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po revealed on Sunday that the city and the Shanghai Gold Exchange would sign a memorandum of understanding at the 19th Asian Financial Forum next week to pave the way for greater connectivity between the two markets. “We are accelerating the push to...

Même si l’opposition a obtenu 16,16 % des suffrages, elle n’a pas réussi à atteindre le seuil de 20 % des voix dans chacune des 24 circonscriptions, condition indispensable pour entrer au Parlement.

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Often described as the Macanese version of a hamburger, the pork chop bun is a delicious product of the city’s rich cultural blend and colonial history, tracing its origins to the Portuguese bifana, a classic pork sandwich. A good pork chop bun is defined by a fried or grilled pork chop placed horizontally inside a bread roll. The bun itself is crucial, prized for being extremely crisp on the outside yet supple inside, perfectly complementing the juicy, just-greasy-enough pork. The snack...

En plus d’exposer sa population aux sanctions internationales les plus dures au monde, le gouvernement iranien pille les richesses que la nation parvient néanmoins à produire et à vendre, et abat ceux qui tentent de protester, décrit l’écrivain iranien Amir Ahmadi Arian, dans une tribune au « Monde ».